The Statesman.
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FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1823.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMENTARY.
IN TIRE COMMONS (for there was nothing in the Lords
worthy of notice) the glair of Mr. Bowring.—l really
Lave very great reluctance is noticing this affair at all.
1 said from the beginning that it was a piece of great as-
'armee to foist, or attempt to foist this gentleman's
ill-
treatment in France, in amongst the transactions between
the two governments; and if, at this time of day, I could
be sueprised at any thing in some of the gentlemen op-
posite, Win:sold be at their appearing to bare imagined
that this was a subject, with regard to which they were
likely to place their adversaries in the wrong. One
single question; the putting of one single short ques-
tion to the agitators of this affair must, I imagine, make
them see at once the full estent of the absurdity of their
interference : the question is this, suppose the Secretary
of State to have found Mr. Bowring's complaint., true in
all its parts; suppose the Secretary of State to have
made complaint to the French Government in theeKieg's
name, and in thatnanse to have demanded redresb; ap-
pose the French Government to have refitted redress;
is Lord Archibald Hamilton prepared to say that. Eng-
land ought 4o have gone to war is eonsertenee sif each
refusal f If he be prepared to say that, I imagine, that
if be were to poll the whole nation, be would not get
three people to be on his ride. Three, did I say? Yes,
he might get four perhops; but that I think is the at•
most.—lf, indeed, Mr. Bowring might be a public
fonctionary ; then the King, then the country would have
been concerned in the question. As it is, the King and
the country have nothing at all to move for.--The mo-
tion was for papers : so here would have been an expense
of printing of God know's what! In short, the motion
could not be otherwise than negatived.
THE NORFOLK PETITION PRESENTED !—Not
from the county of Norfolk, but from the county of
Hereford. When Mr. Coke means to present the peti-
tion as coming from Norfolk, I cannot tell. I, who am
as much interested in that petition as any body, have
not been able to learn this, though I have made appli-
cation for the purpose to my representative. Last night,
1" we** the algae petition was presented, with therilffer-
once of additional paragraph at the beginning,and the
difference in the title of the petition, the word Hereford
being in the place of that of Norfolk. This petition
was presented by Mr. PRICE, one of the members of the
county. This gentleman was not, in this case, under
the p sinful necessity of apologizing for the language of
the petition ; he was not placed in the awkward predict'.
meat of saying that many had opposed it, merely as the
sni ens of preventing the adoption of another petition ;
lie was not under the painful necessity of thus describing
i. as a thing bad in language, and originating in false
pride, and persevered in from envy and spite ; Mr. Farce
WWI nut under the painful necessity of thus speaking,
end thus giving to be understood, with regard to this
petition. In presenting this petition, be had an honour-
able ditty to perform ; he bad nothing to be ashamed of,
with regard to the 'names of the petitioners, their
language or their motives. It was not a set of thought-
le. s creatures whose names had been collected at Here-
ford Fair, and got down upon the paper in consequence
of their seeing the names of half a dozen envious and'
stupid rich men already written down st the head of the
paler; it was not a list of silly creatures 1.11 on by a
little band of proud fouls : it was a list of gentlemen, yeo-
men, farmers, and tradesmen, who knew what they were
signing ; who were misled by nobody; and who had duly
considered the contents of what they signed. Mr. Pates
94111, as nearly as could be remembered, "the petition which
"I hold is) nty hand is very respectably signed. It has to it
" eleven hundred awl eighty names, great part of which I
" know to be most respectable. Having said this of the signa-
" tures to the petition, the House will, doubtless, be ter-
" prized to bear that this is no other than the mach-
talked of petition of Mr. Cobbett ; I mean the NOR.
" FOLK PETITION, though coming from the county
"of Hereford." Mr. Price was mistaken. The House
did not appear to be at all surprised, much less did it
appear to he frightened. The influence of the infamous
London Press ; that band of now half-broken stock-job-
btrs, does not frighten people in the House so much as it
used to do, and not any thing like so much as it frightens
them down in the barns awl boles and corners of Norfolk.
This press has the power of frightening those only that
do not know what it is. Mr. Price having sat dowa,,
Lord Fourarrose rose, and in somewhat the following
words, flung down the gauntlet to the calumniators of
this petiion. He said that "he would take this oppor.
tunity of observing that he had heard this petition de.
scribed as containing propositions and principles, the
most fraudulent, the most revolutionary and the most
every thing that was abominable; that be heard this de.
cument abused in the most vio'ent manner,reviled in terms
the moat opprobrious and even outrageous; he had heard
it spoken of, as a thing taken for granted to be so tricked
anal detestable, as not to be thought of without abhorrence.
He had heard all this of this petition; but he had
never yet heard any refutation of any one of its alle-
gations or its principles, and never any thing to she that
any part of its prayers contained a proposit:on unjust in
itself, or unfit to be adopted. For his o n part, be said, he had
read the petition with great cue, and he had no scruple
to say, that be was ready to maintain the truth, justice,
and propriety of every part of it. His Lordship added,
that the honourable Member who bad presented the pet'.