Leigh Hunt'S Political and Occasional Essays / / Carolyn Washburn Houtchens, Lawrence Huston Houtchens.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• TeilnehmendeR: Houtchens, Carolyn Washburn,; Houtchens, Lawrence Huston,; Woodring, Carl R.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1962]; ©1962
• Year of Publication: 1962
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Presents political essays by James Henry Leigh Hunt as the editor of the Examiner, including essays on Europe, France, the poor, manufacturers, and others.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Leigh Hunt as Political Essayist -- On the Separation of Russia from the British Interest -- A Letter of Strong Advice to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on his Character and Connections -- Deliverance Of Europe -- France and England -- Dinner in Honour of "The Immortal Pitt" -- Proposed Monument to Locke -- Continental Princes -- On Certain Terms Magnanimously Applied to the French Ruler -- Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge -- Bonaparte, - His Present Aspect and Character -- The Late Mr. Horne Tooke -- The Manufacturers -- To the Right Honourable Lord Ellenborough, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench. One of his Majesty's Privy Council, &C. &C. -- French Fashions -- Christmas and other Old National Merry-Makings Considered -- Distressed Seamen, and Distress of the Poor in General -- On the Intellectual Inferiority of Parliament to the Demands of the Age -- Cause of the Inferiority of Parliament to the Demands of the Present Age -- Death and Character of the Queen -- Crowding of Convicts in Prison-Ships -- Mr. Cobbett, and What is Wanted in Parliament -- The Late Queen of England, Her Funeral, &C. -- On the Keeping of Twelfth-Night -- Christmas Day -- The Wishing Cap. No. III. Undue Inequalities in Society ... -- The Wishing Cap. No. VII. Answer to A Singular Argument of The Tories ... -- The Townsman. Nos. II, III, IV. A Ramble in Mary-Lebone -- The Townsman. No. V. Newman Street - Mr. Irving - Mr. Stothard - Recollections of Mr. West and his House -- The Townsman. No. XI (Et Seq.) A Walk to Chelsea -- The Townsman. Street-Lights, Gas, and Illuminations -- Explanation and Retrospection. - The Examiner Twenty Years Ago -- Twelfth Night -- Christmas Day Divided Between Two Worlds ... -- The Occasional. Nos. XIII, XIV. Young Old Statesmen -- Appendix: The Occasional. Leigh Hunt / Oilier, Edmund -- Notes -- Index