Star.
London, England, 1816-05-11 00:00:00

WiCELLA N ECUs .5111410 ES FOR IakI.AND.

The House having resolved itself into a Commit-
tee of Supply,
Ur. VESEY FITZGERALD moved Resolutions
for the grant of the following lums (in Irish cur-
rency) fur the miscellaneous services in lilted:—
,C 41,000 for the support of the Protestant Charity
Schools; 432.722 for the support of the different
Public Hospitals in Dublin; £11,210 for the House
of Indestry and the Asylum for Industrious Childres,
in ..Dublin; 5e48,281 for the Lunatic Asylum! in
Dublin; £8,532 for the Hjberoian Society for the
support of Soldiers' Children; £9,111 for the Lock
Hospital; a 13,411 for the Lying-in Hospital;
£777 to the Commissioners for repairing Hospi-
tals; 49,6711f0r the Roman Catholic Establishments.
£6OOO to enable the Society for promoting education
in Ireland, to provide books to be distributed--
£8,410 to the Society for discountenancing Vibe—
£soo to defray the expenses of the Commissioners of
Charitable Donations and Bequests—Real to the
Trustees of the Cork Hospital to defray their expenses
—404,783 to defray the expenses of Ptiatitig, Static).
nary, & in the office of the Chief Secretary for ire-'
land—€ 2726 Tor Printing copies of the Statutes for
the Public Offices in Ireland— £lO,OOO Inr Printing
Proclamations—Al/425,000 for Cpmittal Prosecutions ;"
4`2,500 for Me apprehension of Public Offenders-
-419,297 &eche support of Pow- Ministers—Wl,9sl
for the support of seceding Ministers—:4M/0 for the
expenses of we Board of Inlanil Navigation-4;1,117
for the Board of %Works-19,000 to the Commissio-
ners for making wide and convenient Streets in Dub.
lin—lo,ooo to the Dublin Society-44,983 for the
Farming Society-82400 for the Cork Institution.
These Reaolutiona were all agreed to, and the Re-
port of the Committee ordered to be received on
Monday:

MALT SILL.
The House having resolved itself into a Committee
of the whole House ea the Malt Bill,
Mr. LUSHING MN mowed that the blank in the
Bill for the duty should be Stied up, by inserting
5 per Cent.
Mr. CALVERT proposed asap amendment, that
1 per Cent. should be substituted for 5 per Cent.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, that 5 per Cent. had been find upon as the
proper rate, from the experiments which had been
made.upon the subject in Scotland by the most egg.
nent scientific men, alto found that the intwease is
making malt was such as to stake this she fair rate. I
Mr. C ALVE Tr denied that the Professors of Che.,
mistry and Apiculture were ,persons qualified to'
make the experinarntnnnd that she How should sot
be goveruvd by their opinion.
,A conversation as to. the of adolimiardme
-Amendment ensued, lin wit' . Harvey, Mr.
Barclay, and Mr. Brand
.participated; after which,
ISfx. CALVIAT 'knitting bit Amendment, the
,Honse divided.
For the Original Clause .6114-For the Aniendment
SO—hi:P.lol.4y against the Amendment SS.
The Report ordered to be received ea Monday.

