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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61979	Sundry considerations touching naturalization of aliens whereby the alledged advantages thereby are confuted, and the contrary mischiefs thereof are detected and discovered.		1695 (1695)	Wing S6178; ESTC R222454	10,747	15

Synagogues Turks must have their Mahomitan Service and so must the Moors and also Socinians Papists Lutherans and others For since the foundation of the proposal is the politick consideration of the increase of Trade and the supposition is that the more universal the Confluence of foreign Traders is the greater will be the increase of Trade and the more ample and extensive the incouragement is the greater will be the confluence Of necessity upon these suppositions the unlimited Tolleration of all Religions will necessarily follow for it will be ridiculous to think that those People who are perchance more zealous in their false perswasions and Religions than many of us English are of the true Religion should think themselves much gratified with a civil priviledge in point of Trade Commerce Commorance and participation of civil Immunities and yet be fetter'd from the free Practice and Exercise of their Religion unless we please our selves with that base Hope that possibly by this means the sense of Religion will become a matter of Indifferency and strike sail to profit or at least with that unwarranted hope that true Religion will be more likely to rectifie those false Religions rather than to be corrupted by them And if as an Expedient it shall be proposed that the Tolleration shall not be universal but only of the Christian Religion tho' there be much to he said against the universality of such a Tolleration yet let such proposers consider First That they will not thereby answer the latitude and extent of their design for the advantage of Trade to its full Extent since a great part of the trading Men of the World are Jews Turks and Infidels Again what Criterium shall be used that may be practicable for the discovery of such and discriminating them from others of the Christian Profession They may come in and plant themselves here in considerable Numbers and keep their Religions close to themselves 'till their Number swell to such a proportion as may defend them in the open profession and practise of that which at first they more modestly and politickly concealed till their Numbers and Wealth and Interest give them Safety and Impunity in a more free and open profession so that by this means in a little time Men of all Nations will be mingled with our Parliaments and Counsels and publick Employments to the hazard of the Ruin and Extirpation of the English Nation Policy and Government and Men of all Religions will be mingled with our Parliaments Councels and publick Employments to the hazard and destruction not only of the Protestants but of the Christian Religion it self or else to the corrupting it to a kind of mungril Religion like that of the Samaritans after their Captivity they feared the Lord and served their Idols 8thly This very pouring in of Forreigners into this Kingdom will endanger the dissolution or at least a considerable Alteration of the municipal Laws of the Kingdom and this hath been the experience of this and all other Kingdoms which have suffered considerable Inroads of other Nations either with or against their Wills the Inroads of the Danes and Saxons into this Kingdom soon brought either Diversities or Alterations of Laws and the Reasons thereof are evident considerable Numbers of Foregners transplanted into another Kingdom bring along with them the Acquaintance and Knowledge and Love of their own Laws and Customs which doth ordinarily occasion First Diversities of Laws for when they come in considerable Companies they many times plant themselves together and there mantain a considerable Government and Law among themselves which in time prevails and prospers into a Particular Law for that Society and Tract wherein they plant themselves and so breaks the Unity of the Law and in time of the Government of a Kingdom Their Solemnities of Contracts their Obligations and Rules of Commerce their Rules of Successions become different which in process of Time rankles into the adjoyning Parts and Counties 2dly Dissolution and alteration and instability in Laws for in time these Foreigners having seated themselves and grown rich and potent will necessarily mingle with our Councils yea and with our Parliament and ferment and assimilate our Laws to their own and it will be and alway hath been found that diversity of Laws and too much lubricity instability and change of Laws are the causes of confusion and instability in Government Now perchance against these dangers and inconveniences especially in relation to the corrupting of Religion and municipal Laws these or such as these expedients or objections may be projected or imagined 1st That the true Religion is so reasonable and effectual that it may rather reform the false Religions than be corrupted by them 2dly That this Tolleration of other Religions here may induce the permission tolleration and favour of the true Religion in other Countries where it is interdicted and thereby a greater advance of the True Religion may ensue in Foreign Countries and more than recompence the detriment that true Religion may suffer by the entertainment of false Religions 3dly That there may be such modifications of the indulgence to Foreigners as may secure it against innovations either in Religion Laws or Government as may be feared from an imprudent unlimited unqualified admission perchance the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy might be a fitting Expedient or an exclusion of them from Publick Offices or distributing them into several quarters might be a sufficient