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MR, EDITOR,—In your Paper of the 6th inst.
I see' the probability stated of some connexion
having subsisted between Justus and the late
Lord AMHERST, especially about the time when
the conduct of Ministers, in depriving-Abe latter
of his government in America, and of his com-
missions in the army, was so warmly resented by,
Jettsrus under the signature of Lucius. You
think it " absurd to suppose that Sir J EFFERY
did not know who so ably defended his cause,
particularly as•JuNtus bad not then been drawn
into the controversy with Sir WM. DRAPER, and
consequently had no motive for concealing him-
self from Sir JBFFERY AMHERST." But I fear
your expectation from this circumstance is less
solid titan you deem it to be. If Justus had
written the letters relating to Sir JEFFERY in his
own name, I should have thought it possible that
Sir JEFFERY possessed the knowledge you impute
to him ; for JUNIUS might then have revealed
himself to him, not considering that in a little
time he should have reason to repent this confi-
dence : and yet this supposition will not serve,
for why should he not ehenge his assumed title as
often as necessity required ? But, in fact, the
probability of his having been at that time known
to Sir J. is even less strong than I am here snp-
eosing; for the letters in question were signed
Lucius, and the name of JUNIUS was not once
adopted till after these letters had ceased : there-
fore, if Sir J. knew who Lucius was, he would
still have to learn that JuNtus also was the same
person ; and this, after the concealment of the
latter, became highly necessary, for his life was
endangered, as he thought, after the publication
of his first letter. I grant it is well known now
that the letters of Lucius and JuNius were writ-
ten by one hand, but this knowledge was
not communicated to the world till the appear-
ance of the Miscellaneous Letters of JUNIUS in
1512, 15 years after the death of Lord AMHERST.
Throughout these transactions concerning Sir
JEFFERY" AMHERsT, it appears to me that Lucius
had other motives than friendship to influence
him, and better means of obtaining information
titan from Sir JEFFERY. He knew that Lord
CHATHAM would feel the injury done to his
fa-
vourite officer and friend, as an insult offered to
himself, and to get him away from the Adminis-
tration, in which he was but 'nominally concern-
ed, and which was supported in public opinion
chiefly by the credit at his countenance, was an
object of great interest to JUNius, and one
which he (lid not cease pursuing till it was ac-
complished. To suppose that th writer was
also moved by indignation at the treatment Sir
JEFFERY met with, is only to put him on a level
with every other man in the kingdom. But his
means of acquiring the knowledge of what Mi-
nisters intended to do, is the most wonderful part
of the affair. We find that instead of gaining
his information from the iajured party,who woeld
be the last to hear it, he knew of the design to
deprive 'Sir :JEFFERY of his regiments from its
very first motion, before Sir JEFFERY could
have any suspicion of it,—before even the
Cabinet were all apprized of it, or the measure
itself was fully resolved on. In his letter to Lord
HILLSBOROUGH, dated Sept. I, 1765. we find these
words :—" Your last assertion is, that his regiments
are not given away. It is a matter of perfect
in-
difference. Yet the public has reason to believe
that Colonel HOTHAM is now Colonel of the 15th
Regiment, and that the Commission of Com-
mandant only waits until it shall be determined
whether General GAGE shall be recalled or not."
All this is very minutely stated, bet the public
knew nothing of it before, nor-was the intelli-
gence true at the time, for the commission to
Colonel HoTHAm was delayed, as well as that of
General GAGE. On Sept. 20, these appointments
are hinted at again, but very distantly :—" You
have sent Sir JEFFERY AMHERST to the plough."
The writer, I conceive, felt that he had gone too
far at first ; and 1 wonder that this want of cau-
tion did not lead to his discovery. On the 22d,
the facts are boldly re-affirmed in the following
paragraph of The Public Advertizer :—" Certain
though extraordinary intelligence. Our corres-
spondent Lucius has been too well informed,
when he assured the public that Sir JEFFERY AM-
HERST, to whom this country is so. ninth indebt-
ed for his services during the lat,‘-kltirious war,
had been, by our wise and worthy gAllVitratiOn,
sent to the plough ; for yesterdayVvias publicly
declared at Court., that Colonel LIoTHAm was ap-
pointed to the 15th Regiment of Foot, and that
Major-General CAGE was honoured with the chief
command of the 60th, or Royal American Regi-
ment." This was incorrect again, as to the de-
claration at Court ; and the facts, once more,
were prematurely communicated ; for SitsJEFFERY
was not deprived of his Regiments till more than
a month after. They were given to Colonel 1-lo-
THAM and General GAGE on the
.29th of Octo-
ber, and The Gazette of Nov. 5 contains the first
official notice of the transaction. But this step
was so instantly repented of, that within three
days following Sir JEFFERY was re=appointed Co-
loud in Chief of the 60th Regiment, and Colonel
of the 3(1 Buffs.
Justus was guilty of a similar instance of in-
discreet anticipation, from measures originating
in the War-Office, when he announced the pro-
motion of Colonel LUTTRELL, which did not
take place at all, though the first forms were
gone through. "By the Royal fiat, the appoint-
ment was delayed in its progress through the of-
fices of the Secretaries of State," after a few pri-
vate commissions only had been issued to the
Lord Lieutenant.
The Author of Junius Identified has made this
one of his reasons (p. 359, 2d edit.) lot suppos-;

