Junius and His Works

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Excerpt from Junius and His Works: Compared With the Character and Writings of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of ChesterfieldOne of the wildest conjectures has been the ascription of the letters to Lord Chesterfield.In support of his Opinion Mr. Wade urges the impossibility of the truth of such a conjecture, on the grounds of the ex treme old age and physical maladies of Lord Chesterfield, and he concludes his short notice by: asserting, on the authority of Debrett's Peerage, that The old Earl died when J unius was in his full career.As this error in Debrett's Peerage has been already pointed out (pp. 75 it will not be necessary to dwell on it here, but merely to repeat that Lord Chesterfield died on the 24th March, 1773, the month that J unius so mysteriously dis appeared. It is extraordinary, however, that both Mr. Wade and Mr. Coventry, who profess to have examined the claims of Lord Chesterfield, should refer to the authority of Debrett's Peerage when so important a fact might have been ascertained by having recourse to the periodicals of the day, or to the memoirs of Lord Chesterfield.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.