Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'I have read 12 Satires of Juvenal with a vast deal of pleasure — the 8th is the only one which my head (desirous of levelling all to my system) has imitated — but as I have no wish to fall under the inquisitorial jurisdiction of our new Star chamber — to lose my hand nose & ears like Lilburne or the Englishman whom Elizabeth punishd for writing against her intended marriage with Anjou — or to run away like Ridgeway — my poor imitation must lie in my desk.'