Junius with his vizor up!

OR THE

REAL AUTHOR OF THE LETTERS

PUBLISHED UNDER THAT SIGNATURE

NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME

UNVEILED AND REVEALED TO THE WORLD,

IN

TWO LETTERS

TO MY COUZIN IN THE COUNTRY.

FROM

CEDIPUS ORONOKO,

TOBACCONIST AND SNUFF-SELLER.

I am weary of conjectures :-THIS MUST END THEM!

Addison's Cato.

OXFORD,

PRINTED BY W. BAXTER,

FOR J. VINCENT, NEAR BRASENOSE COLLEGE:

SOLD ALSO BY SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES, PATERNOSTER-ROW;
AND J. HATCHARD, PICCADILLY, LONDON.

1819.

HENRY MORSE STEPHENS

DAGES ACTS

PREFACE.

I CAN sympathize with all my heart in the sorrows which are poured forth, with such beauty of playful rhetoric, by that massy ingot of erudition-that gorgeous embroiderer of ultrà-Clarendonian periods-that huzzar in disputation, and "most tremendous companion"," DOCTOR

a The following little anecdote, I think, illustrates, in a very engaging manner, the union of simplicity with wit. It is copied out of a letter to me from a late very singularly gifted man, distinguished for genius, eloquence, learning, and wit; and whose condescending kindness and truly affectionate friendship towards me will never be torn from my heart," but with those holds which grapple it to life."-He told me that he had it himself from the lips of Garrick, who was fond of relating it, in the circle of his friends, as a good-humoured fling at his brother's cowardice:-" George Garrick saw Johnson first and last one day in the parlour of his brother David. He said not a word, but

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