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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1853 Excerpt:... " In point of money, be assured you never shall suffer." 1... " If your Affair sbd come to a trial, and you sh"? be found guilty, you will then let me know what expence falls particularly on yourself; for I understand you are ingaged with other Proprietors. Some way or other you shall be reimbursed." " What you say about the profits is very handsome; I like to deal with such men. As for myself, be assured that I am far above all pecuniary views, & no other person I think has any claim to share with you. Make the most of it therefore, & let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate independence. Without it, no man can be happy, nor even honest.--" And in a letter signed Junius, in April, 1769, but which, for some unexplained reason, he did not think proper to include in his collected edition of 1772, he says,--" It is true I have refused offers which a more prudent, or a more interested man would have accepted. Whether it be a simplicity or a virtue in me, I can only affirm that I am in earnest: and you I think, Sir, may be satisfied that my rank and fortune place me above a common bribe."--Junius, vol. iii. p. 202. And to Wilkes he wrote:--"Though I do not disclaim the idea of some personal views to future honour and advantage (you would not believe me if I did), yet 1 However profuse in promises, there is no evidence that Junius ever furnished Woodfall with money. It would not have been easy to do so, for, besides the difficulty of conveying a sum in cash, without detection, bank notes might have been traced to the hands of a former possessor; and perhaps Junius knew that Woodfall was satisfied with the profits which he had derived from the increased circulation of the Public Advertiser. Junius would not have recommended Woodfall to g...