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JUNIUS, &C.
battery against him, I must assert, in his own
words, “ that he has given strong assertions,
without proof, declamation without argument,
and violent censures without dignity or modera¬
tion.”
William Draper *.
* Sir William Draper distinguifhed himfelf in the Eaft
Indies, during the fiege of Madras by the French, in 1759 ;
and he commanded in chief at the taking of Manilla.
When he was made a knight of the Ea^h, he was fo ena¬
moured with the honour, that he had the ftar embroidered
even on his night-gown. After his literary warfare with
Junius, he went abroad on a tour through the Knglifh co¬
lonies on the continent of America. On the commence,
ment of the American war, he was appointed lieutenant
governor of Minorca, and ferved during the fiege of St
Philip’s under lieutenant-general Murray, the governor of
the ifland.
A few days after his firft letter to Tunius, Sir William
publilhed the following curious, hut well-meant addrefs to
the public:
“ Clifton, Feb. G, 1769.
“ If the voice of a well-meaning individual could he
heard amid the clamour, fury, and madnefs of the time-,
would it appear too rafli and prefumptuous to propofe to
the pub^c, that an aft of indemnity and oblivion may be
made for all part tranfadtions and offe nces, as well with
refpeft to Mr Wilkes as to our colonies? Su h falutary
expedients have been embraced by the wifeft nations ;
fuch expedients have been made ufe of by our own,
when the public confufions had arrived to fome very dan¬
gerous and alarming crifis; and I believe it needs not the
gift of prophecy to foretel, that feme fuch crifis is how ap-
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