ABSTRACT
First published in The Examiner, II, 5 February 1809, pp. 81–2. This essay is continued in The Examiner, II, 12 February 1809, pp. 97–8, where Hunt takes up Richard Wharton’s attack on the ‘Jacobinical Tendency of the Edinburgh Review’. For the context of Hunt’s protest against conservative propaganda tactics, see headnote above, p. 84. For other essays in which Hunt takes up the conservatives’ use during this period of the label of ‘Jacobinism’ to discredit their opponents, to collapse reform into revolution, see, for example, The Examiner, II, 16 April 1809, pp. 241–2; 30 April 1809, pp. 273–5; 21 May 1809, pp. 321–2; 11 June 1809, pp. 369–70; 18 June 1809, pp. 385–6 and below, p. 99–102; 13 August 1809, pp. 513–14; III, 29 April 1810, pp. 257–9; 27 May 1810, pp. 321–3; 15 July 1810, pp. 433–4; 22 July 1810, pp. 449–51; 29 July 1810, pp. 465–6; 26 August 1810, pp. 529–32; 28 October 1810, pp. 673–4; 11 November 1810, pp. 705–7; 25 November 1810, pp. 737–8; IV, 22 September 1811, pp. 603–6; VI, 11 July 1813, pp. 433–4; and 18 July 1813, pp. 449–50.
