^^?^^.-^m/^»t^^ c^^^'^-'^^^^Z^ jij^'fixw^ THE SEQUEL OF AN ATTEMPT TO ASCERTAIN THE AUTHOR OF THE LETTERS OF JUNIUS. THE SEQUEL OF AN ATTEMPT TO ASCERTAIN THE AUTHOR OF PUBLISHED UNDER THE SIGNATURE OF JUNIUS, IN WHICH THAT HITHERTO IMPENETRABLE SECRET IS, IT IS PASSU MSP, FULLY DISCLOSED, BY THE AUTHOR OF THE ATTEMPT. Sub lace maligna Est iter. JEn. vi. 270. . , . , i«, ^* ,• '•• *• • • PUltLISHED BY LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AN1> BROWN, PATERNOSTER ROW; AND W. EBDOWESy SHREWSBURT. 1815. • •• • • • • • • •• J. BretUU, Printer. a: 9 THE SEQUEL OF AN ATTEMPT, S,^c. r?h> n!C'ii ^INCE the appearance of this Attempt to ascertain the Author of Junius's Letters, the public attention has been largely called to the subject. The claims of old competitors have been reinforced by fresh arguments, and new candidates for the property of these celebrated compositions have been brought forward. Of the former of these classes I shall only say, that nothing has been urged, which appears to me in the least to shake the reasoning by which the publisher of the last edition has repelled their pretensions in his Introduction. Of the latter class, the chief characters I at present recollect, are Dr. Francis, the translator of Horace, and his son. Sir Philip ; Mr. Glover, the author of Leonidas ; and Dr. Wilmot, a Warwickshire clergyman. — The cUims of Dr. Francii and 86/^088 his son rest upon some ; supposed identities of expression^ whitli, upon the most cursory exa- mination^ will be found to resolve themselves into nothing ; and upon the circumstance, that Sir Philip was at the time a clerk in the War- OflSce, and therefore capable of communicating certain information concerning that department, which Junius appears to have possessed : infor- mation, however, which he may have derived from other quarters, and which every prudential motive would have withheld a young man in the office from imparting to the public through the medium of his own 'pen. In fact. Sir P, Fran- cis, who is still living, has solemnly disavowed the honour of being- Junius ; and, from the terms of resentment in which he has disclaimed the imputation, appears to entertain as little respect for that writer, as the author of the Attempt professes himself to do. The pretensions of Dr. Wilmot may be dismissed in a single word. Mr. Woodfall has proved, in the Gentleman's Magazine, that the only atom of evidence on which this supposition rests (the scrap of a leaf imperfectly torn from a common-place book, in which the first copy of oneof Junius's Letters is pretended to have been written) is a clumsy forgery, which has not left space enough, be- 7' tween the existing words of the fragment, for half the number of words which are necessary to make sense of the passage. These gentlemen are, therefore, completely hors dc combat. Mr. Glover alone remains ; and it must be acknowledged that the freedom, the purity, and energy of his style, the ardour with which he engaged in politics, the intimacy he appears to have enjoyed with so many public characters^ and the abhorrence (I mean the political abhor- rence) and the jealousy he entertained of every one of them, with the remarkable exception of Mr. Grenville, all conspire to give to his pre- tensions a very strong degree of internal proba- bility ; of probability derived from a considera- tion of the writings themselves. But when we advance to the external proof, to his motions about Town, his residence, his facilities of com- munication with the press, his hand-writing, and other the like circumstances, we find not a tittle of information. All that it is possible to col- lect from the most diligent perusal of his Me- moirs, and the Inquiry founded upon them, is, that Mr. Glover mai/ have been the author of Junius's Letters : — (and when the cordial and animated eulogium of Mr. Glover upon Col. Townshend is compared with the very con- temptuous manner in which Junius speaks of the 8 same young nobleman, perhaps even so much can scarcely be allowed) : — but there is not a particle of proof to shew that he was so, • , . Now this is what the author of the present Attempt claims to have done ; and if the late editor has correctly indicated those communica- tions of Junius to the Public Advertiser^ which that writer chose to transmit under other signa- tures, I see not how this conclusion can be avoided. For the case stands thus: On the 