ABSTRACT
Byron, Cain [Benbow piracy] (1822), and Southey, The Vision of Judgement (1821); Eclectic Review, 2nd Series, XVII (May 1822), 418–427. The references on pages 419 and 426–427 are to William Hone and Richard Carlile, radical printer-publishers; in 1817 Hone successfully defended himself against three indictments for publishing “blasphemous libels.” (At two of these trials Lord Chief Justice Ellenborough himself presided.) Carlile’s persistence in publishing and selling banned books (notably Paine’s Age of Reason) resulted in a long jail term.
