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Show 12 A Speech in Parliament touch}ng_ ____ th_e_y_-wer_e_)_t-=-h-e-y gre_w_· -to-;d:itference, and to t~ofe words 5 J/4de tu ad Dextram, & ego ad Jiniftram, &c. But certaml y, I fhould never h brought that Example on that fide. , For we fee what fol-1 avee d of it· How that this Separat.i on, ad Dex.tram, an d ad S7.m - fl_~;m, caufed the miferable Captivity of the one Brother~ an.d the'Dangerous, though profperous War, of the other, tor 1:: R.efcous, and Recovery. . . But to this Objection, Mr. 8pea~r, bemg fo weighty, a n d~ principall, I mean to give three ~everall. An1wers;. t;Very one u! them, being, to mine~nde~fi~ndmg, by It ftlffufficient. . The firfi: is that thiS Opmwn, of the Number!', of the Scottifl' Nation, that fuould be likely,. to plant l h~mfelv es~ heream?'ng!t us, will be found, to be a Tbmg, rather In Conceit, then.In ~ vent. For (Mr. Spcaf<!r) yGla ihallfind the~e .Plaufible S uh~h· tudes, of a Tree, that will thrive the better, tf It be removed 1~ · to the more fruittull Soyl; And of Sheep, or Cattell, that, tf they find a Gap~or pa{Iage open, willlea':e the more barren P afi:ure, and get into the more r~ch,and plen ufnll; To be but Argume~ t ~. meerly fuperficiall, and to hav~ no found ~~femblance, wllh the Tranfplanting orTransfernng of Famthes. For the Tree:> we know, by natu~e, as foon ~sit is fet in ~he better Ground,can fafien upon it, and take Nutnment from It: And a fb~ep, as foon as he gets into the be.tter Pai:ture, what iliould let htm to graze, and feed? But there longeth more, (I take it,) to a Family, or particular Perfon~ that iliall remove, from one. Nation, to a~ other. For if( Mr. spea~r) they.have not Stoek,Means, Acquaintance and Cufi:ome, Habitation, Trades, Countenance, and the like; I hope, you doubt not~ b':lt they will fiarv~, in. the midfr,~f the rich Pafiure; And are far enough off, from grazmg, at then pleafure: And therefor~, in this Point,_ which i: conjefrurall, Experience is the befi: Gmde: For the Time pafi, 1s a Pattern, ol the Time to come. I think, no Man doubteth, Mr. speak..er, but1 his Maje.fties firfi: comming in, was as the gr~a tefr Spring- tide, for the Confluence, and Enaance, of that Nat1on. Now I would fain underfi:and, in thefc four years fpace,and iri the Fulnefs,anJ Strength, of the Current, and Tide, how many Families, of the Scottifh Men, are planted, in the Cittics, Burroughs, and Town1, of this 1\.ingdom l For I doaffure myfelf, that more then lome Per fons of QE,ality, about his Maje:fties P erfon, here at the court, and in London,And fome other infcriour Perfons,that have a De. pendancy upon them ; The ·Return and Certificate, iffuch a Su'rvey,fhould be made, would be, of a Number,extremely fmall. I report me, to all your private know ledges, of the places, where you inhabit. · . Now (Mr. speal{_er,) as I faid ; Si in Ligno viridi ita fit, quid fiet in arido 1 I am fure there will be no more fuch Spring• Tides.But you will tell me, of a multitude ·of Families, of the Scottijh Nation! in P.olo11ia: And if they tnultiply, in a Gountry, lo far off, how much the Naturali~ation of the Scottijb Nation. much more here at hand? For that (Mr. speak_cr) you muft impute ir, of neceffity, to fome fpeciall Accident, ofTime and place, that draweth them thither. Fo.t: you fee, plainly, before your eyes, that in Germany, which is much nearer; And in france, where they are invit~d with priviledges, And with this very priviledge, of Naturalization, yet no fuch Number can be found. So as it cannot be~ either nearnefs of place, or priviledge ofPerfon, that is the Caufe. But fhall I tell you( Mr. spe11k.._er,) what I think :Of all the places in the world, near or far of, they will never take,that courfe oflife,in th~s Kingdome, which they content themfelves with, in Poland. For we fee it, to be the Nature of all men, that they will rather difcover Poverty abroad, then at home. There is never a Gentleman, that hath overreached himfelfin Expence,and thereby mtafr abate his Countenance, but he wiH rather travell, and do it abroad, then at home. And we know well, they have good high Stomacks,-and have ever frood, jn feme terms, and Emulation, with us; And therefore they will never live here, except they can live in good fafbion. So as I affureyou (Mr. Speak.._er,) I am of Opinion, that the frrife~ which we now have to apmit them, will have like Sequele, as that Contention had, between the Nobility, and People of Rome, forth.: admitting of a Plebeian Conf!tl 5 . whic~ while it was in Palling, was very vehement, and migliltlly frood upon: And when the People had obtained it ; they never made any Plebeian Confol; No, not in 6o. years after.· And fo will this be for many years, as I am perf waded, rather a Matter in Opinion:~ then in ufe, or effect: And this is the Firfr Anfwer, that I give to this main Inconvenience, pretended, of Surcharge of P eopl~. The Second Anfwer, which lgivc: to this 0Qjection, is this: I mufr have leave to doubt~ f Mr. speA~er,) that this Realm of England, is not :ret peopled to the full. For certain it is, that the Territories of France, It~tl.J, FlaHnqeri_,and fom~ parts of Germany, do in equall f pace of Ground~ bear and contain, a far greater QEantity of People, if they were mufrreci by the PoU. Neither ·can I fee, that this Kingdom, is fo much inferiour, unto thofe forrain Parts in fruitfulnefsJ as it is in population; which makes me conceive, w~ have not our full charge. Befides, I do fee manifeftly among us, the Badges, and Tokens, rather ofScarcenefs, then ofPrefs ofPeople; as Drowned Grounds) Commons, Wafies, and the like: Which is a plain Demonfrration,that howfoever there may be, an overf welling throng, and prefs of People, here about London, which is mofr in our Eye; yet the Body of the Kingdome is but thin fown with People. And whofoever !hall com par~, the Ruines , and Decayes, of ancient Towns, in this Realm, with the Erections, and Augmentations, of new; cannot but judge that this Realm, hath been far better peopled in former times; It may be, in the Heptarchy, or otherwife;For ' generally the Rule holdeth, The {malkr State)the greater PopuJatio11, pro- |