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Show Retort of John Wilkes. In tbe days when George III. waa king, and when bis periodic lapse Into Infirmity of mind brought about resumptions re-sumptions of the regency and change of policy, there waa an English lord chancellor who trimmed his sail to the doctor's bulletins. He was a poll-ticlsn poll-ticlsn of a type with which w are all too familiar. He head one day that the king was better and would resume the reins of office, and be mads an Impassioned Im-passioned speech against the regency In the house of lords. In his peroration perora-tion he cried, "I cannot forget all that I owe to the bounty of my gracious sovereign; and when I forget him, may my God forget mel" He was Impressed with the magnificence of hla own oratory, ora-tory, and could not refrain from repeating re-peating the last phrase to John Wilkes, whom he met In Westminster hall after aft-er the debate. "Forget you!" aald Wilkes. "He'll see you damned first." Wsll Street Journal. |