21st of September, 1769, General Gansel was arrested for debt : he persuaded the baihff to accompany him to the Horse Guards, where, he said, he should find a friend who would bail him. Arrived at the place, he sees a Serjeant, to whom he complains that he had been insulted by the bailiff, and desires him to bring a file of mus- queteers and take the man into custody : him- self, in the mean time, making his escape. This is the statement given in Mr. Woodfalls note (ii. 37.) which appears to be impartial and authentic. Junius adds, how truly I know not, that a young lieutenant (Dodd) not on duty, took part in the affair, and applied to the officer pn duty (Lieutenant Garth) to turn out the guard for the purpose of relieving the General ; that Garth declined interfering, but stood at a dis- tanccj and suffered Dodd to do so. However 9 Ibis be, (be Adjutant-General, bearinc; of (be affair, committed tbe serjeant and bis men close prisoners to tbe Savoy, and sent word to tbe sheriffs of bis baving so done, tbat tbey n)igbt be given up to tbe civil authority ; and, at the end of a week, tbe General surrendered himself, and was committed to tbe King's Bench Prison. Upon these facts, Junius, on the l?th of tbe following month, raised a most vehement attack against tbe ministry. Their having neglected to bring tbe officers to a court-martial was tbe main ground of accusation. '* Tbey have views [^against tbe liberties of their country] which can only be answered by securing tbe attachment of the Guards. Tbey did not venture to bring even the private soldiers to a court-martial, because they knew their evidence would be fatal to some persons, whom they [tbe ministers] were determined to protect. Otberwise, Junius doubts not, the lives of the unhappy, friendless soldiers would long since have been sacrificed, without scruple, to tbe security of tbeir guilty officers. Did he not know that his countrymen had in their hearts a spirit of resistance ; that they valued life only by its independence, he should advise them to forget that they were Englishmen, and make some early agreement with the minister, that, since lie robbed them 10 of their political rights, he would at least lear^ them the humble, obedient security of citizens, and condescend to protect them in their submis- sion." Now the question is, did the case before him warrant Junius in this acrimony of invective ? Without attempting, or wishing, to justify the General, the lieutenants, the serjeant, or his men, can any one believe that the government, in contenting itself with a slight imprisonment and a reprimand, in abstaining to proceed with the utmost severity against these persons, were actuated by any formal design against the liber- ties of the subject ? It was at least fitting that these parties should not be punished twice for their offence. The sentence of a court-martial would be no bar to an action at law for the civil injury, or to an indictment for the misdemeanour : it was at least fair, therefore, to wait and see if such proceeding would be instituted. Or would Junius really have had the cabinet direct the At- torney-General to file an information ex officio against the young gentlemen, for what most people, of ordinary good-nature, will consider as a juvenile indiscretion committed in the heat of the moment ; repaired, as far as reparation was possible, immediately after its commission, and productive of no real injury to the creditors 11 of (he General, or the bailiff employed in the arrest ? Certain it is, that the public in general saw the affair in the same light in which, I own, I view it. Goaded, as they were, almost to madr ness, by the envenomed effusions of a licentious press, they thought that Junius had, in this in? stance, gone too far. Junius liimself thought so. He felt that to come forward any more on so trifling an occasion in the person of Junius,, would be a degradation to that signature, which he had raised, and which he wished to keep at such an height of importance. To Mr, Woodfall, in a private letter (Nov. 8), he attri-* butes his forbearance in not pushing the subject to compassion — to '' the fear of ruining that poor devil Gansel and those other blockheads.'