The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-10-03
Jun,u. Identified.


when the second edition of WALPoLHs Let
ters to Sir HORACE MANN was published, about
twenty years ago, the English editor took oc-
casion to reply to the structures Of MAcAuLAr
upon the character Of his principal. which
had been published In the Ediseargh Re.
cleo on the appearance Of the nrst edi-
tion In that .reply" the ground was
distinctly taken that wALpoL. was the author
Of the far famed "letters of JANUS" The
evidences upon which the opinion was formed
was stated 90 slishtly-amounting to little
more than that wALPcLB was a constant
and habitual wri,er--that II made bat lit
tie impression on US at the time, and A.
We have never seen Il alluded TO since,
We presumed 1t had made equally little
In Quarters where the claim could be
better examined. When we saw, therefore,
that the subject had been taken mp by writer
IN the Sos,Asra Literary Msssensv, 1t excited
no great curiosity in our minds. We believed
that little could be said on matter so tho
roughly exhausted we conceived this to
have been, and we gave the writer, Mr.. REESE,
credit for nothing more than q disposition 10
amuse an idle hour by little elegant trifiing.
We confess We were never more disappointed
fn all our lives. Mr.. RKIsR has given the
world the most striking essay that has ever
been written upon this inexhaustible subject.
He has managed his case tfrom certain ex-
pressions We judge he 10 lawyer) with con-
summats ability, and II he has not convinced
nj. II In only because we are well aware that an
able advocate can prove any thing, and because
he makes the matter 30 plain as to provoke
Incredibly by its very simplicity. Our pride
rsvoiu from surrendering so tamely. Can it be
possible that we and all the world with Us
have been puzxling 30 long over mystery so
little mysterious Have we been so long
searching in dark corners and out of the way
places for q thing that has oil along been lying
full in our view, when We wanted nothing
but Eyes to see lit Why could not we our.
selves discover it, before il was pointed ont to
Us by Mr.. RERsE7
To say that HORACE WALPoLE could be
convicted before any jury in Christendom OF
writing the letters Of JCNIUs upon the evil
dencs which Mr. r. has produced against him.
would Be only to repeat what Lord BRoUGHAM
said many years ago, OF Sir PHILIr FRANCIS,
who, we think, upon the showing of Mr. r.,
most assuredly did not write them. We shall,
therefore, make use Of no such exaggerated ex-
preston. We will content ourselves with
saying, that the probabilities are much strong
or in favor of WALPoLn than they ever were
in favor Of FRANCIS, or any one else whose
name has yet been placed before the pub
lie. Frat and foremost, he was the only man,
except BURKA and he certainly was not the
author. who has proved himself by his other
writings equal to the task. In BRoUGHAM's
criticism In the Edinburgh Rsrisir, upon the
book called - unius iden titled with Il celebrat.
ed living character" numerous extracts are
produced from the speeches of FRANCIS to
prove that there was a striking resem-
blancs between their style, and that of
the world Renowned letters. We confess
we were never able to detect the slight
est ressmb lanoe between the two. But
with WALPoLB the case 10 entirely diff
ferent We read his letters, and his me-
moirs Of the Court Of the two GEORGES, with
out thinking for a moment of JUNIUs But,
like the postiilon in Guy MANsERING, as soon
as we were told Of the suspicion, the likeness
struck MS with the snddenness of lightning
We were startled at its perfection, and we
wondered that we had never seen it before
1t seems passing strange how we ever could
have missed it. Nor 10 this ALL 1t appears
that WALPoI.R not only hated everybody that
JuHIUs hated and loved everybody that JU.
MUS loved, but that he assaiied, in his me-
moirs, which he was then writing everybody
whom JUEIUs assailed, with all the rancor
remarkable In JUsIUs. and that, too, in almost
every instance, before each particular letter of
JUNIus appeared. JUr1Us hated the Duke of
Grafton so did WALPoLE. He detesteo Lord
MANSFIELD; so did WALPoLB. He assaled
the Duke of Bedford with an acrimony unex-
ampled in the whole history Of politico-litera-
~ warfare. WALPoLE hated the Duke with
bitterness which WALPoLE alone could feel
JUNIUs manifested towards the LUTTRELLs
a rancor which seems preternatural, in his
attack upon Lord IRNHAM, the head of the
family. There is something almost Internal
IN the savage fury with which WALPoLR
attacks the same family.
Everybody who has read the letters Of JU.
gIUs. Is struck with the strong appearance of
personal hostility which he mauifests to.
wards every one of his victims. II he was
WALPoLE, it is shown that he was in point of
fact the deadly personal enemy of each
of them. JUNIUs evidently had a cause for
his animosity in each particular case. So had
WALPOLR, and nobody else that ever has been
spoken of as the author had. Let us notice a
few Of these. beginning with GEORGE III
himself. tits evident that JUNIUs entertained
towards that monarch sentiments not merely
nnfriendly In political sense but Of the most
decided personal hostility. To make a man
out a JUNIUs, it must be shown that he had
some private grudge against that monarch
wALPoLH alone of all the candidates had thai
private grudge. In 1865, the Kings brother
the Duke Of Gloucester. married WALPoLE's
niece, that beautiful Lady WALpRsRAvR, mot
WALDKsRovRD of whom he was so proud,
and who was the thing that Of all others
he loved most on earth; If, indeed, he
was capable of loving aEy thing. The King
refused his consent to this marriage, (which
was privately or to receive Lady WALDR-
GRAvEa. one of the royal family. This reused
WALPoLH's hatred to the highest pitch OF
which his venomous nature was susceptible,
and within three weeks after this refusal, JU-
MUS began to write (under another signature.)
for the Public Adcertissv. GEORGE III. knew
who JUNIUs was. He told General URsA-
GUILLrER, in l772, that he knew him, and that
he would write no more. In point of fact, the
last latter written by JUNIUs appeared (signed
NtNBsrs) In May, 1772, and within q fort.
night the Duke Of Gloucester acknowledged
his marriage and the King gave his wife q.
public reception as Duchess of Gloucester -
From this marriage proceeded much of his
rancor toward the LUTTRELLs. Mrs. Horizon
the daughter of Lord IRNnAM, married the
Duke of Cumberland, and thereby rendered
smaller the probability that the King would
acknowledge Lady WALpEGRAvE
Everybody who has read the letters of IT.
NIus is struck with The minute knowledge he
shows Of parliamentary history, at a time
when there were no reporters in either house
and when to print the name of great person.
age war breach Of privilege HORACE WAL.
PoLs waste twenty seven years, member If
Parliament, ard while he seldom snops no
tool minutes Of every dehata L. -