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amine ft it fur the perfume of protection from pewee,-
lion. He hoped it would not be argued that because
the number of individuals over whom the powers of
the Act extended, had greatly increased, and because
great forbearance had hitherto been shoved to exercise
those powers, therefore they were either learn
tie-
'cessary or more dangerous. If the numbers had
decreoved, and that decrease had been urged by
Fuss as • greond fee epplying for the continuance
cif sorb powers, should he not have been told
t-nanephantly,not without reason, that the manner in
si tin+ the powers had been exercised had caused the
.I,erpose, and proved that they ought not b be given ?
if it were asked, as those ;misers had not been ex-
In prevent the resort of aliens to this
ansiyatAy,, why le. wished fur the renewal of such
vomit). hie ensurer would le., that he wished it, its
Writer that Government might be enabled to distil'.
goish between the retireee in search of an asylum,
sand the conspirator in search of • place where he
"Isiah% plot in security, in order that it might be
gabled to afford to the former an oblivion of the
rat—(Locid cheers from the Onpositinn.)—What
'sari the meaning of that cheer ?—(Laughter and •
treiternt-rt cheers.)—lie did not mean to complaint
'of the (-hoer., tar to question the right of any
knifeman to use them, but he wished to kepue ,
what was the precise meaning ; whether it wipe
*Pont to sme, that ths single instance in which these
ewers h.d been evercired, was any departure fuel
tric jooree of the pnaciple en which they hod kw*
*null, or the it gainsaid the reason which he wee
gaming tor their continuance. This Government.
had sorely • right to ear, th it there refugees should
pot abase the asylum that was afforded them, fur
the pornoses of plots, iiitrigues, and conspiracies,
wins. foreign Powers at peace with this country;
1. Iced a right to say to them, " while you are
eidir WI to remain here, be grateful enough to
refrvin from pursuing those conspiracies which liars
in-tenoned yow coming hither." Ile would assert se
Ins co •liiient belief, that if they repealed this Alien
A.ll Orr, would be such cabals and conspiracies
carried on by foreiviers in this metropolis as to in.
salve the peaceful relations of this country with
other State,. He came forward to propose this mea-
sure
on his own responsibility as • servant of thee rown,
instead of calling fora Secret Committee, and shelter-
ing himself behind their recommendation; and he did
so ou has own conviction of itr necessity, and with
lio refertnre to the interests, nor under the inBu.
'nye, cif -soy foie* Power whatever. What was
the pittnre of the pursers to which so determined an
opposition was threatened ? The King in Council,
or the Secretary of State was empowered to direct
the departure from the kingdom of any alien whose
presence might be considered dangerous to the
trampoillity of the country, and • small penally
was gauche(' to disobedience of the order in the first
instance: If the Secretary of State had reason to
suspect an intention on the pint of the individual
to refure compliance with the order, he had the
rower of causing him to be at once taken out
of the country ; but if the alien could show
an. good reason why the order should not be
ei forced, he had the right of appeal to the
P.ivy Council against the mandate of the Secretary
of State. N..w what were the objections to the
Irmo of 'ltch powers? The first was, that it was
a departure from the ancient policy end law of the
reentry. He would not don that the presumption
was in favour of a return to the ancient law ; but
bitch presumption must in this, as in all other iii-
wooer% grit way to the necessity created by any
temporary or permenesit emergency which might
arise nut of the circumstances of the particular time.
The Constitution and Government of this country
would be unfit for the purposes for which they
were framed, if they were not able to accommodate
themselves to the circumstances of the time, but
were compelled to submit to a clear and admitted
evil. The llounurable and Learned Gentleman op-
ilopite (Sir J. Mackintosh), in the course of his
speech un the preceding night, on a subject with
which slits question was wholly uncounected, took
occasion, rather utfailly, to go out of his way, in ur-
eter to create an titrfavourable impression against the
Allen Act by a reference to, and an impassioned en-
comium on,Magna Charts. Reference was also mode
to other reigns, and that of Elisabeth in particular
WWI placed iii contrast with the present state of tl,e
la* in this reap. ct. But no attempt had been
rNe to shuns that the circumstances of the two
Nods were the sum:. Any person unacquainted
with Moos Charts, who heard the obseriations of
the Hens. and Learned Gentleman, must have sup-
posed that some provisos° had bent made in it of
touch greater liberality towards foreigners living in
fhM .0.11,11111, than those of the Alien Act—some
principle laid dodo, the departure from which
should mete us blush at the greater liberality of
the Barons of the 13th century. Turtling, there-
here, to the provlanoi made in that great charter for
regulating the recidence of strangers in this coun-
try. he found that it did not apply to aliens of
eve., description. but that it was express ezcepe
pees in favour of merchants; the expression was
owner reercotores, and that very exception in favour
of chime reereaforts proved that it was a pnvi.
lege not applying to other strangers. And what
en* she conditiuu atioexed to the clause. of
»hods i.o ounce mss taken by the Honourable
lest Learned ICesiceman ? it was ttiii publiti
yrreliibeli,.•u. lev paultcly prohibited," the in-
toipretation of which was " oules• prohibited by
. mu order of the King iu Council."—(Cheers from
tilat Treasury Benches, returned by the Opposition.)
