2»'i S. Vlir. Aug. G. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



103 



But Mr. Warden Flood's own book, if it were 

 not so imperfect as it is with rejfard to precise 

 dates, would furnish evidence that Flood could not 

 have been Junius. Mr. Warden Flood tells us of 

 Flood's duel with Mr. Agar, in which the latter 

 was shot. This took place on 25th August, 1769, 

 and Mr. Flood quotes letters from Lord Lifford 

 and Lord Charlemont upon the subject, dated re- 

 spectively the 6th and 10th of September. From 

 this time then, — the end of August, 1769, until 

 the 16th of April, 1770, when he was tried at the 

 Kilkenny Assizes, and acquitted, the verdict be- 

 ing, as we are told in the Life of Grattan *, 

 " manslaughter in his own defence," Flood is be- 

 lieved to have been imprisoned in Ireland. 



Let us see how Junius was employed during 

 the same period ; and we shall then be enabled to 

 judge how far it is possible that Flood and Junius 

 can be one and the same person. 



Now, referring to Junius' own edition of his 

 Letters, namely that published by Woodfall in 

 1772, — the only edition which should be referred 

 to when it contains the information of which we 

 are in search, — we find that between the begin- 

 ning of Sept. 1769, and April, 1770, there appeared 

 the following letters : — 



1769, 4th Sept. Philo-Junius to Printer of the Public 

 Advertiser. 



19th Sept. Junius to Duke of Bedford. 



25th Sept. Junius to Sir VV. Draper. 



13th Oct. Junius to Printer of Public Advertiser. 



20th Oct. Ditto ditto. 



19th Oct. Ditto ditto. . 



17th Oct. Ditto ditto. 



14th Nov. Ditto ditto. 



loth Nov. Ditto ditto. 



29th Nov. Junius to Duke of Grafton. 



12th Dec. Ditto ditto. 



19th Dec. Junius to Printer of Public Advertiser 

 (the celebrated Letter to the King). 

 1770, 14th Feb. Junius to Duke of Grafton. 



19th Mar. Junius to Printer of Public Advertiser. 

 3rd Apr. Ditto ditto. 



But the inference to be drawn from the fact of 

 the appearance of these fifteen letters from the 

 pen of Junius during the period of Flood's im- 

 prisonment, — namely, that Flood could not be the 

 writer, — is converted into something like certainty 

 when we come to the Private Correspondence 



• In this work, also, we find Flood's claim considered 

 and negatived. " Mr. Flood was supposed to have been 

 the author of the Letters of Junius ; but the comparison 

 of the letters of Syndercombe, which he certainly wrote, 

 with those of Junius, will go far to disprove the probabi- 

 lity ; and, on reference to two of the letters, this is esta- 

 blished beyond doubt ; for one of the letters of Junius to 

 Sir William Draper was written on the 21st of February, 

 1769. and appeared but a few days after the publication 

 of Sir William Draper's letter, dated the 17th, and to 

 which it was a reply. At that time Mr. Flood was in 

 Ireland, and it would not have been possible for a reply 

 to have been made by him, and published in London, in 

 the short space within which that letter of Junius ap- 

 peared." {Life of Henri/ Grattan, i. 157-159.) 



which Junius held with Woodfall during the same 

 period. 



Junius must have been in London on " Fx-idny 

 Night, Sept. 15, 1769," when he wrote to Wood- 

 fall : " I beg you will to-morrow advertise Junius 

 to another duke in our next." 



Again, in his private letter, No. 13., dated 16th 

 Nov. 1769, he says: "As I do not chuse to an- 

 swer for anybody's sins but my own, I must desire 

 you to say to-morrow, — 'We can assure the 

 Public that the letter signed A. B., relative to 

 the Duke of Rutland, is not written by the au- 

 thor of Junius' " But Junius's presence in Lon- 

 don on Dec. 19, 1769, is conclusive, inasmuch as 

 he corrects in a private letter to Woodfall of that 

 date an important error in his celebrated Letter 

 TO THE King, which appeared in the Public Ad' 

 vertiser of that day. It is No. 16. of the Private 

 Letters : — 



• "Dec. 19, 1769. 



" For material affection, for God's sake read maternal; 

 it is in the sixth Paragraph. The rest is excellently 

 done." 



This appears to us to be conclusive evidence 

 against Flood. That Flood was the author of 

 many political articles, the secret of whose author- 

 ship was for a long tiine sedulously concealed — 

 perhaps, among others, the Letters of Syndercomie 

 — we cannot doubt. Known to have written ar- 

 ticles of this character, the more celebrated 

 epistles of Junius have been perhaps confounded 

 with them by over-zealous friends, who, fully be- 

 lieving Flood to be Junius, took those measures 

 for handing down to posterity what they believed 

 to be the fact which have been already clearly 

 explained by our correspondent Valeat Quan- 

 tum, who has with so much good feeling and good 

 taste told the readers of " N. & Q." the story as it 

 was told to him, — namely, that the author of the 

 Letters of Junius, who is generally believed to have 

 been an Irishman, was no less a person than tho 

 Hibernian Demosthenes Henet Flood.] 



A geneeal liteeaey index. 

 (2"'» S. i. 486., &c.) 

 My last contribution to a General Literary In- 

 dex was in July, 1857. With your permission, I 

 shall continue it shortly. Meanwhile, I send for 

 your inspection contributions for the Companion 

 Index — An Index of Authors. Knowing by ex- 

 perience how much time and labour are lost by 

 inaccurate references, I specify not only the 

 volume, but the page in which the information is 

 to be found. 



Part I. — An Index of Authors. 



" Abffilardi (Petri), Filosofi et Theologi Abbatis Royen- 



sis et Heloisse Conivgis Eivs Prima? Paracletensis 



Abbatissffi Opera. Nvnc primvm edita ex MMS. 



Codd. V. lUvstr. Francisci Amboesii Equitis, etc. 



