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ed the " North Briton." By virtue of a writ of Habeas Cor- 

 pus, he was brought into Westminster Hall. Three days were 

 spent in the consideration of his case ; after which Chief Jus- 

 tice Pratt declared the warrant by which Wilkes was appre- 

 hended to be illegal, and ordered him to be discharged. His 

 intrepidity and independence on this occasion made him the 

 idol of the people. Busts and prints of him were sold. A 

 fine portrait of him by Sir Joshua Reynolds was placed in the 

 Guild Hall of the city of London, which city also presented 

 him with the freedom of its corporation in a gold box, and the 

 example was followed by other large towns in the United King- 

 dom. One of the sights which foreigners went to see in Lon- 

 don, .was the Great Lord Chief Justice Pratt. In 1765, he was 

 raised to a Peerage. The first speech which he made in the 

 House of Lords was against the bill for taxing the colonies. — 

 We have already alluded to some of his speeches in favour of 

 America. He never ceased to advocate their cause, and sec- 

 onded Lord Chatham in all his efforts to bring about a recon- 

 ciliation between the mother country and the colonies. The 

 Earl of Camden invariably showed himself to be the friend of 

 constitutional liberty, and embraced every opportunity of 

 defending the rights of the people. Upon all the great ques- 

 tions brought before Parliament, he displayed the most pro- 

 found knowledge. In 1766 he was made Keeper of the Seal, 

 and on the 30th of July, 1766, Lord Chancellor, which office 

 he held for three and a half years. In 1782 he was ap- 

 pointed President of the Council, and in 1786 was raised to 

 the Peerage under the title of Viscount Bayham of Bayham 

 Abbey, in the County of Kent, and Earl of Camden. He died 

 the 13th of April, J 794, aged 81 years. His remains were 

 deposited in the Parish Church of Seal, in Kent.* 



CAMPBELL. 



Boundaries, Extent.— This county has Cobb on the N., 

 De Kalb and Fayette E., Coweta and Carroll S., and Carroll W. 



* Walpole's Memoirs of George HI. ; Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors 

 of England ; Parliamentary Debates. 



