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Show A Speech in f arliament touching • pro rata. And whether, this be true, or no, we need not feek fi h then to call to our remembrance, how many of us,ferve huerrte , einr, this place, for de folate, an d d eca· yed , .B u ~roug' h s. A ga·t n (Mr. speak.;r,) whofoevcr looketh into the ~rmctples ofEita~~,. n. hold it that it is the JI..Jediterrane CountnesFand not the Marx-mtimuLeL, which' need to fear furcharge o f reop l e. ., or a 11 Sea f1·ovm· - ces,tmd fpecially Jjland.r,have.another Element,~eGd~s the Earth, and Soil, for their Sufrentatton. For w~at.an mfim~e, Number of people, are, a~d may be fu!£ained by ~tfh~ng, Carnage by Sea, and Merchandizmg? wheret_n, I do aga1n dtfcove~, that we. ar.e not at all pinched by Multttude of People. For tf we were, It were not poffible, ~~at .we fhould relinq'?ifb, an.d !efigri, fuch an in finite Benefir,ofFtfhmg,to the Flemmmg~,as,tt ts welll{nown, we do. And therefore, I fee, that we have wafies by Sea, as well as by Land: which fiill is an i?(allible Argument) that our Indufl: ry:l is not awaked, to feek m~~nte.nance.)by any over great Prefs, or charge of people. . . . And lafily (Mr. speafter) ~here was.never any Kmgdome, In t?e ~ges of d:e world, had, I tht~k, fo fatr, ~nd happy r:n~ans, to tffue, and difcharge, the Mulut~de of thetr People,(1f1t were too great,) asthisKingdomehath; I.nregarP:,, ofthatdefolate, and wafied, Kingdome of Ireland; which, (bemg a Co~ntrey, blefied, with almofi all the Dow1ies of Nature; As Rivers, Havens, Woods, ~~rries, good Soyl, and temp~rate Cli~ate; And now at lafr, under,his MDlj':{ty, blc~ed alfo With obed!encc) Doth, as it were, cont mually call unto ~s, for our Colomes, .and Plantations. And fo I conclude)my fecond Anfwer, to thts pretended Inconvenience, of furcharge of People. . . . . Tl:e Third Anfwer, (Mr. spea~er,) whtch 1 gtve, IS thts.ll demand what is the worH Eflect, which can follow ofSurcharge of reople 1 Look into all Stories? and you fhall find it non~ other, thfn fome Honourable War, tor the Enlargement of ~hetr Borde s twhich find themfelv~s pent, upon Forrain parts. Which Inc~n·venience in a valourous,and Warlike,Nation,l know not, whtther I fbould term, an Inconvenience) or no? For the faying is moll: true, though in anothc~ Senfe; Omnefo.l~m Forti Patri~. ~t was fpoken iodeed oft: he patience, of a:n ex1l d Man : But It 1s no lefs true' of the ~&lour,of a Warlike Nation. And certainly, · (Mr. speak}r.J I hope~I may fpeak it withou~ offence: that if we did hold our felvts worthy, whenfoever JUfi Caufe ibould be given; Either to recover our ancient Kights; Or to revenge cur late wrongs; Or to a~tain the Hono~r of our Ancefiors ; Or ~o enlarge the Patrimony of our· Pofrenty ; We would never, tn this manner, forget Confideration~, of Amplitude, and Greatne; fs, and fall at variance, about profit, and Reckonings; Fitt~r~ a great deal, for private Perfons, then for ra:liaments,. an~ King4 dom.r. And thus,( Mr. speak._er,) Ileave th1s firfl: obJechon, to fuch Sati~facHon, as you have heard. '"' · So . -- ~r-----------~----~--------~----~~----------~ the Naturali-x,ation of the Scottifo Nation~~ The fecond Objection is, that the Fundamentall Laws of both thefe Kingdo»n, of England, and Scotland, are yet divers and feverall: Nay more, that it is declared, by the lnfrrume~t, that they il1all fo continue; And that there is no intent, in his Maje-ljfy, to make Innovation in them : And therefore, that it fhould not be feafonable, to proceed to this Naturalization, whereby to endowe them, with our Rights, and Priviledges,except they fhould likewife receive, and fubmit themfelves, to our Laws. And this Objection, likewife,(Mr. Speafter) I allow to be a weighty ObjeCtion, and.worthy to be well anf wered, and difcufied. The Anfwer, which I fuall offer, is this. It istrue, for mine . own part, (Mr. speafter,) that I wifh, the Scottijh Nation, governed by our Laws: For I hold our Laws, with fome reducement, worthy to govern, if it were, the world. But this is that which I]fay, and 1 dellre therein your Attention; That, according to true reafon of Efiate, Naturalization is, in Order, Firfr, and precedent, to union of Laws; In degree, a lefs Matter, then union of Laws; And, in Nature, feparable, not infeparable, from 11ni. on of Laws. For Naturalization, doth but take out, the Marks of a Forrainer; But union of Laws, tnakes them entirely as our fel ves : Nat11ralization taketh away feparation; But union of Lawes doth takeaway Difiincl:ion. Do we not fee, (Mr. speA-/ zer,) that, in the Adminifiation, oft he world, under the great Monarch, God himfelf, that his Lawes are divers ; One Law in Spirits, another in Bodiu; One Law in Regions celeftiall, another in Elementary~ And yet the Creatures, ate all one Mafs, and Lump, without any vacuum, or feparation? Do we not fee,likewife, in the State of the Church, that amongft People, of all Languages, and Linages, there is one Communirm of SaintJ ~And that, we are all Fellow Citizens~ and naturalized, of the Heavenly Hierufalem? And yet, neverthelefs, divers, and feverall, Ecclefiafricall La wei, Policies~ and Hierarchies; According to the Speech, of that worthy Father; In vefle variettH fit, fci/forA. non fit. And therefore, certainly, (Mr. speaker,) the Bond of Law, is the more fpeciall, and private, Bond; And the Bond of NA-turalization, the more common, and generall. For the Lawes, are rather FigHra Reip, then Forma; And rather Bonds of PerfeCiion, then Bond.r ofEntirenejfe. And therefore, we fee, i~ the Experience, of our <:>wn Government, that in the Kingdome of IrelA.nd, all our Statute· Lawes, fince PeyningJ Law, are not in force; And yet we deny them not, the Benefit, ofNaturalization. In Gerfey, Garne-fey, and the Ijle of Man, our Common-Lawe5 are not in force; And yet they have the Benefit of Naturalization. Neither need any M;1n doubt, but that our Laws,and Cuftome:3, mufr, in fmall time, gather., and win, upon theirs. For here,s the Se.at of the 1\.ingdmne, whence come the fuprcme Directions of Ell:ate; · Here is the Kings Perfon, and Example, of which the Verle faith. B.egi~ ad Exemplum totus cotnponitur orbil. And |