A Letter to Lord Ellenborough

"A Letter to Lord Ellenborough" is a pamphlet written in 1812 by Percy Bysshe Shelley in defence of Daniel Isaac Eaton.

In the essay, Shelley argues for concepts which were then quite radical, including complete freedom of the press, and a tolerance for all published opinion, even when false.

"[2] The epigraph on the title page is by Tiberius from The Annals, Deorum Offensa, Diis curae.

[2] At the trial before Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough, the Lord Chief Justice of England, what Mark Sandy of the University of Durham has called a "prejudiced jury" convicted Eaton for printing part three of Thomas Paine's Age of Reason.

He attempted to argue that scripture was open to the type of critique that Paine had leveled in Age of Reason.