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• • applying to the Court for the heUefit and he • *totes that the Chief Clerk. no, assumed an authority, which on. • had no right to rumor. of granting t the Insolvent. wo as to interpose Gonne application. He farther complains :reheard him the benefit of the Act Which certainly the Act itself did not sanely. the non.pnyment of o panic's , when it appeared the man had piid floolato other debts. The Jude. had - the Act to craved on loarilvent is he tripeareri t• have withheld i.ay. circnrinitaiscos of Closet tnj native. A had void his propetty and pond all , hot one, and f. Ow• partial din-bergs iostrod of • sgmteral and mere egnitahle ' keen remanded. Unless this ap. peered . Cam to have hem done with an intention to commit injestice. the Court had cer tainly no jurisdiction to net as it hail dew. The Aet of Palilment respired atio, that the Itianlvent should have noire of the objection intended to he interposed to his application; this the Political., &level. was not complied with in his ease. H. was not aware that the Cons* had acted in nholii onto to the Act. if the statements of the Petitioner were true. and the I...esentel Judge must Certainly have hems in error—he we invested with • divert.. Wintry piny'', waraanspied in the judicature of the country. sad the ea ergifie of which necessarily im posed great envie" WO, individual who adminia. treed it. The Petition wen reed—it contained the etatem•nt made by the Hats. and Learned ntle we 'it —hitt t !inveigh the informality sf its am being signed by the Petitioner, it was withdrawn. Mr. lisootin *to had • Petition from an Insol vent monrd Jahn *wows lint he feared it was solijort In the same isefurmality; but he spurt.- hendrd that as it commenced is Your Petitioner. John N-rinan," and war in the hand writing of she initividnil. it was a perfect document. Under such circontatenres the instrument would be held its l 4l in a court of law. _ The SPRAIN' stated, that it was the universal pr ictie• to require the signature of the individual to i Petition. Mr. BROVOISAM then presented • Petition from • p►rson named John Vodil, of the county of Devon, romplaining that the Court for the relief or In4olvent DAtors, had as power to give full eff-et to its remand ; for that certain persons had subs. Tiently been brought up by Habeas Corpus. and discharged in the Court of Exchequer. not wi►hstanding the remand of the Insolvent Debtors' Court. The Petitioner prayed that the Art should be either repented or amended. The HTTORNET.GIVIIRAL said, that it was his latent' early next Session, to tall the attention of the House to the insolvent Debtors' Acts, fur the purpose of devising a legislative measure to pre serve the property deposited in the hands of the Court, and secure it. full appropriation. What al terations in the existing laws on this subject might be deemed necessary, he could not at present say. but •oine alterations would no aouht be considered • I visable. —f Hear.) The Petitions were then laid on the table. POOR% LAWS. Mr. BROUGHAM presented a Petition from an in in the county of Cornwall against the Ptior's Bill.—Laid on the table. FEW STREET ACT. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman also present ed a Petition from Mr. Charles Meagher. a builder residing in Sloane-street. Chelsea. complaining of the grievances hr had warred under the New Street ♦ct.—Laid on the table. CASE Of MIL 011AZ4L4N. Mr. BILOUGRAII rose to move that the Petition resented some time ago by Mr. O'Henlan. of N. wry, be printer,. He had hitherto been prevent yd by a variety of pressing avocations from being ing this Gentleman's ease, as he intended. 'soder the cons . ..ler:Aloft of the House. but he would Jo so early iu the ensuing Session. The subject involved larger consideratians than these merely of the null atitl embraced the exercise of the discretion vested in the G.eat Seal of Ireland. sad, as it was a matter of the hlghest importance, be deemed it right to hart the Petition printed. Mr. Past. meld see Ito possible mama why the Hon. and Learned Gentlemen should abandon this subject at the present momeut b and he never knew a case less entitled to postponement. The Peti tall had been repeatedly presented to the Eloaeo— it first came before them its 11116.0 r, perhaps, earlier: Int yew die saute Petition was presented ; an inter.. lion was avowed of bringing the subject under consi daration.and it was specifically said to have reference rn the conduct of the Land Chancellor of -Ireland and the A ttoruey-Gesteral towards Mr. O'Haribia. After these repealed malice% the Hun. and Learned bete. clone° contented Indwell with now moving, that the Petition be printed. The great beariug of theft.. plaint was. that Mr. 011aulan had been dismissed