Washington telegraph., 1851-11-26

HE LETTERS OF JUNIUs.-The Ander
son Is. CO. Gazette, few weeks ago
contained the following remarks:
The Pendletom Messenger.-Witt
the last number of this ably conducted
journa. has ceased its existence 1t was
established half century ago by .Tohr
Miller, who published the letters Of Ju
MUS. in the Public Advertiser, in Eng
land Miller was indicted, and long. per
secuted by the Government, in vain at
tempt to extort the secret of their author
ship. He carried it TO his grave, with.
holding 1t even from his own son. He
was broken up by these prosecutions. and
| came to Pendleton a poor rnan, and start.
ed paper called Miller's Weekly Mes.
senger. A wag came into his office Que
day and slipped an a in the place Of the
last e of ,oeekly. and the next week the
paper went forth Miller's Weakly Mes
senger. The old fellow was SO worried
with the joke that he changed the
name to that Of Pendleton Messenger.-
This statement is made Oh the authority
of the oldest inhabitant.
The National IntelIigencer says the
above statement is, in some respects, err
roneous The Public Advertiser was
published not by Johh Miller, but by
Henry Sampson Woodfal, who was the
regular publisher of the letters of Junus,
and the private correspondent Of their
author. Miller, says the InteIligencer.
was the publisher of the London Even
ing Post, and, like other London publish
ers, occasionally reprinted the letters
After Woodfal's trial for publishing the
letter to the King ION which he was
found guilty of printing and publishing
onIy,) Miller was sued for the same Of
fence and acquitted. Junius, IN a private
letter to Woodfail, (enclosing his letter
of 18th November, 1870, addressed to
Lord Mansfield says; If you should
have any fears, | eutreat you to send it
early enough to Miller to appear to-mor-
row night in the London Evening Post
In that case, you will oblige me by in
tormlng the pahlic tomorrow, in your
own paper, that a real Junius will appear
at night in the London Post. Miller, |
am sure, will have no scruples.- Wood
fttlLS S JunluS q. 214
The letter however, appeared original
ly in the Public Advertiser. AS to tue
"secret of the authorship" which the
Gazette supposes Miller to have "carried
to his grave" there is not the slightest
reason tor supposing that he possessed IT,
Woodfall himself is by many believed not
to have known certainly who the author
was. In February. 177l, Miller was ar
rested, by order of the House of Com
mons, tor publications representing
the speeches and motives of members OF
that House; and discharged by Brass
Crosby. Lord Mayor of London, who
together with Aldermen Wilkes and OH
yer, held the Sergeant-at-Arms to bail
70: the false arrest of Miller. In March,
l7z4, Miller, then printer of the London
Evening Post, was taken III execution
and confined in Fleet prison, at the suit
of Lord Sand which, for the whole dam
ages given him by a verdict On the
18th of December. 1776, Miller together
with three others, was found guilty of
printing letter from the Constitutional
Society. signed by Mr.. Horne, (rooke, }
| respecting the payment of the sum OF
E1OO TO DR.. Franklin. On the 1st OF
February. I'LL, three of them received
judgment, when they were fined tlOO
each and ordered to be discharged. No
tices of Mlller's subsequent career, till the
time when he is stated to have establish
ed the Pendleton Messenger in South
Carolina, may perhaps be found on exam
lnation.