HC Deb 20 July 1831 vol 5 cc82-3
Colonel Sibthorp

begged to call the attention of the House to a letter which he had received from a respectable gentleman, living in the county of Hertford, with regard to the opinions prevalent in his neighbourhood on the Reform Bill. "When first the measure was introducd," said the writer, "we were as hot as pepper in its favour, but we have much cooled, and now believe that unless it undergoes great modification, it will prove highly dangerous,"

Sir John Sebright

bore testimony to the inaccuracy of the statement of the writer, and said, that as far as his own knowledge of the county of Hertford went, he could speak to a uniformity of opinion in favour of the Reform Bill.