Bet there was a subsequent clause which said,
I. if they be subjects of • land at war against us,
he which there may be found subjects of ours,
alai are to be taken into custody, and if our
subjects be ascertained to be safe there, then
Moll they also be safe here." What was the
policy of this country in that respect after the
rupture of die peace of Amiens, when the power
that was at mar with us seized upon the persona of
our coontrymen bring within his dominion on the
hit Is of that treaty t Did we commit reprisals, as
in the letter and spirit of the clause he had queued
we were entitled hi do ? Did we not then set an
cramp!, of a more liberal policy ? But it was in
vans to con the policy of former reigns with
that of the preteut period, gotta the circum-
es
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l'elilling to mina the eiception' flirt pattliee Ordlaiii.
to exert her royal prerogative, and order them to
leave the country whenever she thought.propee rio
to do. He seeordinirly- found on record an biatV,
:1 her Majesty in Council addressed to the theft
Chief Magosinttes of she City of London, direeting
thee rb Cans! 1111.50C11 foreigners as shall be fourra
within the City, bvlnnging to no congregation, to
• the realm. If they could only invoke Queen
Elizabeth, and ask her whether it was sound policy,
It being expedient to give to the Executive Go-
rnment these pewees of control over aliens. to he-
sitate, because they could loot find • precedent is
Mains Charts for such powers ; he did not believe
Oat with the precise opinions which she enter.
Arlined of royal prerogative, she would consitlei
such hesitation a very great proof of their wisdom.
To illustrate the argument in (Avow of a departure
incases of necessity from the strict observance of the
peinciples of Magna Charts, he would take • tura.
.had
introducvd, after much labour and ingenorty
been bestowed upon its preparation, by an erui.
Pent authority on the other side of the House; one
who was the ornameut of the profession to which he
'belonged, also might he considered • modern apeci-
)otti of a true Whig lawyer, and who eras looked
rep to as one of the staunchest friends to the liberty
oaf the subject. The measure to which be alluded,
was " A Ball for remedying the abuses arising nut
of the Act for regulating the removal of the Pour."
''...(Cheers and laughter.)—Every body kitew of
the el.use in Magna (Carta, which ran thus—
" Nallus liber Ammo enplane', on imprint:new,
nisi per judieiant purism gnomon, eel per kgent
terra."—•' No free man shall be. apprehended or
imprisoned except by the judgment of his peers,
or by the law of the land."—They would see how
far the learned authority to which he had alluded
[Mr. Scarlet') thought it justifiable to go in
departure from that principle in en enactment
merely for the removal of an abuse. His Bill
contained a clause en icting, that in all cars
wherein a poor person applied to a Magostrate or
Justice of the Peace fur an order of maintenance
on the Overseers of the poor of the perish to which
he belonged, it should be lawful for the said Ma.
gistrate or Justice of the Peace to make inquiry
into the previous character sod condition of such
person, and if he should find that he had refused
to work, or that distress had come upon him
through his own misconduct or neglect, it should
then be lawful fur the Magistrate or Justice
of the Peace to commit him to the House of
Correction, there to be kept to hard labour
fin any time not exceeding-----."—(Hear,
bear, hear.)—He would call, therefore) upon geo.
Orme° opposite to remember when they were pro.
seeding to object to the renewal of the Alien Bill
on the ground of its departure from the principles
Of Magna Charts, to remember the sails. fiber
koala whiter, sat it/petulance, ef.i per jadiciain
TParities satorest.—(Laughter and cheers from the
reasury beuches), and to coule with it the
clau.e which be had cited from the Poor Removal
osll.—(Cheers from the Treasury benches.)—The
hest ohjs-ction was founded on the liability of these
powers to abuse in their exercise. Undoubtedly
they were so liable—Meer, hear)—and it was
Perhaps impossible to confer any powers which
brould not be capable of being abused ; but of
'ldl the powers that could be conferred on the
Ministers of the Crown, to be exercised on their
revpoi.sibility, these were the least likely to be so
khtped. The return which ao Hon. Gentleman
opposite had moved fur, of the names of all persona
who had been sent out of the kingdom under the
powers of this Act, contained a list of only four
risons who had been so removed since 1815.
