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lanta4lCps ttpon the queidoll'lcir the thira reading tit Viscount Stnmntrrn rose and moved, That the ill 'fre now read u, third cline. The Earl of St. GE UNA INS, in a short but perti nent speecrodiereiu he brought forward the lead ing arguments %Oriel' were urged In former dis cussious, conten'tled tar the necessity of adopting 'the measure. Tile Kati of DARNIEY saw necessity what ever for its adoption. In the day of difficulty and danger. however, he had supported such a mea. sore, as deeming it 'right to arm the Executive Government with extra Ordinary powers. At pre serit 'no danger or ground for alarth existed ; nor in any point of view Whatet'er . Certild he see the expediency for sanctiottilq, a measure Which, in a 6institutiLnal sense, he could not but regard as tii►ngeroits. . . The Earl of Most.EY argued in favour of utloption, though the same degree of necessity might not exist atpresent as in former periods; yet he would put it to the Noble Lords who for merly supported the principle, to say, if they diet . not conscientionsly believe, that it was not still, Under the partiettl tr Circumstances, expedient to vest the Executive Government with the power 6,f sending Aliens out of the "connltry, in a pre cautionary point of view. lie regartLed the mea sure as highly expedient ; and, on the other hand, be did not tl ink that any well conditioned or re spectable foreigner would he deterred from settling in this country, by tke consideration of its Go vernment possessing such a power. The, Duke of SUSSEX spoke at some length agoinst the measure. The Illustrious Duke ex- presser! hiS opinion. that no case whatever was made out by his Majesty's Ministers, to evince the • . necessity of passing a Bill of so dangerous end alarming . adeSeription; When he considered the elating contrast between the situation of the Coim tryiiow, and what it was 20 yetis ago 4 . when he saw the pernicious principles which prevailed at the former period now generally exploded, he could never bring himself as a Legislator to sanc tion a measure, tvltieli seemed to him by a side *intl 16 attack the rights and privileges of this . country. The principle of the Bill be con ' reived to be au attack upon Magna Charta, and even the -Habeas. Corpus Aet itself, by which every resident in the country was to be held se cote as to his person and property% His Boyd Highness referred to parts of thole great consti tntional documents ; to the writings of Mr. Justice Brackstone and to the memoirs of Sir William Temple, in support of his arguments ; the last mentioned, chiefly with a view to a consideration of• the policy of the measure. 'Nothing that had fallen front Noble Lords on the other side, in the least satisfied bins, either as to 'the necessity or the political expediency of the meestire ; and above all, he deprecated the consideration (for such the bill to a certain extent appeared to be) of legis lating fur the coavenience of a foreign country. The Marquis' of Bucimonam followed, anti et some length argued against - the 'Dill. A consi derable part of his Lordship's diseussioe referred. to what was advenced on a former night of the extent nt the Boyd, Prerogative as applicable ro the measure. On this point he entertained considerable'doubts as to the correctness of what was nrivaneed by Noble end Learned Lords, and argued, it bad never, practically, at least, • been so considered in former periods of our history. Noticing the Revocation of the Edict of Nantz, by which more than fifty - thousand Protestants were driven out of France, chiefly into this country, at a time when there were Sti vereigns on the Throne, sufficiently under the fre fleence of France, and by no 'merles. friendly td , Protestants, and yet not the least exertion of the Royal Prerogative, either by Charles or Joules IL . was thought of to stem this, torrent or inflex of foreigners into the country. It appeared to him that all this reference to the prerogative was but theoretical, very little of its practice would he found hi oar history. 1n concluding, the Noble Marquis- observed, that the •grouted upon which the measure was defended was untenable ; its principle Was eneoustitutional,' awl lie felt it his duty to oppose the measure now, on, the same grouted that lie should support it, did the exigency of the period require its enactment. Heobjected.. to the vesting a .power its Ministers of - seeding. Aliens out of the country, without assigning any valise for so doing.