The National Register.
London, England, 1818-06-08 00:00:00

77. EN RILL.

Lora Sonstourtt, in esing to move that the A' et lit • l
shoold be committed, .ef se, vod, that one of the segurosn••
itrocil against the renew& of this Bill was, that the routes:
ant of r kids it bad originated was at an end, and. that we
were flow In a state of profaned peace. That was rertaittly
erne; the contest W 33 tt alt ; but the spit it leach recited
that contest was still its eaikce, and individaats, amnions tis
take advantage of every opportunity of disturbing the tran-
quillity which new pre-:atilt-a, were still tonging about tL
world, and vettnired certain 'precautionary measures on tit
port of every Government. Though the:e was not, Fleeter.
thesamc necessity for this memoire that there was in 1793. ye:
the ineasnre was necessary Imo certain extent, and only to a
certain extent,.dia the pretty/It Bill go. The Noble Visconti:
observed, this nen-vire was so modified, that it cave en re.:
power to the Crown. The Crown, by its prerogative, had the
power of sending Foreieners nut of the country, but tint by a
summary process. The ekes-clef the present Pill was, to enz.ble
the Crown to effect that object wilt; pro.nptitude. /1 • woiid
ask, whether it was not reasonable that the Government of
this country should-have avower of stalling Aliens nit of
countrv, %viten the Governments of the countries on the Coe•
damn had the -power of expelling all the toiseldevous and fee.
sinus out of their territories; and who, but for•this measure,
would make this contitry the focus of their plots and contr._
vaners, as well perhaps against the tranquillity of ear Govern.
!Went as their man. The Noble Viseount conteoded, that the
to was oecessary to preverveuhi• tranirillay of Europe,
and therearre his Majesty's Goretorment had felt it a dm, to•
propose it. 'The Noble Lard observed, that by an old Scottish
Act of Parliament, ant person plaeing a Mall sotto i i I:.e
Bank of Scotland became a netura;ised subject. The Union
itaturaliaed all stariecis of Scotland; therefore, as the law
now stood, to evade the Alien Act, it was only n. rebury for
a foreigner to place a soled' sum in the Bank of Scott:slit--
lie should therefore, in The comae of the progress of the BO:,
propose no-la-an:ln provide against that Act.
at. R. R. the Del,e of Sussex. having opposed the Flill'on
foriper °co-4*Mo, felt It equally his duty to do so now, anti
he did it more decidedly becanse he considered i; I:ten
abused in one histance hich had come to his kno..vleeoe. and
in which Ile was in Nome measure concerned. The Care e 4.1/,
that of an Othcer tried in Portogal, end found gaiety of an
offence imouted to him. That individoaf was, at tar eXIDt
Of the CitlVel nmont, sent to this country, end filmed:A(o,r
after -rt hipped for the Continent, under the Alien Act; scot
this all took place under a sentotce pronounced against Mot
in Portugal. fur a crime of ashuhuh he verily believed the uo•
fortunate individual was no, guilty.
Lord ilolLatsla declared himself decidedly hostile to th s
measiii e, awl tlir arguments attn.. Noble Viscount had not at
all tended to ‘iitollie bi.. hostility.

Lard Is rater AS 0 conNidered the 1101 ,t% nemtsary on
th• ee gii ttlids; I I, to preserve the traiipionty urthis rotator; ;
2d, to pi erve isex asuLly with fureien Pow ..trs ; and 3d, to
presets,• the peace and tranitniltity of the Continent.
The of l.aPtbOwlß ColltrUtlV4l, that the measure
was wholly ttiu.teei‘ary in a tiote of profound peace like tie
pre,.enr it was !ighly nneonstlintionat.
Lo: d ne.u.v., Ire supported the BM, on the gro.nuds th.tt
it was liece,,,ety fur the pi ?servistion of tranquillity botn at
house um: abroad. Ti.e Noble Lord denied that this 111:1
would lta.ve the eticet of driving intrigue's out of the euuutr; ;
ilte cosittary was the feet ; there were at present sokie
thousaada more Aliens in tba country titan there wile a year
ago.
Tile Haase duo divided—Forgoing into a Committee 34
—Agaioat it N—Maajority 19.—The Howse then tt eat into 4
Contnittre.—Adjourned....

TunnaT.
On the Motion of the Earl of Rya Art. the Rill ploviding
for tke Education of the Poor, was read r third lima a:,d
paned.