II. If there are between 15 and 20 Millions of Money in our publick Funds due to Foreigners, is not this Sum to be confidered in the fame Light as a Mortgage on a private Gentleman's Estate?And in that Cafe, is it not the Borrower's Intereft to INVITE and REQUEST. the Lender to refide on, and pay Rent for Part of the mortgaged Eftate, and to buy all he wants of the Tenants and Tradesmen thereunto belonging? Muft the Lender folicit this Matter as an efpecial Favour, and pay a large, Sum of Money for the Permiffion of fpending the Intereft of the borrowed Money on the Borrower's Estate?

III. ARE there not fome late Inftances to be given of Foreigners, where they have put their Money in our Funds for the fake of Security, and yet have chose to refide out of England, on account of the Averfion of the Englifh towards Foreigners?

IV. ARE there not many Countries in Europe, where Merchants and Tradesmen are treated with much Contempt on account of their Profeffion? Are there not fome, where they dare not appear wealthy, or discover their Riches? Would it be any Detriment to this Kingdom, if fuch Perfons were invited here? And ought they not to be told by the publick Voice of the Nation, that they fhall be welcome, and enjoy the Benefit of a free Conftitution? E 2

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V. ARE foreign Tradesmen, Merchants, and Mechanicks acquainted with the Nature of our Conftitution? Do they reafon and debate about Politicks as we do in England? And when they hear that a Naturalization Bill is rejected by the Reprefentatives of the English Nation, what can they conclude, but that Foreigners are refused Admittance; or at least, that they are not protected by the general Laws of the Kingdom, in the fame Manner as the Natives are? Ought we not therefore to undeceive them in fo material a Point?

SECTION XIII.

Taxes of all Kinds, particularly the Poor Tax.

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N what are all Taxes to be raised, but on the Labour of the People, and the Things they confume? And in which Country will the Taxes produce most? Where there are few, or many Inhabitants?

II. IF a certain Sum must be raised for the Exigencies of the Government, and the Paying of the Intereft of the publick Debts, and there be a Deficiency in the feveral Branches of Customs and Excifes,How is this Deficiency to be made up, but by an heavier Land-Tax? Whether therefore the whole

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Body of the Landed Intereft are not concerned on this account, as well as all others, to promote the Increase of Inhabitants?

HI. WHETHER the French Refugees did: not maintain their own Poor? And were also affeffed in many Places towards the Support of the English Poor? If this is the Fact, what Grounds were there for the Clamour, That a Naturalization Bill would encrease the Poor Tax?

IV. WOULD it be any Difadvantage to the Landed and Commercial Interefts of the Kingdom, that so many Foreigners come over as would ease the Natives by contributing 20, or 30,000l. a Year to the Relief of their Poor?

V. SUPPOSE all the Foreigners fettled here for seventy Years paft, and their Descendants were now expelled, -Would this be a Means of leffening the Numbers of the English Poor, or reducing the Poor Tax? Would not the Burden be still heavier upon the Landed Intereft?

VI. WHETHER the best Way of judging of the Expediency of the Admiflion of Foreigners, would not be by keeping an Account, by way of Debtor and Creditor, between England and the Foreigners who have fettled here for feventy Years paft? Viz.

ENGLAND

ENGLAND Debtor to Foreigners for Manufactures, Rents of Houfes and Lands, Confumption of Provifions, Increase of Commerce and Navigation, Payment of Taxes, Customs, and Excises.

ENGLAND Creditor to Foreigners by Sums expended on, or Charities given to fuch Foreigners. And on which Side would the immenfe BALANCE fall?

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SECTION XIV.

The * Birth-right of an Englishman.

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HAT is the Birth-right of an Englifhman?Is it a Right or Privilege to be poor and miferable, while his Neighbours are increafing in Wealth and Commerce? Is fuch a Birth-right worth Twelve-pence? Is it worth preferving?

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"BUT to come to the Subject I have now under"taken, which is to examine what the Confequences "would be, upon the Suppofition that the Whigs were "now reftored to their Power.-The Bill [for the Na"turalization of foreign Proteftants] now to be repealed, "would then be re-enacted; and the Birth-right of an "Englishman reduced again to the Value of Twelvepence" EXAMINER, N° XXV. Jan, 25, 1710.

II. WHO are the Perfons that would attempt to deprive Englishmen of their Birth-right? -Such who propofe to make England rich and flourishing, the Center of Trade, and a Magazine for other Nations?-Or those that would cramp and confine its Commerce, countenance Monopolies and Combinations, prevent the Increase of Inhabitants and the Confumption of Labour, under a Pretence of preferving the Purity of the English Blood?

III. ARE not all Attempts to deprive us of the Benefits of Labour, Attempts upon our Birth-rights? Are not all Limitations and Restrictions, whereby Englishmen are obliged to buy the dearer and fell the cheaper, so many Invafions on their Rights and Liberties? Who are the Perfons guilty of these Crimes?

IV. WAS there any Claufe ever offered in a Naturalization Bill to deprive the Freemen of Towns Corporate of their Rights and Privileges? And was it not always declared by the Promoters of fuch Bills, that Freemen fhould preferve thefe [fuppofed] Privileges, as long as they themfelves would chufe to keep them, and till they would petition to be releafed from them?

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