- As to die boasted appeal, what Wes it in fact, but an appeal from the Noble. Lords in one room, to the Noble Lords in ono titer ? Upon the whole, thinking of it as .he did, he felt it his duty to move, that instead of now, the Kill should be read, this day.three months. Lord. Renesereee. in answer to some of the ar guments which were urged against the measure, contended', that the authority of Magna Cholla itself was founded on the very existence of the Rapti Pierogative. Were the history of the coun try looked into, it would be found that the Kings bad frequently exercised their prerogative of send ing Miens' out of the country ; and one great ob ject of the Bill was to enable hint to exercise it so fur, ht to summaty way. In general, the application. for sending foreigners out of the country proceeded from the peoelewhowerejealous of their commercial - influence. On the contrary, the Kings, deriving a. reyenee from Alien Customs, were rattier desirous of protectiog them.. -fiowever,the-poliey or pro-: priety of passing the Bill may be questioned, there . was certainly nothing unconstitutional in the pro feeding. It had no reference whatever to the li berties or properties of British subjects ; it mere, ly applied to foreigners who had no - right to come here. - The question merely was, the - expediency or the necessity of interposing. some check upon the great inflex'of foreigners into this country. It was the ditty of his 'Majesty's Ministers to. provide for the 'safety of the country, and also to continue on good teems with the other countries of Europe. • The Marquis--of LAwsnowNs -spoke at some \-* length against the Bill ; aas did Viscount Sitistoutn, urging the leading argu ments with great ability and force, in-support -of the meastire. GRE Y said, the conrse , now. proposed to t ic ptusucd With respect to Alien,, was it direct v i o l a tion o f Magna Clpirtit. lie opposed to the opinions of - Air. Illaciotooe and. Sir Edward Northey, dolt of Lord Coke, anti con tended, that .the prerogative contended fur with 'respect . to Aliens 'being 'aged ' in 'the ri'oivn, was one which could not be maintained. At present there %VAS no occasion for the 'renewal of the Atien Act of I'29V. Would it be Said taut it was necessary to cnotuct the nation against the designs of the followers o'f Buomipartel This colthl hardly be Maintained, 'tor tt . , be ex pected that these would becoMe the apnitles . of freedom The - present Bill went to deny foreign ers that asylum front persectition which they . had hitherto enjoyed, and to force them to seek in America that refuge from tyranny, which heretofore it had been the boast of Englidd to oder to the unhappy. This measure did noi appear to .him" necessary to preserve tran quillity. lie hoped the peace of Europe would he secured, and that the Bourbons would be firmly established qu the throne of France, but he shy►nld be sotry if the establisl►nienit c►f the Bourbons were to be made the sine tjua non of peace,- However I;ixhly he might esteem the pri vate tharacters of Ministers, he could not consent. tin pittrie in their hands a power unknown to the Cinistitnt ton. Vie Noble Earl then mentioned an instance of a respectable French Emigrant, echo was hurried out of the country through the malevolence of some secret enemies, and after remaining 'abroad a twelvemonth, before he could vindicate his character, , was at the end of that time allowed to return. 'Thus, what had once happ , ened might happen again ; it placed every alien its this country a bsolutely dependent upon GOvernment, and their power might be exerted against him, to the titter destruction of Ills hopes and Fortunes. This Bill was t hercfore in all respects one which their Lordships would do well to con sider. The Noble 'Earl continued to descant upon the oppressive tendency of , the Bill, which sub , jected to its operation every Mien not naturalized, above 14 years of age ; while any 'Jacobin, or other infamous foreigner, who had been for two years in any of our Colonies, might come here and reside, pursuing any schemes of sedition, and towards hint the Bill would be completely inopt rative. The saute was the case with respect to Ireland, where, not withStandingthis Bill, a fo reigner might be naturalized as soon as he ar rived, on taking the usual oaths. On all ,these grounds, he should give his cordial dissent to the motion. Linrd ELLPTIBOROUGU wished to vinzlielite self against the insinuation thrown out by the Noble Lord, of having made i false representa tion of a Lati►► document which he had quoted, and.whieb the Noble Earl had intimated itat not anthentic.. He would say, i►► justice to himself, that he who could overlook a talsrl►ood, was ca pable of committing it. (The Noble and Learned Lord read the document, and defended hi►uself in strong terms against the imputation.) Earl GREY reprehended, in strong terms, the warm manner ii.