Accounts of the death of the Princess Charlotte and of the executions for high treason at Derby of Brandreth, Ludlam and Turner, after a horrible imprisonment, two articles in _The Examiner_ of November 9, 1819, inspired Shelley's _Address to the People on the Death of the Princess Charlotte_, sometimes known as _We Pity the Plumage, but Forget the Dying Bird_, dated November 12 of the same year. Hunt followed with a second article, _Death of the Princess Charlotte and Indecent Advantage Taken of It_, November 16, 1819. Both writers called attention to the disposition of the public to forget the sufferings of the poor, while it mourned hysterically with royalty; they declared that the administration of justice and the events leading to such crimes were of much greater importance. Three articles in _The Examiner_ of October 17, 24 and 31, 1819, on the trial of Richard Carlile for libel, were followed by an open letter on the same case from Shelley to Hunt dated November 3, 1819. By scattered references it can be seen that Shelley fully agreed with Hunt in his opinion of the Prince Regent and of the Ministers, in his attitude toward the corruption of the court and of the army; and in his proposed regulation of taxes and of the public debt. _Oedipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot the Tyrant_, begun August, 1820, succeeded a series of articles, beginning in _The Examiner_ of June 11, 1820, and continuing throughout nineteen numbers,[301] on the subject of George IV's attempt to divorce his wife.[302] Abhorrence of the king's perfidy and of his ministers' support, sympathy for Queen Caroline, and minor details parallel closely Hunt's version in _The Examiner_. This passage occurs in the article of June 9: "An animal sets himself down, month after month, at Milan, to watch at her doors and windows, to intercept discarded servants and others who know what a deposition might be worth, and thus to gather poison for one of those venomous Green Bags, which have so long infected and nauseated the people, and are now to infect the Queen." This seems to be the germ of the passage in Shelley's poem beginning: "Behold this bag! it is The poison Bag of that Green Spider huge, On which our spies sulked in ovation through The streets of Thebes, when they were paved with dead." Then follows the plot to throw the contents upon the Queen. The handling of the heroic couplet, employed in the _Letter to Maria Gisborne_ and in _Epipsychidon_, as well as in _Julian and Maddalo_,[303] has been already discussed in its relationship to Hunt's use of the same. Shelley, in a letter to Hunt, explains his position in regard to the language of _Julian and Maddalo_: