ABSTRACT
First published as ‘Political Examiner No. 13’ (not the lead article in this issue), in The Examiner, I, 27 March 1808, pp. 194–5. Reflecting Hunt’s sense that the war in Europe was likely to be lost, as he made clear in the 24 January Examiner (see above, pp. 42–5), this essay explores the complex manoeuvres being undertaken by England and France in India and elsewhere in Asia. We see here Hunt’s distrust of alliances, a key aspect of Pittite foreign policy, and his sense of the ways in which the imperial project was damaging to England itself.