from the Mogistracy without a trial at law. The I.ord Chancellor admits the foci, that he had die. ustssed this gentleman without such • trial—and declared, that he did so in performance of the die l.rettori which he had II right to eleicive. The late Mr. Pusisonhy, on the former occasion. distinctly avowed. that the Lord Chancellor had a right to exercise this discieiion, and to dismiss a magis trete if he pleawd, without any such previous trial as that contended for. Mr. Pousouby sent, he had himself so acted when he filled the high office alluded to in Ireland—aand expressly declared, that it was imerssary, fur the ends of jisatice, that the power objected to should be vested to the ofTi,e; indeed, he prided himself in having ctiectivtly revised the commissions of the peace tor two whole counties. It was strange. then, that Use lion. and Learned academism should question rise right to exercise din power, and content him self with inculpating others, without bringing the matter it 00Ct iu a specific shape before the (louse. /Hear.)—Wheurver the lion. and Learned Geis- Orman made a motion on the *object, he (Mr. Peel) would. he trusted. be able satisfecturily to sheer the Haase. that Ile blame whatever attached to the Lund Chancellor or Attorney-Graeral of 1 eland.—(Hear.) Baoussman mid i the delay had Limn, not Com an desire of suitecessary postponement. but tutu the J. Rusty wlimie naturally belonged to such .I.6jeCt, staa ;foam the isulutiuth pressing avuca .sttcutiun. 1F: hal bet • from turiniinz fII night engaged in the Vocation of the Poor Ili% sod really had not had time to think of hfr. O'H intati's hosiswss. Besides, the sodden and either slnexpectesi absence of Mr. firatian and %Ir. ..Plonitett, .ho were acqns:steil with the matter. neeessenly led se the delay com plained or. He by no 10011001 l Arsterft the eitiweisce, in the Great Seal. of the discretionary prover allu ded to; hot he iromploined. in the particular in. 1111111CIP, of the graistilds an whirl; that tliaeretiets had been esereisevi.—(ffene, lieare.)-11 was stated, on the sothority of a cosiveriintion held with the Attor nry.Geneeal, that Mr. &Hayden haul been dis mis.erl from the continisaints of the prate becasse he wet a friend to the Catholic Claiins.—(/fear, Atari—Mr. Pottonnhy'a antlinnty, as to the mat. anew of the dowretiont in the Greet Seal, was the highest that retold possibly be cited ; het that Is mented and roost honourable indivichisl ' , Whim, 'hilliest , either that or the opposite feeling e enlicient round for depriving a magistrate of his commisemn. Mr. Peet. could not cotteeive why the Hon. and Leaned Gentleman should now *Ph to circa• late this imputation against dtstingoished persons, by printing the petition, when it was clear that his intention of proceeding further was • very remote c o ntingency.....( //eue.)--Why pout the charge. when the time of inquiry was diatom? From his recollection of the petition. be did not thisilt O'Hanlan had stated that he was dismiward on ac count of his opinion. on Catholic affairs, and yet the Hon. cud Learned Gentleman dad not hesitate to make that seertion. Mr. BROUGHAM did not recollect the exact words, but the printing the women 'mold at once relieve any doubts of this kind.—(l/ens.) —lt was, he thought, guite a matter of course to call for the printing of a petition.— (Were.) Mr. CANNING begged the %mos to irtr.Perre der Circemstantes and at whit period of time the printing of 'this petition was called fur. For himself, he was qnite ignorant of the content% of the petition—shut he tinder.tnad it h a d !wool at se vend periods during the last three years before the House, without any specific motion being thought necessary respecting the allegati 4444 a it contained, or the poems inculpated having had the slightett op portunity of rebutting the accusation dins circu lated against them. The last petition was, it ap peared, presented two months ago, and might at the time have been perhaps very properly printed ; but it was quite • different thing to make such a motion now on the back of a three-years old peli• lion, for no other purpose than to throw into wider circulation statements which are certainly calcu lated to give scandal, soil which are probably false. In fact, he never heard of a more unfair or queen did proposition, or one neon which it would snore become the House to depart from its Knievel pow tice, and shew, by the exception it made iii this case, the particular opinion it formed respecting the motion.—(f/ear, hear.) Sir 101111.1. Y said, that the irreol irity in not lisviiig had the pennon printed when it was presented, was in favour of the persons lucid paled, and their frirods were the last who ought now to complain of it.—(ffear, he-Ar.)