The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-09-14
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The Anglo-Saxon, whose news is telegraphed
from Father Point brings intelligence of the death
of Leigh Hunt. The veteran poet died in London
August 2Sth, in his 18th year. He was born at
Southgate, in Middlesex, near London, Oct. 10TH
1854 His father, who was a clergyman of the
Anglican Church, was a native of the West Indies
and his mother was by birth a Phildelphian, and
relative OF West, the painter. On the breaking out
of the Revolutionary war, being a Loyalist he
quilted Philadelphia and went to England when he
took "orders," and became tutor 10 a Mr. Leigh,
Tho had seat at Southgate, where the poet was
born.
Leigh Hunt received his education at Cbrist's
Hospital, the Blue Coat School, where his friends
Coleridge and Lamb were also educated and al
most Immediately on leaving school commenced
his career as journalist. He was at first employed
in the Office of his brother Stephen an Attorney
but afterwards on coming of age, iained his
brother John, who had established Sunday paper
called lhe Nel0S, for which he wrote theatrical cri-
cisms, and it is said impaired higher tone to that
kind of writing than it had before been distin-
guished by. While at school he had contribu-
ted some poetical pieces to a small magazine
which he collected into a volume and published
under the title of JHUeRiLid, in 1901. He re-
ceived an appointment in the War Office but relin-
quished it 10 1903 assume the editorship of the
Eramner, which he established in conjunction with
his brother John, and conducted with disting
success for many years. But he soon drew unOn
himself the persecution of the Government from
his independent style of remarks upon public af
fairs The editor of the Morning Chronicle was
prosecuted for copying article from the Erapi-
ner and, in 1911, the Hunts were prosecuted for an
article in their paper on military hOgging. They
were defended by Brougham, then Just rising into
notice, and acquitted. The Morninq Post having
spoken of the Prince Regent as an Adonig Hunt
copied the compliment into the Examiner and
added to it on V the words ''of 50'' Never be-
fore nor since was small piece of wit
so severely punished. 1t was before the
golden days of PHnch and the two Hunts
were prosecuted and sentenced to nav
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sum OF 900, and to be imprisoned two years in
HOrsemonger Jail. The British people were quite
content to see their countrymen sacrificed in that
way for harmless joke at the expense of their
worthless monarch, who, now that he is dead, is
abused by them without stint The brothers served
out their term of Imprisonment, were made famous
by it, and con inued to publish The Eraliner But
Hunt lacked business tact, and he abandoned
The Examiner to the editOrship OF Fonblanoue
and went off to Italy on his famous expedition to
live with Lord Byron and Shelley, and edit The
Liberal.
The disastrous termination Of this undertaking
has been eelingly told in his "Autnbopraphy," as
well as by the historians of Shelley and Byron
He had, in 1910, commenced quarterly magazine
called the Reflector, and Immediately after his lber
alton from prison he got up small weekly after
the style of the Spectator and Tdtter and published
his ''Story of Rimn" The literary enterprises
which he projected nearly innumerable-
Among his more prominent works are the "Feast
OF the Poets" satirical poem; Captain Sword
anu captain zen; ''StprleS IN verse; the GO Lee
gend of Flurence;" the ''Indicator;" the "Compan-
ion;" the Ground Tables" "The Seer" "Men.
Women, and Books 'Stories from the Italian
Poets;' "a Jar of Honey from Mount HybIa;"
novel entitled ''Sir Ralph Esher;' "The Descent of
Liberty" and great number of translations from
the Italian.
He was genial and discriminating critic, and
one of the most chatty and agreeable of English
essayists. In lS47, Queen Victoria, perhaps as an
atOnement for the prosecutions he had endured
from her uncle, granted him pension of f20O per
annum. Since then he has produced nothing worth
mentioning; but on his son, Thornton HINT, as
sumng the editorship of the Spectator he contrib
uted an occasional essay to that pc odical He
was the intimate personal friend of Lamb, Cole
ridge, Hazlitt, Shellev, Keats and Wordsworth,
and the last of that brilliant coterie of essayists
and poets whose genius shed glory upon the early
part OF the present century. He was Unitarian
in his religious opinions, and though but little of
politician, his liberalism, snch as it was drew
upon him the bitterness of the Tory writers of the
day, who ridiculed him as a cockney poet.