FAC-SIMILES OF THE HANDWRITING OF JUNIUS. To Mr. David garrick very exactly informed of your impectinest inquiries.t of the information you to basily seat to Richand & with what tomath Rexaltation it was received. I knew rvery particular of it the next day. Now mark me, vagabond - deep to your , or be assureds no fustominis, you curse the hours, in to interfere with Ever more, you shall hear thon basy my power to make which you dared Junius I doubt much whether I shall have the pleasure of knowing You; but if things take the tara d refect. you Hall know works I me by my INCLUDING LETTERS BY THE SAME WRITER TO WHICH ARE ADDED HIS CONFIDENTIAL CORRESPONDENCE WITH MR. WILKES, A few and Enlarged Edition. WITH NEW EVIDENCE AS TO THE AUTHORSHIP, AND AN ANALYSIS BY THE LATE SIR HARRIS NICOLAS, G.C.M.G. BY JOHN WADE/ AUTHOR OF "A COMPENDIUM OF BRITISH HISTORY," VOL. I. CONTAINING THE ENTIRE WORK AS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED, LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1850. ADVERTISEMENT. NEARLY three generations have elapsed since the "Letters of Junius" were first published; and it may be safely affirmed that, during this long ordeal, no contemporary work has maintained a higher estimation-has received more marked and uniform approval from competent literary judges-or has called into existence so many commentators, editors, and investigators. As there is little in the subject matter of these famous epistles that could confer upon them such enduring celebrity. they must be mainly indebted for it to the writer's extraordinary powers, the varied resources of which have enabled him, with the peculiar characteristic of genius, to dignity and immortalize that which, in its own nature, is secondary and perishable. In this respect Junius stands alone-he is the Napoleon of public writers; and, like the author of the first and noblest epic, though he has had a host of imitators, he is still without an equal. The STANDARD LIBRARY Would have been imperfect had it not included among its elect the most celebrated of political gladiators. The very complete edition now submitted to the public comprises all that was given in the three volumes published in 1812, and again in 1814, by the late Mr. George Woodfall-indeed all that was authentically known of Juuius and his writings. To specify more distinctly the merits of Woodfall's edition, now reprinted entire, it may be proper to enumerate its contents, which are:-1. The public letters of Junius as revised and annotated by himself, and published collectively, under his direction, subsequent to their appearance in the Public Advertiser. 2. A collection of Miscellaneous Letters, ascribed to Junius. 3. His private notes and confidential communications with Mr. Woodfall (published only after they had been |