152 THE SQUIRE MEMBER FOR WENLOCE:. 



montlis prior to the marriage of the King to the 

 Princess Charlotte ; but was returned again, in 1768, 

 with Sir Henry Bridgeman, and sat till 1774, 

 during what has been called the " Unreported 

 Parliament." He was returned in October of the 

 same year with the same gentleman. He was also 

 returned to the new Parliament in 1780, succeeding 

 Mr. Whitmore, who, having been returned for 

 Wenlock and Bridgnorth, elected to sit for the 

 latter ; and he sat tiU 1784. Sir H. Bridgeman 

 and John Simpson, Esq., were then returned, and 

 sat till the following year ; when Mr. Simpson ac- 

 cepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and Mr. Forester, 

 being again solicited to represent the interests of 

 the borough, was returned, and continued to sit until 

 the sixteenth Parliament of Great Britain, having 

 nearly completed its full term of seven years, was 

 dissolved, soon after its prorogation in June, 1790. 



It is not our intention to comment upon the votes 

 given by the Squire in his place in Parliament 

 during the thirty years he sat in the House ; suffice 

 it to say, that we believe he gave an honest support 

 to measures which came before the country, and 

 that he was neither bought nor bribed, as many 

 members of that period were. He was active in 



