The Arkansas advocate., 1830-07-28
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POsTHUMOus WORKS OF JTTNTtJs,

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 PosTHUMOUs WORKS OF JUNTUs. To which IS prefxed an inquiry respect ing the author; also sketch of the life
 of John Horne Tooke.
 A work, bearing the above title has 5. lately been published iii this city by G. < C. N H. Carvill, which We have just perused with great pleasure. The , writings of Junius contained in this vol. i ume, consist of bis private letters to Mr. } Woodfall, his printer; his confidential ! correspondence with John Wilkes, and # anumber of miscellaneous letters, and different signatures; all tending, more or less, to explain the causes of his se- we're attacks, on members Of the admin istration of the British Government of that day.
 About one hundred and forty pages oft work are appropriated to sketch of the fife of John Horne Tooke. which IS full ofiacident and interest. No man in England in the last century, not in power, occupied so large q share of the public mind as Mir. Tool1e. He was the prime mover and actor at the risk of his liberty and life, in all measures of oppo- sitionto the arbitrary proceedings of gov ernment.
 But what renders this volume pecul- iarly interesting is the satisfactory man. Ter in which the compiler has settled the long disputed qGestionrespecting the au- thorof Junius's Letters which has shown incontestably to be no other than this same John Horne Tooke.
 Although otherwolks written in Eng land had before asserted the same fact, they do not appear to have convinced the public in general.
 Mr. Philip Thicknesse published a volume in l7S9, entitled sJunius Dis coyered,o in which he attributes the let ters to Mir. Tooke. This, we are inform ed by an English gentleman now in this city, was bought up and destroyed. Great pains had been taken to procure copy of this work. Messrs. Carvill had written repeatedly to their cores pondent for 1t, and various persons go- ing to London had been engaged to search for if, both in the book stores and stalls, but all to no purpose.
 This circumstance, tending to con firm the statement of the above gentle man, induced a request to be made to him for written communication, giv- ing an account of the manner in which he obtained his information, which he complied with as follows:
 4 About the year i793 ii7993, in $ large town in England discussion took place respecting the author of Junius's Let ters. The prevailing opinion of the par ty was in favor of Mir. Tooke and the work of Philip Thicknesse on the sub- Ject was alluded to: upon which some of the gentleman expressed wish to obtain copy of it, but were informed that it could not be procured, having been suppressed. That this was the fact, no one of the company doubted at the time, and being so, it is certainly 'e.O'So PiSSobii itltt S " he0iis~ s.is-s -s-A : Thieknesse had named the real author.
 Another work has been published in England, advocating the same side oi the question, which is taken notice of in the Gentleman's Magazine for April 1913, in note by the editor, appended to an article attributing the letters to a Dr. James Vilmott. as follows:
 pamphlet, by the Rev. J. B. Black eway, of Shrewsbury, has just been pub ilsled, protesting to disclose the long concealed secret of Junius's letters. A correspondent who has read it, speaks ofitas very elegant and satisfactory performance, which he thinks will set the question completely atrest, by prov ing thatInnius was John Horne ToolSe.' ?
 Had the compiler of the volume un- der consideration seen these two works, ne would, no doubt, have been saved