ABSTRACT
First published in The Examiner, I, 17 January 1808, pp. 33–5. This essay provides a good example of how Hunt attempts to bring a literary turn to his discussions of politics. On the political situation he addresses, see the headnote above, p. 26. The ‘madness’ of political parties is, of course, reiterated each week in the motto of the Political Examiner, but Hunt spends considerable time discussing them; see, for example, The Examiner, II, 4 June 1809, pp. 353–5 and below, pp. 93–8; II, 18 March 1810, pp. 161–3 and below, pp. 128–33; IV, 17 November 1811, pp. 731–2 and below, pp. 195–8; and V, 19 July 1812, pp. 449–50 and below, pp. 249–51.
