ABSTRACT

First Printed in The Examiner, II, 30 July 1809, pp. 481–2. Reprinted in Hunt, Literary, pp. 80–4. This piece is concluded in The Examiner, II, 6 August 1809, pp. 497–8 where Hunt contrasts Swift, Steele, and Addison with contemporary periodical writers. For an overview of periodical production in the period and for the ministerial papers such as the Morning Post and the Courier that are the unmentioned occasion of this piece, see above, the ‘Introduction’, pp. xxxiv–xxxv. For Hunt’s comments on newspapers and newspaper writing, see headnote above for ‘On Periodical Essays’, p. 35.