He did not mean to say that because no abuse of
these powers bad taken place hitherto, that cir.
cumstance was a complete justification of the
Act ; but inasmuch as any cases of abuse tluit
• Might have occurred would have affirded a strong
objection to the enactment of such powers, although
the absence of abuse would not entirely justify the
act, )et it did ufford • strong presumption that such
powers might be conferred without any great risk
of their being abused. It might, perhaps, be said,
that thought there was no fear of any abuse
of these powers on the part of the Privy Cours-
e.' or the Secretary of State, )et they might
be turned to the most mischievous purposes
by some subordinate agents, over whom the Secre.
tary could have no immediate control, and that ma.
limits and unfounded representatiotte and coin•
plaints might lead to an undue exercise of these
powers. lii answer to such a supposition, lie could
only state thus publicly, iii order to remove from the
minds of foreigners any alarm on that head. that
such complaints were not at all to be feared by them,
aid any pasty who was the subject of complaint,
and liable to the operation of this Act, might rely
upon the powers of the law nut being put in force
against him, but upon a full sad satisfactory inves-
tigation of the case, and of the truth and justice of
such complaints.—(Herr.)—lt had been said, apart
from all consideration of the abuse of its powers,
that this Act was objectionable, because it might
be pleaded by foreign Powers in justification of any
act of rigour and hardship on their part towards
British subjects in their dominions. But if ever
such a case should arise of this Act being to pleaded,
lie would appeal in answer to the lists of cases is
which its powers had been enforced, and held up
the just example of Englaud, not in justification of
arbitratary and restrictive laws, but to show the
manner in which such laws should be administered.
Having thus humbly attempted to fulfil the task he
had uudertaketr, of shewiog the existence and nature
of the necessity on which Ile grounded his application
for the renewal of the powers conferred by the Alien
Act, and of arguing against the objections which
lie had heard against it, all that remained for him
was to repeat that it was on his own respoosibility
that he had come forward with this proposal, with
reference to no interest whatever bet what he con-
sidered as the exclusive interests of this country;
and to reties, his pledge that as far as lie was him.
self concerned nu the discharge of the trust thus
reposed in his Majesty's Illsoisiers, the utmost pre-
csution should be used to prevent the injurious cr-
uel,' of those powers. He concluded by movitig
"That leave be given to bring in a Bill to continue
Act."

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it asst propsvd.,_ll
the mare of rite utelsitre,
viewed in coitjonction.entli the necessity which hid
been pleaded for it. It was in him • mistier of the
%intim surprise and astonishment, this on such'
kitsinds such a Measure as this could have been.
proposed, he wound not say to a House of Coin-
mons, but to any assembly of Englishmen, to
any body of men accustomed to the principles
of • free goverment.--(Loud cheers.)--The
alarm and apprehension with which he viewed
this measure, was greatly increased by bean, it
proposed oft such grohndr, by • Itlieister whose
transcendent talents he greatly admired, and whose
character he highly rerpected, on his first entrance
into his Pretest.% high offier,under circumstances which
he might have rendered .o suspicion.. lie would
assert, that on the principles which be had ringed
as the ground of his application, carrying them to
the lair extent, he might propose the ahrogetion of
any one of the securities sod safeguards of our coil.
emotional liberties. The powers of this Act en-
aided the Government to send out of the country,
to banish from the hose of his choice, from the seat
of his business, it might be from the sphere of
all his fortunes, any foreigner living amongst us.
And those powers were asked for on no ground
whatever. but because there had been no example
of their abuse, or. what wee still more extravagant,
on the assurance of Setretaty of State to the
British House of Commone, that they might trust
to his responsibility for a security against soy abuse
in their exercise—(Cheers)—and to the operation
of such powers they were called upon on no weigh-
tier grounds than he had stated to subject 23,000
men who were living under British law !—(Hear,
bear.)—The same grounds might with equal force
have been urged in defense of the power of
raising money by arbitrary imposts in the time of
Charles I.; and he was tempted to apply to it the
words of one of the greaten patriots of that period,
14 That he should hold liimselfjultifiable in with-
standing such an exercise of arbitrary power, even
to the shedding of blood."—(Cheers.)—The
average number of aliens permanently residing in
this country, he took to be about 20,000. Up to
the year 1793, it would not be denied that the Mi.
Dieters of this country had no more power to remove
an alien merchant living ill the City of London
frotn the sphere of his business than they had to re-
move an English merchant.—(Hear, hear )—The
fseeigner was then entitled to hit Habeas Corpus
as well as the British subject. What would hive
been said of any Minister of the Crown who should
have desired Parliament in those days to pass a Btll
Of Pains and Penalties (for such this was is effect)
on any single alien merchant, on his mere assertion
of clinger to the State from his longer continuance
in the country Yet here was a proposal to pull •
Sill of Pains and Penalties against 40,000 British
subjects, he would call thins, foe while they were
here they were living under the protection of Britsh
laws, on the mere assertion by a Minims.r of
possible danger to the State, and his promise that
neither himself nor those under him would shine
the power of such a Bill. 'fht Right Honour-
able Gentleman spoke of the permission and suf-
ferance of aliens to reside in this country un-
molested; and of the powers of the Aet never having
been exercised, in a tone which implted that it wee
too difference to them whether they lived here in the
free exercise of a right secured to them by the law
of the country, or under the sufferance and will of
a Minister. What was that, be would ask. but the
doctrine of pure and unmixed despotism ?—(Loud
cheers.)—lt was in direct opposition to the princi-
ples of our constitution, and to the declaration of
the illustrious Hooker, that " to live by one man's
will, had always been found the cause of soy
men's misery.—(Loud and repeated cheering.)—
The Right Flonountble Gentlemen sad, we could
not allow of the repeal of such powers as long as
foreigners might came hither, and make this capi-
tal the seat of conspiracies 'gaunt foreign go.