► which the topic bad been expa tiated upon by the Noble Lord, lie denied that any apology was necessary froth him. The House Would judge how far he had mis-stated any thing, or bow far he had , been correct. Eati Of Lo'l'oll'ool, made an animated (Vence of the ttecesiity of the Bill. In an s,verinA the 'arguments of the Noble &id against ti,Q measure, he restated all the Arlo. meats-he, had uard in favour of the: Bill in its previous stages. He forcibly denied that It IS'a coliirary to the Whole spirit and tenor of our law tii Send Miens out of the country : all the prece dents and authorities of our law were in favour of the prerogative in question. 'cite . Biil was to be rendered . operative only at the discretion of. Go. vernrn ent ; and could those who oppose the Bill say, that if it hail not existed during the last war, this country would not have become the refuge for all the desperate characters in Europe, Avlio had conanted to overthrow every civilised Go- Vern:tient ► Allitding to the late disturbances at Nismetr, he asserted they arose Aunt circumstances entirely local, and bore no resemblance to a reli gloms' persecution against the Protestants. The Marquis of BUCKINOHAIit briefly explained. The Loan CHANCELLOR maintained the .de cisive opinion which be had given on the subject oil a former evening. Considering all the liriti leges which Aliens have bylaw and by Statute ; it was evident that the law recognises the right of the King to exercise the prerogative, fie would have been most ready to disavow his former opi nion,lf he had seen the leait reason to alter, it. . Lord HOLLAND briefly spoke against the Bill as ithpolitic, l unjust, and unnecessary. Ue trusted the short period of two years would not elapse before the subject would he again brought' before the noose, and he should take the earliest oppor tunity of moving for the repeal of the 13111. The question was then put on the Amend• went, for the third reading this day three months. Contents IOS Not Contents Majority Adjourned at Halespast Twelve. [For tkke Proceedings oft he Nouse of Commons, see the Last Page.) SPECIAL COAINIISSION Al' ELY. TtinipAy, Jove; 18:—This morning, : : at nine o'clock, the Court reassembled, when John Easy, Joseph'Eosey, Richard Jessop, Thomas South, the pitii)ger, John Walker,• Mark Renton, Robert But. eher, George Crow, Isaac Mirky, Rich. Nicholas, Wilson 11/yebrow, and William Jefferson,, ‘vere in dicted for on' Wednesday, the 22d day of May last, burglariously broken open and ent e red the dwelling-house of Rebecca Waddelow, of Littleport, in the Isle of !My, shopkeeper, nod feloniously stolen and carried away therefrom one hat and five shirts, the property °Marry Martin, of Littleport aforesaid, farmer, and divers ar ticks of grocery and drapery goods, together with 31. and three, promissory, notes, the property nt. the said Rebecca WaddeloW. • The Jury having been sworn, Afr.Cluttrny rose an d addressed them, detailing the eients Est port on the night of the .22d c►t May. The vin. lence cinuntitted at that time had been preceded by si n e threats and 'excesses in another part of the country, under the i%retenee of the lowness o f m ists , nud theligh price of reirisions. ISven • • f the Nagtstrates of the county were mtimidafed by an armed mob, why) for a short period carried terror wherever they went, and we re completely SucceSsful in therr.daritig utta'ek up on the peesotit and property of their neighbOurs. Such an ex ample emild fail to excite ,the evil ,pas shuts Of other tdistontented persons the con tagion spread l anti before the 22d of May there was a ferment which brute out in a complete explosion On that day. A large mob 'aisembted at Littlepar, arnica with bludgeons, pitch-forks, gonS, and other weapOni'; they Posse s sed *them selves of treasure, Mitt foid every , species.of orga, niiatiou. noose tater rouse was robbed; and pencil) after person. The numberoltlke mob ex ceeded 100, every One of whom might justly for— feit hli life tip his country. The crown,. however, had selected `twelve persons, who Were : more actively employed than the rest. John Easey with a large club liroke the. Whitlow ; Joseph 4asey entered the bathe; nieliikrd jessop, endeavoured to break open ilie back door with an iron weapon ';' 51. were offered to hint to desist; but he said that no money should deter from his object, %%I'o'o was the life of Mr. M art i n ; Thomas Smith en tered by a hole iri the shutter,' armed with a cleaver. John Walker was a very useful per:son he carried" a long pole, with a piece of pHoted cloth at the end, by way of 'ensign. Mail Benton and Robert Butcher Were with bludgeons, wlthlt they used hi breaking; the Shutters. Gem ge Crow robbed Mrs. Cit:t lack tit ,illree pounds. 'l saac Harley broke part of the Idt i itnre ; and Nicholas; Wyebrow, Mid Jefferson; were very a.itie in thC mob. Little Ballisot labourer at Littleport, 'l. Vpung, Elitabeih•Wation i Samuel Skinner, William Gil lett, Rebecca entlack, William Young, William Watson, and Mary Cutl a ck, pr ove d t h e r i ot i ng ; &c. Henry Martin was then examined.