ABSTRACT
First published in The Examiner, III, 1 July 1810. pp. 401–3. While national attention was focused on the war in Spain (see headnote above, pp. 28–9), which Hunt was not convinced was winnable and which he saw as an opportunity for the Wellesleys to engage in self-aggrandizement, Hunt turns from struggles on the Continent to the wars of liberation in South America. In England’s past involvement in South America, he again finds proof of the failure of both Pittite policies and Foxite protestations. For Hunt’s observations on a later moment in the struggles in South America, see The Examiner, X, 1 June 1817, pp. 337–8 and Vol. 2, pp. 110–14.
