A Letter of Strong Advice to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on his Character And Connections

First published in The Examiner, I, 21 August 1808, pp. 529–31. Reprinted in Hunt, Political, pp. 80–5. While many on the left placed their deepest hopes on the Prince of Wales and his eventual ascension to the throne, Hunt here expresses reservations about the Prince that were born out when he abandoned his Whig friends upon the formation of the Regency. Hunt’s comments on the Prince of Wales, later Prince Regent and then George IV, are too numerous to be noted here, but see the headnotes below, pp. 183, 203–4, and 215. For contemporary private reflections on the Prince of Wales, in comparison to Louis XIV, Henry IV and Alfred, see letter, 17 November 1808, Correspondence, vol. i, p. 41.