The Speech of a Right Honourable Gentleman, on the Motion for Expelling Mr. Wilkes, Friday, February 3, 1769 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

Excerpt from The Speech of a Right Honourable Gentleman, on the Motion for Expelling Mr. Wilkes, Friday, February 3, 1769

I think'with being too much difpofed to al ter my opinions according to the will of others, or to fail along the tide of popular prejudice. L fhould flatter myfelf therefore, that the charge of facrificing principles to court favour or popular applaufe, could not With jufiice be applied to me, notwithftand ing whichi will again freely own, that I Ihould have wifhed for many reafons not to have been under the necefiity of deciding upon this (qeftion, either one way or the other. But as it has been propofed to you, I think it would be a bafe and unworthy condué't meanly to hide my head or to run away from the difficulty. On the contrary, it is the duty of every honeft man, if he is convinced that the judgment which he has formed is a right one, to declare it publicly in his place, to abide by it, and boldly to face any difficulties which may encounter is. I am under no refiraint either from this or that fide of the Houfe, I know and feel my B 2 own.

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