ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the debate on the Frame Work Bill. Lord Byron addressed their Lordships. He added that the subject submitted to the Lordships for the first time, though new to the House, is by no means new to the country. It had occupied the serious thoughts of all descriptions of persons, long before its introduction to the notice of that legislature, whose interference alone could be of real service. The House is already aware that every outrage short of actual bloodshed, has been perpetrated, and that the proprietors of the Frames obnoxious to the rioters, and all persons supposed to be connected with them, have been liable to insult and violence. It has been stated that the persons in the temporary possession of Frames connive at their destruction; if this be proved upon enquiry, it were necessary that such material accessories to the crime, should be principals in the punishment.
