of tawdry qualifications which Nature never intended him to wear.

You fay he has acquired nothing but honour in the field. Is the Ordnance nothing? Are the Blues nothing? Is the command of the army, with all the patronage annexed to it, nothing? Where he got these nothings I know not; but you at least ought to have told us where he deferved them.

As to his bounty, compaffion, &c. it would have been but little to the purpose, though you had proved all that you have afferted. I meddle with nothing but his character as Commander in Chief; and though I acquit him of the bafenefs of felling commiffions, I ftill affert that his military cares have never extended beyond the difpofal of vacancies; and I am juftified by the complaints of the whole army, when I fay that, in this diftribution, he confults nothing but parliamentary interests, or the gratification of his immediate dependants. As to his fervile fubmiffion to the reigning miniftry, let me afk, whether he did not defert the cause of the whole army, when he fuffered Sir Jeffery Amherst to be facrificed, and what fhare he had in recalling that officer to the service. Did he not betray the juft intereft of the army, in permitting lord Percy to have a regiment? and does he not at this moment give up all cha

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racter and dignity as a gentleman, in receding from his own repeated declarations in favour of Mr. Wilkes.

In the two next articles I think we are agreed. You candidly admit, that he often makes fuch promifes as it is a virtue in him to violate, and that no man is more affiduous to provide for his relations at the public expence. I did not urge

the last as an absolute vice in his difpofition, but to prove that a careless difinterested spirit is no part of his character; and as to the other, I defire it may be remembered, that I never defcended to the indecency of inquiring into his convivial hours. It is you, Sir William Draper, who have taken pains to prefent your friend in the character of a drunken landlord, who deals out his promifes as liberally as his liquor, and will fuffer no man to leave his table either forrowful or sober. None but an intimate friend, who must frequently have feen him in these unhappy, difgraceful moments, could have described him fo well.

The laft charge, of the neglect of the army, is indeed the most material of all. I am forry to tell you, Sir William, that, in this article, you firft fact is falfe, and as there is nothing more painful to me than to give a direct contradiction to a gentleman of your appearance, I could wish that, in your future publications, you would pay

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a greater attention to the truth of your premises, before you fuffer your genius to hurry you to a conclufion. Lord Ligonier did not deliver the army (which you, in claffical language, are pleased to call a palladium) into lord Granby's hands. It was taken from him, much against his inclination, fome two or three years before lord Granby was Commander in Chief. As. to the state of the army, I fhould be glad to know where you have received your intelligence. Was it in the rooms at Bath, or at your retreat at Clifton ?The reports of Reviewing-generals comprehend only a few regiments in England, which, as they are immediately under the royal infpection, are perhaps in fome tolerable order. But do you know any thing of the troops in the Weft-Indies, the Mediterranean, and North America, to fay nothing of a whole army abfolutely ruined in Ireland? Inquire a little into facts, Sir William, before you publish your next panegyric upon lord Granby, and believe me you will find there is a fault at head quarters, which even the acknowledged care and abilities of the Adjutantgeneral cannot correct.

Permit me now, Sir William, to address myself perfonally to you, by way of thanks for the honour of your correfpondence. You are by no means undelerving of notice and it may be of confequence

confequence even to lord Granby to have it deter-. mined, whether or no the man, who has praised him fo lavishly, be himfelf deferving of praise. When you returned to Europe, you zealously undertook the cause of that gallant army, by whofe bravery at Manilla your own fortunes had been established. You complained, you threatened, you even appealed to the public in print. By what accident did it happen, that in the midst of all this bustle, and all these clamours for juflice to your injured troops, the name of the Manilla Ranfom was fuddenly buried in a profound, and fince that time, an uninterrupted filence? Did the ministry fuggeft any motives to you, ftrong enough to tempt a man of honour to defert and betray the caufe of his fellow-foldiers? Was it that blushing ribband, which is now the perpetual ornament of your perfon? or was it that regiment, which you afterwards (a thing unprecedented among foldiers) fold to colonel Gifborne? or was it that government, the full pay of which you are contented to hold, with the half-pay of an Irish colonel? And do you now, after a retreat not very like that of Scipio, prefume to intrude yourself, unthought of, uncalled for, upon the patience of the public? Are your flatteries of the Commander in Chief directed to another regiment, which you may again difpofe

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of on the fame honourable terms? We know your prudence, Sir William, and I should be forry to ftop your perferment.

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RECEIVED Junius's favour last night; he is determined to keep his advantage by the help of his mafk; it is an excellent protection, it has faved many a man from an untimely end. But whenever he will be honeft enough to lay it aside, avow himself, and produce the face which has fo long lurked behind it, the world will be able to judge of his motives for writing fuch infamous invectives. His real name will difcover his freedom and independency, or his fervility to a faction. Difappointed ambition, refentment for defeated hopes, and defire of revenge, affume but too often the appearance of public fpirit; but be his defigns wicked or charitable, Junius fhould learn that it is poffible to condemn measures, without a barbarous and criminal outrage against men. Ju.