A Letter To William Smith Occasioned By His Speech In The House Of Commons Attacking The Authors Opinions

Download or read book A Letter to William Smith, Esq. M. P. written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."