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London, England, 1819-07-03 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COINIONS.

FOREIGN. ENLISTMENT BILL.
Lord CAsTLeneAGH moved that the Lords
Amendments to the Foreign Enlistment Bit

should be taken into consideration.
Mr. DENMAN said, this Bill being a Bill o
fines and penalties, aqy .amendment made by the
Lords must prove fatal to it.- • •
The SPEAKER was about stating the view he
took of the question which had been started,
When the Black Rod summoned him. On his re-
turn, he stated that House to have been in the
House of Peers to hear the Royal Assent elven by
commission to several public and private Bills, for
Which see, the Lords. . .
The" SPEAKER then said he was about giving his
opinion on a point touching the privileges of that
House, when he was. interrupted by the arrival of
the Black Rod. A Bill, he observed, that con-
tained money clauses was not nt".!'cessArily a Money
Bill. But if the ainendments'made in the other
House went to alter.a money. clause in a Money
Bill, such amendments must prove fatal to it. In
the present instance this had nut been done, and
therefore as to privilege there was no complaint
on that .acconnt i and the ameudinent objected, to,
whatever might be its merits,. seemed to him to
have been framed in order to for Wand the object
of that House.
After a, tew words from Mr.,DaNsaaN, on the
snggestion.of the Sreatcea, that the. most conve-
nient courSe would be to take the Amendments
into consideration, however, they Might stibse-
quently,be disposed of,
The Amendments were then taken into consi-
deration. That which peoyidei that information
gien ;upon oath of if person leaving this codutry
to enter into the service of a,foreign power, most
comprehend, a atatement,of,the facts and circum-
stances 110 Ch .t;he informer founds his belief
that the parts
,inforrned against is about 'to
leave the country fur suck a Turpose, having been
read,
Lord CASTLEREAGH remarked the Amendment
Made. by the Lords entirely accorded with the
views of that [loose, and being. framed for the
relief of the subject, he did not see in it any thing
that they were accustomed to regard as objec-
tionable.. He moveil that it should be agreed to.
Mr: W. WYNN expresSed !Mine doubts on the
subject. •"
Mr. DENMAN thought the subject one which
ought to undergo further inquiry. At first be
remarked it had not beeti 'proposed that the in-
formation should be given on oath, but now -he
was of opinion enough was not done, everi*with
the Lords' Amendment, which required a state-
ment of the circumstances and facts on which in-
formations were founded ) as, though an oath (in-
troduced after much discussion in this House),
was to be administered to the informer, there was
tio.law to make the breach of that oath perjury.
He moved, as an. Amendthent, that the debate
should be adjourned till to-morrow.
A short conversation ensued, in which Mr. ika-

tburst, Lord Castlereagh, Mr. Denman, and Mr.
Wynn, • were -s•peakers.; after which the Aniend-
went was negatived' witlont n diOisio:r.
Mr. DENVIAN. inoVed; an Amendment to the
Lords` Amendlntent, which went to provide, that
. all and' every person con-victed of wilfully false
swearing with'ilegard' td pers'ons'- about to leave
the country, sb4he'deettied gniky, and suffer the
punishment' of wilful' ant! corrupt perjury:'
The' Amendment' was 'agreed' td (as were the
Amendments of the -Lords)', and-Mr. BitodnEte
Was :directed. to' communicate the setiae to the
Lords.