THE

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

OF

LEIGH HUNT.

VOL. II.

THE

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

(ban is very)
LEIGH HUNT,

10.-28.3

WITH

REMINISCENCES

OF FRIENDS AND CONTEMPORARIES.

“ Most men, when drawn to speak about themselves,

Are mov'd by little and little to say more
Than they first dreamt; until at last they blush,
And can but hope to find secret excuse
In the self-knowledge of their auditors.”

WALTER SCOTT's Old Play.

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LONDON: SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL.

1850.

Jarreo Talkır

, D., L.L.O

. /8 /4) Cucident of Harv. Univ.

Establishment of the Examiner. - Albany Fonblanque.-- Author's

mistakes in setting out in his editorial career.—Objects of the

Examiner, and misrepresentations of them by the Tories.-Jeu-

d'esprit of “ Napoleon in his Cabinet.”—“Breakfast Sympathies

with the Miseries of War.”- War dispassionately considered.

Anti-Republicanism of the Examiner, and its views in theology.

-The Author for some time a clerk in the War Office. His

patron, Mr. Addington, afterwards Lord Sidmouth.—Poetry and

Accounts..

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CHAPTER X.

LITERARY ACQUAINTANCE.

Du Bois. — Campbell.—Theodore Hook.- Matthews. — James and

Horace Smith.-Fuseli.-Bonnycastle.-- Kinnaird, &c. 17

CHAPTER XI.

POLITICAL CHARACTERS.

Ministry of the Pittites. — Time-serving conduct of the Allies. -

Height and downfall of Napoleon.-Character of George the Third.