§ Mr. Trevorsaid 1213 he wished to put a question to an hon. and learned Gentleman opposite (his Majesty's Attorney General) respecting a well-known periodical publication, which contained some paragraphs of a very dangerous character, alluding to the disgraceful scenes now going forward in some parts of the country, and calculated to aggravate the present lawless state of some counties. The publication to which he referred was one that was circulated very extensively, and that laboured unceasingly in efforts of excitation—efforts that, if not arrested in their progress, would, sooner or later, destroy that and the other House of Parliament. The circulation of that diabolical publication—he could find no milder term; the circulation he would repeat was dangerously extensive. It was a compilation which he could not but regard with the utmost regret and alarm [cries of read, read! name, name.]
§ The Speakerwished to learn, whether the question which the hon. Member intended to put, had anything at all to do with the present Motion, which was, that a certain petition be brought up? However unwilling to intercept any question, the House must feel that the observations of the hon. Member must conclude with a motion, and surely no other motion could, with any regularity, be allowed to interrupt that then before the House.
§ Mr. Trevorwould reduce his question to a few words. He wished to know, if the publication referred to had come under the notice of the hon. and learned Gentleman, the Attorney General, and whether he intended to do anything relative to it [cries of "name."] The publication was Cobbett's Register.
The Attorney Generalsaid, he had to thank the hon. Member for his courtesy in sending him a note, intimating his intention of putting the question which the House had just then heard; but since the receipt of that note, he had not had time to read the publication referred to.
§ Mr. Trevorwould to-morrow bring the matter under the notice of the House.
§ Petition to lie on the Table.