From a debate in the House of Commons, 14 March 1817

Extracts from Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates January—April 1817, xxv, pp. 1090–4. During a debate on the Seditious Meetings Bill on 14 March 1817 Southey was attacked by William Smith, an Opposition member for Norwich, and defended by Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, a friend of Southey from his schooldays.