veronicas. He could well believe that the foreign
governments that had been forced upon the people
were naturally the object of their detestation ; but
be could not imagine a more inconvenient place
than London for the purpose of conspiring to
overthrow a foreign government. How, fur in-
stance, could it inlayer the purpose of any body
of discontented Neapolitans, in plotting and sr-
ranging the overthrow of the ',sterna admini-
stration of the Austrian Government, either at
Turin, Milan, or Naples? Aud yet it was on
the mere supposition of such a danger that
they were called upon to pass thin odious law.
The same pretext might have been set up in the
first year of the reign of Charles ii. for the enact.
'sent of a Bill to give the same power to the Go-
vernment over 50,000 refugees who had been freely
admitted into this country, in the preceding reigns.
Bat what would have been thought of Lord Preston,
the Minister of that day, if he had made such an op.
plication His reasoning on the subject might
have been rendered fully Se specious as that of the
Right Hon. Gentleman, fur it was much more
likely that those refugees should plot against
Louis XIV.. by whom-they had been 'unjustly
banished. The 'Period of Elizabeth's reign was an
awkward one fur references in support of this
measure. He remembered an argument in sup-
port of the Alien Bill having been founded in the
House of Lords, in 1816, on a supposed quota-
tion from that reign wit;i respect to the exercise
of the royal prerogative iu the banishment of
Scotchtnen from England. That argument was
revived in that (the Commons) House in support
of the Alien Bill of 1818; and it was afterwards
discovered that the precedent quoted was founded
as a particular statute of Henry VII. He was
ischned to give as little credit to the precedent
drawn from the same reign by the Right Hon. Gen.
demur, of the Order in Council to the Magistracy
of the City of London to " expel such foreigners
as should he found therein belonging to no congre-
gation." But admitting its authenticity, the lest
part of the order showed that it was aimed at foe
reign Catholics, with whose countries it was highly
probable this nation wss then at war. The Right
lion. Gentleman said that the word, nisi publics
probibiti, in Magna Charts, meant " unless they
were prohibited by an order of the King in Council;"
that was the customary styleof the Right Hon. Gem
tleman's interpretation of such passages. The point,
however, might remain for him (Mr. Peel) and Lord
to settle between them—(Laughter)—for the
who was still looked upon as a great Wl-
in Weststiostersholl, expressly said, that it
" by Act a Parliament;'--(Cheer. and

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latigitter.)—..The Motu lion. Gentiefhen was merely
not to leaf's, thoughlie kept it out of ought in h..'
commentary on the v.ord merealores in the chime iif
AI ague Cherie, that merchants were almost the only
travellers at that period. With respect to the
clause relating to forei,.eriers in this country its time
of war; wheti the male in which wars were Ken .
rally cortiell on in that elle was considered, it would
he acbstowlt:d.rd sot Jetta liberil clause; and
hr sgettld, think be *4 cotomitting a lihrl oil the
clearticter of thisnatinti he made it it boost that ore
the rupture of the Teen of Amiens, we had tint
has... Hue to tnessuree of reprisals on the persoirs
and property of Frenchmen in this country fur the
violation of throe of Pettish subject. in France.
Mr. H. TWISS defended the Alien Pill on the ground of
the richt of any cusatry to wholly exclude forentsiets, and
a fortiori to dictate the terms on which they. should he p. e-
mitted to reside in such country. The claw* in Magee
Charts relative to the metehania, had evidently a merely
commercial application. •tid was intended to protect foreign
merchants from grievous and arbitrary imposts on the im-
portation of their merchandise. He coutended that there
was a loot series of Acts, far more hostile in spit it t• foreign.
Cr. thin she Alis, Billorhieb had been passed at various times;
and their teatime proved that it was she uniform feeling of
our ancestors to exclude aliens from permanent residence
in this country. If the construction put by Ihe Hourier.
able and Learned Gentleman (Sir James Mackietnab) on
the words nisi public* prohibili, were correct, end if aerie
word* were to be token so mean • prohibition bp, Act
of Parliament, the use of the words in that mese reused the
possibility or a necessity at some future period of a, a.,
similar is principle to the Alien Bill, to have been is the
criniewpetiou of the military ji ' is by vlinia that docu-
ment wits fradsed.—(Cheers from the T Beateres.)—.
