ABSTRACT
First published in The Examiner, V, 19 July 1812, pp. 449–50. In the Political Examiner for 17 November 1811, pp. 731–2 and above, pp. 195–7, Hunt had distanced himself from what he considered the self-serving demagoguery of the radical politician Henry Hunt. Particularly irking to Leigh Hunt was the frequent confusion of his surname with Henry Hunt’s. This conflation and the need for repeated distinctions flared up anew with Henry Hunt’s current campaign for a parliamentary seat in the upcoming Bristol election of 1812. Leigh Hunt would comment frequently on the political activities of Henry Hunt over the next few years, particularly during the aftermath of the Peterloo incident of 1819 (The Examiner, XII, 5 September 1819, pp. 561–2 and Vol. 2, pp. 209–13).