---Witness is a farmer at Littleport. lie lives with Mrs. Wad deiow, who is his grandmother. Saw the 'mob first come out of the public-house about eight Welock. They wen( past his house, and then repassed it, and he went down the street with them; with some other farmers and the Rev. Mr. VsehelL lie believed they had sticks, hitt eid not take particular notice.., They broke the win dows of ,several houses, but did not say any thing to him then. Ile left them a little down - thetom n, having first offered them 2s. a-day increase . of %rages,: and' to sell the flour at _2s. tid. a stone,, or less, it Abe Magistrates should think it ought to be done.:. Ile. understood, Irons *what he had heard, it . was for that they store rioting : be heard such things had been done in other parts of the country. It tuf t s his grandmothei *3 own horse. He went to the door with"sl. in his hand; the!mob were then canting up•the street. They were 100 yards from him: he went atvoy before they catne, in tonsequence of being alaraied.—:- Did not see them again that night. Cross-examined.--The house was rated in both 'their names. The farming business and shop were rated together, Some part of the farm be longed to Mrs. Waddelow, and some to him ; he spoke to them down the tom , / : there were others as well as himself who mentioned the increase of wages.' They were then pitying them 9s. a week wail considerably-more than 2s. Gd. Rei.xamined t!/ Mr. IioLLAND.—The shop and farm were carried on as one general concern.— Could not Say exactly how the profits were di vided : his grandmother and he lived together, anti managed the farm between theta, the same as if they were man and wife. lie lost all his shirts, anti hint not seen his hat since. A conference here 'took place among the Judges, when Mr. Justice ABBOT (01(1 the Jury, that there was a mistake in the training of this indictment, which would lead to the acquittal of all the prison ers, as far as their lives were concerned, in. conse quence of the description of the property given by the last witness ;.and' though it was open to tire Counsel' for the Ci-own'to proceed for the'tni nor felony, he understood front them that they Witold not press it, and therefore all the prisoners . must be acquitted. The . JUry 'accordingly re turned a verdict . of—Not Aaron Chevill, RichurelJessop, Joseph &meth Tho mas south the younger, Morkilienon, Dann, and Francis Torringtod, were then indi cte d for having, on the night of the 2251 of May Jest, hurglatiously broken open and entered the dwel ling 'house of Josiah-Dewey, in the town of Lit deport, and for having stolen and carried away therefrom 100 guineas in gold, and divers articles .of futrtirtire and wearing apparel ; and with hav ing assaulted and put in bodily tear the said Jo siah Dewey, in his dwelling-house, taking (rep his`Person a one. pound banker's cash note. , Mr. GURNEY, having described the case on the part of the Crown, proceeded to call witnesses, upon whose testitnony, Mr. Justice. BuratooGn observed, that there was no sufficient evidence to prove that Torrington had been guilty of any offence. The charge at burglary laid in the indictment could not be oh wined, because it dill not appear to have been (irk when' the breaking was effected; but hy'the course of law flue prisoners might be convicted of a capital felony in stealing from a dwelling-house. The evidence not being decisive with respect to Torrington and Daher, the ,i‘iry would probably deem them entitled to an .acquittal ; bat he nut 'leave to their consideration whether any' reason- able doubt could he eutertained.as to the guilt 'of the other prisotiers. _ The Jury, in five; minutes, gave a verdict of guilty against.Chevill, Ea6ey; Jeslop, South, and Benton; dWI acquitted I)ann and Torriugton,who are detained lo take their trial upon other indict ments. 'flie Court atlionrned at five o'clock till nine to-morrow morning. The backwardateis of the present Season has been the general complaint of the Farmers. There is one class of persons, however, who hearing in nand the sayipg 't Make hay while the sun shines," have alreaclyreaped a plentiful harvest by taking the advantage which was offered to them by the late Lottery of gathering a rich crop. Fortunately for those Who negleeted to do`so, it is not vet too late, t Summer Lottery which will be all drawn Nem TUESDAY, will afford to those Who may Ire indium' tt) giGau ttt the Lottery field,' bushels of happiness. 1 1 1 4 IRECEIVED THIS tIORNING.3 If'A . , uit a 1 most 1 . 