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[" JUNIUS" LETTERS]

While G-irdlestone (Nos xxxin and as erfectively espoused his claims.

Lloyd, Charles, d. 1773.

Lloyd was the private secretary to Q-eorge G-renville, and among those who believed in his claims was Di. Pair. It must not, however, be f 01 gotten, that this clannant died, an old man, just after the letters hud ceased, which fact is scaicely m haimony with the spmt they exhibit. See the interesting book by Mi. Baikei, NOB. LSIII., LXIV., also Jaques* work, 147-171, No. LXXV.

Lyttleton, Thomas, 2d Lord. b. 1744; d. 1779.

Mi. Dilke, in his "Papers of a Critic," vol. li. f and Mi Thorns, m " Notes and Queries," 1st Sei., xi. 19S, have shown that Lyttleton no longer deserves a place among the Jumus claim- ants.

Sect also "Notes and Queries," 1st Ser., viii. 31, "Littell's Living Age," xlil. 223, and the " Quaiterly Review," xc. 01.

Maclean, Laughlin, b 1727; d. 1777.

This claimant had been under-secretary of state during Lord Shelburne's possession of the oihce for the southern department. (See Ju- nius' " Letter," of date March 0, 1771 ) During the years 1760 and 1770, when Jumus was most active, Mr. Maclean "was absoibed in his own pecuniaiy difficulties consequent on gambling m India stock " ; and In 1772 ho was acting as collector in the city of Philadelphia m this countiy, while the "Letters" weie still appear- ing m England. See Gait, " Life of West/' Al- mon, in 1806, thought that he was a joint-author with Oiattan. Twenty-two arguments have been published in favoi of Maclean, in " Waldie's (P.) Libiary," edited by John Jay Smith. See also " Notes and Queries," 2d Ser, vii 310.

Marshall, Rev. Edmund, d. 1797.

TMs gentleman, vicar of Charing, in Kent, occasionally wrote political letters m the " Kent- igh Gazette," over the pseudonym of "Cantia- nas " IIis claims are referred to Jn Nichols* "Literary Illustrations of the Eighteenth Cen- tury," viii. 680.

Paine, Thomas, b. 1737 ; d. 1809.

See No. I/TKXTX. The audacity of the author of this work is my apology for its insertion.

Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, b. 1708; d 1778.

Chatham could not very well have been Ju- nus, as the latter was \cry anxious to obtain duplicate proofs flora the printer to forward to Pitt (see tho " Chatham Papers," p. 52), and the celebrated letter to Lord Mansfield, it is well known, was sent to Chatham some days before it was printed. Moreover, Pitt, "though most effective m oratory, was careless in literary com- position, inexact, loose, and repetitionary : very unlike Junius, who not only polished bis public letters to the highest finish, but never let the most brief or trivial private note escape him un- raaiked by tho hand of a master." See also "JSotes and Queries," 3d Ser, viii 356, 440, and Nos. xxxrv., LXX., LXXI., TiXxin., LXXXV.

Portland, William, Duke o b.

1738; d. 1809.

See Mr. Johnston's work, No. XLVH., in which the author argues that the principal object of the " Letteis" was the restoration of the estate of the Duke of Portland, part of which bad been taken from him in 1707 and granted to Sir James

Lowther, who had married Lord Bute's daugh- ter.

Pownall, Thomas, b. 1722 ; d. 1805. See No. LXXXIY. Rich, Liieut-Col,, Sir Robert. See

No. LXXXIII.

Roberts, John. d. 1772.

This gentleman was anonymously accused of having written the Letters m the " Public Ad- vertiser," March 21, 1772, et passim He died July 13, 1772, before the Junius Letteis were discontinued,

Rosenhagen, Rev. Philip.

Upon the authority of Gerard Hamilton, it is related by Almon that Rosenhagen endeavored to obtain a pension fioin Lord North, by stipu- lating that Junms (he himself) should write no more. But there is no similarity in the hand- writing of this claimant to that of Junius, and, moieover, Rosenhagen being of foreign extrac- tion, could hardly be master of the idiomatic phraseology that Junius had at bis command. See also " Notes and Queries," 3d Ser., v. 16.

Sackville, George, Viscount, b.

1716; d. 1785.

Dr. G-ood, in his preliminary essay to Wood- fall's edition of 1812, states that " Sir William Draper divided his suspicions between this nobleman and Mr Burke, and upon the personal and unequivocal denial of the latter, he trans- ferred them entirely to the former and that Sir William was not the only person who suspected his lordship even from the first, is evident from the private letter of Junius, which asserts that Swmney bad actually called upon Lord Sack- ville and taxed him with being Junius, to his face. (See Private Letter, 6.)

Sackville on one occasion observed to a friend, " I should be proud to be capable of writing as Junius has done; but there are many passages in his letters I should be very soriy to have writ- ten." His lordship, moreover, was afterward created Loid Q-eorge Germaine, a favorite of George III, and unlikely to be his accuser. See also Chalmers, " Appendix to the Supplemental Apology," p. 7 (No. xsx) ; Wraxall, '* Memoirs of his own Time," 11. 90; and Nos. LXI., iiXVi., LSSV.

Shelbnrne, Earl of, Marquis of Lans- downe. d. 1804.

He disclaimed the distinction, only a week before bis death, on being personally applied to on the subject of Junius by the late Sir Kichard Phillips. WADE.

See also Barr and Dunning, ante.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield. K 1695; d. 1772.

Chesterfield was over seventy years of age when the Letters appeared, and Mr. Dilke, in the "Papers of a Critic, " ii., states that he wrote to the Bishop of Waterford, "I am prodig- iously old, and every month of tbe calendar adds at least a year to my age. My band trembles to that degree that I can hardly bold my pen. My understanding stutters and my memory fum- bles."

See Nos. LV., LXXEE., TraT.

Suett, Richard, d. 1805.

See No. mi. A work described as " a clumsy display of wit and learning; the former consist- ing of stale anecdotes and ill-put Jokes ; the lat- ter of looked-for quotations. To justify his