ABSTRACT
First published in The Examiner, XII, 5 September 1819, pp. 561–2. This article continues Hunt’s series of Political Examiners on the Peterloo Massacre and its aftermath. For details on that event and Henry Hunt’s role in it, see headnote above, pp. 203–4. It is a telling sign of Leigh Hunt’s outrage at this horrific example of government repression, as well as a sympathy borne of personal experience for Henry Hunt’s court battle, that for once he drops most of his antipathy to Henry Hunt. He overlooks Henry Hunt’s ‘vulgarity’ and commends his dedication to the cause of liberty. For Leigh Hunt’s previous, more negative commentary on Henry Hunt’s deleterious impact on the reform movement, see Vol. 1, pp. 249– 51. For the relationship between Leigh Hunt’s views of the politics of print culture and his intense disputes here with The Quarterly Review and The Courier, see headnotes above, pp. 81–4, 144–7, 173–5, 203–4. For his continuing fight with the Quarterly, see headnote below, pp. 214–15.
