54] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



civil or ecclesiastical, was to 

 evince liberal ami conciliatory 

 eonduct to those who differed 

 from us, and to lay its foundation 

 in the love, affection, and esteem 

 of all within its influence. This 

 was the true bxdwark of our 

 church : witli this it was secure 

 against all danger : without this 

 every otlier security was futile 

 and fallacious." 



The division on the lesolution 

 gave. Contents 69 ; Non-contents 

 73 : Majority against it 4. 



On Ai)ril y.5th Lord Castlereagli 

 rose in the House of Oommons 

 to move the i-epeal of tlie present 

 Alien Bill, for the purpose of in- 

 troducing a measure more calcu- 

 lated for the circumstances of the 

 countj-y, and similar to that ado])t- 

 ed after the peace of Paris. He 

 .said, that although tranquillity 

 "m Europe had been restored, the 

 situation of (iieat Britain was still 

 such as to require piecautious 

 against the possibility of the dis- 

 ttirbance of internal security. Tiie 

 noble lord tlien moved for lea\e 

 to bring in a l)ill to repeal the act 

 of the last session respecting 

 ;\liens, and to substittite otiier 

 ])ro\ isions for a time to be lin>ited. 



Some conversation ensued con- 

 ceining the necessity of such a 

 bill, wliich terminated in the re- 

 quested leave being obtained. 



Complaint being made of pieii- 

 pitationin carrying on the bill, for 

 which haste tlie reason given was, 

 that the existing bill would expire 

 on May l'2th, a postponement of 

 the second readiiig to May 1st 

 was agreed to. On that day Sir 

 Samuel Rnmitbj moved, "^That 

 there be laid before the House an 

 accormt of the number of aliens 

 sent out of the country under 

 any of the acts relating to aliens. 



upon the application of any 

 foreign minister j" which was ne- 

 gatived by 82 against 31. 



The second reading of the 

 Alien Bill was moved for hy Lord 

 Castlereagh on ]May 10th, when 

 Lord Archibald Hamilton began 

 the attack upon it by argxiing that 

 its enactments were at this time 

 totally unnecessary, and that its 

 powers were oppressive and dan- 

 gerous ; and he moved as an 

 amendment, that the bill be read 

 a second time on that day three 

 months. 



There is less occasion to enter 

 into the particulars of the sub- 

 sequent debate, as the bill was 

 stated to be a precise coimterpart 

 of that which passed two years 

 before. The ground for its re- 

 newal was distinctly declared by 

 Lord Castlereagh. " He woiUd 

 ask, (said he) tiie learned and 

 hon. gentleman who had opposed 

 it, if he uould recommenil go- 

 vernment and pal liament to throw 

 open the country to all those 

 violent and troubled sjiirits who 

 assembled about Buonajiarte when 

 he made his last and desperate 

 etiint to disturb the peace of the 

 A\()rld ? " As it was not obvious 

 that any peculiar danger accrued 

 to this country from the presence 

 of sucii emigrants, the speakers 

 in opi)osition regarded tlie mea- 

 sure as rather subservient to the 

 policy of the French court, than 

 called for by the circumstances 

 of England; and the debate in- 

 volved much discussion, both 

 legal and political. The House 

 di\iding upon the question, the 

 second readiner was carried bv 

 141 votes against 47- 



The bill having gone into a 

 committee, the order of the day 

 for receiving its report stood for 



May 