It was asstril.d that the Bill was only to (ratify Foreign
States, by enabling Ministers. to refuse an asylum to their
obnoxious sulijerts ; but he thouilit it was the more ewes,
sary,from the freedom of our other tom itutions, that we should
afford them the security of this Act. They had been told
that this was • war measure, and so it Ives, sod It would he
found oo comparison with the first Bill, that as peace had di-
minished the necessity, so the present measure was deprived
of all its severe cheeses. It was segued that a country like
England, which hod existed so lour, was aot likely to be
overturned by the inschinatious of a few foreigners, but It
was not slump' by the strong that the strong were pet down,
as if, in defiance of human calculation's, the most pooled*,
edified were found to crumble away seder the operation of
Influences that were suttees', of agencies that were imper-
ceptible.
Sir R. WILSON regretted that after seven years of peace
there was no hope held out that we should re-enter the pate
of European society. But the present
firmed with the view to gratify those Goverisments oho were
associated together to arrest the march of civilisation. If,
as was contended, the prerogative of the Crows did exist
for all the purposes which the Rill intended, let it be ex-
erted, hut let tie have no Alien Bill, which was disgraerfal to
the country. That this Bill was for the purpose of bringing
the meitory into connexion wills foreign police, be was
quite assured from a fact which he would mention.
Two Italian gentlemen who resided in Switzerland were
object, of suspicion to the Antrim &semisweet, sod their
Weisser esuleavoured to bare them arrested s of one the
arrest wits effected, and the other, who was the More
oh-
deings, escaped. Shortly after the one who bad bees
arrested was set at liberty, and he came to Enabled, where
the very first question put to him by the Alieseffiee was,
" Where is the other officer?" That, in his opinion, was
perm? positive of the evionezioe of foreign police with this
country. The Right Hon. Gentlemen boasted that only two
caws bad occurred since 1550 of persons Whig sent out of
this mney, but that was nothing to the purpose. Such an
arglirmat as that might be used at the Snit establishment of
the leptieition. Arbitrary power was never abused at its
Seat ertaletishmene ; thi eerie! mast work a short time, and
therm it would amply redeem the time that had been lost at
dib begisterag. He Aid not teem the Right Ike. Secretary
of abusing the power; but it was • power which be weak,
not tree to any individual ; he would out barest it to him-
self. It was altogether impossible to prevent foreigners
who were oppressed from communicating their hopes ea/
Fears to their fellow.conntrymen. Notwithstanding the Noble
Lord's Foreign Enlistment Bill, the South America,. had
obtained their freedom, and notwithstanding the Alien
Bell, Italy would be free, and the Greeks would ultimately
prevail.
Mr. SCARI.ETT paid, that from experieece of the indif-
ference of the House to the effect of coasts tutiossal argument,
he had but little hope of the
with any effect. He had hopes that when the Noble Lord
on Om former occasion brought forward the mermen that
it would be fenthe ►last time, and the events which kild oc-
curred in Europe aithin the last two years, and particularly
the death of Bonaparte, would have removed every ;done
fur renewing the swessare. It always appeared to Ida to be
• measure framed in Utter igeorance of the national chant.
ter. There was no country that was so delusively astioust,
and It was absurd and defile to imagine that any number
of person is this country could be isiseeted by the
COMllllllllCatiou of foreigners. But he feared the Bill had
souther object, that there was • soft of etigagemest
to pat the police of this country on the Saline fwd.
lug as that of oiler countries in Europe. It was
observed by a celebrated writer, that it was one of
the greatest evils resulting from the detained's of the
Roman Emperors that persons accused of political offences
eould find refuge no where. He denied the authority
claimed for the prerogative, and if any one would but
take the pains to look through the Statute Rook, they would
and from time to time Acts of Parliament which setborired
the Crowe to expel foreigners lb. kingdom. Indeed as fat
back as Henry V. there was se Act for that parpo.e : a
plain proof that we such prerogative existed as wee now con-
tended for. Os • set et like the present, hero/vine • great
question of constitutional law, he *bonito' that at least the
lawyers in that Howe would be found to be an exeeption to
those who looked beyond the interests of the mooted. He
was sorry to observe that his Hotioarehle and Learned
Friend opposite, *hes the indifference of the public to shit
measure was alluded to, had shewn by his countenance the
satisfaction which he felt at • measure like the present beater
Introduced by • Minister of the Crown; hat he (Mr. Sear.
