ABSTRACT

First published in The Examiner, VIII, 12 March 1815, pp. 161–3. For other pieces on the Hundred Days, see The Examiner, VIII, 19 March 1815, pp. 177–8; 26 March 1815, pp. 193–5; 2 April 1815, pp. 209–11; 9 April 1815, pp. 225–6; 16 April 1815, pp. 241–2; 23 April 1815, p. 256; 30 April 1815, pp. 273–4; 28 May 1815, pp. 337–8; 4 June 1815, pp. 353–4; 11 June 1815, pp. 369–71; 18 June 1815, pp. 385–7, and 396–7 (report on Waterloo); 25 June 1815, pp. 401–2; 2 July 1815, pp. 417–18 and below, pp. 32–5; 23 July 1815, pp. 465–7; 6 August 1815, pp. 497–9; 13 August 1815, pp. 513–14; 20 August 1815, pp. 529–30; and 27 August 1815, pp. 545–7. In the 1 January 1815 Examiner (pp. 1–2), Hunt offered an account of the fates of various members of Bonaparte’s family, and on 8 January 1815 (pp. 17–18), Hunt took up Bonaparte’s friends. In September he began a long series on the state of France after Napoleon (see headnote below, p. 36); simply put, Napoleon dominated the Political Examiners of 1815.