Two Letters to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales Respecting the Reformists and his Prospects of Government

First published in The Examiner, IV, 13 January 1811, pp. 17–18. Repeating his criticisms of Perceval’s ministry and castigating the Whigs for abandoning their principles, Hunt argues here for a Reform government. In the second letter (20 January 1811, pp. 33–4), Hunt urges the Prince to turn from corruption and not to concentrate on continued wars in Europe but on the liberation the New World and of Ireland (a vexed issue in 1811, when Lord Fingall, the Catholic Association, and other moderate supporters of Catholic Emancipation called for the election of delegates from the counties to attend a Catholic convention only to be blocked by Wellesley-Pole, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, who in the end was backed by Perceval and the Regent). On the Regency crisis, see headnotes above, pp. 159–60, and below, pp. 203–5, 206–7.