lett) had tittle doubt that if it were proposed to tepee, the
Mabee' Corpus Act, and the usual topics were istgeel, the
Homiurable and Learned Gentlemen would receive it with
the same satisfaction—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Serjesnt ONSI.OW said, the satisfaction which hie
countromsee etpreared, as noticed by his Hon. and Learned
Friend, was at the good sense of she country, which looked
at the measure as one not dangerutta to the country, or to the
interests of liberty in general. With regard to the Bill, Ise
did certainly think that the little intermit which the people
of England took In it was the strongest testimony in is
favour.. He thought there was a sufficient justification for
horn/acing this meesute from the necessity of the use,
not that he would be understood as coinciding with the
doctrine
because
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were
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rand
sLes
taarineeld Geaoena tt
h(eMbr,;oSck r!epect t :toes t
the mode of expelling foreigners, that, therefore, there was
no such power to the Crown by the common law. Dissenting
as he did from that doctrine of his learned Friend, he still
thought, if 'hem had hers no precedent, the seceasity of tho
case would justify the introduction of ibis measure.
Mr. SCARLETT explained.
Mr. DENHAM said that it was with regret and shame
for the House of Commons, this he had heard lb. opening
speech of the Right Hoe. Gentleman which mated upon them
to pass the measure solely upon his responsibility end
be had spoken as If be were the sole depositary of the
powers of the Bill, but every use of the three Secretaries of
State bad also that enormous sod Isirless power. The House
had been told, that only four CUMs had neenrred; but what
did the House knew of awe cases ? What did the Right
Hon. Gentlemen himself know of ahem eases? They were
deducted on secret informatioa, by secret witnesses, and
the tomcod,* was also secret. He (Mr. Drawee) knew not
but every wt. of those cases might be a cane of grows abuse.
Such powers were generally requited to be abused, sued be
thought it • street ground to distrust the character*? that
ass who required such a power. He should bare Mos

t . •
ea Jo Glove berm* the Right ReAna/ratite heotlemii•
emitteition shit Ireland be some in iagume eon. I,b rut di.
the Sesvensiun of the trial hy Jury. and to have meo h
game read in this toll.lift with mime other 'Realm.
thee the p,coott. Fron. such • dawn he could nut but a,
Igor ill of the advauciug day. tie rotilil not agree wi
leis Itunonrahle n,.1 horsed Friend (Me. Sc,, lett) in de
pairing of 'llia iisio•nre, 11(.1.1/ ,he .ft el pr-doced la
bight by the eloqoe..ie a the If. 00000 nod (Alarm
*ember far Koarealiorwegh, Maoris Le minfevae4 N sus
mom mortifying to hint is, this Ihtrl.l.vt laud of heed.,
ohieb had set the ranserle d ralahl.,kjsg emestitutioe
freedom. to and arch a mealure a, the periwig' Mooed y.„
ward with endear. It was amid that foreigners were ',e.t.a
here with no oblioion of their Crimea. Goof God! fur it
entire of baring feueht for liberty—(loud rtwers).-sad tt
Ho,. Gentleman took ere,l•l to himself foe havii
putt.' this Act id hear.)-41e bete,
pardon of Ott. Iliomg for haviog Inc.. betrayed iuie amokii
et greater length thati..lte bad tat.il,il *lieu he not, bet
trusted tlial al all ;noes jhus• would be fossil yokes
oPpre jech odious Measures.
. The Atarquia erf" tafiNDONDF.RRY amid, with referee(
to what had &Ilea (rate the Hue. mid Learned Ifieetlenta
who looked with Aural Sill Huai politic Ile which hod each
dawn as that of his Right Hon. Friend, be (the Matteis ,
Imnduederry) thought he might conerattilete the politic
the prospect of hie lung awl continued oweices. He Is
esr.ied the principli • of liberty higher lb.. ever, nut b
tillowing that pliantom which some Gentlemen admired
ter gog,lot of rapine, sod coed ; the
phantom which they worshipped and Llaely called libert;
His Right Hon. Fiirod oarlerato ot liberty better; be believe
that liberty was ooly to be enjoyed rhea allied wish ord.
