Burke was universally suspected of being their author, and the suspicion never wholly died out so long as he lived.

There was no real ground for it beyond the two unconnected facts, that the letters were powerful letters, and that Burke had a powerful intellect.

Dr.Johnson admitted that he had never had a better reason for believing that Burke was Junius, than that he knew nobody else who had the ability of Junius.

But Johnson discharged his mind of the thought, at the instant that Burke voluntarily assured him that he neither wrote the letters of Junius, nor knew who had written them.

The subjects and aim of those famous pieces were not very different from Burke's tract, but any one who in our time turns from the letters to the tract, will wonder how the author of the one could ever have been suspected of writing the other.