ABSTRACT
The Publication entitled Hone’s Weekly Commentary, the first number of which appealed January 18, and the second January 25, is merged in the REFORMISTS’ REGISTER; which, from its difference of plan and price, is altogether a new work. Vain has been the hope that abuse, and calumny, and persecution, and new fangled laws of treason, and Gagging Bills, had extinguished reason—had extinguished the spirit of Britons, and prepared them for the yoke of slavery. Lord Cochrane said, he had several petitions to present, praying for a reform of Parliament, which it appeared to him desirable and necessary to have laid on the table previous to important discussions which were expected to take place on their contents. Lord Cochrane denied that he pressed, the receiving the Petition from mere pertinacity Knowing that they were all same in substance, and forgetting the particular words objected to, he did not think the rejection of one was sufficient reason for refusing to hear another.