—Hr begged to state, that he was the person who, at tlw dr. sire of his tionoirtrble Friend, who was compelled to be absent, had presented the past Petition—in deed it was ordered to be printed ; but the Right Hem. Gentleman opposite (the Chancellor of the Exclircpier) expressing at the moment some wi s h to inquire into the subjet t. started au objt clout to the printing ; he (Sir Samuel) did out rear the point, as lie was wholly ignorant of the coutesits, riot having even looked over them. lie as. merely acting miniaterislly fur his linsi.aiid Leanied Friend, rod through an excess of candour, did not at the time press a motion, which he was voided to have passed as • matter of course. Mr. CANNING admitted the force of the explana tion just given, but frit 1 self now e.lled on to require that camlisur from the Mu. and Learned Gentleman which lie so properly granted to souther two months ago, on betisg ronviiiced of its necessity. Sir S. Romti.vir said, be lied been mann ed of no such thiug-whe merely, in courtesy, yielded to the Right Hun. Gentleman on the former occa sion. The SPEAR'S said, he bud sent for the Petition, but, from his own recollection, lie thou,:lit the ob jection to printiog it was made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who sup :riled tliar, 1111 aeverjl names were stated, it would be better, for the mu merit. to suspend the motion for printing. He also recollected that the Petition was *hurt, so far as strict Petition went, but in it was einbodied, verba list. a Memorial. which hod been presented by the Petitioner to the Privy Council—it professed to he the same statemtut which had been laid before the House on the preceding Session ; but on reference to the former Petition, this was not found to be the literal fact. The Petition was certainly oil the same subject, soil the wording of the subseqiieut Memot'ial then formed a part of the actual Petition. Sir S. liouts.Le restated what had occurred on the former occasion. The SliEeeelt had no tlotiht of the lion. and Learned Geritleman'sasEtioraty. Time CHAutlatott of the EICHEQUICR 4160 ed. milted it. M. Etadbcimi said, that as die order fur printing had been actually made, he would not now repeat ii. The SPRARER said, that, if the order had been made, it ought to hove been coin ~lied with. The conversation here dropped. LORD STEWART'S Ark'OINTRENTS. Mr. BROUGHAM rose to put a question to the Noble Lord, which he was coiui.ells d to du from a sense of public duty. lie begged most particu larly to disavow at the mewl any, the slightest personal hostility to the Noble Lord's relative, to whom the question related, and fur jig h is military and private capacity, lie entertamed the highest respect. lie bad delayed putting this question until certain proceedings in the Court of Chancery, with which the House hail nothing to do, had ;ooed away. The affidavits of the Nolile Lord'. brother (Lord Stewart), were uuw matters of notoriety on the files of that Court in a private suit. In thrum the Noble Lord stated, that Si Aiiiiiassador to the Court of %%soma, he en joyed so income of 11.00 a a-yeas. and I,OCW. lia)rilf as • Lord of the Brd.iwmber. The phut queattou he wished to a.m. how it happericil that tin N AI Lod ;zooid a'/ten'. himself for molly • .1 twelve motillis frOm lsis 045.. e at VironN arid felte thee the duties of the stahasey did, not suffey from this material absence Did the Noble Lisbele* thus atownt, receive Ida full osliry,fros6 itto sitaational The two appointments were quite kn. coinPatibie. 'a'id it Iris importont to ascertain whe ther the Noble Lord erijoyed the emoluments of both. bite office was intended to he tilled by • personage re•itteiit at h . for the purpose of Marking the splendour of tlw Court ; the other necessarily rewired a pleweste shrewd, as the Be preseptistive of the Sovereign to • foreign nation. The Noble Loh% could net certainly think he die. charged leis duty in reaming appointments .6 diametrically opposite in their nature. He repeat: ere, that he mine these remarks from • pure wow of 'rabic &try, and not with any personal feeling. For the troth of this declaration he threw himself on the Noble Lord's candour. tovrd CliT 4 l.riteAnti could not see *hat reason the Amt. and Learned Gentleman could have fiir In particularly disclaiming any personal considerations in putting it 'question. which he said he felt from vnte 6Y pithlic data. A. to the motive tor the delay putting it, he certainly was at a loss t 6 see the ground of the Honourable and Learned Grate. mall's forbearance. The leave of absence alluded to was by no meant trucommon—it was, indeed., toile the •Prictice to admit this occagional indul. genre to dlplorniitic characters tOr their private business. The delay in this particular case ha.l certainty been a little emended, owing to the pro ceeding* eti a legal itiAutry. which required the at. 