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PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, JUL: 5.

The Capital Fe'units Repeal Bill, the Privately,
Stealing Bill, the Capital Felonies Commutatioa
of I'unisbn►ent Bill, the Ireland Cnais' lull, and,
a number: of others, were brought up from the
[louse
.of Commons by Sir James Macintosh, Mr.
Bragden, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Tremayne, anti
other, Members, and read a first lime.

On the motii;n of the Matquess of LANskowDr,,
additional rapers were ordered respecting the,
Trade to India. ..

THE ALIEN ACT.

Lord HOLLAND presented a Petition from
.certain Inhabitants against the renewal of the
Alien Act, which now it had expired, his Lord..
ship said he might characterize aS -a most•uncon-•
stitutional, illiberal, and 'oppressive measure. He
had intended to have kept the Petition in Lis
pocket until the Bill for the continuance of that'
Act, which it appeared by the-votes was now in
progress in tire House of Commons, came up to
their Lordships ; but the Act having in the wears
time been allowed to expire, he thought it right
to preserve the Petition, trusting that the House •
would not consent to the revival of so odious a
measure. He presented it also now, because ha
found in the Petition a clause, which had an im-
mediate reference to that lamentable inquiry
which was now before the House, it•being urged
by the Petitioners, that it the Alien Act were to
be renewed without some special provision to
guard against the evil, it would he in tire power
of the Ministers at the Cu own to send away Aliens
whose evidence might be material to the accused
party in • the inquiry alluded to, whilst they re-
tained others whose evidence might be wanted to
support the accusation. It ceriaiirly not being
fitting that the means should exist- for such an
abuse, he intended, it the Bill actually carte rip
to their Lordships, to move a clause lor the
purpose of preven.ing foreiguern who should be
summoned as wituesses with relation to the pend-
ing inquiry from being sent out of the Coun,ty,

The ion wes read anti ustlered io !le tspoa

the Inbie.

THE QUEEN.
PETITION FROM HER. MAJESTY.

Lord DActse—My Lords, 1 hold iu my hand Et
Petition from her Majesty the Queen, hich has
been put into my bands since 1 entered he House.
Her Majesty in this Petition, states her readiness
to meet the charges conveyed in the Report of
the Secret Committee without delay, and desires
to be heard by her Counsel foi the purpose of
stating weighty matter to the House, with a view
to her future defence. In total ignorance of the
nature or tendency of the matters which her Ma-
jesty the Queen is desirous of urging, 1 can only
express my hope, that your Lvidships will not
refuse the prayer of the Petit ion coining from art
individual under the circumstances in which her
Majesty is placed, and subjected as she is to the
most have and odious charges. I move that this
Petition be now received.

The Petition was handed by his Lordship to
the Reading Clerk, who read it at the Table. It
was as follows:

" The Petition of Caroline Amelia, Queen Consort of Egg-
land, to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament

assecubled,

" The Queen, observing the most extraordinary course
that has been adopted by the :;able Lords in the Secret Com-
mittee assembled, begs to state to the House that she is per-
fectly ready at this moment to enter upon her defence on the
charges against her, as far as she can understand them; and
she begs to remind your Lordships, that as it will be abso-
lutely necessary for her to have certain witnesses for her fit-
tetie defence, she begs to have the natuie of the charges
against her distinctly stated in the present stage of the pro-
ceedings. And as her Majesty has some weighty matter to
lay before your Lordships, highly important to her Majesty's
interests, to her honour, and perhaps to her life, she prays
to be heard by her Counsel at your bar this evening."

Lord DACRE moved that her Majesty be now
beard by her Counsel.
The Earl of LIVERPOnL—My Lords, I must
say that her Majesty the Qieen has bi en ill ad-
vised in presenting this Petition, though I by no
Means mean to object to its being received. It
appears to me, however, that there is, in point
of tact, no proceeding at the present moment be.
tore the House to which this Petition can pro-
perly apply, as in a Pailiamentaty sense, her
Majesty cannot be supposed to know any thing
of the Repot t of the Secret Committee, whilst the
Hill of which 1 had the honour of giving notice,
is not yet presented. When that Bill is on your
Lot dsbips' Table, a copy of it will be furnished
to her Majesty, and her Majesty's convenience
will be of course consulted as to time with regard
to whatever evidence she may think it necessary
to adduce to rebut the charges against her. At
the present moment, it does not appear to me
that there is, in point of tact, any stage of pro-
ceeding to which the Petitiou of tier 111ajesty carat,
apply.
Lord DACRE—Really, my pord, I ani uleer
the greatest difficulty and embarrassment with
reg4rd u. the co„,„ of proceeding which it would
be fitting to adopt. The Noble Emil has advanced
• technical objections against hearing her Majesty
by her Counsel, as prayed in her Petition; but
sume:y, when your Lordships consider her Ma.
jestv,s high rank and Station, the peculiar sitna.
(ion in which she is placed, the heavy accusation
that is made against her, and all the circuarstauces