294—to John Murray

June 2, 1813.

Dear Sir,—I presented a petition to the house yesterday 1 , which gave rise to some debate, and I wish you to favour me for a few minutes with the Times and Herald to look on their hostile report.

You will find, if you like to look at my prose, my words nearly verbatim in the M. Chronicle.

B'N.

Footnote 1:

  The petition was from Major Cartwright, and was presented June 1, 1813. (For Byron's speech, see Appendix II. (3) .) Returning from the House, he called on Moore, and, while the latter was dressing for dinner, walked up and down the next room,

"spouting in a sort of mock heroic voice, detached sentences of the speech he had just been delivering. 'I told them,' he said, 'that it was a most flagrant violation of the Constitution—that, if such things were permitted, there was an end of English freedom, and that—'

'But what was this dreadful grievance?' asked Moore.

'The grievance?' he repeated, pausing as if to consider, 'oh, that I forget.'"