The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-06-08 00:00:00

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INPERTAt PARLIAMENT.
ROUSE OF OF (.1111► SATURDAY, Just O.

ALIEN 1111.1-
A Message from the House of Crimmans
wog. d di wish of that House to holds conference
with then lordshiiie on the subject ',lobe A lien Bin.
Tti-ir Lordship horn,* expersaed their intrioton to
semi I A I nissoer b, itossetiges. of tlisir own, the dr'.
room the Ipso.. of Civilians's retired.
• The ‘1.111.1111 or 1.40.001vir. the Duke of
Alotreviyew. F. 1.1 GlttY. the Earl of ItreerooLs
Lord tit ssid others., were thenrpyoiusrd
atteoil ih. colifereiwe, and a Message one seiit
by tie 13.1 w, of the Black Rod to the MOW.' sir
MIMS, I.lllliaiiivistg their Lordships' intentiou
to attend the cooference in the Feinted Chamber.
Alter the conference the Noble Lorila returned
to tlw H insen and the Marquis of Lewsootee re-
ported tog Ow managers of the Lord* had intend-
ed the managers of the Commons. and that Lid
•• K. 1111 the part of the inallegen of the Coin-
moos, hail delivered to them the Alien 13.11, rod
touted, sit the 'sow time, shit the Commons dis.
agreed to an amendment made by their Lordships
to th it Bill. The Comnineis declined eieingosisy
tensors for that diragrerMall, rltrelit that they con•
entered their Lordships' ameudoieut was ite:spe.
(11.'111.
('pots this Report being read by the proper
officer
Tar Earl or Llvairoot moved, "that this House
do lint Moist Loom its aistortmesis."
The LORD CHANCILLOR having put the clues-
tinta—
Earl GRIM new, and expressed his surprise :it
the warmer in which the Report, which had just
beets read. lied been received. The Bill in cries-
tins, had been sent down fr that House to the
Hiiiise of Commons, with a cleave which had beets
introduced with an express allegetion that it was in-
disiwsisahle to give the Bill effect, and their Lord-
ships were called upon, so important wu the clause
considered. to dispraise with their usual forms, iii
order that it might he passed with the greater cele-
rity. Notwithstanding this procerdisie, however,
now the the Commons had thought proper to rejet t
the clause. they were called upon without tiny ex-
planation, to subscribe to e resolution which mill-
bated eeiiiiely ageing their former opinions. For
hi. nun port, he thought the B II was much no.
proved by the omission of this clause. fur be could
mu help coming to the conclusion that it was not
only impolitic, but unjust. He thought. in fact,
that every thing which wrist to resider the Bill islet-
Silent would he productive of public udrantage.
e--/Hette ) —l3g,t whets he recollected that a majo-
rity of 'bet House had •Lreed to the Bill in its
emended form, he considered that the presenatimi
of their dignity, as a brooch of the Legishouee, de-
minded some other course than that which h.d
been taken. The House of Commons had not con-
descended to give ivy reason fur the rejection of
their amendment, and yet they were called upon,
without explciiiiion, to alisalslloll it altogether—to
elooldroi that without which it had been strongly
urged ilw Bill would be totally ineffective. The
Noble E then pro ceded to cumniesit upon the
impropriety of coining to this determination in ilia
absentee of those who had supported the amend.
meat, and who, to maintain their own consistency,
ought at least to lure on opportuoity of explaining
the Komodo upon which they might be inclined to
accede to this Dew proposition. With these feel-
ings, and with a view that the House should take
the subject deliberately into their consideration, lie
begged to move, as sin amendinent to the motion of
the Noble Lord, " That the further consideration)
of this Report he delrried to Mondry next, and
that the Lords be summoned."
The question having becu put upon this amend-
Meet,
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that he was not
prepared to retract one word of what he had said
'item the importance of this clause. Both in point
of volley and justice, he considered it necessary to
the protectiou of the natural rights of British sub-
jects. Fur if it were possible by a trick, such as
this clause wu tut ant to guard tieing, to enable a
foreigher to obtain all the rights' of a natural-born
subjec., there would he an rod of all their labours
fur a century past, for the maintenance of those
rights. The irriticiple upon which he acceded to
the abalitlistimelit of their emendinent was not,
r, from any feeling of its impolicy. but
▪ curve ion that the other House, stroll; its inn-
portaiice, eithottoli objecting to the form of ite
in-
trieloctum, would hot lad theink Ives to originate a
measti s of precis, ly the same &sediment.
Lord !twits up said, that even admitting that
the argissis. sit of thin Noble bind was not subversive
of just ice, it was at least celculited to excite plea-
oinory. lie said, that upon this subject lie had re-
tracted tio opiii hut yet he would call upon their
Lordshes to otters all theirs. He could not lint
coos:der these rei timcerdings of deep litimihalon
to their Lardships. It was not the crime, hut the
• e. %%limb eccasioor d thie humiliation. The
retimper tier part of the Act Vibe the main point.
Let them not " lay the nattering unto to their
soul," that this was merely an Act of the Scotch
Parlianielit. It was no such thing. It originated
with them, hut it was re-enacted by the Broidi
Paritanirot in the year 1774. The Noble Earl
(Liver;mol) said, lie would cell um, ;toy promo to
say. whether he knew of the existeiire of this Act
beim• thus- month of April last ? Why slushlsl the
Nesbit fad ask th it questing,, or why suppose that
the Act was unknown ? Was it because the Noble
Earl himself was in ignorance of it, that it should
lir wilts:own to every other person ?—(//toe.)—
The fact of this nwasiire showed that violence and
injiidice were often sufficient to defeat themselves.
He did nut memo to accuse their Lordships either
of violence or iiijieoice, but the whole traesactien
tended to bring this emonlatory feeling to his mind.
it was said, that sot h au Act could slid be looked
upon as tending to an infraction of the rights of
property ; that the law heing lung unknown and
dormant, the repeal of it mold produce no injury
to indivithiols. He driiied that the law was un-
known. No person bail proved that it was so ;
hut even rdsnettisui the fact, es an ignorance of
thr law ism. not sufficient to protect criminals, why
should it hi- au excuse for the destruction ot rights?
hear.)--The foreigner who bought laud
weir. this Act vs•ss as completely iti possessors. of it
as rely of their Lordships was of .ilia estate. The