ABSTRACT
First published in The Reflector, II, March to December 1811 (issued 25 October 1811), pp. 1–13. On The Reflector, see headnote above, pp. 134–5. For an early rehearsal of these points, see The Examiner, I, 21 August 1808, pp.529–31 and above, pp. 69–75, and on the Regency crisis, see headnote above, pp. 159–60; among many other pieces on the Regent, see, for example, the roughly contemporaneous Examiner piece, 23 November 1811, pp. 747–9 and below, pp. 199–202; and the key attack in The Examiner, V, 22 March 1812, pp. 177–80 and below, pp. 215–21. In his Autobiography, vol. ii, pp. 106–8, Hunt indicates that this piece so pleased Lord Holland that Blanco White was commissioned to invite him to Holland House; desiring to keep his independence, he declined.
