ABSTRACT

First published in The Examiner, V, 28 June 1812, pp. 401–3. For related Examiner articles on Hunt’s ongoing contention with the Prince Regent in 1812, which resulted in a government prosecution of the Hunt brothers, see headnote above, pp. 203–5. For additional details of the prosecution and the trial, which Hunt anticipates and then dramatically finds postponed as he composes this article, see headnotes above, pp. 203–5, and below, pp. 262–3.