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OR, BONS-MOTS, APOPHTHEGMS, OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE AND LITERA-, 
TURE, WITH EXTRACTS FROM ORIGINAL LETTERS, OF THE LATE. 
HORACE WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD. | 
NUMBER VI. 



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*,* This Article is communicated by a, Literary Gentleman, for many years in kabits of intimacy 
with Mr. Warrore. It is partly drawn up from a collection of Bens-Mors, Ge. in bis own 
band-writing ; partly from Anecdotes written down after long Converfations with bim, in which 
he would, from four Clock in the Afternoon, till two in the Morning, difplay thofe treafures of 
Anecdote with which his Rank, Wit, and Opportunities, had replenifbed his Memory, and 
partly from Original Letters to the Compiler, on Jubjeéis of Tafte and Literature. 
LXXXIX. JUNIUS. 
I Was informed by Sir John Irwine, that 
one day, when he was at Mr. Gren- 
ville’s; Mr. G. told Sir John, that he 
had that morning received a letter from 
Junius, faying, that he efteemed Mr. G. 
and might foon make himfelf known to 
him. This affords to me proof pofitive 
that the celebrated author of thofe letters 
could not be Mr. Grenville’s fecretary, as 
was reported*. 
T really tufpect Single-fpeech. Hamilton 
to have been the author, from the follow- 
ing circumftance. One day, at a houfe, 
where he happened to be, he repeated the 
contents of that day’s Junius; while in 
faét the printer had delayed the publica- 
tion till next day. Hamilton was alfe 
brought forward by Lord Holland; and 
it is remarkable, that Lord Holland, 
though very open to cenfure, is not once 
mentioned. 
Garrick, dining with me, told me that 
having been at Woodfall’s, he learned 

* Mr. Almon’s recent difcovery on this 
topic, in his ufual inaccurate way of ipfe 
dixit, without any reference or authority, may 
be the truth, but is certainly very impro- 
pable. A young Irifhman, author of the 
Letters of Junius! This embryo Burke 
would infallibly have been produced in pub- 
lic life, as his talents deferved. The maf- 
culine maturity of the ftyle indicates an ex- 
perienced writer. The ‘one is that of a man 
converfant in public affairs. Why die in an 
obfcure fituation, in the Eaft Indies, when a 
mere difcovery of his own fecret would 
have enfured fame and fortune? —_Jneredulus 
edi. The whig refembles the ftyle of Junius 
—but how many fuccefstul imitations of his 
ftyle have appeared! It is eafy to ape any 
ftyle—but te found a new ftyle of fingular 
force and dignity is a different matter. 
Among mere conjectures the following 
may have its place. ‘Che title is <¢ The 
Letters of Sunius. Stat nominis  umbra,” 
Junius is the xmbra, the tranflation, of Young 
only. Nor can the motto refer to the flare, 
therin an acme of iplendor, 
that the Junius of that day would be the 
laft. Upon which, hurrying to Samt 
James’s, he reported this intelligence to 
feveral people. Next day he received 2 
letter from Junius, informing him that, 
if he ufed fuch freedoms, .a letter to him 
fhould appear. From this Garrick con- 
cluded that the author was about the 
court. oun 2A 
XC, BOLINGBROKE AND MARLBO~ 
ROUGH. 
Lord Bolingbroke difcovered a foible 
of the great Duke of Marlborough, that 
he delighted in. tying Mifs. Jennings’s 
garters. When he repeated the ftory, he 
ufed to add, ‘‘ What is known to womeg 
is known to the world.”’ 
PORTRAITS OF MARY QUEEN 
OF SCOTS. 
The falfe portraits of Mary Queen of 
Scots are infinite—but there are many 
genuine, as may be expetted of a woman 
who was queen of France, dowager of 
France, queen of Scotland. I have a 
drawing by Vertue, from a genuine pors 
trait unengraved. ‘That artift was a 
papift and a Jacobite, and idolized Mary. 
At Lord Carleton’s defire, and being 
paid by him, Vertue engraved. a pre- 
tended Mary, in that’ nobleman’s pof- 
feffion, but loudly declared his difbelief. 
Yet has this portrait been copied in ifre- 
ron’s curious Hiffoire de Marie Stuart, Lon- 
dres, (Paris) 1742, 2 vols. 12mo. and 
in many other works: while the genuine 
Mary by Vertue, with the fkeleton and 
her age, has not been re-engraved. 
MCL. 
The world is generally averfe 
To all the truth it fees or hears, 
But fwallows nonfenfe anda lye 
With greedinefs and gluttony. 
' ,So fays Hudibras, I believe; for T 
quote from memory. : 
XCII. MR. TOWNLEY’S HUDIBRAS. 
Speaking of Hudibras, it was Jong 
efteemed an impoflibility to give an ade- 
quate tranflation of that ingular work, in 
ne ony 

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