Ai.litN ACT.
On Lord CASTLEIb.EAGH's motion that the
'Alien Bill be read a second time,
Lord A. HAMILTON said, that the circum-
stances were so different at th:s period from those of
former years, that he could .not see the necessity Of
the present Bill. Even on the grounds on which it
1 was proposed, there appeared to be an unnecessary
severity of legislation. No distinction was made*.
tween Alien friends or enemies-4 but ,every Alien
might be arrested and thrown into the gaols the
country. It was said .that without this 13111 theCtown
had the power by Proclamation to send Aliens on'
Of the country . why, therehare,.should the Secretary
of State be invested with additional authority to tin
same diced He otiected, not only to .partiettle
clauses of the Bill, but to the obnoxious patintiple tit
which it was founded, which 'was not justified b'
even the least apprehension of danger. He though
the Bill could not possibly be* suffered to pass end
.its present severity of enactment. He shoeid
hoped, that ip the proud state in which England no
stood, sbe woo4,buto gins an example of 4i
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le enber natio% instead oft chits tbe'es:to imitate
;Oudeseterow policy. • No sided by moring %lun-
ette sin be read a second time this day three moots',
Mr. H. ADDlNGToti•crefended the mum. •
was neither IsOveliif diegtaedolll
to the country ; it was exactly, the counterpart of
el which, had passed the House two years ueo,'
*giant a division. on the admission ofdclause r.ving
co-Aliens the power of appeal to the Privy Council.'
If it was found expedient in 1814, why should it lao'
thought unjtt%t and impolitic in 181 G, when there was
a great increase of Aliens in this country! their num•
bee at present amounted to 25,00% He cnntended
'that the Bill now proposed did not deserve the epi.
thets bestowed upon it by the Noble Lord. He then
drew a comparison between the severe enactment of
the war Alien Bill and the moderation of those of the
,preseet. An Alien. by the former Act, could not
stir a step without a passport, or live any where with-
nut a license of residence. He sio., Insides liable to
be sent out of the country without any power of ap-
peal, and if he returned without permission he be-
came subject to transportation for life. By the pre-
sent Bill an Alien. as soon, as. he had obtained his
certificate, was at liberty to go to any part of the
kingdom which he pleased. His motions were per-
fectly free and unshackled, and he might leave the
country at any port, on spewing his ceriiticate, with-
out asking permission. He was also subject to be sent
out of the kingdom, but he had a right to appeal,
which was a check on the exercise of that preroga-
tive. Notwithstanding the power width the Kin; pos.
seised of koiliug aliens out of the country when be
thought proper, even in time of peace, the Bill was
necessary to afford the means of exercising that
pier, instead of having recourse to the only mode
which the Crown could otherwise adopt, that of at.
tachment. As a proof that the execution of the Bill
had been attended with no severity, lie stoned, that
• since 1312 only twenty-ono aliens had been lent out
of the country, and of those six were individuals who
had returned without permission, so that the number
in three years was in fact only fifteen. And whereas
the W 1 enacted, that aliens returning without leave
should be transported for life. nest one instance of
that kind had sccurred since the introduction of the
Act. He then alluded to the case mentioned some
time 'jute by an HonOurabli Member (Mr. Basing)
of Aliens who were said to have been sent away at
the instigation.of a foreign Minister. That Honour;
able Gentleman having supplied him with the name
.f one of then, he bad round, after much inquiry,
that it was a case that had happened three years and
el 4 half since. The Noble Secretary for Foreign Af-
fairs had made a written application, chewing. iorea.
sons so strougund so decisive, the indispensible neces-
sity of sending away a Mr. Labouchere and a Mr.
Daudet, that an order had been issued inconsequence
belore they arrived in London. The Hon. Member,
whom be did not see in his Wace. had said that those
`persons had come on commercial purposes. but it
had turned out that they came with very different
objects in view. No application had been made by
a Foreign Minister, and in fact there was no Minister
nienging to their country at the time in England. He
:hett took a view of the subject on the ground of ex-
pense, and was understood to state that the ezpendi-
tore of the Alien Officehad been reduced from C3OOO
to less than £if3Mo a-year. He could not conceive
why such a measure as that now proposed cotedgive
offence to any individual. From the letters which he
daily received from Moat respectable persons in all
parts of the kingdom, he believed that there would
general dissatisfaction throughout the country it
such a law did not exist, and he would think Min:s-
ters most culpable bail they been too supine to bring
it forwar