1 4 1 irt ce t prc' parations are mat ing fo . r the Celebration Or titi Marriage of Ole Juke of Berry. Stich is tlia active appearance Of the ca itll, that one would suppose the itte:s had alrer commeneed. Temple of Hymen in the Carilei; of the i'aileries is finished. * Se'verai of the franSPareliele's are already pi:iced_ which are to adorn the fronts ei tk'e tat:piles. Foriy-fOur roltinina covered lanips Will illUminate the Grand Walk from the Tuileries. The presnts' which the City of Paris are to offer to the liticheas, rib the day ,Of her en:. trance there, Will ConSist, according tar ancient custom, of twelve dozen of wax flambeaux, Pe r fumed with bergarritit, - and twelve dozen boxes of dry sweetmeats. tO The Prevotal Court yesie . rday cOndemned de3th for murder, Nicolas Witt, *4 deserter from , the English Chasseurs. He was by trade a shoe- maker, and born at Hanover: The sentetKe teas, executed in efli4y. M. de Kit!, President 'of the Court of Assiz e's ' proceeded yestertlity to the sec ret end reparil(ol' exlntrnailott of twenty-6.1a of the accused, 1 0,0 ' ; will be brought to judgment at thz of Ilia tnotith. Mere were found En the Department Isere 2200 fire-arms and :100 swords atilt othLr weapons. Accounts front Prussia State, they' are ue tively emplOy'ed in the Ilisbandonment of t1:4; army. They write trom Vienna, June s—" Let ters from the Levant announce, that Generals SavoY and Ltilleinent arc arrived at Smyrna, and are about to embark for America," A revolt took' place at Tunis in the early part r f May. The seditioni wished to dethrone the BeY' awl place his brother on the throne. Ibis 2.1 - 0 0 ` eel, iinwevcr, in their object, they fled, al:digc . ceeded in making their escape by sea. .The Duke de Levis, at tie departnre of DOchess' of Berry, would have harvognvd the Pr*egs " In French," said she ite French, " 1 Allow no other language." • The widow of the Chev a lie r G o nanto, slot at Troyes in ISO by order of Bnonap..,rte, bi t s jot, obtained fOr the niece an d nearest relative of thi s ' rnttrtyr to fidelity, a place in the Dfi ; mo L" iselles, under the protection of the Ouches, •Angouleme. hisx it et NI ,JUSE 9.—The Tr e aty bet %ecru andliesse Darmstadt, o n th e su bj ec t of the relri. : tonal arrangements, is now concludol . Darmstadt obtains the districts ou the left °t - 11° . Rhine, and cedes the Duchy Of Westpha lia t o a - Prussia'. . . ttn The King of %Vurtemberg has Publis bed Ordonnance, declaring that he feels it neije s " ) l : in consequen c e o f th e con d uc t o f the Counts 101` Princes subject to his jurisdiction, to call in ' ll° interference of the Foreign rowers. He u lsil declares null and void a Convention mad e be. tween the Princes and Counts, 'as being inCu ti l v tible with the duty of subjects. MADRID, JUNE 1,--Onr Cabinet pursues 0 . 11 energy the negociations w i t h t h e 'C our t of Ans i " 4 relative to the Duchy of Purina, and to ihe ri4 1 ; (41 of the Infant Queen of Etruria. We cannot know of the result, but it does not appear tb we shall easily renounce a ,P.iewri acquired at I ' l4 price of the most noble 'sacrifices. FRENCH FUNDS. 5 per Cents Bank Actions ..... S 9 f. ssc. .. Itatif. 25 L. AMERICAN PAPERS. BOSTON, MAY 20.—8 y the arrival of W e schooner Betsey, Copeland, at Ed enton (`r r ort il Catalina), we have some further s intelligenc e the insurrection in the West Will a Islands. C 3 1"• • taw Lopciand states, that a few days before • sailed, a British schooner arrived at St. liu . lir a short passage from Antigua, who reP" rre ! that the Bla c ks o f t h e Islandof St. Vin rl: c e ,, r had revolted and obtained poss e ssi on of that 1, '"" except the fortifications, which , were in the eta" 3 of a small body of troops stationed t here. Flom Bucsos Al-rm.—(tly the brig Gc,; -- , Stricker, front Rio de is Plata).—Getierta 1 “'; dean, Commander in Chief of the Patriot A l n:t: was within 30 leagues' of Potosi, the caPit', l , o Peru, where' he had retreated, after losing battle, on the 25th of December last. H e si o t, . been reinfurced with 2000 troops and a g r a e r , many muskets from Buenos AYres, and ‘v ,l4 re ;' Mizing his army, and preparing to march ag'''flit the enemy again, who was in' Potosi. c m. General Artig a s, w h o comma nds the east 0 , of the River, called the Baudo C.iental, has been opposed to Buenos Ayres ever sill", L os ., surrender of Monte Video, liAs tcconline nce i 4 ;„ 3 t ed t it ies, and taken possession of Santa F 6, sit' ro t. 150 leagues On the river above Buenos Ayres, 3 1. it was said he was marching against the 00 8 _ 1 ,, A dispute had taken place between the Goves: l6 merit and the Commander . of the British trig,L.,. Orpheus, Stationed in. LA Pittil, %dila gm" I :, to a warm correspondence on the subject of sT a g to : env. money, and harbouring . on hoard ihe fOg s „,. v , prison e rs to the Government.. . The Copt do 'L it barked with his Officers, much e x aspetat 4 1, 4, threatened to sail from the River, but he bad 11°