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and, accordingly, we find him, a few months after his return to England, foregoing 

 his appointment to the governorship of South Carolina, and accepting, with the rank 

 of colonel, the office of comptroller general of the expenditure and accounts of the 

 extraordinaries of the combined army in Germany, under the command of Prince 

 Ferdinand, of Brunswick. 



' In this appointment, we find why — in the language of Dr. Good — "Junius appears 

 to have uniformly entertained a good opinion of, or at least, a partiality for, Lord 

 Holland;" and why — in Junius' own words — he should "wish Lord Holland may 

 acquit himself with honour," namely, from the charge of peculation, made in the 

 petition of the city of London, presented to the King, July 5, 1769 ; — and why 

 Junius "designedly spared Lord Holland and his family." His lordship was 

 paymaster-general of the forces, from July 5, 1751, to June 8, 1765; and Governor 

 Pownall, on accepting the comptroller-generalship, became one of his deputies and 

 bound to render to him the accounts of the office. In Lord Holland's "Answer" 

 to " Observations on the accounts of the paymaster-general" to be found in the note 

 A, immediately after the letter to Woodfall, No. 5, July 21, 1769, is the following 

 paragraph : — "The accounts of Lord Holland for the years 1757, 1758, and 1759 • 

 likewise the accounts of his deputies, attending the army in Germany, from the 

 commencement to the end of the late war, are also before the auditors for their 

 examination, and his Lardship's account for the year 1760, is almost ready to be 

 delivered to them." We learn, here, that Mr. Comptroller-Gsneral Pownall's 

 accounts "to the end of the late war" had been transmitted to the auditors for 

 examination ; and, from an obituary notice of him, published in the year of his 

 death, that they had been "examined and passed with honour." It is not at all 

 improbable that Governor Pownall received his appointment on the recommendation 

 of Lord Holland ; and hence, the partiality of Junius to his lordship. "We may also 

 well suppose, that the great anxiety of Junius to remain unknown, would prohibit 

 his entering upon the discussion of any subject — such as that of the public accounts 

 of Lord Holland, as paymaster-general, connected as they, necessarily, must have 

 been, with his own, as comptroller-general — that might bring his real name into 

 prominence, and tend to direct towards him the attention of the legion of hunters 

 who were in busy and constant search for the " mighty boar of the forest." 



'The notice of Governor Pownall's appointment, as comptroller-general, gives us 

 also occasion to explain a passage in the Miscellaneous Letter IV., dated Aug. 25, 

 1767, which has puzzled everyone who ha3 attempted to solve the Junius mysterv ; 

 and has, in many, induced the belief, that Junius must have been a member of the 

 military profession. Speaking of Lord George Townshend (the before-mentioned 

 brigadier-general), and his brother, Charles, Junius says, — " I am not a stranger to 

 this par nobile fratrum. I have served under the one, and have been forty times 

 promised to be served by the other." Paradoxical as it may seem (and considering 

 the rank of colonel, which accompanied the appointment of comptroller-general as 

 merely honorary rank), the civilian Governor Pownall could properly use, in its 

 military sense, the expression, — "I have served under the one" — in reference to 

 either the military or the civilian of the two brothers Townshend. Not long after 

 Brigadier-General Townshend's return from Canada, he joined the allied army in 

 Germany, and made a campaign with it, under Prince Ferdinand. During the same 

 campaign, and in the same army, but in a civil department, Governor Pownall 

 served ; and, of course, in as truly a military sense as if he had belonged to the 

 commissariat or medical departments, he served under General Townshend, although 