* But that policy, and not humanity, was the motive which restrained him from writing any more on this head in the character of Junius, is certain from the fact that he pushed it as far a» it would go, under other signatures. Under that of Moderatus (Nov. 14), he enforces all the arguments of Junius, and answers the objections which had been raised against him. He repeats the statement of the facts : ^' I have found every circumstance stated by Junius to be literally true. General Gansel persuaded the bailiffs to conduct him to the parade, and cer- 1? tainly solicited a corporal and other soldiers io assist him in making his escape. Captain Dodd did certainly apply to Captain Garth for the as- sistance of his guard. Captain Garth declined appearing himself, but stood aloof while the other took upon him to order out the King's guard, and by main force rescued the General. It is also strictly true, that the General was es- corted by a file of musqueteers, to a place of security. These are facts which no gentleman in the Guards will deny. If all or any of them are false, why are they not contradicted by the parties themselves ? However secure against military censure, they have yet a cha- racter to lose ; and surely, if they are innocent, it is not beneath tliem to pay some attention to ihe opinion of the public.'* He would have them punished twice over. ^' They have com- mitted two offences, both very common, and violated two laws. The rescue is one offence ; the flagrant breach of discipline, another ; and hitherto it does not appear that they have been punished, or even censured, for either." Their appeal to the compassion of the public, Mo- deratus answers by saying, this idea, as well as the insinuation, that depriving the parties of their commissions, would be an injury to their creditors, can only refer to General Gansel. 13 Tlie other officers are in no distress, therefore have no claim to compassion ; nor does it ap- pear that their creditors, if they have any, are more likely to be satisfied by their continuing in the Guards. But this sort of plea will not hold in any shape. Compassion to an offender, who has grossly violated the laws, is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has ob- served them. ^' He would have the matter in- vestigated in Parliament." The precedent, with respect to the Guards, is of a most im- portant nature, and alarming enough (consider- ing the consequences with which it may be at- tended), to deserve a parliamentary enquiry. \A hen the Guards are daring enough, not only to violate their own discipline, but publicly, and with the most atrocious violence, to stop the ex- ecution of the laws ; and when such extraordi- nary off'ences pass with impunity, believe me. Sir, the precedent strikes deep." Such are the tender mercies of Junius ! Such was the man who would not '' push the subject of his letter, for fear of ruining that poor devil Gansel, and those other blockheads.'* He drops the affair in one character, only to take it up in another. He affects to spare them, while he is doing them all the mischief in his power. For that Moderatus was no other than Juuiui n himself, is undeniable. When the letters of Junius were, under his own inspection, collect- ed into volumes, this letter was adopted as one of the letters of Philo-Junius, his own accre- dited signature for his subordinate composi- tions. Indeed, who but Junius himself would have entered into his concerns, have espoused his cause, vindicated his character, and en- forced his arguments on such an occasion, with an interest so truly paternal ? The same observation applies to the letters of X X, which appeared in the same paper, and on the same subject, on the 20th and 25th of the same month. Here we have the same deep concern for the reputation of Junius, the same violence against the ministry, the same perse- cution of the oflfending officers, with new dis- coveries of the secret motives which induced the government to screen them : one, it seems, was an equerry to the Duke of Cumberland; the other a friend of Mr. Luttrell [the well-known member for Middlesex], and the son of the oldest and most intimate crony of his father. Lord Irnham : both, therefore, on account of these connections, according to the logic of the school of Junius, so connected with the ministry as to be by them sheltered from justice. Besides all this, XX inveighs with virulence against 15 Lord Barrington, the perpetual object of Ju- nius's execration : and, as if to identify himself with Junius beyond the possibility of cavil, recom- mends and highly extols the letter of Mode