Junius, indeed, can hardly claim a place in the history of political ideas.

His genius lay not in the discussion of principle but the dissection of personality.

His power lay in his style and the knowledge that enabled him to inform the general public of facts which were the private possession of the inner political circle.

His mind was narrow and pedantic.

He stood with Grenville on American taxation; and he maintained without perceiving what it meant that a nomination borough was a freehold beyond the competence of the legislature to abolish.