LH
and his brother John
were summoned before the High Court on charges of seditious libel for a withering attack on the Prince Regent
in The Examiner, in response to an adulatory article in...
Timeline
January 1808: Leigh Hunt (who had published his first book...
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January 1808
Leigh Hunt
(who had published his first book of poems at seventeen and thus achieved an early niche as a theatre critic) began editing The Examiner, a Sunday paper which he initiated in collaboration...