ABSTRACT
First published in The Examiner, II, 4 June 1809, pp. 353–5. For Hunt’s account of other political dinners, see ‘Dinner in Honour of the “The Immortal Pitt”’, The Examiner III, 3 June 1810, pp. 337–9, reprinted in Hunt, Political, pp. 98–104; and ‘Dinner in Commemoration of the Acquittal of Messrs. Tooke and Hardy’, The Examiner, IV, 17 November 1811, pp. 731–2 and below, pp. 195–8. For Hunt’s attitudes towards William Pitt the Younger, see headnote above, pp. 26–7. For political sociality, see Romantic sociability: social networks and literary culture in Britain, 1770–1840, ed. Gillian Russell and Clara Tuite (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002); and James Epstein, Radical expression: political language, ritual, and symbol in England, 1790–1850 (New York: Oxford UP, 1994).
