Produced by S.R.Ellison, Stan Goodman, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [Note:The use of quotation marks in the text does not accord with modern usage. Double quotes are nested within double quotes, and where this results in 2 doublequotes closing off a speech, one is omitted. In these cases ["] has been inserted to clarify the dialogue. Spelling of some proper names is inconsistent. These inconsistencies have not been altered--cf. Buonaparte--Bonaparte Collingborn--Collingbourn Everley--Everly Halcombe--Halcomb] [Illustration: HENRY HUNT, ESQR.] _Engraved by T. Woolmoth from a Drawing taken in the Kings Bench Prison the Morning after Judgement was given._ _Published June 5, 1820 by T. Dolby 299 Strand_. MEMOIRS OF HENRY HUNT, ESQ. _Written by himself,_ IN HIS MAJESTY'S JAIL AT ILCHESTER, IN THE COUNTY of SOMERSET. Volume I Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. In every work regard the Writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due. POPE. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY T. DOLBY, 299, STRAND; AND 34, WARDOUR STREET, SOHO. 1820 TO _THE RADICAL REFORMERS_, MALE AND FEMALE, OF ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND, _And particularly to the Reformers of Lancashire, who attended the Meeting of the 16th of August, 1819, held on St Peter's Plain at Manchester, and more especially to the Reformers of Yorkshire, in which County a Jury found me Guilty of illegally attending that Meeting, for which, the Court of King's Bench sentenced me to be imprisoned in Ilchester Jail for_ Two YEARS _and_ SIX MONTHS, _and at the end of that period, to enter into recognisances for my good behaviour, for Five Years, Myself in_ ONE THOUSAND POUNDS _and Two Sureties in_ FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS EACH. * * * * * _Ilchester Jail, May 22, 1820_