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THE' OATHS BILL.

r PTUCE 4D. STAMPED 513 .]

Tbe following is a copy of Lord John Russell's
new Jew Bill :

A bill to amend the Act Ist and 2d Vic.; 0.105,
intituled " An Act for Removing Doubts as to the
Validity of certain Oaths
Whereas in a!1 cases in which the sanction of an
oath is required the oath ought., by the common
law, to be administered m such manner as will ren.
der it most effective arid binding on the-conscience
of the person sworn ; but doubts have arisep
whether such rule of the commonlaw be applicable
to cases in which a special form or:abjuration r
special words of asseveration .are..prescribed' by
Istituto : for the 'removal of such doubts be it de-
cl,ired and enactt3d by the Queen's-Most Excellent
Majesty, by aye, with the advice and consent of the
Lords Spirqua:i and Temporal, and Comitions;lit
this present parliament assembled, and by the -
authority of. the same— • -
I. That,
the con'6ra.ry, whenever any person to whom an
notwithstanding any statute or usage to
oath i:s tendered shall object to its administratioa
in tae prescribed or accustomed form, or in the
P"...escribed words of asseveration, and the same
shall be administered to him in such form of word.'
and with suoh solemnities as he shall declare to be
binding on his conscience, the oath when so admi-
nistered shall be deemed to have been law-fully ad-
ministered and taken ; and every person so taking
the oath shall, if guilty of false sweariog, be liable
to couviclion for perjury, and shalt be subject to
every other consequence and entitled to every biine-
fit to which he would have been subject or entitled
if the oath had been administered in the prescribed
or accustomed form, and with the prescribed words
of asseveration, and the prescribed or accustomed.
solemnities.

know of an attempt at murder committed at Stras-
burg, in 1836, by M. Bonaparte. Let him answer
the question :—Was he given up by Switzerland
when he went there to shelter himself ? Did noble

and powerless Switzerland, not prefer, on the con-
trary, rushing to arms rather than to abandon him ?
I have a precise knowledge of another attempt at
murder committed by the same M. Bonaparte at
Bouloßne in 1840. Well, then, was'the fugitive
from Ham, the guest of England, surren lered to the
French Government ? Nay, was he at least expelled
from the British soil at the urgent and reiterated
request of Louis Philippe, then in close and cordial
alliance with this country ? These were attempts
at murder of undeniable reality ; the last of them
at least duly and fully established before a tribunal,
judging not in the absence, but under the very
eyes, of the accused ; murders by which M. Bona-
parte was preluding to and initiating the deliberate
violation of a sworn constitution, the wholesale
butcheries and massacres on the Boulevards on the
4th of December, the proscription of a hundred
thousand families—all of them crimes for whic:a
the 'limes has gratified bun with the names of roer-
jurer, butcher, and assassin ; whilst, on the other
hand, in the present circumstances, let it 'well be
borne in mind, the accuser himself does r.ot go so
far as even to allude to a commencement, oraction.

" Still, at any rate, no government r,ranting hos-
pitality to exiles can possibly allow them to con-
spire uron its territory and involve, it in war with
a friendly` power."
Undoubtedly not. But there is no need of do-
ing so. It is to the credit of the law of this coun-
try to have, in its wisdom, provided for such an
emergency, and armed government wiih the neces-
sary powers of prosecuting the culprits before the
English courts of justice. A memorable instance
is on record from the times of the First Bonaparte.
Moreover, in the sitting of the House of Peers, of
March 4, 1853, the most eminent statesmen and
lawyers, Lords Lyndhurst, Brougham, Aberdeen,
and the L )rd Chancellor, have eloquently ex-
pounded and corroborated he constitutional prin-
ciples under the shelter of which there is no neces-
sity of recurring either to extradition, or even to
an Alien Bill, but merely to apply to foreigners
the common law of England.
In conclusion, the pretended plot being affirmed
to have originated in London—if in consequence
of it I wera to be comprised in a prosecution at all,
it is the common law of England I do invoke, to it
I appeal. In return for the hospitality given to
me by Great Britain these eight years, I feel in duty
b lurid openly to meet justice, and to enlighten it re-
specting my conduct. I, myself, then, ask for a trial
before an English Tribunal and Jury. There, at all
events, something more will be required than an in-
veterate hatred ; there, I feel sure, I shall meet
with every guarantee of a fair, an unbiassed, and
independent British court of justice, a
native jury, to judge me with the sz,renity and
uprightness of free men. England owes to her-
self even more than to me. For should England
submit to execute without verification—let me not
term it a judgment. I have already said no such
thing exists in political matters in France, but—
a decree of spite and revenge, England would not
strike me—since, by making a martyr of me, she
would yet afford me an opportunity of serving the
cause I have been defending my whole life—Eng-

land would wound herself—herself would sire
cover with opprobrium before history.
No ambiguity, then. The French Government,
by using the word complot, have themselves ac-
knowledgel that they rest their accusation upon a
political ftct, an exclusively political fact, since the
word c,omplot has, in the French juridical language,
no othtr meaning.
The question, therefore, is one of political extra-
dition, the bearing of which is not confined within
the narrow bounds of individual or even national
interests, lofty though they be, but a question
which involves the highest principles of liberty,
justice, morali►y, and human conscience.
London, July 25. LEDRU ROLLIN.