and tranquillity, bat tranquillity emeld
if we antlered tier soil to be snade a public Nuisance to Re
rupe.—(A latiell, and heti...hear, hear.)—H• was trite an
ready as the Honourable Member fur Southwark to opt,
wide the dour@ of holpitality Ise foreigners. He Would fres(
foreigners as he would. treat the Petittons of the people
(Lund cheers).—He solid threw open wide the duees a r
boigbiality to (*rejig.. re, and the atoms of that Huse to ii
Pctillems of the people; but If individuals came to abut
tbpt itospitslity, et Pennines to Hest them with euelretplg b
would reject tbel titer with tirieuese, sod mike the former fit
that the NW/ received these iwitEftwiapitalaty, bet Or est n
(live thee to coompiratorg it VIM pr,Potly vadersised that
uo law of thig character could be pot Mortifies at the roc •
posies, or for the comensienee of nay ("retie Piwer,• Ike
had beets placed in diversions so clearly.lkal Ito doebteeeld
be reterialsieJ of it —(Haar, hear.)-11e knew that der
•hlwee FrwereousoeilidattehGGiinoeayseelirierearmeuelailitu-bpohnontilkthsuhee"rthßinil
usgrau talk could
meat be a, op nbe
ee, eh o bad witßill,in u :
they believed that it was asked for In cousequence of way
reasentioa, or that It was la any way to couueet so wit
foreign poliat

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SieJOHIN NEWPORT esolioined the lioneeselt‘inet be
ins led away by any of she dreier...slow. of the Noble Luret
who, before he entered that Hesse, had destsoyed she lilor
ties of hie own euroiry.--(Clseene.)—He had only wines,
that night the doctrines winch be had au toffee inceleateJ
the ?loose of Cannesona to Ireland, who, by listening to Li
advice, Aril lost the eoillidesce a the resew y, ewe these ac
rosaplialted their own estisictiusa—(Clwers)—stol if the
House of Commensi of &glued followed these wieseese!r, sL
(mussel °old be shut 'hey shot ought lope the e5.,4
donee of the cowgirl, awl then the Noble Lord would mil
the signal hosoor of 'Habig irlaterphrd over the liberties*
both eowetries.--(Great elverriug.)-i-The Stehle Lord html
elated, glut no aegument bad bees brought forward against
the Bill, bat he (Sr Jobe Newpoet) wootesnled that the hor-
de's of proof lay epos the other side, ois sheen/ blinked in.
traduced the wamemore. They called .epos she Hawse of
Commous to sanpood the laws of she Wade led they weld.
coosequesily booed to prove its hereasky.—(Hour,kmer.)—..
Now be denied that soy proof had hews widened, for it wee
iisiroduceal by the Right Howoorahle &me 'trey of Statewileiy,
entirely es his own responsibility. He stated that it wen
necessary, end should be esteemed with cleweency, fur a
should be exercised by himselL—(Hear, heee.)—But he kSu
.1. Newport) wield r (anew to plate with relionte te;he
any Weisser. and be hoped this the /loose of Cuomo"
would have better security sham the word of • Mietsoi
fur the pore exercise of such a measure.—(Hear, hear)—
How many years were we now at peace when the Noble
Lard bilked of the rota of empires ? What did he enema by
that expression ? Dad he swim so apply it to these eimitdriei
who heel bravely strargled le swain these blesnoge, sad Its
anon Cuostitolion "bide it so, ow pride and bowl pen
joy ? Spies had now • more legitimate and amesestitinione
&worminess Haan .he had fur eeeitur.es. Was it ahem elereat
for a (sweets ?disaster in this eoeutry to hold such leaguer!
As the period wheat the Sovereign of Span was trampleug
down the liberties of his astirtry, and the House of Cunt,
sons of Einchsed had stamped his conduce with eeprubstius,
they were Men told by she Noble Liked that it was ima•
proper to apply terms of abuse to • remelts Steele. Bat
now that the same Sovereign bad bond it siereemey
to confirm that Coostiewleon which he had first seers t.
mainteis sod afterward. violated, and had sosicismed those
peineiples of equal freedoms and equal jeweler, which errs
calculated to reader his people wane happy, seed to age
Hies more worthy of so sasucialiw• wish she &objects of this
free conotrp—thee lathed they hosed the estraordiewy
doctrines of the Noble Lord —(Hear, Hear.)—He severcosld
tear Hewett principles advaueed without reprobeliwai mud he
was convinced that if this eoesistry were essonoeel man by
man, they wool(' say that the inhabitants of Spain sod Por-
tugal were intimately inure compelled to their regard this
• tthin the last two centuries, while they were sofferaeg
soder • despotisms, sad gut governed by law...—(Cheers.)
Lord LONDONDERRY explaioed. lie win the term
of the reit, of empires, he slid not mean eo apply them to
the Sales alluded to by the Right Hun. Barouet. .

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Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, he could sot conceive to
what States they could apply velem to Spats sod Portugal.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, be only sorest
those countries which hid charged their corstitatioos by
militaty fort?.
Lord STANLEY said, kw sewer could sit by sad hear the
Noble Lord awed that this country was a amasses is the
eyes of Europe. Esgland had been always looked spas a.
the land of liberty, and the rery slave shu toughed It became
free, aid he could not avoid expressing his reproh.ttiou 01
the expressions Grilse Noble Lend. As to the immediate gars.
lion before the Horse, he had always fell the stroagest oil-
jectios to the measure, sad is that cptaius he should sow
persevere.—(Hear. Near.)
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY mid be hod bees mis-
understood by the Noble Lord . he
was a •111111111tt bet if it gave a cos wean/. to conspintlem
thew It would become a testate.
