would not hold good with respect to the whole Kingdom, if Foreigners were admitted?

VI. IF Foreigners were not admitted, whether the above mentioned Increase of Labour will not for fake that City, Country, or Kingdom, and fix in another where Work is cheapeft done? Whether any Statutes, Reftraints, or Prohibitions, can prevent this Confequence?

And whether the Spaniards, who have experienced this Truth to their Coft, are not now fetting about to amend their Error by an Admiffion of Foreigners? Yet do not the English feem inclined to run into the fame Error more and more?

VII. WHETHER it is not prudent to keep open two Doors in a State, one for fuch Perfons to go out to our Colonies, as may have their Reasons for fuch Departure, and the other to admit those Persons in, as are inclined to live among us?

VIII. IF any among ourselves have been imprudent or unfortunate, and would willingly retire to a Place where their past Conduct was not known; or if any are moved by Ambition to seek their Fortunes in foreign Countries, is it not the best Policy to open a Way for fuch Adventurers to go to our own Colonies and Plantations, rather than to let them retire to other Countries, and probably to our Rivals? SECTION

SECTION XIX.

If a Naturalization Bill was to pass, Whether Beggars would be the likelieft to come over?

1. Do Beggars want the Inducement of

a Naturalization Bill?If a thoufand foreign Beggars were now to come over, have the Juftices of the Peace, the Mayors, or other Civil Magiftrates, any legal Authority of ordering them out of the Kingdom of Great Britain, or of levying a Tax, or applying any Publick Money for that Purpofe? If they have not, what Encouragement would a Naturalization Bill give to Beggars more than they have already?

II. ARE the Lazy and Indolent the likelieft to leave their native Country? Do even fuch among the Scotch, Welf, (tho' upon the fame Continent) or Irish, as are Beggars by Profeffion, take the Pains to come into England to fet up that Trade? If any of the Natives of thofe Countries are found begging in England, are they not, for the moft part, induftrious People who came for work, but were taken fick, or reduced by unavoidable Misfortunes?

III. WHAT

THE Juftices of the Peace have a Power of paffing, that is of fending away Irish Beggars into Ireland, but no Foreigners as I am informed.

III. WHAT Could a lazy and indolent Foreigner propofe to himself by coming into England, where he doth not understand fo much as the Language of the Country? Or how would fuch a Perfon defray the Expence of a Paffage hither?

IV, IF any Englishman propofes to push his Fortune in a foreign Country, doth he intend to live by Laziness and Idleness? And can a foreign Merchant or Mechanick here in England hope to thrive by any other Means, than by an Application and Induftry equal at least, if not fuperior to that of the Natives?

V. Is that Objection, "That we shall fwarm "with foreign Beggars," confiftent with the other," That Foreigners will come over to underwork the Natives, and take the Bread "out of their Mouths?"

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If a Naturalization Bill fhould pass, Whether the Vicious and Abandoned would be the likelieft to come over.

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HAT Reftraints are put upon Vicious and Abandoned from coming over now?Do not all the Rakes in Europe know by the Example and Converfation of the Englife that travel Abroad, that Eng

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land is a Country where People may be as wicked as they please? And what is it to a Rake, a Prostitute, or Sharper, whether they are naturalized or not? Are not they, for the moft part, Citizens of the World?

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II. WHEN foreign Merchants and Tradefmen are obliged to leave their Country on Motives of Confcience and Religion, are they fo likely to increase our Luxuries, and debauch our Morals, as foreign Cooks, Singers, Dan cers, and Fidlers, whofe very Livelihood depends upon adding Incentives to our Follies, and feeding our Vices?

III. IF our Rivals had it in their Choice to fend either a Colony of Merchants and Manufacturers,or of Singers and Fidlers into each Trading Town in England,Which of the two would they be the likelieft to fend? And which do we seem most difpofed to receive?

IV. WHETHER the Manufacturing Poor in any Country are fo debauched and immoral as in England? Is there not therefore a greater Danger, that the English fhould corrupt the Foreigners, than be corrupted by them?

V. Is not Holland open to all the World? And are the People obferved to be more debauched upon that Account?Or was it found by Experience, that we in this Nation

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were corrupted in our Morals by the Reception of the Flemish and French Refugees?

The most efficacious, as well as the gentleft Methods of reforming a People's Morals.

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1. Is.

S the Naturalization of Foreign Proteftants inconfiftent with any good Scheme that can be devifed for the Reformation of Morals? And indeed, will not both Schemes co-operate beft together? That is, Will not good Examples be the best Recommendation and Enforcement of good Laws?

II. Is not Emulation a strong Principle in human Nature?And particularly* fo in

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* THE ingenious Abbe du Bos, in his Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting, Vol. II. Chap. xv. Page 196. makes a very pertinent and ufeful Obfervation on this Head.

"THE prefent English, fays he, are not defcended, "generally speaking, from the Britons who inhabited "that Ifland when the Romans fubdued it. Neverthe "lefs, the Strokes with which Cafar and Tacitus cha "racterife the Britons, are extremely well fuited to the "English; for the one were not more fubject to Jea"loufy [the Impatience of being outrivalled] than the "other. Tacitus obferves, that Agricola found no bet"ter Method of engaging the ancient Britons to make "their

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