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• Mr. BROUGHAM, after the statement made by
the Right Honourable Gentleman, who was at once
the patron and the father of the Bill, was left as much
in the dark as ever. The House were told that the
measure was not new. because it had been brougla
forward two years ago. But be would not admit a,
precedent of two y.eare back to have any weight in
making a great ionovatiob in the Constitution. It was
tu:ally inapplicable to compare the present time with
the period of 1814. It was then openly declared.
that the peace concluded was ,a precarious one. which
ought not to exclude alarm. • France then possessed
a mighty army, unbroken by.any great defeat, and
the person who lately wielded her power was not
kept, as he would now say, under lock and key. To
compariabose periods together, was to disregard the
most striking features of difference. The proposed
innovation in the Constitution was attempted to be
juatified on the ground that the Bill was milder in its
enactments 11»tst the War Alien Act. 'This was not
sneicient. The necessity which had occasioned its
adoption in former: year, as a temporary Measure,
moat be ehewa .to exist, to justify its renewal under
any shape. The authority of Puffendorf, a writer on
the law bf nations, whose -sentiments might indeed
bare been consulted when an expedition was sent to
destroy the °vital and the subjects of a friend, Wil3
aPt to be. , appe,tled to in a municipal question, in
fachad as ptgre to db than the Koran or the
Tamed. The Attorney and the Solicitor-General
should explain this novel proposition, that the Bingm
had the power, by I prrelaation.duly countersigned
by his Minister, in time of peace, to seize the body of
au alien friend and end him. out of the kingdom,
"contrary to-Ma gna Charta and to the Constitution
of the land. He contended, that by the thirty-
4.ighth Article of Magna Charta, .Foreigners wile as
much protected as natural-born subjects. That ar-
ticle gave to merchant strangers within the realm the
power to act, sojourn, and go °mot the country when
they listed. He quoted the authority of Lord Coke
on the same side of the question. With certain ex-
oeptions with regard to the purchase of property, the
law was the same for foreigners as for atatural-born
subjects in what regarded the liberty of persons. It
was said the present Bill placed an alien on the same
footing as a natural•born subject, when he had once
obtained bis,certiticate.. The ports of the country
wereiben gist to him, unless he obtained permission
to star them. It was true That he had'afterwards
no ocestaion for a passport or 'a licence; but, was it
nothing so be liable every moment tolie taken up,
-.ltui tied away, banished, and catiied Where the gown,
uncut :bete he pleased ? CODATI'S "ficntr fiolland, he
might be seat to Russia I- lion/ France to the Media'
ten-anew. Would aliens not feel this, and would
not other nations 'follow the e.zitiopie? The impot.i..
tion of these restrictions in EngliaidarouidAeleared,4
be brag seabird. lad .thttelleirt 44ciadoild •

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the plea would be—in Eng
cleated in the same manner.
right to complain. '
in a great meassite,roundld
laws, that thet grsinted etp
to alt religions, and all cla:
a relies)* persecutiOn ari!
our shores were covered

Why did they not go to R.
that our laws were the same

titres, and that Magna Chu
the Habeas Corpus were
The remittances made d(
half to this country in con,
ferences in a neighbouring

