ABSTRACT
First published as ‘The Literary and Philosophical Examiner No. 1’ (a discontinued series), in The Examiner, I, 10 January 1808, p. 26. Reprinted in Hunt, Literary, pp. 77–9. Hunt seeks to place himself in a tradition of periodical writing and to assert a ‘philosophical’ approach to the news. On periodical writing in the period, see the ‘Introduction’ above, pp. xxxi–xxxiii, For other pieces on Hunt’s attitudes towards newspaper writing, see, for example, ‘Rules for the Conduct of Newspaper Editors with Respect to Politics and News’, The Examiner, I, 6 March 1808, pp. 145–6 (reprinted as Leigh Hunt’s Rules for Newspaper Editors (London: Ingpen & Grant, 1930)); II, 15 January 1809, pp. 33–5; 30 July 1809, pp. 481–2 and below, pp. 103–6; 6 August 1809, pp. 497–8; 20 August 1809, pp. 561–4; 27 August 1809, pp. 554–5; 3 September 1809, pp. 561–4; 8 October 1809, pp. 641–2; III, 18 March 1810, pp. 161–3 and below, pp. 128–33; 19 August 1810, pp. 513–16; 9 September 1810, pp. 561–2; IV, 3 March 1811, pp. 129–31; 10 November 1811, pp. 715–16; VI, 10 January 1813, pp. 17–20; IX, 31 March 1816, pp. 193–4; 7 April 1816, pp. 209–10; 27 October 1816, pp. 673–4; 3 November 1816, pp. 689–90; X, 7 December 1817, pp. 769–71, and Vol. 2, pp. 137–41; 14 December 1817, pp. 7856; XII, 31 October 1819, pp. 689–91; XIV, 21 October 1821, pp. 657–9, and Vol. 2, pp. 451–8.
