of George III - The parliamentary struggle-Suicide of Chancellor CHAPTER VIII. A CONSIDERATION OF THE CURIOUS AND COMPLICATED SYSTEM OF ATTACKS Strategy of the Miscellaneous Series of the letters-Curious and com- CHAPTER IX. COTEMPORARY EVIDENCES; SHOWING THAT THE ACUTEST JUDGES OF Motives of men's silence respecting Lord Chatham-Horne Tooke's LORD CHATHAM'S SPEECHES AND REPORTERS-AFFECTATIONS AND IN- ADEQUACY OF SIR PHILIP FRANCIS, LORD CHATHAM'S AMANUENSIS AND Philip Francis and Mr. Boyd, reporters of the Earl of Chatham-His Junius not the sole depositary of his secret-Francis his medium or conveyancer-Lady Chatham-Her accomplishments-She conducted the Earl's open correspondence, and was his amanuensis-Lord Chat- ham's chirography-Junius and Lord Chatham on the affairs of Ame- rica-Not at variance, but curiously "at one" on that subject-Lord Chatham's modified sympathy with the Americans - His statue at New York-The War Office-Lord Chatham's familiarity with it-His contempt of Change Alley-Mrs. Ann Pitt, one of her brother's secret political agents both in France and England-Her character-Lord Ma- hon's representations-Mrs. Pitt's letters-David Garrick-He cowers under the abuse of Junius, and protests he would not for the world pro RECAPITULATION-PASSING REMARKS ON THE JUNIAN LETTERS PUBLISHED Recapitulation-The Grenville Correspondence-Mr. Smith's theory of Lord Temple's authorship a futile one-The "three letters" mere JUNIUS, LORD CHATHAM. CHAPTER I. CONSIDERATION OF THE STRATEGY OF JUNIUS, AND THE VARIOUS CLAIMS AND OPINIONS ADVOCATED IN CONNECTION WITH THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE LETTERS. "Tis a spirit; sometime it appears like a lord: sometime like a lawyer; sometime like a philosopher. He's very often like a knight; and, generally in all shapes that a man goes up and down in, between eighty and twenty-three, this spirit walks in. TIMON OF ATHENS. We have a number of shadows to fill up the muster-book. FALSTAFF. ONE of the classics of the English language,* is an author without a name, who lived and agitated the public mind in the time of Cowper and Burns. He was, as his letters sufficiently show, a man of genius, eloquence and subtlety -the last distinctive the greatest of the three. For, as regards the two first, we may find those who equal or ap *In Mayhew's "London Labor and London Poor," we perceive that, among those works which a street seller of books esteems the English classics-such as the Spectator, the Vicar of Wakefield, Tom Jones, and Robinson Crusoe-he numbers the Letters of Junius. This is curious enough; for it is hard to explain why such a political literature should be at all attractive in our day. Perhaps it is the vituperative audacity which girds at all dignities and the great folk, that gives it a name, and generally recommends it in a popular way. On the whole, the letters are a tough kind of reading, and nobody, as yet, we believe, has got them up with the entertaining editions for railway passengers. proach him; but nowhere can we find a cunning to match the artifice which, for over eighty years, has succeeded in confusing and baffling the curious inquiries of the world. Everything proves that he was a wonder of intellectual strength and versatility; but the wonder that he has not been found out is a greater wonder than himself. Not that he has not been recognized. The identity has been known to many, and pointed out by a few, and there is not a discussion of that interesting mystery in which the true name does not necessarily and largely occur; while, in later discussions, it puts itself so prominently forward that one would think few could avoid recognizing it. Still, curiously enough, the general eye wanders over that Junian shape without resting upon it. In spite of a thousand considerations indicating the identity, there seems to have always been a disinclination to challenge it aloud. And this disinclination may naturally be explained as growing by degrees out of a system of precautions and dissuasives, operating, according to the design of Junius, long after he had departed, and also, due to the influences of his family concealing or controlling all sources of correct intelligence on the subject. Indeed, the greater number of those dissertations that have appeared in the Junian controversy-especially those having the greatest air of authority-seem to us far less intended to aid a discovery than to set investigators astray. The advocacy for Sir Philip Francis, aided by his own demeanor respecting it, was wonderfully calculated to divert the public mind from the true merits of the question, and the true way of investigating it. The Franciscans first created the court-room pettyfogging style of evidence. And |