GENERAL HISTORY. 



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before each House of parliament. 

 The clause was brought up, and 

 negatived without a division. 



The Ahen bill being read a third 

 time on May 22, Mr Brougham 

 proposed a clause, the object of 

 which was, to enact that every 

 alien, before being sent out of the 

 country, should receive notice of 

 at least one month, of such inten- 

 tion ; and if, during that space of 

 time, any vessel was bound to the 

 place to which he desired to be 

 carried, that he should have liber- 

 ty to embark on board of the said 

 vessel. 



Lord Castlereagh raised objec- 

 tions to this proposal, chiefly 

 founded on the necessity which 

 might possibly occur of sending 

 away the alien immediately, and 

 the expense to which he might 

 put government. 



The House divided on Mr. 

 Brougham's clause : Ayes, 35 ; 

 Noes, 87 : Majority against it, 52. 



Sir S. Romilly then moved a 

 clause for exempting from the 

 operation of the bill, aliens who 

 were resident in Great Britain 

 or Ireland on the first of Ja- 

 nuary ISM, and who had conti- 

 nued to reside therein. This 

 clause was negatived without a 

 division. 



Mr. Brougham proposed at the 

 end of the bill to add the words 

 " except so far as the same relates 

 to women married to natural-born 

 subjects of the realm, or to per- 

 sons who have been naturalized." 

 The House divided on the mo- 

 tion : Ayes, 37 ; Noes, 87. 



The question being put, " That 

 the bill do pass,'' the House di- 

 vided: Ayes, 94;; Noes, 29:, Ma- 

 jority, 65. 



In the House of Lords, Lord 



Holland rose on May 14th to 

 make a motion for copies of cor- 

 respondence between this and 

 other governments on the subject 

 of aliens and passports. He was 

 induced to bring forward this mo- 

 tion partly on account of a bill 

 for renewing the Alien act being 

 in progress in another House, and 

 partly for the purpose of bringing 

 under the consideration of par- 

 liament the conduct of the Prince 

 Regent's government with respect 

 to those unfortunate and perse- 

 cuted persons who were exiled 

 from France. It was necessary 

 that their lordships should pos- 

 sess the information he called for, 

 that they might not only compre- 

 hend the extent of the Alien act, 

 but all the system connected with 

 it. When he some time ago 

 asked the noble earl, whether there 

 subsisted any engagements be- 

 tween his majesty's government 

 and any foreign states on the 

 subject of ahens, the noble earl 

 answered in the negative. WTien 

 he again asked whether any in- 

 tercourse or communication had 

 taken place between his majesty's 

 government and foreign powers, 

 relative to the considerations on 

 which this bill had been founded, 

 the noble earl replied, that the 

 measure was to be proposed solely 

 on British views. But in another 

 place it had been declared that 

 this bill was not rendered neces- 

 sary by any view to our own in- 

 ternal security, but for the pur- 

 pose of defeating the machina- 

 tions of certain proscribed and 

 wretched individuals, who might 

 otherwise find an asylum in this 

 country, and conspire against the 

 government of France. Was it 

 consistent with the principles of 



the 



