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be data, an I properly exercised. Indeed, it might
rtiu
~sahly he Inferred that no abuse had taken place,
2. sot a resident alien had been remanded from
to. conntry u o'er the trt of ISIS, and only nine in-
&wim' of any description. He should not shrink
tram perfornsine his duty with reglad to this amemare,
ryer Noble Lords might differ with him ipso he
ge„al or particular merits. With this feeling not
his „oil, he should now move that the Hill be reed a
wend time.
The gado( DARNLEY opposed the motion. He was
viui:ig to give the Noble Lord every credit for gentle-
aria sai: good feeling, but still he could not consent
to place such extensive power in the hands of any in-
however excellent might be the qualities of
heart It was the policy of this country always to
r,rorsg, rather than repel foreigners. But this was
a Lia against every principle of policy, justice, and
haws's,: it was one which, as he had. already stated,
art„ most dir.rrsreful to the nation, and he should not
.act the Sill to pass without entering his decided
?rant &pleat it.
Hod H.S►ACsu said, he should not now trouble their
Le lips with a repetition of those 'capons which had
jyylecell him to oppose the measure in the first instance;
...gaol it would he irksome to them to attend to him ;
would the praline feel an interest in the
the agitated state is which the public mind
ow' dm" Yet, still he conlil not be so far wanting to
hinneesse neglect his duty, because the public hae-
atite breoploved upon other sultects. Indeed, the si-
hiefgok which this and the other wise of Parliament
ma, seder recent circumstances, were very similar to
twat wild an individual had been owe placed, who
hadfilvearel the world with the result of his survey of
tie Turkish empire. The individual in question, Mr.
gale, use prolially still alive, and could personally re-
sit/a fact which was stated in the account of his travels.
Hieing hoes Moiled in Bulgaria, Mr. Eden soon found
Incise!' at the residence of a perm, of disti nctioae whim
be beheld, seated near the sofa, a Turk of rank. whoa
air en marked with due Turkish gravity, while his
look bespoke suspicion and dirtrust. It appeared that
idr. Eden, with meaty-six other persons, his compa-
nions, had become obnoxious to him, and their heeds
were to be rot off. The charges against them were cue
Weed in a bag—(A laugh)--it was, he verily believed,
a green bag, for the Turks were food of that colour.—
(Lagghter.j—A. bag, however, it was, whether green Of
grey, and it was no less certain, that It was made the de-
pository of the weighty accusations against the unfortu-
nate travellers. In this dilemma, while he was every
newest expecting to have Turkish justice inflicted tip`
es him, Mr. Eden applied to an interpreter who was at
basil, to explain who he was, and that he had no de-
signing objet is in view. Bat unhappily for that gen-
tleman and his twenty-six companions, the interpreter
descried the bag lying in a corner of the apartment, and
weave confounded at the portentous spectacle, the dread-
fel ;teen bag---(a laugh)-that he could think of no-
thing else, 'stile he ran about exclaiming—gee/ wren
pet midis° seer°. Now he thought their Lordships
and the other House were exactly In the same predica-
meat with those persons, or perhaps more properly,
with the in etter,,fbr, they would suffer their pockets
to he pitied could recover from their dis-
may at the thoeg = e gems hag.—(A laugh.)--
This bag, honorer oesiamq as it was, ought
est to migrate their ' hip.' attention exclusively.
But to come so the . It sweated to him that
the Nellie Lid iatredweed this moils% as if he eakeei-
thllM their laidellips attpdamed la lt u a wan* 'of
counts. It was. is fact, acting in a manner that might
be called, according to the Noble Lord's own systems
cool and easy.—(A laugh.)—But what, he would ask,
was the real object of this execrable mestere ? Why, it
was to band over twenty or thirty thousand human
creatures to the artAteary goveransent of his Lordship.
Persons talked of aliens us they did seine yeets ago of
the Rama Catholics, ea if there was no security, except
such as could be devised by ocsuional laws. It was cer-
tainly possible that an alien alight have bail iateutions
towards the establishments of this country; but lie would
ask was there no protection to be hid in the laws
against such an alien: And if the laws as they stood
provided that protection, what more did they want?
The argumeate of the Noble Viecount in support of the
Bill were simply two—first, he argued, that the power of
sending aliens out of the country, was a prerogative of
the Crown ; and secondly, be contended, that there was
a strong presumption that the power given by this Hill
would not be abused. He (Lord H.) had made no re-
searches upon the question of prerogative ; but he INN
prepared to maintain, that it it was a wholesome prom
puve, and if it were advantageous for the people that
it should be exercised, then and then only it could be
emisidered as a prerogative belonginF to the first magi,-
trate of this couptry. Further. with respect to this
prerogative he had to observe, that from Magna Charta
shwa to the tire, of Blisebeth, and including her reign,
there were not less than 23 0r27 Acts regarding aliens,
yet in none of them did the existence of such a prero-
gative appear. The only ease of a contrary tendency in
appearance, was a proclamation issued in her reign
apissi Seetchmen, by, which they were driven out of
sighed ; but even that proclamation was not an *seer-
ties of prerogative ; it was in virtue of an Act of Par-
liameat in the reign of Henry VII. which Act was re-
pealed in the time of James 1. Upon this question of
Prerogative, he could not but observe, that there was
great confookia aemeg all, even the ablest writers. Ac-
cording to the writers on civil law, the Sovereign power
Ins part of the prerogative ; these the Crown of &sig-
hted was said to be absolute. Undoubtedly it was so far
absolute. se to owe allegiance to no other King; but it
was not independent of the Parliament ; and he agreed
with Lord Coke in attributing. eorereigatr to the per-
mof the King, but not to his power. So man could
maintain that every nation bad not the right of sending
out eltafiffer4; but that power resided in the supreme
utimsrity of the motion. It did not follow from this,
that such a power woe part of the royal prerogative.
The Noble h isconat had gives himself the balsa of
supposing that the powers world set be abased. because
they to he apeareeled by his wild di He
(Lord, 1142b0d ham *a terms of personal ip with
tie ilibilimeat tor souse years, but he mast say,
that whale Wien his opinion formerly .f the NeWe
Lord's. his eondeet for the last *sr or live
lan bad eeashlemahly altered that opiates. But It little
divided what was his opinion of easy man to whom sack
peens were to be entrusted; steadies forward as a
Amber of Parliament, he was bound to say, that the
grisAd net depend en the !Webb Laud's character.
panirer was le itself arbitrary—it wee dlonotiouary,
aad wherever it was conferred, there Mai abused. The
Nei& Yiscoeat said it was exerelosi mildly, bat be
(Lord 01-dikarittost Nam mewa is was productive
Pril. to haw hasisissaa of hall
rlZlOnlithe esistreim et the Bill. He
* that advantage Wines SWUM otanother
the *no Itaaaledgo that such a Kill was in anistessee.
weld net notation 1111•11,14 hot he wo•W appears an in-
dividual* heiudebted to an alien, and beiwirminvitivthe,
t bis debt, weehltersilmon Mus
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give me six months twill* an Per Ma 411111.
L._.aou hese I hare sethleg to do hat taifa and 'Meg in
"mg !Ind isnath's eel. that you ate 11,. ku and • es-
panto, thus I ear have you seat du e cOslatrisred