Montagu didn't stand a chance against the street fighter Wilkes.
You actually have to go back to the eighteenth century for that one. It was the Earl of Sandwich who expressed the opinion that his rival would die "on the gallows or of the pox".
John Wilkes replied, "It depends on whether I embrace your lordship's principles, or your lordship's mistress."
Montagu didn't stand a chance against the street fighter Wilkes.