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 63 HUNT the Goths ; hut, while it gratified their hatred, it increased their fear, since the posterity of demons and witches might be supposed to in- herit some share of the preternatural powers as well as of the malignant temper of their pa- rents." See Histoire generale des Hum, Tares, Mogoh et mitres Tartares occulentaux, by Jo- seph de Guignes (6 vols. 4to, Paris, 1756-'8) ; and Histoire d'Attila et de ses successeurs, by A. Thierry (3d ed., Paris, 1865). HUNT, a N. E. county of Texas, drained by the head streams of the Sabine river and by the S. fork of the Sulphur ; area, 935 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 10,291, of whom 1,078 were colored. It has a rolling and in some places hilly sur- face, and is well wooded. The soil is fertile. The chief productions in 1870 were 342,411 bushels of Indian corn, 31,480 of sweet pota- toes, 163,267 Ibs. of butter, and 4,272 bales of cotton. There were 9,941 horses, 977 mules and asses, 9,672 milch cows, 2,077 working oxen, 25,141 other cattle, 7,194 sheep, and 23,- 347 swine ; 1 flour mill, and 1 wool-carding establishment. Capital, Greenville. HUNT, Henry, an English politician, born at TJpavon, Wiltshire, Nov. 6, 1773, died at Al- resford, Hants, Feb. 13, 1835. He was a wealthy farmer, and in early life was noted for extreme loyalty, having in 1801, during the alarm at the projected French invasion, offered to place his personal property, valued at 20,- 000, at the disposal of government. He subse- quently retired in disgust from the Everly troop of yeomanry on account of their refusal to volunteer their services out of the county, and joined the Marlborough troop. Having challenged his commander, Lord Bruce, he was tried and sentenced to pay a fine of 100, and to be imprisoned for six weeks in the king's bench. During his confinement he was visited by several prominent reformers, under whose influence he became a champion of the most radical section of the party, and the po- litical associate of Sir Francis Burdett, Home Tooke, and William Oobbett. For many years he attempted without success to secure a seat in parliament, addressing popular meetings in the large manufacturing towns and in other parts of the kingdom. In August, 1819, he presided over the reform meeting in Manches- ter, which for alleged illegality was dispersed by the military, after 11 persons had been killed and upward of 600 wounded ; and an indictment for conspiracy was found against him. He was sentenced to 2 years' confine- ment in Ilchoster jail, and after his release made a public entry into London on Nov. 4, 1822. In 1830 and 1831 he was returned to the house of commons from Preston ; but fail- ing of an election to the next parliament, he made the tour of England in a handsome equipage, speaking in the principal towns, and offering for sale, under the name of " radical coffee," roasted grains of wheat, as a substitute for the heavily taxed coffee of the West and East Indies. Subsequently he made his ap- pearance in London in a coach drawn by white horses, from which he sold a new kind of blacking invented by himself. He died of a stroke of paralysis while on a tour. HUNT. I. James Henry Leigh, an English au- thor, born in Southgate, Middlesex, Oct. 19, 1784, died at Putney, Aug. 28, 1859. His father, a West Indian, married an American lady, and practised law in Philadelphia till the revolu- tion broke out, when he warmly espoused the cause of the crown and had to leave the coun- try. He went to England, took orders, and became tutor to Mr. Leigh, nephew of the duke of Chandos, after whom he named his son. Leigh Hunt was educated at Christ's hospital, which he left in his 15th year, spent some time in the office of his brother, an at- torney, and then obtained a place in the war office. He had written many verses while a boy, and in 1801 his father published for him "Juvenilia, or a Collection of Poems written between the Ages of Twelve and Sixteen." He now began to contribute to periodicals, and in 1805 became the dramatic critic of the "News," a Sunday paper established by his brother John, to which also he contributed lit- erary articles. A volume of his theatrical crit- icisms was published in 1807. In 1808 he left the war office, and with his brother established the "Examiner," a liberal journal, which he edited for many years and rendered exceed- ingly popular ; it was noted for the fearlessness of its criticism and the freedom of its political discussions. Three times the Hunts were pros- ecuted by the government : first, for the words, "Of all monarchs, indeed, since the revolu- tion, the successor of George III. will have the finest opportunity of becoming nobly pop- ular;" second, for denouncing flogging in the army ; third, when a fashionable newspaper had called the prince regent an Adonis, for adding " a fat Adonis of fifty." On the first the prosecution was abandoned, on the second the verdict was for acquittal, but on the third the brothers were sentenced to a fine of 500 each, and two years' imprisonment. They re- jected offers to remit the penalties on condi- tion that the paper should change its tone, and underwent the full sentence ; but so much pop- ular sympathy was excited in their behalf that the cells were transformed into comfortable apartments, constantly supplied with books and flowers. Here Leigh was visited by By- ron, Moore, Lamb, Shelley, and Keats, and here he wrote "The Feast of the Poets" (1814), "The Descent of Liberty, a Mask" (1815), and "The Story of Rimini" (1816), which immediately gave him a place among the poets. Ho also continued to edit the "Ex- aminer " while in prison. In 1818 he pub- lished "Foliage, or Poems original and trans- lated," and in 1819 ho started the "Indica- tor," a small weekly on the model of the " Spectator." A selection of his best essays from this was published under the title of "The Indicator and Companion" (2 vols.