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Show 26 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS. been the very Height of Madnefs in us to have :been at the Expence of keeping it)-~ this was an End by no Means worthy of national Attention, and not at all adequate to the Blood and Treafure it muf't have cof't,- -even tho' the Projec‘t had fucceeded. But if the real Plan was to open a Way to the Spani/lz Mines by taking the Port or Entrance II to them, and f0 to get rich all at once without Trade or lnduf'try,--this Scheme would have been the mofl fatal and dellruélive of any, had not Providence kindly interpofed by defeating it. For if we had been victorious, and had vanquilhed the Spaniards, as they formerly vanquiihed the Indian Inhabitants, our Fate and Punifhment would have been by {Kills Time limilar to theirs -,-- Pride elated with imaginary Wealth, and abject Poverty without Refource. HENCE likewife we may difcern the Weaknefs of one Argument (indeed the only popular one) fometimes inflfted on with more Warmth than Judgment in Favour of a general N atura« 'lization, viz. That it would induce fuch rich Foreigners as are not engaged in any Trade or Bulinefs, and confequently would not interfere 27 tunes yet to make, to come, and enrich the Country at the fame Time that they are en- riching thefelves by their fuperior Induilry, Ingenuity, and other good Qualities] For as to idle Foreigners, living on the Income of their great Ef'tates,---pray, of what national Advan- tage would they be to us P What, I fay, even fuppofing we could perfuade all the wealthy Foreigners of this Clafs throughout the World to come and refide in England? The real Fact is, that no other Confequences could enfue, but that this Nation, inflead of being chiefly compofed of fubflantial Yeomen, and Farmers, creditable Manufacturers, and opulent Merchants, would then become a Nation of Gentle. men and Ladies on the one Side, and of Foot- men and Grooms, Ladies' Women, and Laun~ dreITes, and fuch like Dependants, on the other. In Ihort we have Proofs enough already of this Matter, now before our Eyes, and in our own Kingdom, if we will but make the proper Ufe of them. For Example, the Towns of Bir- wing/mm, Leeds, Halifax, Mamba/fer, {9°C. 699:. being inhabited in a Manner altogether by with any of the Natives, to come and [pend z/zez'r Fortunes in this Land of Liberty. [What Tradel‘men and Manufacturers, are fome of the richel't and mol't flourifhing in the King- dom: Whereas the City of York, and luch is truly to be hoped from a general Naturaliza- other Places as feem to be more particularly tion, is, that it would induce indul'trious and in- fet apart for the Refidence of Perfons who live upon genious Foreigners, Men who have their For- tunes "Ill" |