rat us, incontestibly written by Junius, and what is very remark able, announces a new and tremendous at* tack upon the ministry/, which appeared four days after in the shape of a letter from Junius to the Duke of Grafton^ on CoL Burgoync's sale of a patent place to a Mr. Hine. Can we wonder that the advocate of the oflScers should tax Junius with ^' venting his illiberal resent- ment under the borrowed signature of XX ;" with /' keeping the field under another person, after he has been routed in his own ?" Not a doubt can, I am persuaded, exist with any one who attentively reads the whole of the corres- pondence, that the letters of Junius, Philo- Junius, Moderatus, and X X, were all written by one and the same person, as the late editor very properly considers them to have been. It is material, then, to discover, if we can, who X X was ; because, if we can do this, it is evi- dent we shall not be far from the detection of Junius himself. , Now, what are the facts which we know re- specting XX? In the first place, he was a frietid of Mr. Wilkes. On the 17th of Nov. 1769, h« II 16 sent a letter to the Public Advertiser^ enclosing a private letter from Mr. Geo. Onslow to Mi*. Wilkes (date 21st Nov. 1763) ; of which that anonymous writer had by some means obtained a copy, which he most unwarrantably transmitted for publication. With the merits or demerits of Mr. O. I have notiiing to do : but when one friend has written in confidence of friendship to another (and Onslow and Wilkes were friends at the time he wrote the letter in question) ; if the person addressed permits a third person to take a copy of the letter^ he is guilty of an act of most culpable indiscretion, to call it by the lightest name. But there is only one name foir the conduct of him who transmits such letter to the press, for the purpose of holding up its writer to public odium. I do not scruple to affirm, that the man who can commit this crime, is withheld from the commission of all others by no principle of morality or honour. Such however is the fact. X X communicated Mr. O.'s letter to Mr. Woodfall ; and Mr. Woodfall the son asserts that X X was Junius ; and the perusal of the letters of X X will convince the reader that Mr. Woodfall is right. This part of the argument I conceive to be so self-evident to any one who reads the letter^ that I think it quite superfluous to labour it any further. So much for the 17 Taufited honour and lofty spirit of Junius. Now then let us see who he was. On the 14th of the preceding July, appeared in the same paper a letter signed, *^' Another Free- bolder of Surrey/' and charging Mr. Onslow with having sold a place under government to a Mr. Burns. The Freeholder was Mr. Home ; and Mr. Home had been, some days previous to that date, ^* abused for the publication of a letter (date 2 1st Sept. 1765) from Mr. Onslow to Mr. Wilkes*' (Woodfali's Junius, iii. 230), which, by letter of that date, was transmitted to the P. A. for publication. The letter so transmitting, to Mr. Woodfall the father,— Mr. Onslow's letter to Wilkes, — is asserted by Mr. Woodfall the son (in the page just referred to) to have been written by Mr. Home. Here then we have Mr. Home, in July, 1769, transmitting anonymously to Mr. Woodfall, for the purpose of annoying Mr. On- slow, a letter from the said Onslow to Mr. Wilkes, and an anonymous writer, X X, a few months later, transmitting to tlie same printer, for the same purpose of annoying the same per- son, another letter, also written by him to the same then confidential friend. /'Would you desire better comparisons ?" Who can doubt that Home was XX? and who that reads the letters of X X can doj.ibt that the writer of • those letters \mis alsp^ the. writer of those under ' B 18 the siffnalufc of Junius ? And observe how much the fact of these two letters narrows the sphere of suspicion. Most of those persons who have been named as the authors of Junius were, I am persuaded, much too honourable for such a business as publishing a gentleman's private correspondence for the purpose of annojing him : Most of them, again, had never that inti- macy with Wilkes which should procure them access to his escritoire. But Mr. Home 1 -will only say, that Mr. Home is known to have been capable of the one and the other. Add to these pregnant circumstances, the presumptive evidence which the author of the Attempt con- ceives himself to have