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meant to come In this resolution, that n..
.ohjects had a right to enlivt stenc,,lves iu the
me of the Spanish insurgent'', and that the ',wt.
of this country, though &alkaloid profered herself
to he neutral, were to be turned itao o/nelt•pardr.
from which assistance was to I►e afforrleit to the

South Ameneens—then the preoent most be conw•

tiered • just and proper measure.
Mr. DEN it 4N ',aid that if he had been •n►pri•ed

et the introduction of the 801,14111 more_en hr.
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at hearing the gtoundi on rtch it testo &few,. tt
Ili. Hon. and 'rivet kite Attmiler:

General), and at the way ill *lslets he ti•iil••••
and answered the argiiinent• of his 111 •
laid Friend who intrairil liiv Um. au I
Gallant Friend had never »owled at; ni.st the right
of the Legislature to prohibit the subject from ri.•
tering into the service of • state with which his oat,
was in a state of wir—that the Art.; of 9 and ?u

(•seo. 11. were unjust and iinproii.r—or thst ih
King did not pos4ess the power I,f pons•hor.:th.:
subject for engaging in enterprize% of Ora
But his object was, to sties', how
C. 011114111/ Hark
rn-
actlnents were to the feelings of rolokool th,it
the piirticular Acts referred to, tl h primed.?
passed, had never beet) eitiorced, and had thesis,'
inferred. with the strirtest propriety. that iv. s

'hough the Bill beige the Ilosi,e might
could never be carried into effect any ni.nr than

otlreno.— ( Hear. )—The principle contended for 1),/
his Hon. and Gallant Friend was, that the stshirrt
bad a right, if he thought proper to esemrae
of engaging in the service of a trerwrist stale
without any license from the Gavel- 00000 rot of
has own; and lie arguill, that the slyptivo.
tion of thin right, a+ Wel contrinirl lied, took away
the terms of neutrithle. For could that be reel
to be a measure of neutrality, where all the injury

was done to one party, and no interference, in point
of fact, made with the other—where a prollibitirei
was directed against one side. and the other lett
precisely as she had beet) been before ?—fur he well
knew there way not a man its the country, with the
heart of an Englishman, that would fetal his IW.lgt.
slice to Spain.—(Hear, iterse.l—Ths 13,11 indeed
wore the mask of impartiality—its ostensible object
was, that the law might bear equally oa both thi
contending parties; but lie struilit like to hear
whether a single Engliditnan had been preveute.l
from enlisting under the hauliers of Ferdinand. It
such an instance could be produced, then would he
retract his opposition, and allow that the design of
the measure was fair and just.—lllear, hrur.)--
But the question now war, whether the (nowt
i law ought not to be repealed—whether the soh.
ject should be subjected to puniehment if let
contlibuted his services to u state with *devil ifn•
country was not at war ? In his opininuitshould tei
repealed, and the punishment got rid of. " But,"
said the supporter, of the Bill, " are we to ;intuit
regiments to be raised and paraded in the City 1.1.
London ? Are we to suffer bands cf soldiers to be
marched, by sound of trumpet and beat of drain.
through the Haymarket, destined for the aid of its
South American Insurgents ?" In the first place
lie (11r. Denman) did not know there was evidreaa
of any such facts ; but if there were, he did w t
hesitate to say they should be put a stop te.
But was a new law of neutrality to he made
for the purpose, or were the circumstances a!
the country itt all similar to those in which she was
placed when the former Acts hail beet) passed,
when there was a Pretender to the Crown, ()perils.
abetted by powerful States on the Continent
From the earliest times to the 9th George 11.
similar Act had been carried, though the uccasioar
for it might appear es pressing as at that period. The
doctrine of his Hots. Friend was, that if the 13,11
proposed was to be made the law of the lend, it
ought to he obeyed—but that the queetii n was.
whether it ought to become the law ul the laud'
He agreed with the last speaker, that by a loin.
ciple of the common law, the Croon might tiros
hibit the departure, or commaild the roam al any
subject ; and that there was a special writ of He
exeut regau provided for the case ; and e.hat thee,
he asked, was the use and necessity if a new law ?
There was one clause of the Bill to which his I lon.
and Gallant Friend had nut alluded, but to wince
he entreated the most serious attention of the
House, because if it were to be 'nude the law of the
land, it, in his opinion, put and toil to all hopes of
amicable relations with South America. and future
commercisl advantage, to be derived from en niter-
course with that continent.—[The Honourable and
Learned Gentleman then read the clause from the
Bill, which empowered the custom-house officers at
any port, on information that any ship thereat had
person* on board intending to enlist under foreign
powers, to seise and detain such vessel till the pe.
ratifies should be paid, half of which were to go to
the King, and half to the informer; and that iii
case of any action at law against the infornites
or officers, they should be protected therefrom ia
the same manner as when acting on account of the
revenuej.--He thought that provision required th •
most strict eesmination and whom, in the Co";•
mittee. He should feel much less objection to t!
continuance of the old law than the enactment or
new one, because he believed it originated meshy
a desire to conciliate Ferdinand; and that it
-not, like the former, to remain a dead letter, hot
to
he carried strictly into effect. It did stew to hen
• to be a most ungracious proceeding, at a nee.
when a great proportion of our populatioa, ezer•
tired in military habits and fit for swilling else.
were deprived of neatly all sphere of exertioii.
• cut them off from the only remaining touter wheel
they could bring their talents into action. For
this, and the various reasons he ha I meatioued, he
should support the amendment.
Pilr. WYNN did not know on what principle,
either of the law of nations or the par:killer 134
of the land, the Bill could be opposed ; it what•
ever point of view he looked at it, tie was per-
suaded of its propriety. It had been said that the
former Acts alluded to had never been pot to Pee.
but had always remained a dead latter—but he hi-ill
certainly read in magazines of executions for e!'
fences against one of them. The Boit. Geotietteet
then entered into an examination ul the c lost '
this country towards foreign states during
reign of Elizabeth and the succeeding Mouarelir.
and argued that it wee regulated by the wise purr'
elide on which the Bill was founded. 'The case
the persons serving in the Irish brigade, relied" by
the Hon. and Gallant General, was not et 0'114110"i
they could not be looked upon as subjects of Eitire
laud,
.because they were the lumbers •of frinelni