'embrace of his Noble Keleher ; but no possibte injury t 6 ttre ycerteril business could have ockiiled from this elowore, for there alwaca remained • 1111. raster Ileniporentiary to rnaiow the aff.irr bf the office ill the ahlience of the principal, out of 'elbow pillory the former was pad a certain consideration for fits extra d'onlile. The Hotiourable and Learned Gentleman might have also ascertained. that when this absence conimented, the Emperor of Austria had set out on an ettreoliive ram through his demi. ninon, and had forbade ally of the members of the Corps Diplosuatiqiie taking tlw trouble to atorom. loony him. As to the office of Lard of the Bed. r handier be never knew an instance where it had been surrendered in the maiiiier which trollied to be required by the Flom and Learned Geutlernao. Mr. BROUGHAM explained, that the only motive which 611.1144 ml him its delaying to put the foe*. t . *oaths. legal inquiry which had tt eth pending. Lor.l CA‘TI.RRIAGH—It was by nri means no tiste..l for anthnsividors or ministers at foreign courts to he lords of the Bedchamber. Mr. BROUGHAM never hid heard before of Lord of the Bedch.tmb , r holding a foreign official Ile thought the practice altogether new —mod in a similar case, which was still in the recoil lection of the linitve, it had been admitted that the emoluments of the oldie of Lord or the iiedcham. her had not been received during the currency of the absence. • • i i ) 1 his ony iu sr I.f the Act, am krb.hlet,edty h irkeon e ht role against II sielny in his et that the Judge) 'furs eau* Wiii ✓ut hohNe*—(tostos lir rredttor, obi ✓otes to Ouletvla detherhy 1y dig soy Clot where meta, louder es The lueelvent h hitt creditors hut a debts, hullo,' disisieu. he hod !leered from the "'"••••• ••• • ••• w.. .••• lllit [lll .1:61 L7TO 61011'ul a77t111. ZI:Li MEMIAGE FROM till:. LORDS. A message (ruin the House of Lord* announced their *spent to sward public and some private Bills. —/Fur which see the Lords' Report.) On the motion of Sir C. BURRELL. their Lord. ships' amendments to the Brighton GAS Bill were agreed to, end the Bill passed. On the motion of Mr. LOCICHART. their Lima ships' amendments to the Coroner'. Election Bill were also agreed to, and the Bill imaged. ALIEN BILL. Sir MACKINTOSH rose to present to the House a Petition, whir h, in his mind, exhibited a cue of the most unconstitutional hardship and grievance, which had ever yet been discussed its that House. It must also be considered to involve in it the greet est possible breach of the privileges of that Howse. —(Hear.)—The Petition purported to be from certain alien-born persons whose names bud been thereunto subscribed, purchasers and proprietor of batik stock in the Rank of Scotland, and who, tin right of such purchase, claimed the privileges of British naturalised subjects. The P e titioners com plained, that it was now intended, by a clause in. truduceJ in the House of Lords to the Alien Bill, to deprive such of them of their rights as British naturalised subjects. a. had male such purchases of stuck subsequent to 'lie 2811) day of last Apia, in manifest violation of every principle of honour. justice. and public faith ; and their Petition cons eluded with prayisig, that they might receive that ',series of redress which alone could afford them . the security they required, and to which they weie su justly tiiiitirti. namely. by the House refusing to accede to the Bill as now amended by the Lords. The case of the Petitioners was not wily of great hardship as regarded themselves. but of the st vital iniportence as aff-cting the ititerests of the House. The Alien nil, it would be recollected, on being sent top to the House of Lords. had been 'mewled by the Noble Secretary fur the Home D. pirtment, who hail introduced a clause rendering those proprietors of Batik of Scotland stock, who had become proprietors since the gado day of last April, and by virtue of such proprietorship of stock were, in ;Knot of law, as established by a Scotch Ad of Parliament pegged in 1695, naturalised pub jects of this country, liable to be treated es aliens. and completely depriving *them of the slaitia to naturaliz dim. This privilege of siatiorelia slims had been guaranteed to them by five different Acts passed since—one of them so late as au Act of Gorge 111. Almost all the Petitioners were mer. cantile men. resident its this Culliktfy several years, and having families of children settled in this coun try, to which they themselves had early iii life re sorted, fur the express purposes of trade. Fur the integrity of their conduct and intentions. they hail appealed to the experience of tiwir past lives ; and with a humility ill breuming their situatiou and Character. they had offered, rather in the character of suitors thiiti as ulterior' of their just rights. to prove at the bar of the House their uniform loyalty. peaceable conduct and demeanour, fur many years to give ample security fur their continuing to ob. serve such a line of conduct in future, and even to submit themselves cheerfully to every rule or order which had beet, established fur the regulation of domiciled miens in this country.