accumulated upon this subject, and then let the candid reader blame him, if he can, for still persisting in the opi- nion with which he concluded his Attempt ; for still believing that he has proved his point. The time of Junius's appearance as an author, April, 1767, synchronizes exactly with the com- mencement of Mr. Home's political existence. ^' The life of Mr Home," says Wilkes, or one of his adherents, in a letter written December 31st, 1770 (i. e. after their violent rupture), *' began, as I understand, ^houtfour ij ears ago j when he was produced to the world as the friend of Mr. Wilkes, and as such received a degree of countenance and favour, which his merit 19 or abilities would never have entitled hfm to.*'* The interval between April 1767, and December 1770^ could not be more correctly described than as about four years ago. Is not the ar- dour of Junius, toOj more like the character of a man of Home's time of life, — calidus juventa, — than that of an hoary veteran like Glover, who, in 1767, must have said of himself, — ' Nonlaudis amor, noB gloria cessit Pulsa metu ; sed enim gelidus tardante senectS; Sanguis hebet, frigentque efFoetae in corpore vires." ' I will add one or two more corroborating circumstances. Besides the facilities for accurate and early information of what passed in the interior of the royal household, which Mr. Home possessed, from the vicinity of Brentford to Kew, on which I have already dwelt, he had others, of which I was not then apprised. His sister was married to Dr. Demaimbray, a native of Switzerland,f *' who taught the King spelling and the mathe- matics," says Wilkes contemptuously. He was, I believe, his Majesty's instructor in astronomy, and keeper of the Royal Observatory at Kew. It was, I presume, from this interest that Mr. ♦ The CofntrOTersiaJ Letters of John Wilkes, Esq. and the Rev. John Home. London, 1771, 12mo. p. 230. t Controversial Letters, &c. p. 308. B 2 20 Home, upon his return to England towardi the end of 1764, " received a promise,"— they are his own words,* — '' that he should speedily be ap- pointed chaplain to his Majesty, through the nominal application of the Duke of , with a prospect of such other particular preferment ^s was sufficient to satisfy his wishes ;" and from this gentleman, who, by virtue of his office, enjoyed such frequent opportunities of conver- sing with his Majesty, Mr. Home might derive much of the information of which Junius makes such a display in his correspondence both pri- vate and public. I find a most remarkable aflSnity between the terms in which Junius speaks of the services Mr. Home had rendered Wilkes, and those in which Mr. Home, in his own person, speaks of those services. JUNIUS. " He recommended him to the Livery of London for their representative ; to the Wardof Farringdon for their alderman ; to the County of Middlesex for their knight/* HORNE. " I leave you the legal representative of Middlesex, an alderman of London, and about c£. 30,000 richer than when first I knew you ; and I pretend to have been a Ut- tle instrumental in all these^ changes oi'your situation.'^ — Controversial Letters, p, SS, * Controversial Letters, p. 30. 21 It is one advantage which the hypothesis I have endeavoured to establish possesses over every other, that it affords a complete solution of the difficulty, so insurmountable upon any other supposition, that this celebrated author has never since been tempted to disclose himself. It is true, that in the light in which I regard Junius, no genuine honour could accrue to any one from being known as the writer : but since -A , ^ . ' " Tanto major fam^c sitis est, quam yirtutis/ it is certainly extraordinary that, when all dread of a prosecution or a challenge was removed (and time has long ago removed them), the writer never came forward and established his claim. Mr. Home, and Mr. Home alone, if he were the man, could never do this without a complete forfeiture of character ; and there- fore this fact must be taken as another pre- sumption in favour of my conjecture^ r ^.; r\,. Yet even Mr. Home at times appears to have been on the verge of discovery, to have laboured with the mighty secret, and to have been deterred from disclosure only by some most powerful motive,, such as I have imagined for him. When Mr. Boyd was first announced to the g2' world as Junius, Mr. T. B. a gentleman \^\ known, and an intimate friend of Mr. Horne,^' carried to him one day the publication in which that fact was stated ; and after the customary salutations, said, '* Mr. Home, I have got some-* thing in my pocket which will entertain you/* '' What is it?" said Home. '^Why, a book which professes to prove who Junius was."