Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-08-21
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RICHMOND. AUGUST u.
ENiGRAhTS

otdtGS Is about III The rate al 200 persons
per daV. This rate of emigration, IL is
probable will hold good for four months
OF iht present year. To corroboraic this
estimate, it collects from the papers with
in lis reach, list OF "a vessels, which in
the con,Se OF iwo weeks had landed 1870
emiSran,S III The us. The piuphecN of
Bishop Watson IS thus rapidly fulfilling
Canada also can boast her acquisitions.
~ are told IN Il Quebec paper iial mur,.
than 5000 settlers have been added 10 her
population The present season.
III" .Nc,0 l'cIk Ircmin- Post ascril,es
iiiis great emigration principally 10 the
Circumstance thai Europe Is Eiicd with
population. But If Europe bc fall, what
shall we saw of China, ur g! himdnsian
How can Europe be full, when there are
such wastes OF land III every kingdom q
Where * the desert IN France from BAY
oune to Bordeaux In q. Britain herself,
sc have somewhere seen ii calculated,
that not more than oue-ililrticih oi the
whole land Was III complete cultivation.
Had the Evening Post gone upon This pro-
position, that there Was more land III A.
meriCa III proportion TO lis inhabitants.
than there was III Europe that the laEd
was much cheaper here than it is there,
he would certainly have assigned one
great cause for the emigration 10 Amori-
C3.-BEt thrrc are other great causes
Our taxes are much lower; less OF The
produce OF The iabOurer is called for bv
lie extravaganza ofilia government. Our
COugtry TOO is free botI IN the features Of
Church and State. No legitimate Prince
or Peer oifeuds our sense of equality {:
and every man is al liberty 10 worship
God in whatever way his conscience die
iaics, without any forfeiture Of his poii,i-
cal rights. Ii is no Wouder that these
and other advantages should overcome
the love which every man feels iur tie
land of his birth or The t0mbS OF his fore
ialherS-aud that SO many emigranls
should seek our shores.
An act has just passed the British Par
i!aulcth Nhich will have the effect Of di-
veIiiNg some OF those wbo propose Ia
leave the continent, from her shores 10
our own. This IL the AHcH Act, by which
The hing il authorised 10 send any alien
0ut of tie country, or 10 forbid his ciI-
trance into il. Such q regulation was IN
force during the whole of the war; but il
was supposed there would be no neccsSi-
~ ID renew IT The ministers, however,
found preieXt IN the state that France
wG"d be in, when the aihedt troops should
IL
opposed. or labourcd harder through both
honses ofParliamemi than this one, which
was banded from one house 10 another,
DELAYED the propagation of lie late sc, ST
on for several days, aud finally passed GA
the 9th of June. Lord Sidm0aih contend
I'd that "mauy oftlie persons who had la
ken part in the overthrow of the French
government, and in the attempt 10 over
throw the governments of other countries
might be dead but that their spirit still
existed in many paris of Europe. II was
with tue view OfCounieractirg The effects
which this revolutionary spirit might ha, e
in this conniry, that The first alien bill had
been eracted, and for the same object IL
VAS now proposed 10 continue il for TWO
years longer. Ii WAS necessary 10 keep
cui as well as TO send out of Tins country,
those persons who should vailtlIems Ives
of the riciHity of France TO foster Il spirit
meuacing 10 This and other governments
Of Europe. Were We 10 cherIsl, the rcvO-
luiomary spirit, and TO allow all taciious
individuals 10 find an asylum in Ibis coun-
try 2" The Earl of fiarrowby also contend
ed tina! I" foreigners might be induced to
reside theie, not merely 10 oycrturn the
happy constitution ofthe country, but for
The purpose of vouDding France through
the sides of England by avaiing them
selves of her free press and her immediate
vicinity" II was in vain that La. Holland
& adverted 10 the ancient policy of Great
Britain in protecting foreigners, and en-
couraeing them TO seek a refuge in thai
comnlry against oppression ;" ii was in
vain he quoted " tie preamble of an ACT
Of Parliament for he encouragement of
refugees, drawn by the great Lord So
mers," which recited the wish of many
PIUtestants in France, on account of the
free constitution of England 10 settle In
that country" II was in vain, that Sir L.
Burdeti assured the House of Commons
that =" the real object of this alien bill was
10 aid HAT European conspiracy IN which
the noble lord 0Ord CasilCrragh,) had Ia
ken so active part, and The effect OF IT
would be 10 destroy THAT character for
generosit. and hospitality, by which tlIe
people OF England had hitherto been dis
iiDguished. Anofher affect roUid be TO dyire
GH Me toiem aHd 0dustry IF Europe 10 hot
nor only free country iHthe a0Orid, Ameyic0."
The Till was finally passed--and fiji will
not have all tie virtue which Str Francis
ascribcs 10 it; If itdoes drive all tlIe la
lent and ingenuity ofihe Continent TO our
slIsrcs, il will have the effect Of giving Us
some of IT, They wlll prefer land, uherc
there is no King and no Alien Act io
dive them back Tie world is not" one
vast prison. as lord Holland said il would
be, If this bill passed. 1t does rot realize
that eloquent picture which Gijbon had
skciciied Of tie Roman empire, where &" 10
resist was fatal, aud il was impossible To
fly" America is Opcu-amd here The
" slave Of imperial despoiism" may linda
shelter from Tie malignily Of lis fate.
RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE.
The last Kentucky papers bring us tlie
Report and Resolution Of the First Bap-
list Church. in Lexington, in relation io
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