 When the Scot John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, came to head the government in 1762, Wilkes started a radical weekly publication, "The North Briton", to attack him, using an anti-Scottish tone.He was charged with seditious libel over attacks on George III's speech endorsing the Paris Peace Treaty of 1763 at the opening of Parliament on 23 April 1763.Forty-nine people, including Wilkes, were arrested under the warrants.