—* '^ Well,'' said Home, '' who do they say he xvas?"— ^' Boyd," replied Mr. B. ^^ Pooh," said Home, with a contemptuous smile, '* Ju- nius is still, living ; — but," added he, after a moment's pause, and, as it were upon reflection, ^^ I am not going to tell you who he is." This I had, through two gentlemen of undoubted credit, from Mr. B. himself, who is yet alive. The following was told me by the gentleman himself who was a party in the dialogue. He had occasion to visit Mr. H. Tooke at Wim- bledon, about six weeks before his decease, upon an affair of business. He found him alonCj and in bed. After the affair which had brought him down had been discussed, they discoursed on various subjects, and at length came to Junius, on which Mr. Home expa- tiated, particularly on the danger which would even now await the man who should avow him- self to be the author : '' No one," he said. 28 ^' could evea now do so with safety;* not even/* added he, " if he were so old a man as myself." I have no doubt that these two occasions were far from being the only ones in which Mr. H. thus trembled on the threshold of avowal : those who were admitted to his familiarity could add, I am persuaded, many anecdotes similar to those which I have related ; for a very general belief prevailed, I find, among * Juniu8*s apprehensions of the consequences of a dis- covery were as acute as those of Mr. Home. " As to me," says he, to Sir William Draper, " it is by no means ne- cessary that I should be exposed to the resentment of the worst and most powerful men in this country, though I may be indifferent about yours. Though you would fight, there are others who would assassinate." — *' As for myself, it is no longer a question whether I shall mix with the throng, and take a single share of the danger. Whenever Junius appears, he must encounter a host of enemies.". And still more strongly in a private letter to Mr. W^owl- fall;— " I am sure I should not survive a discovery three days ; or, if I did, they would attaint me by bill." But in 1769 and 1771, these apprehensions were, I be- lieve, well fotmded ; in 181,3 they are ridiculous. I can but consider them either as a tacit excuse for quitting the world with so important a secret, or as an expression of that pardonable vanity which magnifies to ourselves the consequence of our actions ; which made Dennis set so high a value on his satires against Louis XIV. as to convert a merchantman, beating ofFthe Dorsetshire coast, into a ship of war, dispatched to deliver him into the vengeance of the incensed monarch. 24 «ucli persons, that Mr. Home was really the man. When Mr. W. after the conversation I have just mentioned, returned below stairs to the ladies, Mr. H.'s daughters, and Mr. Henry Clifford, the well-known barrister, who was sit- ting with them, they asked him how he found Mr. Home ? Mr. W. expressed his surprise at his spirits and vivacity, and strength of mind, under so long and hopeless a confinement, and related the conversation they had held on the subject of Junius. '^ Well, but,*' said C. '^you know, I suppose, who Junius was.*'—'' No, in- deed," replied W. '' I do not."— '^ Why, re- joined the other, ^' we all here say that Mr. Home was the author of Junius's Letters."* In * Mr. Stephens writes, that he was present when one of the company asked Home Tooke if he knew the author of Junius. "On the question being put, he immediately jcrossed his knife and fork on his plate, and assuming* a stern look, replied, " I do." His manner, tone, and atti- tude, were all too formidable to admit of any further inter-' rogatories.** Life of H. Tooke, by Stephens, ii. 358. -'^ Is there not something like this in Milton, where Itbu- rid touches Satan with his spear: - „ **^ tTp lie starts Discover*d and surpriz'd. As when a spark Lights on a heap of nitrous powder.'