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tirnents of a Church of England Man loith respect 

 to Religion and Government : " the lawyers, who 

 of all others seem least to understand the nature 

 of fxovernment in general." 



Upon this the author remarks, — 



" And<incleed, it does appear from our history, either that 

 our lawyers have all along been ignorant of the true nature 

 of our Constitution, or that some of the chief of them have 

 upon all occasions been ready to sacrifice it to their own 

 iiellish views of preferment." 



I will ask your readers to compare these two 

 following passages, and, if space permitted, I could 

 quote others with equal similarity in thought and 

 expression : — 



" And from what has happened latel}' in some neigh- 

 bouring countries, Avhere undisguised absolute power pre- 

 vails, our Lawyers ma}' see that the profits of their trade 

 <lepend chiefly upon the preservation of our happy con- 

 stitution, according to it's original and fundamental 

 plan." — Doctrine of Libels, §-c., 1752. 



" It is the preservation of the constitution in it's due 

 order which must continue us freemen; nothing else can. 

 And whilst our laws continue uiiprofaned, lawyers will of 

 course be considerable, their profession honorable. But 

 when civil liberty dies, by foreign or domestic invasion, 

 tlic vocation of a law3'er will .soon become equallj' mean 

 among us to what it actually is now in all foreign coun- 

 tries, where the monarch by the sword and the army laj's 

 down his will for law, and breaks through the forms of 

 courts and their rules of justice whenever he pleases." — 

 Letter concerning Libels, ^c, 17G4. 



I must resist the temptation of quoting another 

 passage from the conclusion, but they who take 

 the trouble to refer to it, cannot but be reminded 

 of the so-called quotation from De Lolme which 

 concludes the Preface to the Letters of Junius. 



The next pamphlet is mentioned on the title- 

 page of the foregoing, and entitled, — 



" The late Excise Scheme dissected, or an Exact Copj' 

 of the late Bill, &c., &c. Together with an Introduction, 

 explaining the Nature of our Constitution, and the Me- 

 thods by which it may be overturned. London, 1734." 



It contains the whole of the intended Excise 

 Bill, with remarks upon each clause, preceded by 

 a History of the English Constitution, in every 

 respect consistent with the opinions subsequently 

 expressed in the writings of Candor and Junius. 

 I regret that I have not yet been able to discover 

 the " Fatal Consequences of Ministerial Influence" 

 or either of the " other pieces in favour of our 

 Constitution" but I have little doubt that I can 

 perceive traces of this writer's " 'prentice hand" in 

 the pages of the Craftsman for 1734; and this 

 may account for the interest evinced by Candor 

 for the case of Mr. Amherst, the "author," or 

 rather editor of the Craftsman: a political journal 

 to which Bolingbroke and other well-known wri- 

 ters contributed. 



Here then probably commenced the literary and 

 political career of Richard Grenville, afterwards 

 Earl Temple. Ho was in his twenty-fourth year 



when he came into parliament at the General 

 Election in 1734, and joined the connexion of 

 "Cobham Cousins," who were so formidable in 

 their opposition to Sir Robert Walpole, by whom 

 his uncle. Lord Cobham, had been deprived of his 

 regiment of Dragoons, ostensibly for his vote 

 against the affiiir of the South Sea inquiry, but 

 really for having exerted his influence in the de- 

 struction of the famous Excise Bill of 17.?3. 



Your correspondent D. E. must have formed 

 his opinion, with regard to the pamphlets he has 

 attributed to the pen of Candor, by the same 

 means which led me to a similar conclusion : that 

 is, by internal evidence alone, for, in fact, there is 

 no other evidence ; nor is it likely, after the lapse 

 of nearly a century, that any more direct and de- 

 monstrative evidence shall be found. By internal 

 evidence, I mean similarity of style, subjects, and 

 principles : the same mental current of thought, 

 the same peculiarities of words, phrases, &c. ; in 

 short, that kind of evidence which may fairly be 

 relied upon until the contrary be actually proved. 



Now, I would ask him to apply the same rules 

 of internal evidence to a comparison of several 

 pages in the Letter concerning Libels, Sfc. (5th 

 edit. p. 54., &c.), where the subject of Seizure of 

 Papers is treated of, with a pamphlet written by 

 Lord Temple, entitled A Letter to the Earls of 

 Halifax and Egremont on the Seizure of Papers, 

 and I am convinced that he will find internal evi- 

 dence irresistibly tending to the conclusion that 

 they emanated from the same pen. This pamphlet 

 was originally printed by Wilkes (^Gren. Corresp., 

 ii. 53. 81.) at his private press, but was afterwards 

 published by Williams, 1763. 



There is other circumstantial evidence with re- 

 gard to Lord Temple and the Candor pamphlets. 

 I have mentioned the case of Mr. Amherst, " the 

 author of the Craftsman," as he is called by Can- 

 dor, who alludes to him in both his pamphlets. 



I have, in Lord Temple's handwriting, the de- 

 tails of this case as he obtained them from the 

 Crown Office, and the fact, and the opinion men- 

 tioned therein, are both transferred to the pages 

 of Candor. I need not repeat the particulars, as 

 they are given in the Notes to Grenv. Corresp., 

 vol. iii. p. clxxv-vi. Another instance of Lord 

 Temple's connexion with the Letter concerning 

 Libels, may be found in the case of the Hon. Alex. 

 Murray, in which the information conveyed in a 

 letter from Sir John Phillipps in reply to Lord 

 Temple's inquiries is to be found quoted in the 

 Letter concerning Libels (see Grenv. Corresp., iii. 

 clxix.). The author was safe in using the inform- 

 ation thus acquired, as Sir John Phillipps died a 

 few months before the publication of the pamphlet. 

 And there is a third instance of a document in the 

 handwriting of Lord Temple being repeated in 

 the Letter concerning Libels : it is a resolution of 

 the House of Commons, in 1641, relative to the 



