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Our tiittq► (tonsititution ant It Afoul.

SUNDAY, 7, 1818. •

remaining tbrty-seven in six divisions ; they began in-
t iO7, completed it in thres years ; they met at Ox-
ford, Cambridge, and Westminster. Two persons from
each division revised the whole, which was afterwards
reviewed by Bilson, Bishop of Winten, and Dr.
Myles Smith. The two persons prefixed the nrgu-
ments to the several becks, and Dr. Smith. after Bi•Itop
of Gloucester, wrote the prefitee to the fhho Fdition—
the marg.lual refbrunees and (Init.:ol4oa' index was added
by. Bishop Lloyd : it was published in black letter, in
ItA 1; thqo ; but Ftt quart: edition .I)lAlitilate:iii
the folllowing year in the Roman type : although the
Itomarists and Presbyterians were nut pleased with it,
yet it was allowed by Cromwell's Committee to be the
best extaet, This is the w crk now in common we, and is
generally called the received version; and although
there hare been many subsequent versions, and many
verbal improvements might be nude in it, yet of all
those v inch have been published, this seems fairly to
be entitled to preeminence.
In the present age, although we. hive advanced in
learning mid philosophy, yet we have lost rntircly in
our compositions, that solemnity and venerable cxpres-
:ion which are essential to the Scriptures—which tend
to keep alive their sanctity and impostance— and to re-
mind their readers whose cc:remands, and precepts, and
visit coons, are meant to be recorded, and the Divine
blessing for which they have been brought to light, and
prepared !—the words now in use are not adequate to
any part of their subject, for there prevaiis a disk ositien
to familiarize all serious subjects with common
by which all inward reverence fr tree religion is sup-
planted—but the pious translators of James 1. se= to
have secretly appeal, d for Divine assistance, and to leive
received it in such a measure as to render their work
the etibet of piety, as well as learning, and a fixed
standard of the serious sublime, to which future times
simile. reverence ! A. 11.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

110VSE OF LORDS.