* — ■ — " The smutty grain With sudden blaze diffused inflames the air ; So started up in his own shape the Fiend/' 25 fact, I now learn, that as long ago as the year 1789, the late Mr. Thicknesse published a pamphlet, entitled Junius Detected, the object of which was to fix it on Mr. Home. I have never been able to see this work, which was sold, with some mvsterv, in a sealed envelope, and at the unusual price of a guinea ; but I have reco- vered the two following paragraphs about it from an old newspaper, which I shall le^ve without further comment to the consideration of the reader : — :»v 8ir?Mnr ^i.. -KiflTo the Editor of the Gazetteer,: ihjLi slons of Ptirley are forgotten, and the '' Com^ Rientaries of the Jesuits'^ held no longer in remembrance/^ , i-r^^nj « A Briton of the Souths'' '^ December Z, 1789." Does not this letter remind the reader of the following quotation from Thomson ? ** The lapwing flutters (pious fraud !) to draw The hot-pursuing spaniel far away." If such was the intention of the letter, it fully answered its purpose, for the following appeared in the paper of the 11th of December : — f '* Injustice to Mr. Home Tooke, Mr. Thick- oesse declares that he never spoke, to the best of his knowledge, but twice in his life, to that gentleman ; that it is so many years since, that he doubts wiether he should even know his per- son were they to meet. So that what he has published relative to Junius Detected, proceeded wholly from his own folly ; which however is^ even by the most candid Reviewers, left in a doubtful state ; nor did Mr. Thicknesse ven- ture to print his ideas from his own weak judg- ment, but from the opinion of able heads," Before I conclude. I would say one word on 88 ' the most delicate of subjects, — myself. I have given great offence, I find, to some warm admi- rers of Junius^ and Mr. Home, by the freedom of my strictures on those characters. This can excite no surprise, however I may regret it. I would willingly offend no one, but I certainly did not write with the view of pleasing those gentlemen. The objects of our attachment are different — " , Nuniina yicinorutn ^'??nl ti Odit uterque" ' ,^-jv *\j It is not likely that our sentiments should be congeniaU ^dtnoj^Cllii tbil tntt ^o i^|fitf i»d^ ni ^On a cool and careful review of my At- temptj I find nothing to retract, and there is only one word I would wish to expunge. It is in the 12th line of the 17th page. Yet after revolving it anxiously in my mind, I am unable to substi- tute any other in its room ; and I have the con- solation to have found another writer experien^ cing the like embarrassment : — a Reviewer, and therefore, of course, correct, — the Edinburgh Reviewer, and therefore, of course, the acini of perfection. Speaking of the celebrated French writer, Diderot, he says: ''We not only feel neither respect nor affection for him, but can seldom read any of his lighter pieces without disgust. There is a tone of blackguardism (we 29 really can find no other word) both in his inde- cency and his profanity, which/' &c. July, 1813, p. 283. I may take it for granted, then, that our language supplies no other word to express my meaning ; and I have no further apologies to make. If I have at all • succeeded in de- grading Junius from the '^ bad eminence" on which he has been so long enthroned, in expo- sing the hypocrisy, perfidiousness, and falsehood of pretended patriots, — if I have been able to do this, — " Detrahere et pellcm, nitidus qua quisquc per ora Cederct, introrsum turpis," I have that to support me, which will ward off blows launched from an arm of tenfold strength to any which has been lifted against me. '' None of these things move me, neither count I my life dear to myself," in comparison with the maintenance of social order, legiti- mate authority, and constitutional liberty. ** Welcome for thee, fair Virtue ! all the past ; For thee, fair Virtue ! welcome ev'n the last." FINIS, J. Brettetl, Priuter, Rupert Street, Havuiarket, Loodoo. Lately published, AN ATTEMPT TO aifftettaftt t!)c ^wt^or of t^e %tMtx^ Published under the Signature of JUNIUS. By the Rev, J. B. BLAKEWAY, M.A. F.S. A. SUB LUCE MALIGNA 1ST ITER. *-i->9EN» in, SJO. To he had of the Puhlishets oflhis> WorJc:' :M-. 'H,. r<^' ■^ :f .:- ^f • ^-^ *«-4|.'^ r}'!^^^ « k ^ t 'J"-s I il 14 DAY USE RETURN TO DESK FROM WHICH BORROWED LOAN DEPT. This book is due on the last date stamped below, or on the date to which renewed. Renewed books are subject to immediate recall. MR 7 196715 L:5p«<-*r^ii/rr-'r-x MAR 7'6?'3PM LOAM r>rr^T. LD 21A-60m-7,'66 (G4427sl0)476B General Library University of California Berkeley 865988 3) Ai-a? 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