det Able, and were occasioned

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enjoying the protection al
laws, if they were obliged ,
-personal safety and proper.,
Alien had an appeal to the King in Council. Bat
Ire was allowed no Coens.:ll He kr.ew a tale i
which it had happened that an Alien who did ,LI
know one word of English, or a tittle of the brit'id,
law, had been refused to be hexed by Connoi 414,.
Privy Council. His appeal had been rejected.
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was done by the sic wok, tie isles, of the Secteg,r, a
State. He was not commuted' with the Alm::
signed no reason, r if he did, it was in the eran„,,,,,
absehce, and therefore equal to none. It Ira b's'iiit
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to abolish such a nugatory clause, and to admit at
once a measure of open, ariqtrary ir.junice, It
wt.
Skid, that the Gentlemen alluded to by liusue;y4;
abb. tritnd (Mr. Baring) c:uld not have hems";
out of the kingdom at the instigation of ; yoffin
Minister, because their country had no reprtientat;
at our Court at the time. But were there not oi
Foreign Ministers ? Because no gr.-at delinmuoty had
been committed by the Right Holt. Gentkman sad
his Noble Relation, the bent:fits of Magna Charts were
to be. withdrawn from the large number of foreigner,
in this country. The more liumeroas they seere,el
worse for the Bill, as it showed that it did not cp.
rate only on a few, but on a respectable body,
—There were 12 millions of English subjects, and
yet the law was sufficient to contain them. although
many of them might be as dissatisfie ' as the ro.
reigners who might come to this kirsaiim. Re,
should not be much astonished if an Aiiet Bill, to
be called the Irish Bill, were to be prnpoteJ, on the
ground that the Irish were dissatisfied, and antitheft
were perhaps 100,000 of them in Eti4l4mi. Ths
difference between the war measure and tote renal
was the mere shadow of a shade. The former was
justified in the eyes of many, by the emergencies of
the case ; the latter deserved the imptohation of every
man who had the least regard for the character of hit
country in the eyes of foreign nations.*
Mr. H. ADDINGTon and Mr. BIt,,UGHAM mutually
*explained.
The_SOLICITOR GENERAL stated, that by
the Common Law the King had the power of prehi.
liking Aliens, by prochimatioe, from remaining in
this country. If they disole)ed the proclimation,
they might be punished by indictment. There was
no inherent right, by National Law,- that 4n Alien
had to come and reside in a kingdom wiltwit the con.
sent uf its Sovereign. lie owe.i no aiiekiance to that
State, which had no power to demand hif. srt vices, or
to :mil him it he should leave it Ar cai:ger was
entitled, with some exceptions, to all the .adrmtages
of the law, but not as a natural born sullject. As to
that article of Magna Charts which the Honourable
and Learned Gentlemen had me. tiftned, it was in.
tended to protect merchant strangers against the ex.
actions of the subjects, who did every thing in their
power to exclude them, Ind ttirt Agititltt the prerogb
tive of the King. He. th n gamed .Blackte.one a&
Sir Edward Noiton,.as supporting the power enjoyed
by the King to send away Aliens from the country.
1 The Le nisei Gentleman 'Went oa to argue, that na.
tural horn subjeits could not ce sent out a the king.
40113, but that no Alien had a right to come to any
Part iii the kingdom, witheut the Sovereign having
the right to order him away' . in 'virtue:of his pre.
Teg,atiee,. and if he did nocgo he was liable to fine and
IMprjsonment,, on provocation by indictment. But
&en it tfiie.power did not exist, an Mt of Parliament
like the prevent was perfectly necessaty and justifiable,
Thi very Act which was proposed at the commence•
ment of the war, and which Subsequent events have
sheen to have been most just and necessary, was as
strongly opposed. at the time, by Gentlemen wham
minds were misled, as this was at present,—(Heart
hear.)—The same opposition was made to the re-
newel of the Act less than two years ago i and Gen.
demon were certainly not justified in7arguing, that
because peace is restored, mischievous intentions were
eradicated in the minds of Aliens, and that therefore
precautionary measures were totally unnecessary.—
He believed that the revolutionary madness was
quelled and abated, but not extinguished, and there-
fore it was not the mere signature of a treaty el peace
that could secure the country aiainst their future
Fxiaebinations. The Learned Gentleman then argued
that there could b.., no instance of abuse of the. Act
peotettegainst his Majesty's Gneernment. 'the Ball
was
to 'tended protect us against Alien enemies,
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.under the mask of Alicia friends—Wear.
;&04-..and 'therefore no practical evil could
possibly
arise from it.
' . Sir S. ROMELLY did not conceive that the pass-
,. mg of this*Bill depended on the question of any for.
!mer prerogatives of the Crown, and indeed be be-
lieved that no such law existed. The point was stated
'by Biackstone, but he quoted no authority for it, as
he !tad done on all former occasions: the only authot .
,rity was the Records of the Treasury.—
[The St)LICITon-GENERAL said across the Table.
(that he had seen the authority in print: it was selec-
ted by Mr. Chalmers.]
The Honourable Member said that was not suffi-
cient authority. According to this illill, foreigners
who bad lived for many year, who had made tor-
tunes, and had families; in this country, might be
banished. Grveritruent would not now allow. natu-
ralization bills to aliens, because they wished to love
power over them. It was a rule. of the House of
Ltird;; that no Naturalization Bill should pass toi-
lers there was a certificate of .good conduct !Need by
one of. the Secret; ties of State. Here the Learned
Gentleman quoted the instance of a Gentleman who
had some to this country 4alitik age. of I 1 years, and
made I large property.w.hicb- h..Jiad in the funds.....
At. the of 61, he was lett uu estate which wee
.trot 6 griao,ooo ; chili lie.conlCtiot inherit unless he
waWkluilaiihed; kW in, wat snabloo obtain an Act

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AS'eS• Hence no son* .04411 rise on the Continent di% I'owith virtuous fugitives..
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tart* and the peotectio% Gen
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luring the last year and
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g country, Were very cook bra
meal by the expectatictei eset
and the advartages of n ply
dto seek a refuge In 614 die
perty. It was said that
the -As
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