156 JUNIUS. 



sufficiently qualified to judge of style, 

 after comparing one with the other ; and, 

 in the second, they all asserted and 

 agreed that the author of Junius had 

 been dead many years. Although I could 

 not give any further evidence in favour 

 of his identity, I could not be diverted 

 from that opinion an opinion which I 

 ever after maintained, and which I see 

 confirmed by the first critic and histo- 

 rian of the age. 



I shall not attempt to give a descrip- 

 tion of each individual member of our 

 little institution, but shall say at once 

 they were all men of intellect and edu- 

 cation, well known in their different vo- 

 cations, and commanded, or rather held, 

 a highly respectable position among the 

 community of which they formed a part; 

 nevertheless, I cannot refrain from draw- 

 ing an outline of one, to whom I was 

 particularly attached, who was the ori- 

 ginal projector, as well as the hospitable 



