John Wilkes to William FitzHerbert: "I paid the greatest deference to your judgment in not returning to may native country when I was so warmly pressed to it"; believes that Walpole's proposal was not too great "if you take in the variety of my sufferings"; feels he has the clearest right to a full pardon; requests payment of two bills. "I should have been glad to have shewn you that I am not indifferent in the most momentous concern of the age, the American business, but you leave your bird in a cage where, tho' he does not mope, he does not often prune his wings, and cannot take the flights he would. And surely I might add that such a bird is not for a cage. It is difficult to confine long the daring, strong pinion of the eagle". 10 March 1766