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London, England, 1818-06-06 00:00:00

MEMIAGE FROM till:. LORDS.

A message (ruin the House of Lord* announced
their *spent to sward public and some private Bills.
—/Fur which see the Lords' Report.)
On the motion of Sir C. BURRELL. their Lord.
ships' amendments to the Brighton GAS Bill were
agreed to, end the Bill passed.
On the motion of Mr. LOCICHART. their Lima-
ships' amendments to the Coroner'. Election Bill
were also agreed to, and the Bill imaged.

ALIEN BILL.
Sir MACKINTOSH rose to present to the House
a Petition, whir h, in his mind, exhibited a cue of
the most unconstitutional hardship and grievance,
which had ever yet been discussed its that House.
It must also be considered to involve in it the greet-
est possible breach of the privileges of that Howse.
—(Hear.)—The Petition purported to be from
certain alien-born persons whose names bud been
thereunto subscribed, purchasers and proprietor of
batik stock in the Rank of Scotland, and who, tin
right of such purchase, claimed the privileges of
British naturalised subjects. The Petitioners com-
plained, that it was now intended, by a clause in.
truduceJ in the House of Lords to the Alien Bill,
to deprive such of them of their rights as British
naturalised subjects. a. had male such purchases of
stuck subsequent to 'lie 2811) day of last Apia, in
manifest violation of every principle of honour.
justice. and public faith ; and their Petition cons
eluded with prayisig, that they might receive that
',series of redress which alone could afford them
. the security they required, and to which they weie
su justly tiiiitirti. namely. by the House refusing
to accede to the Bill as now amended by the Lords.
The case of the Petitioners was not wily of great
hardship as regarded themselves. but of the st
vital iniportence as aff-cting the ititerests of the
House. The Alien nil, it would be recollected,
on being sent top to the House of Lords. had been
'mewled by the Noble Secretary fur the Home D.
pirtment, who hail introduced a clause rendering
those proprietors of Batik of Scotland stock, who
had become proprietors since the gado day of last
April, and by virtue of such proprietorship of stock
were, in ;Knot of law, as established by a Scotch
Ad of Parliament pegged in 1695, naturalised pub-
jects of this country, liable to be treated es aliens.
and completely depriving *them of the slaitia to
naturaliz dim. This privilege of siatiorelia slims
had been guaranteed to them by five different Acts
passed since—one of them so late as au Act of
Gorge 111. Almost all the Petitioners were mer.
cantile men. resident its this Culliktfy several years,
and having families of children settled in this coun-
try, to which they themselves had early iii life re-
sorted, fur the express purposes of trade. Fur the
integrity of their conduct and intentions. they hail
appealed to the experience of tiwir past lives ; and
with a humility ill breuming their situatiou and
Character. they had offered, rather in the character
of suitors thiiti as ulterior' of their just rights. to
prove at the bar of the House their uniform loyalty.
peaceable conduct and demeanour, fur many years
to give ample security fur their continuing to ob.
serve such a line of conduct in future, and even to
submit themselves cheerfully to every rule or order
which had beet, established fur the regulation of
domiciled miens in this country.—(/leer, hear.)
The Petition bi isig read
LOrd CASTI.EREAOH supposed it would not be
the intention of Members to debate the reception of
the Petition. as the question, in a usore general
shape, would most likely be argued on the Pietism