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A letter to William Smith, Esq. M.P

Archive Print Item: BC Pol SOU

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Type of record: Book

Title: A letter to William Smith, Esq. M.P

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Pol SOU

Creator(s): Southey, Robert (1774-1843)

Additional creator(s): Murray, John (1778-1843) (Publisher); Pople, W (1806-1837) (Printer)

Related people: Southey, Robert, 1774-1843; Smith, William, 1756-1835; Southey, Robert, 1774-1843; Southey, Robert, 1774-1843

Publisher: John Murray, Albemarle Street

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1817

Language: English

Size and medium: 2 unnumbered pages, 45 pages, 1 unnumbered page

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/431804

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007178149705181

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"W. Pople, printer, 67, Chancery Lane."


Pamphlet in which Robert Southey addresses the attacks of William Smith against him. Rising to speak during the debate on the Seditious Meetings Bill on 14 March 1817, Smith had theatrically produced from one pocket a copy of Wat Tyler; from his other pocket, he pulled out the October 1816 Quarterly Review, with the page marked at Southey's article on parliamentary reform. After reading an excerpt from each, Smith then magisterially concluded: "It must remain with the government, and their legal advisers, to take what steps they might deem most advisable to repress this seditious work, and punish its author."

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In envelope with bookseller's enclosure

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