Leigh Hunt, from his unsigned review of Cantos I and II, Examiner

Seeing Byron as an ally in the struggle against political and religious reaction, Hunt gave him partisan support in the Examiner. Praise from such a source, however, tended to discredit Byron still further in the eyes of many conservative reviewers, as did his later, ill-fated co-operation with Hunt in the production of the Liberal. (See below, pp. 193–4, 249–51, 253–4.)