India. It certainly was strange that Lord Barring→ ton, with whom he is represented to have had a quarrel, and from whom he could not obtain the next step of promotion in the War-office, though it was justly due to him, should in the same year, and while Sir PHILIP was abroad, recommend him SO "honourably and generously" to Lord North, as to procure for him the rank of a sovereign in India; it was unaccountable that the dismissed clerk, who could not retain a salary of 4001. a year, should all at once be raised to one of 10,000/. But conceive him to be JUNIUS, and every thing is explained. Perhaps Lord Barrington first perceived the truth, in the hints which were thrown out so unguardedly by Veteran, and being one of the coterie called the King's friends, he may have communicated his surmises to his Majesty, and proposed this honourable mode of banishing the offender. But by whatever means it may have reached the ear of the King, by this disclosure the royal assent was probably obtained.-Lord North would then very reasonably demand to know for what services he was to advance Mr. FRANCIS SO much above his former rank. His privity was therefore unavoidable.-As for Lord Grenville, if ever he proposed Sir P. FRANCIS to the King, to fill any place or receive any honour, and if such proposal did not altogether meet the wishes of his Majesty, it is possible that the secret concerning

JUNIUS would be stated in confidence as the sole cause of the demur. This is mere guessing, but it does not require much ingenuity to conceive under what circumstances such a communication would be almost irresistibly called for.-The subject would bear further elucidation, but the writer is desirous to restrict his argument to those public documents and recorded facts which are open to all, and to which it is no breach of delicacy in him to advert.

It is hardly necessary to mention, after what has been adduced, that in all his researches, the writer has never met with one fact, one thought, one word, which in the slightest degree impeded the course of his demonstration. This is a negative criterion of the truth, but of no small value after so extensive a survey, and it properly crowns the whole pile of evidence.

Sir PHILIP FRANCIS must be content to share the lot of all those who have the causam celebritatis to boast of: in hunc oculi omnium conjiciuntur, atque in eum, quid agat, quemadmodum vivat, inquiritur; et tanquam in clarissimâ luce versetur, ita nullum obscurum potest nec dictum ejus esse nec factum. It is said that he is angry at the charge: that would be folly. Events, over which no one had control, paved the way for the discovery; and a person who had never seen him, or his hand-writing, or

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had a word of intelligence from any one concerning him, became the innocent herald of it. Can there be a stronger proof of the impossibility of further concealment? Let him then console himself with the thought that he has kept his secret as far as it depended on himself. It was calculated to last out a long life, but he has happily outlived it. Now, having ably and consistently performed his part, he appears in his natural character before the curtain drops, and will retire amid the plaudits of an admiring people.

THE END.

T. Miller, Printer, 5, Noble Street, Cheapside.

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The following List contains the titles of some of Sir Philip Francis's Publications, but it is admitted to be very incomplete. It is inserted for the use and information of those persons who may desire to extend their inquiries beyond the present volume.

1. Original Minutes of the Governor-General and Council of Fort William, on the Settlement and Collection of the Revenues of Bengal: with a plan of Settlement, recommended to the Court of Directors in January, 1776.-4to. 1782.

* This Plan of Settlement is thus mentioned by Mr. Burke, in a letter to his son, dated Nov. 1777.-" I don't know that I ever read any state paper drawn with more ability, and indeed I have seldom read a paper of any kind with more pleasure.”—Bissett's Life of Burke.)

2. Letter to Lord North, late Earl of Guildford. With an Appendix. Dated Calcutta, 17th Sept. 1777.-8vo.

3. Speech in the House of Commons, on Friday, July 2, 1784, on India Affairs-8vo. 1784.

4. Two Speeches in the House of Commons, on the original East India Bill, and on the Amended Bill, on the 16th and 26th of July, 1784.-8vo.

5. Speech in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, March 7, 1786, on moving for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the India Act of 1784.-8vo.

6. Observations on Mr. Hastings' Narrative of his Transactions at Benares, in 1781.-8vo. 1786.

7. Observations on Mr. Hastings' Letter relative to Presents.—8vo. 8. Observations on Mr. Hastings' Defence.-8vo.

9. Speech in the House of Commons, on the 19th of April, 1787, for the Impeachment of Mr. Hastings on the Revenue Charge.With an Appendix.-8vo. 1787.

10. Answer of Philip Francis, Esq. to the Charge against Sir J.

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Clavering, Col. George Monson, and Mr. Francis, at the Bar of the House of Commons, on February 4, 1788, by Sir Elijah Impey.— 8vo. 1788.

11. Speeches in the House of Commons, 28th February and 2d March, 1791, printed in "Proceedings in Parliament relative to the Origin and Progress of the War in India, &c.”—8vo. 1792.

12. Heads of a Speech in reply to Mr. Dundas, April 23, 1793, on the Government and Trade of India.

13. Draught of a Resolution and Plan, intended to be proposed to the Society of the Friends of the People, drawn up in the Autumn of 1793, and laid before the Society on the 8th of March, 1794.

14. Speech in Answer to Mr. Sylvester Douglas, 1796.

15. Proceedings in the House of Commons on the Slave Trade, and State of the Negroes in the West India Islands, with an Appendix [including Speeches on April 18, 1791, March 15, and April 11, 1796]-8vo. 1796.

16. The Question as it stood in March, 1798.—8vo. 1798.

17. Speech on the Affairs of India, July 19, 1803.

18. Speeches in the House of Commons, on the War against the Mahrattas.-8vo. 1805.

19. Speech against the Exemption of Foreign Property in the Funds from the Duty on Income.—8vo. 1806.

20. Letter to Viscount Howick, on the State of the East India Company, 1807.

21. Reflections on the Abundance of Paper in Circulation.1810.

22. Letter to Earl Grey.-8vo. 1814.

23. Letter Missive to Lord Holland.-1816.

24. Plan of a Reform in the Election of the House of Commons adopted by the Society of the Friends of the People, in 1795: with a new Introduction and other Documents.

Many other of his corrected Speeches, besides the above, may be seen in Debrett's Parliamentary Debates, and Wright's Parliamentary History. The latter also contains Sir Philip's Reports of Lord Chatham's Speeches in the year 1770.