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Miscellaneous Letters were the letters of Junius, and took them as
authority, without one thought of inquiry into their authenticity. But
his great work should have been, first to _prove_ the Miscellaneous
Letters _genuine_. After this he should have shown that Francis was a
Scotchman, who was chagrined at the abuse of the Scotch, and at the same
time was an Englishman who was intensely exasperated at the Scotch, and
that these two facts are not inconsistent with his being an Irishman.

In conclusion, I will submit the following letter of Francis in reply to
the editor of the Monthly Magazine, who had made inquiry of Sir Philip,
in regard to his being the author of the Letters of Junius:

JULY, 1813.

SIR--The great civility of your letter induces me to answer it,
which, with reference merely to its subject matter, I should have
declined. Whether you will assist in giving currency to a silly,
malignant falsehood, is a question for your own discretion. To me
it is a matter of perfect indifference.

I am sir, yours, etc.,
P. FRANCIS.

I think the word _silly_ in the above letter has a telling significance.

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Transcriber's Notes:

1. General transcription clarifying notes:

A. The original printing of this book did not include a Table of
Contents, one has been added by the transcriber to aid reader
navigation. Major text breaks and page headers were used to
formulate the "Chapters".

B. Footnotes have been moved to Chapter ends and have been
assigned letters instead of symbols. Each footnote originally
appeared on the same page as its reference point.

C. In the chapter entitled "Letter--To the Printer of the Public
Advertiser" the footnotes section has been re-titled "DOCTORS
NOTES" to coordinate with the next chapter entitled "Comments on
Doctors Notes". The note references have been placed in brackets,
[1], [2], etc., instead of the parentheses in the original text.

E. In the original book passages of "Common Sense" and the
"Letters of Junius" were presented side by side. In this e-text
these comparisons have been made by differently indented paragraph
blocks. Additional quotes and emdashes have been added as needed.

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