ABSTRACT
First published in The Examiner, XIII, 7 May 1820, pp. 289–91. This article continues Hunt’s volatile reaction to the Cato Street Conspiracy and the insidious demonization of those involved by the government press. For details on this event and a record of Hunt’s generally sympathetic response to the sufferings of the conspirators under a brutish government system, see headnote above, p. 242. To situate this response within the context of Hunt’s ongoing battles with ministerial journalists and poets over the politics of print representation, see headnotes above, pp. 203–4, 209, 231–3.