—( /leer, hear.) The Petition bi isig read LOrd CASTI.EREAOH supposed it would not be the intention of Members to debate the reception of the Petition. as the question, in a usore general shape, would most likely be argued on the Pietism ‘N agi lL N N l / 4 ‘ll • • •. rot tatting info consideration 'tlir Lord: amendment to %he Alien Bill. ~% ... r ill& twiner coiiiidefed the.'fiest *Ode of pro t.eding in this instance' would he, to refer the mat ten pnbinitted in the Petition to a Committee of the House to report thereon; jlle. in fact, knew nothing, nor clid he think the House knew much more, of the Scotch Acts wild to be iii existence. With the view, therefore. of obtaissitig more reels. rate inform* t i tttt on the subject, he moved. " That the Petition be referred to a Select Committee of the House, to report thereon." Lord CACntitEAGII rose for the purpose of op. ito the motion of the Right Hon. Gentleman. Nothing could he more obvious than the design of the Petitioners in their conduct, with respect to the purchases they had made in stock of the lisiik of Seothoid ; their obvious intention was to defeat the provi-ions of a Bill then in its progress through Parliament which was intended to apply precisely to the caseAt was not the intention of that House, he imagined, to lend its aid to parties harbouring such intentiouss to ti, fret the very objects of the Bill now before Pailiament. The amendments of their Lordships to this Bill had originated in the infor mation received by his Majesty's Government, that the intro( or the persons then purchasing into the Batik of Scotland was to &fent the object of all the ?ego, sand arningements which had been, or were making, with respect to this mint deliciste of Ell subjects connected with the internal policy of this country with respect to aliens. The facts of the ease had been admitted. br these purchases, or their proposed object, there could not be a doubt ; and under these circuinstenees, certainly the House would never consent that forty-uine persons should take advantage of this opportunity to defeat the in. kittien of that House, and entitle themselves to naturalization, in despight of the harriers opposed to their intention by this Act, more particularly when it was an undoubted fact that seventeen or eighteen of these very persons had been 'seeking to become naturalized in the ordinary way pre scribed by law, and were trot able to chew them. selvee entitled to such • sorivilege. in consequence of which their application had altogether failed. if the existence of this obsolete Scotch AA, the HOuse was not appriied.when it passed the Alien B:11 of this year, or it would doubtless have provided by this or a similar clause, some mode of abrogating the firivileges claimed under the provisions of this Act. The possession or purchase of SOL worth of Scotch bank stock entitled the alien to be considered a naturalized subject of 'Scotland by the Act of 1695. and by the Act of Union, the naturalised stalk eta of Scotland became voided to all the privileges of oisturithied subjects of Great Britain generally,. Thus this Elm worth of stock placed this in , &yids's! in precisely the same situation as if he had applied to Parliament directly, and oh tiOned an Act of. Parliament, admitting him to the full participation or the privileges of British-born subjects.--(Hear, hear. hear.) — But this portion of Scotch bank stock need not remain even in the possessido of this person so natu ralized ally length of time, so as to procute fur him any native character, or promote his residence in the countr y , or afford any security for hiselood conduct. The next moment after it had serer the purpose of his naturalisation, he might transfer it or dispose of it to any other foreigner, who might have occasion to wont a similar exemption from the operation of laws respecting aliens, and who in his turn might dispose of it to whom he pleased, let him Le ever so notorious a delinquent, or so deter. mined au enemy to the repose of this country. Thus Chit portion of stock might be made to tra. verse the Continent, effecting the naturalization of numbers of persons into whose hands it might fall, by purchase or otherwise. This, indeed, would be to give the utmost possible facility to all the disaffected, to evade those provi sions, wi.ely interposed by the laws of the land, which looked with national and scrupulous