Lewd STANLEY said, if the Noble Lord had sallelled hie
son stied, he must only say that he had not wiriest kis.
Lord A. HAMILTON expr- sed a htite that tf the 0.11
should mass, it should oily bt for a year, but cer• fur Stilt
space of time he should love It.e ationge=i objrctitoss to it.
It was his °Oslo§ that England was very likely to become a
molasses a moo as it became a atm fur the reser:saw of
foreigsees.—(Bear, Lear.)
Mr PEEL meta reply. He said he did not wish to de.
tain the Hasse, hut he could sot coureid to waive the privy.
lege of reply after the personal appeal which had bees made
to him, and the gems misrepresentation (suisteatiosial, ero
doubt) of the Her aid Learned Geodesists (Mr. Drumm )
(Hear, hear.)--That Hun. Geatkisaa bad stated that the
gentlemen on his aide of the House had always treated hie
(Mr. Peel) with eneduur and forbearance, bat he was sur-
prised at the explatiatiou be had given of shut forbearance.
For abet he stated aid it was Put merely that they ab•
stsiued from etrosfind the particular measures i 0 • Isteh
he
had bees engaged, bat had declined eummestiog os his
conduit in joisieg the present Admisistiatiori, he Rama
fell that Hooosrabhe sad Learntd Gcstlemasi that all he
deprecated falba, him was his charity.— (Chrerit )—lfe would
tell him that he defied his scrutiny, that he did sus fear
bu
lion, bat what he did bye was the issisuatiou that he
could produce ea accosatios,hut which is his great candour
and fortsearssicelre hear.)—He was partly
mistaken if he 'apposed that Ise sat time with
" Bated breath and whispering hsrabirsess,"
for that accossitioci which be held Is his pocket, and whkli
he meld, but would se produes. He would tell that Nos.
Gest. that his (Mr. Peers) acceptance of oaks was ss pare
sad as bososrable as he. Aud he che'lLeged yry.

G vain to con the policy of farmer reigns with ercise of those powers. He concluded by moving were pi
thst of the present pesiud, *altos the circum. "That leave be given to bin% in a Bill to continue that sea
tossers by which it was dictated were the um*. the Alien Act." tlemon'
Although it was true that at one time Queen Eli. Sir J. Illacitaroso said, the subject filled his howct•e
',beat ireely admitted strangers into this country, is mind with alarm and apprehension.—(Loud cheers.) Coke t
k. the ease of those who tied from the persecution of the —Those sensatious were powerfully excited by the latter,
Duke of Alva, because it wos the evident interest eunsideruti.m of the nature of the Bill, compared thority
of the cousitiy so to do, yet she did hot hositata with the circumstances of the matey wader which smut
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ore Sappy, ••• se ow
la
with the aultierts or duo
or
card the estraurtliaary
, Hear.)—He mem could deli
oat reprobathim; lad ha • ref
of i
were examiseal imam by
rants of Spate sod Pot. seri
ed to their regard thee cos
is I
Ile they were solferiag
I by law..—(Clseers.)
Ora
4. Is win the terns roar
wean to apply Hum iv
6.
1 I.:YS. pa:: iirtiauabealet•
oPnolryi oaf,
mil . t will
could mot conceive to tip
Inn
?he
Mad
I their cautatitutioua by •sel
mild sit by sod bear the 4813
that
y was • Ilai•S•e• io IM oh.,
always looked epos as
r oho lottaited It became to
Peat
mime Ilia .reprultallee of
!a to the isasetlisee gum- ditai
tys felt the stroorst oh- Air
nit
°pieta' be aboadd two
Asa
Ll' said be had lets hie- 'he
said shot Eogland . 'llt
war
.tieuanee tu cussetra toe s. .
'Si p
le Urea had satl4l•4 his two,
tale
hid ot..a saildkrill his.
I a h I.e that if the 6.11 MIN
dilif
year, but rare for Mai
huhu
mtge.( .bjettinal le it.
It,
s vet, likely to become a
l'i
i for the rehashes a 4 k
id he did soi wi4i to as- Ike
larei
otest to waive the privi•
len
si which had beets wade
tttion (asistratiocal, so _
Items. (Mr. Deanna:—
Dan had staind that lb. ri
bad alstsys treated hitt
--_
'Pane, bat ha was sue- —...
yen a:that furbeassarr.
11 merely that they ab•
law atettrurea ia •bteh be
oed eustimeatiai as hie
Imiaiat.ativa, he swat,
Coatletnar that all ba S
I.— (Clsera )—llle would
COlll
, that he gild not fear his
ra the isaieastioa that be 'hit
hieb its his areal csadoor
Oct
r, keer.)--He was grimily
theme wsth Ulm
an hmmehlroess," ~ed
its lila pocket, sea olt/trb
He would tell that Hue. (*et
'see of elk* was stayer tie
r choicer() he Mt pm .111
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