The Arkansas advocate., 1830-07-28

GDStfuSc 5upjtCi SilOulu nave come to the same conelusiorhwithoutl<nowingthe the arguments made use of by either.
 The requirements and abilities of Mir. Toole pre- emihently qualified him for the task of writing those letters, and his principles and character would natu- rally prompt him to the undertaking. There is, moreover a chain of events connected with Tooke so exactly coin ciding with the circumstances and causes inducing many of the letters of .laaias, as must convince every atten- tive reader that they can not otherwise be accounted for, but upon the supposi- ton oftheidentity of the two characters. The two first letters. with which Juni- us commences, under the signature of Popilcola. carry conclusive evidence that the writer must have ben absent from England for at least four months previous to thier date. Mir. TooSe had been travelling on the continent for nearly two years, and had arrived at Paris probably but short time preyi- ousiy to the date 1.-the first letter. Here he found MT. Wilkes in exile and an outlaw, for causes which Mir. Toolze considered connected with the public interest, and in fact he deemed the conduct ofthe government towards him to be an outrage upon English liber- ty. It was natural. therefore. he should espouse his cause.
 Mir. Wilkes had published severe attack upon Lord Chatham for the part he had taken against him, in letter to the Duke of Grafton, which had been replied to by q writer, under the signature of ". D. attributed to Sir William Draper. These were printed in the Public Advertiser, under date of December, l7eG. Juniuss second let ter, which is in a:.sacr to ". n. is dated the twenty-eight of May. l767, addressed to the editor of the Public
 Advertiser. and commences as follows:
 Fourcorrespondent c. D. Tmistaking even the signaturel professes to unde- ceiFe the public with respect 10 some reflections thrown out upon Mir. Chat ham, in Aar. Wilkes letter to the duke of ofGrafton; without undertaking the de- fence. of that gentlelnan's conduct or character, permit me to observe that he was the instrument, and a useful one to the party, therefore should not have been sacrificed by it. He served them, perhaps, with too much zeal; but such is the reward which the tools of faction usually receive, and in some measure deserve, when they are imprudent enough to hazard every thing in sup port of other mems ambition.'
 Here is a communication, evidently written under the influence of MT. Wilkes, five months after the one to which it is in answer, and commences as though it were in reply to q cores pendent the day before. This can only be accounted for fromthe hurryin which the writer was at the time, which ex- actlY meets the case of MT. Tooke. He left Paris for England oa the twenty sixth of May, three days previously to the date affixed to the letter, which is the day of its appearance in the Public Advertiser, none of the communications of Junius to that paper bearing any date, as is fully proved by the work under consideration, This letter, therefore. was probably forwarded before Mir. Tooke departed from Paris. Mir. H. s. WoodfalI, as well as the readers of the Public Advertiser, were, no doubt, con founded at this abrupt address, for the communication alluded to by poplicola must have been forgotten. MT. George Woodfall, who published this letter in i8f2, in co junction with the whole po- Ntisal works of Junius, takes no notice of this absurdity, for this plain reason, he knew the authors of Janius, and feared to make any explanation or conjecture respecting this gross blunder, lest it might lead to a discovery.
 The severe attack of Junius upon the duke of Bedford, is shown 10 have arisen from motives of revenge for a personal insultofered to Mir. Tooke by the duke, at an election for choosing freemcn of the borough of Bedford. No substssn- tial cause ofa politicalp public nature can be adduced to justify this attack.
 The identity of Junius and Mir. Tooke is rendered extremely evident from the dispute between the latter and Mir. George Onslow. yunius in his private letter on this occasion to his printer, Mir. Woodfall, shows great solicitude in his inquiries respecting the intentions in re- lo l.c 4I.,,a,4 o [ ,, .J