The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-08-10

JCNIUS AND COLONEL DAHRE-~-1De LFU'
erp0ol Mercury some months ago publisbed
an article which excited considerable in
terest, going TO show that 'tJunius s''--that
great literary specter, that mighty shadow,
was in reality Colonel Isaac Barre, cele-
brated as parliamentary debater and
distinguished politician. A recent plumber
of the. Mercury contains communication
relating to the same subject. which is in
teresting 10 American readers, not only be-
cause it relates to the authorship of Junius,
but because it furnishes a graphic de-
scription of the first appearance in parlia-
ment of Col Barre, SO well known as the
eloquent defender of the American Colo
nists in the House of Commons. The wri-
ter referring to the former communication,
says:
"a further and a striking confederation
Of the arguments then urged is to be found
in the Memoirs Of the Marquis Of Rocking
ham, lately published BY the Earl of Abe
marie. 1t is as follows:
'Isaac Barre was native Of Ireland
His parents kept small grocers' shopin
Dublin At an early age he entered the
army, and served with much distinction in
America, against the French. Dividing
his time between literature and the study
of bis profession, he found kindred spirit
in General Wolfe, who lived with him on
the most intimate terms. He was present
on the heights of Abraham, when that
young soldier, in the moment of victory
received his mortal wound. He was HIM
self wounded in the same action. In
Vests celebrated picture of the death Of
Wolfe, Barre forms one of the group Of Of
fcers around the dying general. Return
ing to England in 1850, he became in tho
following year, through the agency Of Mr..
Fox, Lord Shelburne's nominee for Wy
combs His motive for attacking Mr.. Pitt
was for having neglected, as he supposed,
his application for promotion. In letter
to Pitt, written in April, 1850, he says,
"After the defeat of his majesty's enerlies
the trophies 1 can boast only indicate how
much / suffered, my jealous and sole advo-
cate killed, my left eye rendered useless,
and the ball still in my head"
His isappearance on his parliamentary Dz-
BUT, December, 1851, is graphically de-
scribed by Walpole:-"My ear was struck
with sounds had little been accustomed
/. to of late, yirulent abuse on the last reign.
and from a voice unknown to me. l turned
and saw a face equally new, ablack, robust
man, of military figure, rather hard ia
vored, not young, with a peculiar distor-
ton none side Of his face, which it seems
was a bullet lodged loosely in his cheek,
and which gave savage glare to one eye.
What less expected from his appearance,
was very classic and elegant diction and as
determined boldness as if accustomed to
harangue in that place."
In the account thus given of the entrance
of the 'apparation' on the political stage,
there is something truly terrible; its stern
military aspect, its commanding, bearing,
self-possessed, conscious ofits own dignity,
far above the censure of the dispicabie as,
sembly into which il had come, its savage
announcement of their misdeeds, 'in classic
and elegant diction' all bespeak the future
sJunius;' it was an earthly phantom, fore
telling the devastation ofthe American war
! Pitt, Rockingham, Walpole, and Green
vile, might well shudder at the sound o
that unknown voice. The stamp act wa
not vet brought ID; but from that hour tht
: fate of those weak, presumptous men, ans
j their kings fate, too. was sealed.
: Behind lurked Shelburn, Fox and Dun
y ming, and behind them might be seen com
e ing on, Franklin, Adams, jefferson, Mont
: pomery, Gates and Washington. with th'
is firm ,halsnx of the American revolution
II lists, men fit for the work they took In hand.