The Sun.
London, England, 1818-05-23 00:00:00

ALIEN BILL,

Lord CASTLEREAGH moved Ilse third itivlitfg of,
the AFeti Bill.

.Mr. gROUGIIAM itt'tVed a clause, that any Alien
ordered out of the coirntry should be at liberty to
go to any country he pleased, if a Fhip should be
foinid.teady fur his conveyame itch country.
Lord C.t-Tt.F:tiEAGH objected to this clause,. be-
cause it was likely to t:-efeat the object of the Bid,
and to subject the country to additional expellee.
Loud COMPFON disapp.roved• of the Bill, which
he deemed extremely yrceeptiortable iiu tt state of
peace.
Bt,OUGH AM shot.-e. with givat
2gAinst the proo:iple and provisions of the Bill.
It might be cons.d,r,d a suspension of the Bri-
lish',Constitiiti,;n. Instances had occurred whetc
most re,•pectal,le men, uho lead passed the greater
portion of, their lire in this country, who were
engag• d extensively in its .commetcial concerns,
had all their children bort, Within the realm, but
were themselves Aliens, had been refused, on ap-
plication, a certificate of conduct. ,So that the
refusal dray now lie considered ati inflexible ride.
Vei it was that dC ,cription„ Of men that Patlia-
menf %lei,. about to place at the intrcy of pia
wretches as Oliver—to have their characters whis-
pet ed away by slanderous calumnies—their inte-
rests destoyed by anonymous communications--
or by any other poisonous instilMent into Lord
Sidmouth's easy eats.

Mr. CANNING recommennerthe Honourable and
Learned Gentleman, who was so celebrated for
dealing in exaggeration, •to a little light
and shade into h:s description, lest 'by crying wolf
so Often, if danger should really art ice, 'his ad-
monition 114,.1tt prove useless. He (Mr. C ) did
not undervalue the high character the country en-
tertained for its ancient unsuspicious policy to
foreigners. But would any man contend', that if
Prance was convulsed by • the machinations of
-those men wh-, directed all their efforts to the re-
newal of revolutionary schemes, that from the
station this country held, her tranquillitr'would
:not, u. involved ? Let.t he tempest rush froth-where
it may, it was imposs:, .but Great Britain must
he hronghtwithiu its ii,i7irence. The press of the
Netherlands proved that nothing was left untried
by a knot of refugees' to effect their purpases.—
Lke the philosopher.,of old, they wanted here
to place the lever. -The Bill-he then suppot led
said sire diallt•not be in Great Britain.
_.Sir F. flu anFTT said the Bill was- hostile to
ceety -krulamental Law of the ConstitnCon.
Its effect would be to drive all- the talent, capital,
and industry of Europe to Ole only free Govern-
ment in the worid—the United States of America.'
There, though )4t war, and a foreign army in the
-tree never heard of those illegal ant.! ri-
gorous measures on which our-Government, on
every little exigency, placed their safety.

Sir S. ROMILLY repeated all the arguments he
had urged on former evenings against the Bill.
Ministers, who wete,to exercise these 'extraordi-=
nary powers, had not the means of ascertaining
the guilty from the innocent. lie bt; no objec.
don to the compliments paid to the Noble Lord
as being an honourable English Gentleman ; but
he denied that the internal peace of France could
not be disturbed without the neces4ity of this
country taking part in it. He should move to
confine the operation of the measure to those
persons who h.id come into this country since the
Ist of January, 1814. Was it to be supposed
that the Gentlemen tm his side did not know the
advantages of inconsistency, if they had chosen
to adopt it, or that high,- and. profitable offices
would not be open even to-tlrem, if they chose to
make the discreditable sacrifice of principle ? The
Bill would put at the mercy of Ministers more
than 20,000 persons, most of whom had married
and were becoming domiciliatedju Ibis country.

Mr. CAt4NING explained.
-Mr. I3ARRAM contended, that the measure was
gratuitous and uncalled for; and that it was in-
consistent with the spirit of our Laws and Con-
stitution. It lad been for the first time proposed
without the statement of any facts to slie,vits
expediency, and bad been- grounded on a mere
set of possibilities, which did not liffOrd the 04,
dory of a shade of danger as a„cause for it. The
less we had to do with the tratisaCtiOr.s between
Foreign Governments and their subjects the bet-
ter ; and this Bill was calculated to make us par-
ties in all' such transactions.

Mr. AV. SMITH observed, that by passing this
Bill we sanctioned in the people the beiiel that.
they were in a peril which did not exist, avid pre-
pared them for consenting to any other measures
that might be proposed to guard againstnon-
existipg -danger. The Bill had no. other cbject
but to sap and tr.detmine the Convitution.
Sir J. NEWPORT bad hoped the-unparalleled
sAerifices made during the war would have yielded
other fruits than the Alien Bill, the Bank Restric-
tion Bill, awl other measures, which. were calcu-
lated to show that our blood had been shed in
vain, and our treasures expended to no advantage.
The House then divided— •
For the Clause
Against it
Majority
Sir S. lIOMILLY then moved his clause exempting frr'm
the operation of the Bill Aliens who wire resident in (:rear
Britain and Ireland on Ist Jan. 1814, and whO had ever since
conti:qted to reside therein.

Lord CASTLEREAGH observed, that foreigners, although
long resident in this country, might be made the instruments
of mischief.