MONDAY, Joon 1.
The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the too;
Assessed•Taxes,the Irish Beek Restriction, thi vladdi r lbw
the Silk Bountrio, the English and Irish Plilitia met
(Availing, and five private Bills.
ALIEN BILL.
Lord Stntrourte, in rieiug to move that the Alien r..)1
*add be evissm,itted, obset ved, that one of the eremite n'i
urged agablet the renewal of Itta Rift was, that the contest
out of which it had originated was at an end, and that we
were now in a state of profound peace. That was certainly
it tic ; the contest was at int end; hot tli spirit which excited
that contest was still inexistence, and intJtviduals, anxious to
take advantage of every opportunity of disturbing the tran-
quillity which now prevailed., were Mill ranging about the
world, and required certain precautionary measures on the
part of every Government. '1 hough there was not, perhaps,
the same necessity for this measure that there was in 17P3, yet
the ineasnre wag necessary to a certain extent, and only to a
certain extent, did the present Bill go. The Noble Viscount
oust reed, this incastire was so eno.litsed, that it gave so new
power to the Clown. The Crown, by its prerogative, hail the
power of sending Poreittners out of the country, but nut by
stunmareprocesi. The objectof the present Bill was, to enaole
the Crown to effect that oilject with promptitude. lie would
ask, whether it was not reasonable that the Government of
this country should have a power of sending Aliens out of this
country, when the Governments of the countries on the Con-
tinent hid the power of expelling all the mischievous and fec •
tious out of their territories; and who, but for this measure ,
would make this country the focus of their plots and contri_
vaeree, as wall perhaps acainst the tranquillity of our Ge vitro-
meet as their own. The Noble Viseoont aonteeded, that the
measure was necessary to preserve the tranquillity of Europe,
cud therefore his Majesty's Government had felt it a duty to
propose it. The. Noble Lord observed, that by ail old Scottish
Act of Parliametst, ally person playing a small cumin in the
Bank of Scollsaid became a naturalised subject. The Innen
nattstalized all subjects of Scotland; therefore, as the law
now stood, to evade the Alien Act, it woe only necessary for
a foreigner to place a small sum in the Bank of Scott:tot
Ile should therefore, in the conrse et the progress of the Bin,
propose a cieuse to provide against that Act.
H. H. 11. the Duke of Sussex, having opposed the Bill on
a former oecaslon, felt it equally his duty to do so now , and
he did it more decidedly because he considered it had bec:i
abased in one instance which had come to his knowledge, end
in which he was in some measure concerned. The ease was
the of an Officer tried in Portugal, and Mond guilty of au
offence imputed to him. 'Chat individual was, at the expence
of the Government, sent re this ostussiry, nod immeuiately
after re-shipped fur the Continent, nutter the Alien Act;
tins all took ;dace under a sentence pronounced against him
in l'ortitgot, fur a crime of which lie verily believed the ttu•
fort otiose individual was tint
I•iird Hoek% NO declared himself ilveirie.lly howile to this
meanie, and the arguments attic Noble ViScututt had nos at
all tended to subdue his hostility.
Lord WESTNIMMLAND considered the Rill as necessary . n
th•ee grounds; Ist, to preserve the tranquillity antis format, ;
Pd, to prnserve our amity with foreign Powers; and 3d, to
preserve the peace and tranquillity of the Continent.
The Marquis of LA NiHOWN C011it.1104.11, that the 1100-i.re
was wholly ittniecemairy in a time of protound pesos like :lie
present • it was highly unconstitutitteal.
Lind BAUM/Nu% supported the ltiU, on the grounds that
it wan occeisary for the preservation of tranquillity both :it
:mine and abroad. 'Lite Noble Lord dinned that Oils 11:11
IA 011,1 have the effect of driving threigocus oaf t's' the country ;
the contrary she fact; there wine at present smut
tileusauda more Aliens in the country than there were a year
4140.
The house then divided—For going into a Committee 11
—.lgainst it hi--314jurity 19 .--The House then neatinto t
Curamitice.--•Adjourised.
Tenn* v
On: the Motion of the Earl of llossnYn, the Bill providin:,
for the Education of the Poor, %vas stria a third time
passed.
BC; VING AND SI:LUNG (I,ML.
The Earl of I..ventat HA LE moved the Order of the Day for
going Mu) a Committee on the Bill respecting the sale mil
purchase of Game.
The Earl of CADNARVON said, it was impossible for hien to
contemplate the nature, the oltjeets, and the principle of the
Bill, without nicking some general and particular Misers a.
Cows on it. What was obvious to every !Pall win
the subject was th.• extreme hardship and ielustier• of ianitt
lug ponishment on the poor man. while the rit'h ul
ma. p
;rating in an equal, if not greater ilivaStlle ;it tile same
use I.ed unpunished. Nothing could br. raore cruel and ion-
quituns than that. Vet he tilt soneeemisolation in reflecting,
thethat I'
rotn the very ennnnity of
stt,n of the (tuna L:lves,
auJ even from else a>;3ravannu eir mi-chief:, sumo good
t of
wlisi 't?
impossible that so Great
an allot:ally Ia the sy delli of jestire, pursued and kept in view
Aonlirt much longer continue unchecked
obey uth,iellerol t.;?.. re'd6.llll'Plie present time, perhaps, was not the Hunt
tit tor et-motet: at large into the fittest ion, and lie should COD..
(tilt huusrlf t% nth .I::reetn4 to go into a ca„,,,,itt".
'fie Earl of L t ien '.L perfectly aoreed with the Noma
Qn Motelay lost, Mr. Serjeunt Roluington Was Lord who had just spoken, a.. to the general natnre of the
~;• Laws, which he thought most ale.urd, pernicious, and
sworn into the office of Recorder of tiw Borough
impuinic ;and, indeed, a very fruitful snores of those disor-
Colchester, nude:. the new charter Ltely wanted by I Jets which tilled our vaols with ',nitwits le ;otter r
Hts Ow Pain= Reirem-itri, 147! • • °Meet% her I; dim .•!..1111::le.tal. 1)11.:gi:nt stanch is making
•.. . • ' ~..-as•ore it. to apprettead C !liltfoe,WlLD ha's übs,:outit,l fit= ;'air
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