the advancement of the latter was obstructed by Bradshaw in person, exactly at the time when JUNIUS commenced his most vigorous attacks on him. "We are informed that Mr. D'Oyley has resigned his post of Under Secretary at War. The resignation of an office is an event so uncommon in these times, that it is worthy of some explanation. When the junto of clerks was formed by Mr. Jenkinson, to transact the business of this country under Lord Bute, Mr. D'Oyley was not considered as one of them; he has never been admitted as one, and consequently has never had given him pension or reversion, or any of those douceurs which every one of those gentry now enjoy. He never had the confidential communication of the office, nor even the common official interest in it. The secretary's place being therefore a mere clerkship of four hundred pounds a year, could neither in advantage nor honour be worth holding, to a man in the station and circumstances of a gentleman. Till a proper person belonging to the junto can be spared, the creamcoloured cherub Bradshaw, who is clerk general and friend at large, is to be stationed in the War-office." When we imagine with what feelings Sir PHILIP would regard an interloper, who prevented him from taking the place to which he was entitled by seniority, we cannot be surprised at the antipathy displayed towards Bradshaw in the concluding Letters of JUNIUS.

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But we now come to particulars, by which the writer's rank and station are shewn more plainly than even by familiar appellations: and we shall find that, after pointing out the persons by whom he is surrounded, he at last reveals HIMSELF.

JUNIUS in his private correspondence with Woodfall, is enraged at Lord Barrington for having "appointed a French broker his deputy, for no reason but his relation to Bradshaw*." This person was Mr. Chamier, the immediate rival of Sir PHILIP in the War-office, and the person for whom Bradshaw was locum tenens in the vacancy made by D'Oyley. We first hear of him sneeringly, as "that well educated genteel young broker, Mr. Chamier." This was immediately after his appointment as private secretary to the Earl of Sandwich, who at that time was Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Chamier was afterwards made chief secretary to Lord Barrington, through the interest of his brother-in-law Bradshaw, and the Duke of Grafton and on January 25, 1772, as we learn from JUNIUS, Lord Barrington made him his deputy Secretary at War§.

From that moment JUNIUS endeavoured to displace Chamier, by making Lord Barrington ashamed of his deputy. For this purpose he com

menced, three days afterwards, a series of Letters to his lordship, wherein his favourite is styled Tony Shammy,-little Shammy,-a tight active little fellow, a little gambling broker,-little Waddle-well,my duckling,-little 3 per cents reduced,-a mere scrip of a secretary,—an omnium of all that's genteel,—a wonderful Girgishite ‡, &c. &c. Through four Letters, out of sixteen which he promised, sarcasm, argument, and threats, all the topics that could dissuade, provoke, or terrify, were employed to remove Chamier. But all these efforts were in vain. The deputy retained his situation; and the remonstrances of JUNIUS, so far from producing the effect he intended, were injurious to those whom he desired to befriend, for, as he tells us himself, "The worthy Lord Barrington, not contented with having driven Mr. D'Oyley out of the War-office" to make room for Chamier, " at last contrived to expel Mr. FRANCIS*."

At the very time these appeals were made against Chamier, no person could be more obnoxious than he was to Sir PHILIP FRANCIS. They were personally opposed to each other; and the result shews that Sir PHILIP found himself unable to stand against his antagonist, who not only possessed the qualifications necessary for advancing his own interest, but was backed with the influ

* JUNIUS, iii. p. 425, signature, Veteran. +- iii. p. 444, signature, VETERAN.

ence of his brother-in-law, Bradshaw. To the office of deputy Secretary at War, Sir PHILIP, by long service, might justly conceive himself entitled: but when D'Oyley was removed to make way for Chamier, and the private secretary of Lord Barrington was his competitor for the place, he might reasonably fear the consequences. To detach Lord Barrington from Chamier, by alarming his pride, in the ridicule he cast upon his deputy; or to deter him from persisting in his choice, by the dread of the anger of the public, the army, and the King*! however out of character with all other persons, was natural enough in the case of Sir PHILIP. I cannot but think therefore that the Letters which JUNIUS wrote on this subject were the Letters of Sir PHILIP FRANCIS. No other person had cause to feel so keenly-no other man had so much ground for that extreme anxiety, vehemence, and indignation, which JUNIUS manifested upon this occasion.

* JUNIUS, iii. p. 434, signature, VETERAN.

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CHAPTER VI.

THE name of Lord Barrington is so often introduced in this part of the subject, that he slides into observation almost before his time. In the course of the LETTERS he obtains his full share of criticism and reprobation. The part he took during the riot in St. George's Fields, the easy manner in which he conformed to different administrations, and the indelicate eagerness with which he caught at any place, provided it was lucrative, were traits in his character for which he was highly censured by JUNIUS. But these public acts are not in the present case under consideration. It is the private pique against his Lordship, taken by JUNIUS at the appointment of Chamier, to which the attention of the reader is now solicited.

Woodfall is privately informed, that "the appointment of this broker gives universal disgust. That *************† would never have taken a step apparently so absurd, if there were not some wicked design in it more than we are aware of. At any rate, the broker should be run down.

at least, is due to his master."*

+ Lord Barrington.

* JUNIUS, i. p. 250. Private letter to Woodfall.

This,