jealousy upon foreigners, who were candidates fur this die. thignished favour. This was the character of our Constitution. so distinguished from that of other countries. For instance, the American States, whose policy it appeared to be, to have as many foreign citizens as puss;ble, with • view to increase her pis. puletion and commercial intercourse throuligout the world. England, it was true, was not jealous of the residence of foreigners here, or their com mercial intercourse with this country. but of their being admitted to a full and complete participation with British-horn subjects in all their privileges. This lie elucidated by stating, that Parliament had been obliged, in the case of Prince Leopold, of Saxe Coburg, to pass a specific Act to evade the Ist of George I. which provided that no Naturalization Act should pass the Houses of Perlis. ment, which entiled the party to sit in Parliament. A similarly jealous precaution had been adopted by another legislative provision, that no Naturalizetiou Bill should be permitted to include within it a pro- vision entitling the alien to obtain die privileges of British subjects abroad. But now, by the revival of the obsolete Scotch Act of 1695, all the operate provisions of the system fur regulating the privi leges of aliens, were to be defeated and rendered null and void, without even deniauding of the alien oily of the oaths or tests prescribed by law. He thought Government ought rather to apologise for allowing this statute to be so long uurepealed, than be accused of tun great an anxiety to add to the disabilities of the body of aliens, es they had been. The naturalization, if obtained by these parties, bad been in fraud obtained.—(Hear. hear, from Me Opposition.)—lie would repeat it. obtained iU fraud, because, obviously. the Acts respecting aliens must h five been always, until to-day, taken to have virtually repealed any Act of this nature then in existence. As to the restrospective effect of this Act. it had not been unusual for the House. when it raw a strong necessity for it, to give • retrospective effect to an Act of Parliament, as might be instanced in the case of the penal prosecutions against the clergy, for non-residence, some )ears ago, by an iiifuriner, by winch the informer was deprived of his vested rights. Upon these grounds lie should, therefore, vote against the House referring the Petition to a Committee, as he considered they were already sufficiently in paasession of the facts upon which they were about to be called to decide with reference to the Lords' Amendments to the Alien Bill. fir SAMuNI. R 011111.1.1( —Never had there been submitted to the House • case which so loudly called for its iuttrfereuce, on the must obvious prin. • ciplee of justice and poilitiea: equity, more esp.- cially was recollected on what ground. the Noble Lord had defended the clause in the 11.11 alluded tn. He had first admitted he knew nothing of the Act of 1695. II produced to the flout., per haps the Noble Lord would not have beets able to read it. It had not been convenient, however, yet to produce this Act. But still all this proved noire strongly the necessity of a Committee to invest% sip the subject, particularly as it was contended by the Petitioners that this clause went to repeal rive dirt, rent Acts of the Legislature. This far-famed clause was, however, one so ignorantly framed, that, lie believed, it would not answer the purposes of its framers; for it so happened, that the Act which this elapse was to rep's!, was not an Act of the Scotch Parliament, but having been confirmed by different English Acts since, it was now the Act of the Eng lish Parliament: the meaning therefore of the clause was so far imperfectly expressed. This Bank bad been founded in 1695, with a capital of 100,000 f. ; in 1774, its capital was increased by th e 14th of George 111. to r. 00,000/. and it should, iii candour, have been stated that the privileges of the holders of old stock were, by this latter Act, also granted to all purchasers of the new stock. The Noble Lord ahnnk his head, but he should like to hear any lawyer deny it.—(Heir, hear, hear. Thus aliens derived the same privilege from pur chases of new stock as of old; or, in other word., became naturalized. These privileges were again ratified by thc, 34th of George 111. and so on by five several Acts of the Legislature. It was so far !nippy for the country, that when the Government were about doing an art of such signal injustice, they had done it in so slovenly a wry, that it was likely to defeat itself.—( Hear.)