Alien Bill.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,-On pecositig your paper this morning, I perceived that lat night the Alien Bill was introduced in the Rouise of Comnmons, with the modlification, however, to exempt those Aliens who have been resident in this country for seven years and upwards. For this act of liberality, those AIienrs will, I am satisfied, be grateful to the Right ilonourable Secretary for the HomeDeparunent; but, as one of those individuals,and bein intcrested in this clause,having been a resident in this city for a con,iderable greater period, and of course a contributor to tieincormeor property tax, besides having paid and now payvig all the remaining heavy taxes and rates to which house- keepsers are liable, I hope that this clause will be plain, and that an absence of perhaps one, twn, or three monthe, in the last yearss necessarv for tsiness, will not depii e the individuals who have been resident for seve. years and upwards, of the privilege of the c.aim, or subject them again, on qtuitting or arrivinginto this coun- try, now considered their homne, to tthe trouble and unpleasant feeling in presenting themselves to the Alies-office. As the Alien Bill is to be read on Fridav a second time, and therctorc ample time tor introducing other clauses, I beg most bunt- bly to sug.cst to the consideration of tlte Right Hon. Secretarv wnhetlher it would not be conferring and extendin the libemliiy more (which he has now begun to bestow), to thoselliens who have not only resided here for the periotl of ten years and upwards, but are married, some of them to anEnglish wife, are besides established here as merchants, paying in their several situations as much aS any Englishman towards the expenses of the country, to grant to themzl the eight of na'urslization, which, although anxiously dcsirtl by a great many, has been repeatedlly refttsed during tke last two years. By inserting the above in your paper, you vill oblige a constant re:tder, not less attachled to his Majesty and his Government for he- 111N d11 ALIEN. March 24. A LIENV BILL.