ABSTRACT

First published as editorials in the Westmorland Gazette, in two instalments, on 20 February 1819, p. 2, col. 4 to p. 3, col. 2, and March 6 1819, p. 2, col. 5 to p. 3, col. 2. Neither instalment was ever reprinted and no manuscript is known. For the general context, see Vol. 1, pp. 311–14; points of detail are dealt