the Inhabitants of this Ifland in regard to Foreigners? Might it not therefore be made very inftrumental in promoting the Reformation of the Natives?

III. HATH not the Method of Whipping, fending to Bridewel, to the Plantations, and even Hanging, been long enough practised?—yet these

their Children learn Latin, as well as Rhetorick, and is the other polite Arts in ufe among the Romans, than to excite their Emulation, by making them afhamed "to fee themselves excelled by the Gauls. The Spirit

of the Britons, faid Agricola, is of a better Frame "than that of the Gauls; and if they have a mind to "take Pains, it depends entirely on themfelves to fur"pafs their Neighbours. Agricola's Artifice had its de"fired Effect; and the Britons, who before scorned to "fpeak Latin, grew even defirous of acquiring the Beau"ties of the Roman Eloquence. Let the English them

felves judge, whether the Artifice used by Agricola "might not be employed among them at present with "the like Succefs."

THE Reader perhaps will not be difpleafed at the mentioning another Example of the like Nature, though of an inferior Kind, as it is fo recent and applicable to the prefent Subject. The chief Gardiner of a late noble Lord employed a great Number of English and Irish.Labourers in making new Gardens; but could not get them to perform their Work with any tolerable Degree of Industry and Care, 'till he hit upon the happy Expedient of feparating the two Nations, and exciting their Emulation against each other. This had all the Success he could defire: And they did more Work, and in a bet ter Manner, when they were told, it was for the Honour of England, and for the Honour of Ireland, than for other Confiderations he could urge.

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these Severities have had no good Influence on the Morals of the People. Is it not therefore requifite that fome other Expedient should be tried? And if it has been made evident, that a Naturalization Bill would be an Inducement only to fober and induftrious Foreigners to come over, may not a Spirit of Emulation incite the English to rival them in the like virtuous Practices?

IV. SUPPOSE a Set of Journeymen and Manufacturers entered into a Combination to work only three Days in a Week, and to have an exorbitant Price for that Time,What Arguments are to be used, or Methods taken, to break this deftructive Confederacy? Will the Terror of the Civil Magiftrate in fuch a Conftitution as ours be fo effectual as the Force of Emulation? Will the Sot or the Debauchee be fo foon reclaimed by any Severity, as by feeing Foreigners employed in cafe he refufes to work? And is not the raifing of Emulation a much more humane and gentle Method, more agreeable to the Genius of a free People, and in all Refpects most conducive to the Publick Good?

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SECTION XXII.

A Regard to the Conftitution both in Church and

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State.

N what Refpect would the Introduction of Foreign Proteftants endanger the Establishment of our excellent CHURCH?. What was the Opinion of our Reformers?

II. HAVE the Churches Abroad ever expreffedan Aversion to Epifcopacy,-to the Use of Liturgies, to our Articles and Homilies, -or to any Part of our Ecclefiaftical Conftitution? And have not they often confidered the Church of England as the Pillar and Glory of the Reformation?

III. ARE not the English noted throughout Europe at this Day for broaching Heterodox Systems and Latitudinarian Opinions? And is there any Country, where the grand and fundamental Articles both of Natural and Revealed Religion are attacked in fo outrageous a Manner as they are in England? Is there therefore any Danger that we fhould be corrupted in our Principles by the Introduction of Foreigners?

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IV. ARE not the principal Clergy in Foreign Countries, both Calvinifts and Lutherans, Members of our Society for propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, according to the Doctrine and Difcipline of the Church of England? If therefore any of their Flocks were to remove and fettle here,would they advise them, when they came to England, to separate from the established Church?

V. DID* the Foreign Proteftants, who fled hither from Popish Perfecutions, behave indecently

* HAVING been lately favoured with two Extracts from the Letters of Bishop Compton to Bishop Fell, I am perfuaded that I cannot do a more acceptable Thing than to prefent them to the Reader, as they contain the Sentiments of one Father of our Church to another, in their friendly and private Correspondence; and as both these eminent Prelates were diftinguished for their Zeal and Affection to the Church of England. There is no Date of the Year in either Letter.

OCTOBER 18. It must be confeffed, that many "of the meaner Sort [of the Refugees] have not dealt fo "well with us as they ought to have done. But then "you must confider, how far the HOTSPURS of our "Church have always provoked them; and that the (6. more discreet and understanding of them were nevertheless generally for us."

JANUARY 21. "The Abstract you sent me [relat"ing to the Refugees] is exceeding good, and I believe we fhall fend it into all the Diocefes: For the PA"PISTS have been so very careful to raise an evil Re"port against these poor Men, that it has done great "Mischief.”

cently or difrefpectfully towards the English Clergy? Are not their Defcendants at this Day as well affected towards them as any Perfons whatever? And is it at all probable, if Numbers were now to come over, that they would give any Caufe of Complaint against them?

1. In what refpect would the Introduction of Foreign Proteftants endanger the Conftitution of the STATE? What were the Sentiments of the moft diftinguished Patriots and ableft Politicians on this Matter?

II. ARE Foreign Proteftants averse to Liberty, and in love with Slavery? Are they dif affected to the prefent Royal Family, and in the Intereft of the Pretender?

III. WHAT Plots, Confpiracies, or Treafons, were the Foreign Proteftants, who have fettled here, detected in? What Books or Treatifes have they wrote or countenanced, which tended to the Subverfion of the Rights and Privileges of the Subject, or the juft Prerogative of the Crown?

IV. WILL the English Conftitution be weakened by a Naturalization Bill, at the fame Time that all others are ftrengthened by it? -Will it be right in the French Government to entice the English, Scotch, and Irish Catho

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