—But what could be meant by the Noble Lord and • Secretary of State saying, that these aliens had purchased the stock in fraud? What! was it because, in purclias log this stock, they had also contemplated their neturalization ? Wes not part of their inducement a boon held out by the Mink of Scotland, to eiigage capitalists in the speculation) The only fraud he saw lay in the Legislature, which held out an in ducement to purchase, and now wished to retract it. hear.)—The 'statute of 7th of Anne, hail given to all Protestant aliens, laisdnig and resoliiii here, the privilege of naturalization. The 10:11 sit Anne repelled this as inconvenient. But. mark, said he, the difference of conduct upon that oc casion, instead of hating a retrospective view, it had only • prompictive enaCtihent.—( Hear.) — That was a period when all nations felt themselves justified in giving implicit confidence to the Acts of the British Parliament. Three months were in that instance given to all such persoris then on their way to this country, so that they should hist be unjustly dealt with, alter,hat•ing been induced to barter their homes for British protection. Whitt made this clause moat to he lamented was, that it had emanated from that bratieli of the Legislature, which was in all cases the supreme Court or Justice. The House of Lords, too, in bringing the provi-ions in, merely as a clause to a Bill, prevented that House from having it in its power on three or four occasions, as it would have had, were it a separice Bill, to discuss the objects of the Bill ; they now were confined to one opportunity alone, of disco.- sing the Bill as amended. Thus all the forms of the House had been violated, and the Lords had Rut back the Bill with w clause repealing at one stroke four or five different Statutes; tell ing the Commons, in fact, that unless they consented to pass this law with the added their Lordships would withhold their assent front the Bill. The fact now was, that the Homo-, in considering this Petition, were debating the Bill so amended, with its consequences to numbers of persons alto were now at least entitled to the pro tection of the (louse as British subjects, and also would, or might be variously affected by this Act, as being hereafter liable to alien duties in a com mercial point of view, and to forfeitures, as being purchasers of landed property. This was a suffi cient ground in itself to lead the House to reject the clause, as being a money clause, and taxing taut of the subjects of this realm.—( blear, hear.) — With such clauses the House never 1./invited the Lords to interfere. In one recent case, tiny had put off a Bill with such a clause added by the Lord* for three months. In anuther, regulaiiiig Horsham gaol, the Lords only added that should be repaired in the same way as other 'tools," the House resented even this regulation, and threw out the Bill. He then instanced many cases wlie.e in the Legislature had removed the disabilities o aliens, according to the ioterests or sympathy of this country, as in the case of seamen serving two years iu time of war, on bard our navy, residiug seven years in the colonies, or serving in the whale fishery.--(Lord Castlereagh—"' All these cases had been cases of limited participation' of British tirivi leges.")—" Nut all ; the Act 7th Aurae admitted foreign Protestants to those privileges, to all intro ti and purposes, as though born Englishmen." Upon the qai ram action case. for is/in-residence, he lad taken to part, though lie thought in that i•i stance • most remarkable act of injustice to the party informing bad been done in dap • ig bins of his rights, vested in him by the laws; but the case being one of great hardship towards the non-resident clergy, it was conceded for the public benefit. But even here, though a case of enormous cruelty towards that highly-respected body, and that on the part of a common informer, having 'so other mode of ezisting, the House bad forwarded a Bill leisurely through sll its stages, and the pity r was heard at length as to every objection 'wrote the House decided. If it bad, however, been then said, that hereafter a Secresary of State would have used this argument for defeating vested interests, would it ever have passed the House ? No, ',tier. lie went step by step to overturn the liberties and privileges of the House amid the cinnitry. he House should weigh well what it was 1.1)UU1 to do that night, within a few hoots of its dissolution, as it was well known. lie augured ill, howevei, from the confidence he saw on the opposite side cl the House. If such should be the result, it would lie, lie admitted, a fit and appropriate conclusion to the would, no doubt, remeniber it was the sonic Parliu went which had twice, in time of profound peace, suspended the Habeas Corpus Act—( H ear)-- bad confided the most extraordinary powers to the e N v o il b w le as L s o d r m d i i t ti t i v d i hi b s y co i llea .r g i ues t , who lad after ilia. , and, ►till neglected, for wend weeks, to call together Par