62 EEYIEWS — JUNIUS DISCOVERED. 



he might not have beeD under his immediate command. Thus much for the 

 military brother: — now for the civilian. On the 24th of March, in the same year, 

 the Ri"ht Honorable Charles Townshend was appointed Secretary at War ; and as, 

 to a certain extent, and in a general sense, the whole army may be said to be under 

 the direction of — and, consequently, to serve under the Secretary at War ; so each 

 individual of the army may, in a general sense, bo held to serve under him, although 

 he may be, like Charles Townshend, only a civilian. The civilian Governor Pow- 

 nall then, as comptroller-general., in Germany, while the civilian Charles Townshend 

 was Secretary at War, in England, might, without any greno stretch of conscience, 

 fia y — and in a military sense too — that he had served tender Charles Townshend, 

 although neither the one nor the other of them, was, in a strict sense, a soldier : 

 — the former was of — but not in — the army, — and the latter was neither of — nor 

 in — but over the army; and both were non combatants. 



4 A consequence of the treaty of Paris, of Feb. 10, 1763, was, the breaking up of 

 the office in the army, in Germany, held by Governor Pownall, and his return to 

 England ; soon after which, he took up his residence at Richmond, where, it will 

 be recollected, the court of George the Third, was established during the period in 

 which Junius, as chief public political censor, reigned in England, unseen, unknown, 

 but not unfelt.' 



This, it must be admitted, is somewhat vague and indefinite, for 

 the evidence that should so conclusively prove the " discovery " of 

 Junius; and we rise from the perusal of the volume as a whole, not- 

 withstanding the ingenuity of its line of argument, with an unsatis- 

 factory sense of intangibility in the proof led on behalf of the new 

 claimant for the Junius laurels. Much of this is no doubt inseparable 

 from the very nature of the inquiry, and if some inconceivable dis- 

 covery, such as it seems too late now to hope for, does not withdraw 

 the mask, it is only by a series of ingenious inferences and analogies 

 that this literary riddle has any chance of being solved. Nevertheless, 

 we must confess to a sense of disappointment at finding our author 

 following the example of previous writers in recognising resemblances 

 between "peculiarities''' of the Junius letters and of those of their 

 assumed author, which are for the most part only peculiarities of his 

 period ; and what shall we say of such logic as this : — 



1 Notwithstanding all the labour of the author, &nd the corrections made by the 

 original printer and publisher, "numerous errors of grammar and construction," 

 says Mr. Butler, in his Reminiscences, "are to be discovered in these celebrated 

 letters;" and to the like effect says Dr. Good and Lord Brougham. If such be the 

 case then with writings originally prepared for publication, and subsequently on 

 republication, corrected, and recorrected, it is scarcely reasonable to look for the 

 elaborated composition of the letters of Junius, in the private letters of Governor 

 Pownall, written as these were without a view of their ever passing beyond the 

 circle of his and his correspondent's immediate friends. The impartial reader will 

 no doubt bear this in mind, whenever he catches the Governor tripping in his 



