HL Deb 16 March 1812 vol 21 c1294
Earl Grosvenor

gave notice of his intention to submit to their lordships a motion for going into a committee on the State of the Nation. A motion of considerable importance was fixed for Thursday next, and one of still greater importance for the 10th of April, when the Petition of the Irish Catholics was to be brought under their consideration; of which petition, if the prayer was not granted, the consequence, he apprehended, would be little short of rebellion. He was inclined to wait the event of that discussion, before he came forward with his own motion; a motion which was loudly called for in the present discouraging and distressed situation of the country, and the disjointed and distracted state of the councils of government. He would not name any particular day, but content himself with the general notice, that he intended soon to submit a motion to their lordships on the State of the Nation.