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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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which some passages were understood. There is 

 one posthumous edition in 4to., in 1629, probably 

 revised by Rawley, which is a correct copy of that 

 of 1625, and it affords two corrections of typogra- 

 phical errors. Here the list of editions worthy of 

 collation as authorities for the text must end. 



It was my purpose, in undertaking the labour 

 of preparing my edition for the press, to endea- 

 vour to give a correct copy of the Essays as Ba- 

 con left them, by a careful collation of his own 

 edition. The few notes I appended were a se- 

 condary consideration, and principally confined to 

 the verification of his quotations. That -this has 

 been faithfully and honestly done, to the best of 

 my ability, I have reason to believe ; and I have 

 hitherto discovered but two press errors. 



Should EiEioNNACH think that carrying out his 

 scheme of an edition on a different plan likely to 

 prove more acceptable to the admirers of this in- 

 valuable book, I heartily wish him success, and 

 above all, a more candid critic of his labours. 

 But should he venture to depart from the readings 

 of the text I have given of the Essays, he may 

 rest assured that his book will not be acceptable 

 to those who desire to see the thoughts of Bacon 

 clothed in his own language, without alteration or 

 paraphrase. S. W. Singer. 



South Lambeth. 



Passage in BacorCs Essays (2"* S. v. 181.) — 

 Bacon in his twenty-ninth Essay has the following 

 passage : — • 



" Number itself in armies importeth not much, where 

 the people is of weak courage ; for (as Virgil saith) it 

 never troubles a wolf how mapy the sheep be." 



In some illustrations of Bacon's Essays inserted 

 in " N. & Q.," 1st S. vol. viii. p. 165., it was re- 

 marked that this supposed dictum of Virgil (which 

 has received light from recent events in India) 

 rests on a misinterpretation of two verses in the 

 Seventh Eclogue ; and that the true meaning of 

 the passage, as explained by Servius and Heyne, 

 is that after the shepherd has counted his sheep, 

 the wolf does not care how much he deranges the 

 reckoning. This observation is repeated by Mb. 

 Singer in his edition of Bacon's Essays. Your 

 correspondent Eibionnach calls it a " downright 

 blunder." Will he have the kindness to explain 

 in what the blunder consists ? L. 



THE CANDOR PAMPHLETS, AND THE AUTHORSHIP 



OF "JUNIUS." 



(2"'5 S. v. 121. 141. 161.) 



Your correspondent D. E. has raised a very 

 interesting question upon the subject of these 

 political tracts, and I am gratified by his concur- 

 rence in the theory which I ventured to suggest 



in the notes to the Orenville Correspondence (vol. 

 iii. p. civ., &c.) that " Candor" and the " Father 

 of Candor " were one and the same person. 



There were, strictly speaking, only three pam- 

 phlets under the name of " Candor," father or son, 

 and these were all published by Almon. The first 

 of them is entitled A Letter to the Public Adver- 

 tiser, in which paper part of it was originally 

 printed, and it is now subscribed " Sir, Intirely,'' 

 8fc., and dated " Gray's Inn, August 31, 1764." 



Of this pamphlet there were, at least, three edi- 

 tions, the first and second editions published re- 

 spectively on September 22, and October 19, 1764, 

 and the third in 1770. 



The two last-mentioned editions profess to be 

 '■'■ printed from a more legible copy," and they difler 

 considerably from the fii'st edition, both in addi- 

 tions and omissions : some of the former connect 

 it still more closely, as to authorship, with the 

 second pamphlet by " the Father of Candor," 

 which is entitled An Enquiry into the Doctrine 

 lately propagated concerning Libels, ^c, Sec, with 

 the following motto : — 



" The child may rue, that is unborn, 

 The hunting of that day." — ■ Chevy Chase. 



It is addressed to Mr. Almon, and subscribed, 

 " I am, Sir, The Father of Candor," and dated 

 " Westminster, Oct. 17, 1764." In the second 

 and all subsequent editions the title was altered 

 into A Letter concerning Libels," Sfc, Sfc. 



The third, and last pamphlet of the "Candor" 

 family, was also published by Almon, in June, 



1765, and entitled The Principles of the late 

 Changes impartially examined, by a Son of Can- 

 dor, of which I have seen a second and third 

 edition ; but as your correspondent " can see no 

 trace of ' Candor' in it," and as I hold it to be a 

 genuine and legitimate son of Candor, I shall 

 leave it for the present, with the remark that 

 although I believe Almon knew nothing, with any 

 certainty, about the real name of the author, yet 

 that he considered them all to be written by one 

 person, is in some degree implied by the fact that 

 in his own announcement of new publications for 



1766, these three pamphlets are consecutively 

 placed, and numbered III., IV., V. 



The first edition of the Letters concerning Libels, 

 Sec, contains some curious passages which are not 

 to be found in any of the subsequent editions. 

 The "Appendix" was first added to the sixth 

 edition in 1766. It had been originally sent to 

 Woodfall some months before, in the form of a 

 letter, and printed in the Public Advertiser as de- 

 scribed by D. E. ; but the Notice which preceded 

 it runs thus : " Our old Correspondent C.'s letter 

 came to hand late last night," &c. So that how- 

 ever common the signature or initial C. is pre- 

 sumed to have been among the political writers of 

 the time, yet here he is distinguished by Wood*, 

 fall as " our old Correspondent." 



