declared member for the county, we see ourselves by this last act, deprived even of the franchises of Englishmen, reduced to the most abject state of slavery, and left without hopes or means of redress but from your Majesty or God. Deign then, most gracious Sovereign, to listen to the prayer of the most faithful of your Majesty's subjects; and to banish from your royal favour, trust and confidence, for ever, those evil and pernicious counsellors, who have endeavoured to alienate the affection of your Majesty's most sincere and dutiful subjects, and whose suggestions tend to deprive your people of their dearest and most essential rights, and who have traitorously dared to depart from the spirit and letter of those laws which have secured the Crown of these realms to the House of Brunswick, in which we make our most earnest prayers to God that it may continue untarnished to the latest posterity." Signed by 1565 Freeholders. SIR, N° 3. Saturday, July 15th, 1769. I HAVE received the favour of your note. From the contents of it, I imagine you may have something to communicate to me. If that be the case, I beg you will be particular; and also that you will tell me candidly whether you know or suspect who I am. Direct a letter to Mr. William Middleton' to be left at the bar "Mr. William Middleton's Letter is sent as desired." Answer to correspondents in the P. A. of July 20th, 1769. of the New Exchange Coffee-house on Monday, as early as you think proper. I am, Sir, your most obedient, and most humble servant, C. N° 4. (Private) SIR, July 17th, 1769. MR. Newberry having thought proper to reprint my Letters', I wish at least he had done it correctly. You will oblige me much by giving him the following hint2 to-morrow. The inclosed when you think proper. I "Mr. Newberry having thought proper to Newberry had thought proper at this time to publish a spurious and surreptitious edition of the first fifteen Letters, as printed in the author's edition, under the title of "The Political Contest;" and it was these unauthorised publications that gave the first idea of publishing a genuine edition of the whole. 2 This request does not appear to have been complied with ; as the following answer to correspondents was inserted in the Public Advertiser of the 18th of July :-" Reasons why the hint was not printed are sent to the last mentioned Coffee-house in the Strand, from whence our old correspondent will be pleased to send for them." 3 JUNIUS, Letter xvi. reprint JUNIUS's Letters, might at least have corrected the errata, as we did constantly. I did not expect more than the life of a newspaper, but if this man will keep me alive, let me live without being offensive. Speciosa quaro pascere tigres. SIR, N° 5. July 21st, 1769, Friday Night. I CAN have no manner of objection to your reprinting the Letters, if you think it will answer, which I believe it might, before Newberry appeared. If you determine to do it, give me a hint, and I will send you more errata (indeed they are innumerable) and perhaps a Preface. I really doubt whether I shall write any more under this signature'. I am weary of attacking a set of brutes, whose writings are too dull to furnish me even with the materials of contention, and whose measures are too gross *174 PRIVATE LETTERS OF JUNIUS and direct to be the subject of argument, or to require illustration. That Swinney' is a wretched but a dangerous fool. He had the impudence to go to lord G. Sackville, whom he had never spoken to, and to ask him, whether or no he was the author of JUNIUS-take care of him. Whenever you have any thing to communicate to me, let the hint be thus C at the usual place, and so direct to Mr. John Fretley, at the same Coffee-house, where it is absolutely impossible I should be known. I did not mean the Latin to be printed. I wish lord Holland may acquit himself with honour". If his cause be good, he should at once have published that account, to which he refers in his letter to the mayor 3. Pray tell me whether George Onslow means to keep his word with you, about prosecuting 4. A correspondent of the Printer's. 2 The Editor has already observed, in the Preliminary Essay, that JUNIUS appears to have uniformly entertained a good opinion of, or at least a partiality for, lord Holland. The remark is not new; it was noticed long ago by several of his opponents. Thus, in a letter subscribed by our author, Anti-Fox, and inserted in the Public Advertiser of October 16th, 1771, he thus speaks of him: "I know nothing of JUNIUS; but I see plainly that he has designedly spared lord Holland and his family." See Miscell. Lett. c. Vol. III. p. 409.. 3 See note A at the end of this Letter. * See note B at the conclusion of the preceding note. Yes or No will be sufficient. Your Lycurgus' is a Mr. Kent, a young man of good parts upon town. And so I wish you a good night. Yours, C. Lycurgus was a frequent writer in the Public Advertiser during the spring and summer of 1769; and opposed the ministry, but with less violence than most of his contemporaries. A. He seems to refer to a charge of embezzlement of the public treasure, made in the City Petition presented to his Majesty, July 5th, 1769, of which the following is a copy :The humble Petition of the Livery of the City of London in Common Hall assembled. "Most gracious Sovereign, "We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Livery of the City of London, with all the humility which is due from free subjects to their lawful Sovereign, but with all the anxiety which the sense of the present oppressions, and the just dread of future mischiefs produce in our minds, beg leave to lay before your Majesty some of those intolerable grievances which your people have suffered from the evil conduct of those who have been intrusted with the administration of your Majesty's government, and from the secret unremitting influence of the worst of counsellors. "We should be wanting in our duty to your Majesty, as well as to ourselves and our posterity, should we forbear to represent to the throne the desperate attempts which have been, and are too successfully made, to destroy that constitu |