He co-founded the political journal The Examiner in 1808 with his brother John, and both were jailed for libel in 1812 for criticizing the Prince Regent.
He co-founded the political journal The Examiner in 1808 with his brother John, and both were jailed for libel in 1812 for criticizing the Prince Regent. This imprisonment was later the subject of a short poem by a famous poet, of whom this man was a close friend and supporter. Five years later, he traveled with Lord Byron and Percy Shelley to Italy where they published a radical journal called The Liberal. FTP, who is this journalist and poet who wrote Abou Ben Adhem and Jenny Kissed Me, perhaps most famous for being the friend of John Keats.
He co-founded the political journal The Examiner in 1808 with his brother John, and both were jailed for libel in 1812 for criticizing the Prince Regent.
James Henry Leigh {Hunt}