any one.
For forms of faith let furious zealots fiL:lit,
His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right.
It cannot theiefore be expected that I shall
quit that true Christian, Mr. BELLAMY, or his
translation, for-a conflict with pretenders, who,
if convinced, because vanqtrishd, will obsti-
nately be of their former opinion.
In the defence of this learned man, who is a
stranger without my gates, it has brought upon
me the assaults of three writers, who appear to
hang their faith on a branch of the gospel tree
without tasting its ambrosial fruit, like many to
be found in the chapels of Spa-fields and the
Surrey-road. It is nothing to them what Mr.
BELLAMY or I believe, nor to either of us whether
they be Christians, Jews, or Mahometans. The
new translation of the Old Testament is our
object ; and the cry that is.made against it re-
minds me of an observation by DEAN SwirT, that
the sure sign of merit in any work is, that all
the blockheads condemn it.
But I have said that no writers, let their good
or evil genius lead them to what it may, shall
draw me aside ; and that 1 shall pursue my pur-
pose without further digression. In this re-
solve I open my

LETTER TULL
To suppose that Mr. BaLLAMY's critics are un•
exceptionably right; would involve the question :
has he, in any one-passage of his translation, de-
served the name of criminal '?---11as be transgressed -
or broken a moral duty ?. To this every (I's--
passionate and disinterested reader of penetration
and discretion will give him their verdict of NUT
GUILTY !—He has throughout the chapters left
the text in substance as he touted- them ;•-but-exa,
plained them more clearly, and more to' the glory
of the Divine Revealer, and the honour of his holy
penmen. • Yet his very unhallowed opponents -
would pourtray him as an underminer of the
Old Testament, as the foundation of the Now.
What is this short of talsChood and malice
To give all instances to the contrary would
be to transcribe his entire work. A few brought
into the light ot THE SUN will suffice ; and deny
their sufficiency who can-1 In the old version,
chap. xi. v.. 7. it is said—" Letns go down and
confound their speech." In Mr. BELLAMY'S it
is—" Come, we will descend and confound their
doctrine." This is an amendment of sound with-
out any alteration of the sense. It is almost ident
sonus ; but more suited to omnipotence. The
word " let" is passive, and equal to permission,
in consequence of a request, which is wrong to
imagine the'Aimighty to make of his creatures.—
Let the learned and intelligent reader look through
the whole' narrative, says Mr. BELLAMY, in the
common version, and be if in search of truth,
blush for the credit of the' Bible, and be shucked
at a translation so inconsistent with the original.-
Again in the 31. v. of chapter xx. we read—" our.
father is old, and there is not a man on the earth
to come in unto us, after the manner of all
the earth"—" Come unto us, make our father
drin4 wine, and we will lay with him."—
But Mr. BELLAMY more ,Chastely says—" our
father is old, anti indifferent to our marriage
with. the idolators, and th.at there was no
man in the land where they had chosen their re-
sidence, • who was a worshipper of the true
God."—The word "Jay" with beleflr4ber, means,
says he; to abide or iemain, and Sett in the vulgar
sense. -Here' extracting the true inference, be
has said—" Now the first-born said to the
younger, our father is Old, moreover -not a man
in the land to come to' us, as is the custom of all
the hand ; therefore we will drink wine with our
father ; them we will remain or abide from him ;
thus we shall preserve posterity after our father.
So they drank wine with their father that same
night, when the first-born went where she abode
from, her father, but he knew not where she
abode ; • neither when she married. Thus were
both the daughters married, and conceived un-
known to their tallier." This cleanses the pas-
sage in the old version, and makes it consistent,
changing the sense, Which, as Mr. BEI:LAMY
says, none can read without 'disgust. Verse 36.
be translates—thus were both the daughters of LOT
with child- by their father, 1. e. both conceived
unknown to their father. Further illustrations in
the next letter from your abused Correspondent,
STACKHOUSE.

[To be continued.l
P.S. In.the course of my Letters I shall take
no notice of any rudeness that may come, in my
way—radis. indigeslique moles ; but whatever I
may see that is to the point .in questpion,
have. my respect, otherwise not.—Odi profanu►n
vulgus et areia.