Note 1567 — Chapter VIII · (continued 3)

Carter-Brown, iii. 1,263-1,266. The two great men were Pitt and Newcastle. The Letter was reprinted in Boston, 1760. As to its authorship, Halkett and Laing say that it “was generally attributed to William Pulteney, Earl of Bath, and is so attributed in Lord Stanhope’s History of England; but according to Chalmers’ Biographical Dictionary it was really written by John Douglas, D. D., Bishop of Salisbury.” Sabin says that it has been attributed to Junius. Cf. Bancroft, orig. ed., iv. p. 364.