corrective for this Fear I ANSWER I. To the first of these it is true that the true Protestant Religion hath a great advantage of evidence and worth above other Religions and it hath by the Blessing of God much prevailed in the World but we must remember our Saviour's answer to the Devil's temptation of throwing himself down from the Pinacle of the Temple Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God God Almighty hath given the Children of Men Reason and Prudence and it is to be employed as well in Matters relating to Religion as in civil Concerns It were a wildness to expect that the corrupt Religions should not more probably infect our weak and corrupted Nature rather than to think that a true Religion would not receive Corruption by the mixtures of Persons of corrupt Principles we see at this time Idolatry Turcism and Popery hath prevailed in six parts of seven at least in the habitable World II. To the second I answer First How do we know that other Princes will grant a reciprocal Indulgence unto the Protestant Religion 2. If they will that they will observe and keep it It will take up a considerable time to be sure of both these and till we are sure thereof we are not in any tollerable condition to make or receive this Proposition 3. But if we had sufficient assurance they would make and keep such a reciprocal compact yet the disadvantage will still be on our parts We shall never have the advantage to invite the English into the Foreign Parts of Europe or Asia as they will have to invite them hither England is a fine spot of Ground a rich and convenient Pasture handsomely enclosed by Natural Enclosures and by civil against the Incursion of Aliens namely the Sea and our Laws and if this inclosure were to be thrown open that our Neighbours should become intercommoners with us upon the supposed advantage of the liberty of ours with them where one Englishman would transplant himself into France a thousand Foreigners would transplant themselves hither and starve the English into a necessity of an unwilling transportation of our selves into our Neighbour common and how long or how well they would be entertained there we might perchance hereafter know to our loss but be it never so well we well know it would be to our loss III. As to the third I say we have no necessity thanks be to God of trying this Experiment were the Trade of England as well managed as it might be without this Experiment we should have no need of searching after such projects to advance it and therefore it is extream folly to make unnecessary and hazardous Experiments in hope to cure them by Expedients which we are not sure will be either effectual or sufficient for it If the Sea hath broken down the Banks it becomes us to use the best means we can by new Ditches and Provisions to stop its progress and since we cannot wholly prevent the danger and avoid the loss yet to use the best and likeliest means we may to render it as easie and as remediable as may be But it is a madness to break down the Banks and let in the Deluge upon hopes of Expedients to render it less inconvenient and to run so great a danger upon prospect of petty notional imaginations that might as well think to circumscribe it The Safety of States and Kingdoms is of too great a moment without inevitable necessity to practice experiments of such a nature And the Experiment it self in proposal is of such a kind as is not easily governable but will be too unruly for the magement and disposal in point of practice whatever Men may think in Notions and Speculations And when all is done as it may probably do very much harm so it doth not appear to any considerate man that is not fond of his own or others fancies or novelties that it can bring any equivalent benefit Upon the whole matter it seems that the Proposal is to be rejected as dangerous and hurtful to the Kingdom to Religion and to the Interest of the English Nation as utterly unevident to produce any considerable good to the Kingdom any way proportionable to the damage and danger thereof that this excellent boundary and rampire that the Laws of this Kingdom have settled and at all times have tenaciously observed against the Inundations of Foreigners ought to be preserved as the great Security of the Safety Priviledge and Interest of the Natives and altho' pro hic nunc upon emergent reasons and personal merit and assurance of some particular persons acts of Naturalization have been granted tho' very sparingly and cautiously and not by the sholes as hath been too much done of late Times yet there is neither Wisdom Prudence nor fidelity to the King or Kingdom to go about to throw open this Enclosure either by an universal Naturalization of all or by any general or national Naturalization of any Foreign Countries or People FINIS

SUNDRY CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING Naturalization of Aliens WHEREBY The alledged Advantages thereby are confuted and the contrary Mischiefs thereof are detected and discovered THERE being much Discourse about Naturalizing Foreigners and great Conveniences and Inconveniences being suggested pro con as to the Consequences thereof in respect to Trade I beg leave having my self an Interest in the Trade of this Nation that I may deliver the Sense of a worthy Patriot Sir Matthew Hales late Lord Chief Justice of England who in a Manuscript accidentally falling into my hands affirms and from the following Arguments proves the Naturalization of Foreigners never to have been the judgment of honest thinking but only the opinion of unthinking notional or designing Men and the inconveniences that follow hereupon never to he remedied It is a Subject that very nearly concerns the Good of this Kingdom the English having been always tenacious of their Liberty and Jealous of being wrong'd in their Trade by Foreigners