The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

LONDON, April 1st.

"The following is said to be the Letter sent by J. Wilkes, to a great Personage.

SIRE,

I beg thus to throw myself at your M--'s feet, and supplicate that mercy and clemency which shine with such lustre among your Princely virtues.

Some former Ministers, whom your M---, in condescension to the wishes of your people, thought proper to remove, employed every wicked and deceitful art to oppress your subjects, and to revenge their own personal cause on me, whom they imagined to be the principal author of bringing to the public view, their ignorance, insufficiency, and treachery to your M---, and the nation.

I have been the innocent and unhappy victim of their revenge. I was forced by their injustice and violence into an exile, which I have never ceased for several years to consider as the most cruel oppression; because I could no longer be under the benign protection of your M-- in the land of liberty.

With a heart full of zeal for the service of your M--- and my country, I implore, Sire, your clemency.

My only hopes of pardon are founded in the great goodness and benevolence of your M---; and every day of freedom you may be graciously pleased to permit me the enjoyment of, in my dear native land, shall give proofs of my Zeal and attachment to your service.

I am, Sire, your M---'s most obedient and dutiful Subject,

JOHN WILKES."

The above, which was delivered by Mr. Wilkes's servant at the Q--'s P--e, on the 4th of March, is the only application he has made for his pardon since his last return to England.