.Sir S. ROMILLY 11. plied, so might natives—the next step
therefore of Goverr.ment ought to-
he directed against them.
The I:lmve Wai negatived withont a division.

itropoaed a Clause, to exempt from the

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operatinn of t 1.,; nin, worn •,
married to natarai bur:: sub.'
jects of th realm, or ++h,, 'lad been naturalized. . Loo
116 cin er a short everlation, in which Lord Cninpton,
Castlereal.tki,&coSic.participated, the House divided--•
Fur the Ciitu•se 17
.. KgainSt it
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.. ~ .. Majority --50
~,1 wes
•The Clause for allowing Alien s in be heard by C9uus—
neg-atlved Without a divisi,n. • di-
On the motion that the 13111 do pass, the House ago'
videdl -

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For the !notion " 94
Against it
Nlainrity —65 : i
2s et..
The Game Purchase Bill was eea'd a then! time ancl-'":4• ris
• Petitio

09 the motion of Mr. BENjAMIN Si! W, the P'iddits
of the MerChatifs and Shlp,owners concerned in East
Trade, were referred to a Select Committee, aOLI at
The tither Oi'llerh of the tioy were then disposed,ofi
half-past TWelve o'Cloch 'the HoUse adjourned,

LAW INTELLIGENCB. `l'

COURT OF CHANCERY, MAY 22. Lot
This being the first day of Term, the 1,4
Chancaor came down in the USUAL state, aitero—d
by Sir 'l'. Plainer, the Master of the -Rolls,
Sir J. Leiter), the Vice-Chancellor. His Lortisli
Was, a's USual, attended by all thP Judges, vier,
Baron Graham, who is intlispor':. ente",f,';
the Court, his Lordship said be was necessolu!,
obliged to ro to the lion.e of Lords, but th3t "
Honour the Vice-Chancellor had very kindly 6)11;
Sented to hear motions for hint. On that Haw °,
he should bid the Court adieu for the 1
present al;
The only motion- ot general intrrest ,0
payment of some money, amounting to -4501.°0
ing to iiit! Duke of Nottolk. it was,agreed
4id into Cony!,
• rtej he Opera-house ca'se comet on, as is expl-
on Monday.

COURT OF XING'S BENCH, MAY 22.
Tri nit y'rertn commenced Ibis day ivith theltLit
forms.

CRIMINAL INFORMATION.
cAo-
Mr. CLARKE moved tor a rule to sheer
wiry a criminal info: illation Should not be file
against Mr. Drakard, the printer and publislic.for
The Stamford illereury,-a Weekly Newspaper,' rcle
printing' and; publishing, in the month of 1‘4314
last. certain scandalous libel, of and coneolild,
the Marquis of 'Fiketer, in the form of a let"rf3jrn
.dressed to the' Noble Mars, imputing t",i'of
indecorous and immoral cong.dduct towa'rds rile
and daughters of tire townsinell of Stamford. r'
,Learned Counsel had made the like motion oil l tile
last day of Easter Term, but the Court refus.eaort
•'o
application, 03 being contrary to the role ofd'
at,p,,iost moving for criminal informations o'l,, it
last day (If but gave trim liberty to tri"'l`."bel
on the first d-ty of this-'Perin. The alleged 'II it
s.:ts now read by the Learned Counsel, g
imputed to the Noble Marquis, in tel of Wr°n.,r,
reprehension, coupled with admonitory ob'`.ll.l
dons, v4rions acts of indecency and imuror33l,
towards the females of the town.; particolarlY„-tol
leging•. against him the '•pr.ictice of walkiog
tiding through the town, and spv!ng
:lows at differ cot _females and winking at hittjot
Ind in some cases kissing them. It also
with the like conduct in the theatre of the I" vutt
The Noble Marquis':s affidavit, upon which,
motion was fourdctli negatived generally the 110';
putations cast upon stating that 160. rutO
founded in malice antipfd.ehowi ; but it dib,--jci
spec'fic"ilY denY tilt! pii':,,,odar acts of inisco''"`.4l.,
ineutioned in the
that M;,. Drakarti had sintit-
after the application' fe. I.ost Oito,
Term, an account of the motirliVitiade by fi'," L` ,art
ed counsel, purporting to be a' t'ilityot the till
i•
in the London Papers, and' Ji.?:!rt-dhe -had kicc:i,or
parried it .with an avowal tiiA.
of the supposed libel, and that he should
enter the lists with the Node Lit3td,- an 4
world what sort of he arid concl'''' ell
h au eVirl:SSiOrl of,”tiopt!,l74 , t the fit;rLjrr,
Counsel, retiv‘pvrt./, wiiplicatioa to this ,
would adhere Li little (Hole to truth than .0

first application. „ Plc
The COURT called upon fir.itiFr°loll
clu
out in the affidavit where the Noble, Marr's,
specifically negatived the particular acts °'
conduct imputed to him in 'the alleged libel' I of'
Mr. CLARKE said, that the affidavit
nerally the truth of the wh(le st;iteitW:A.
Lord ELLErceottouGri said, Oat the
leged against the Vilifier was ceitaildo
s,rung but baviu;z purse vned in Ais (4ii:ilyroi
-after the first application to the Contir;:,,
nig couttnented upon that applicatio',
position of the Court was so
can upon 111111 to ex p!aiii by alllat.it.l,lo
imputed to him in tie affidavits iri s4port
tsar
motion. Tbereture; a Rule t0.0151y3 Otj,s-
granted. ,!•••
't Fit
KINO V. PRICR , Is
On a former d:Ay, E SCARLTT Obtil'!%l-1,/
rule, calling on Captain Price to'shitw
a criminal information should not be filedy It/
I elk') for sendin. a challenge to 6etieialk`ll/I°'-
fijit a ,duel. suainst
Air. GURNEY, this day, SIIOWCd cause 0/1
the rnle, and sta.ed several matters of pr°"c:coce
on the part of General Kinsey ; in con"
o'. which the Court enlarged the rule, for `in
poiti
se of affording General Kinsey 1:1- opPO
of rebutting the charges against
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