as is apparent by the many commotions formerly on that account especially the Ill May-Day in the 9th Year of King Henry the Eighth 1657. of which our Historians take especial notice If it was thus when Trade was in its Infancy it may possibly be much more so now the Trade of Europe is chiefly in our hands And at this present time the countenancing of a Foreign Trade tho' in a Sister Nation to the prejudice of our own Merchants appears to be of such high and National concern that both Houses of Parliament those great Assertors of our English Liberties have taken notice of it But to wave further prefacing I come directly to the subject Matter and observe I. THAT there is no present necessity of any such thing not from abroad for we are not under the fear or power of Foreign Princes that might impose it upon us Nor from within for tho' we have many Foreigners among us yet they are not able so far to give us the Law as by a bold importunity to command it The Natives of this Kingdom very much exceed them in strength and number neither do the Natives of this Kingdom except some few speculative and notional men desire much less demand it so that we who have above five hundred years continued under distinct Policy from other Nations and have enjoyed the Priviledge of our own Kingdom without communication thereof promiscuously and generally to Aliens may continue so still without the necessity of Naturalization of Aliens and for ought I know with as much happiness and wealth and honour as our Ancestors have done before us And altho' it is true that while the King of England had their Hereditary Territories in France the French of those Territories were in effect by the Union Naturalized as Postnati in Scotland are with us at this day yet that is nothing to the business in hand namely an universal Naturalization so that there seems nothing of necessity in the case only if there be any thing of reason for it it must be the business of convenience and that in relation to Trade II. Therefore the conveniences of Naturalization of Aliens must be considered and this certainly must be in relation to Trade And herein will be these Considerations following Namely First What kind of Naturalization that must be which must most advance Trade Secondly What kind of advance of Trade will arise by such Naturalization Touching the former of these certainly the general reason of the advance of Trade by Naturalizing Aliens must be because it will be a means to invite Foreigners to come hither to bring their Stocks their Wealth their Trading their Manufactures hither where they may find as great if not greater advantage than they have in other or their own Countries The consequence whereof must needs be that the more ample and extensive their Priviledge is the greater the advance of Trade will thereby be because the Invitation is the greater and on the other side the more narrow contracted and restrictive the Naturalization is the less it will conduce to the advance of Trade The Naturalization therefore must be Universal First In respect of extent it must extend to all Persons of all Nations of all Religions Protestants Papists Jews Mahometans Turks Moors Pagans for otherwise it answers not the Latitude of the Design if Trade be the Saint that is adored only other Considerations must be laid aside or else the Latitude of the Design is narrowed Secondly In respect of Intention or the Nature of the Priviledge it must be to all Intents and Purposes there must be no discrimination in Customs nor in Hereditary Successions nor in any other Priviledges belonging to natural born Subjects Touching the later the advance of Trade hereby will be thus England is most certainly in the most advansageous place of the World to be the Mistress of Trade both in reference to Europe Asia Africa and America the Eastern Western Northern and Southern World it hath the best Ports and Harbours for Shipping of any place in the World and not only the best but the most numerous as well as most useful It hath the most advantageous Rivers for the transporting into the Body of the Kingdom and educing out of it all manner of Commodities as Thames Severn Humber Tyne and by divers others and by new Cuts and Sluices there might without much difficulty in comparison of the Profit for the communication between the Ports themselves and the Ports and Inland Towns Again it hath Timber for Shipping is not far distant from the Baltick Sea for its supply of Masts and Cordage hath Iron Tin Lead Leather Wooll Cloth c. for the maintenance of Trade is excellently fitted with fishing for the increase of Marriners hath all sorts of Victuals for the Victualling of Ships and in Sum is supplied with all conveniences and accommodations to make it the common Port almost of the whole World And besides all this though it be very populous for a Continent it is nothing in comparison of what it might be as an Island or Common Port there is room enough for the reception of Millions of People in those vast unpeopled Plains and Coasts almost in all Countries the Netherlands that are not much larger than Yorkshire yet in respect of their Trade are infinitely more populous than the most populous part of England except London Bristol Exeter and Newcastle and some other Port-Towns And therefore were the Country free for all Nations to come into with the same advantage as in their own certainly all these advantages besides the pleasantness and temperateness of the Country would invite infinite numbers of Foreigners especially the Trading and Manufacturing part of them to come and settle here and the Consequences hereof to the Trade and Wealth of the Kingdom would be such as these 1st It would presently advance the Price and Rents of Land by the increase of the Wealth the Trade and the Inhabitants of the Kingdom 2dly It would draw over the Trading