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<HEAD>REASONS Humbly offered again&s;t The frequent Naturalization of Aliens.</HEAD>
<P>IT has been the Prudence of the Princes of this Nation, always to take care to make a Di&s;tinction between Natural born Subjects and Aliens of other Kingdoms, and have never incouraged, nor indeed tolerated them in any thing futher than that which might directly or collaterally be judged and e&s;teemed for the Intere&s;t of their Natives: Neither were Aliens, in any Age, for any propo&s;ed Advantages, favoured and ea&s;ed in any thing, but Experience immediately di&s;covered many great Mi&s;chiefs to attend. Some of which are enu|merated in an Act made for redre&s;&s;ing the&s;e Grievances, <HI>Anno Henrici &s;eptimi, Cap.</HI> 2. and are hereafter mentioned.</P>
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<ITEM>Fir&s;t and Principally, <HI>The advancing Aliens in Riches and Honour, and impoveri&s;hing the Native Subjects,</HI> Secondly, <HI>The exhau&s;ting the Trea&s;ure of the Nation, and remitting the &s;ame into Foreign Nations.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Thirdly, <HI>The great hurt in imparing and le&s;&s;ening the King's Cu&s;toms, the Publick Revenue of the Nation.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Fourthly, <HI>That Merchants Aliens colour the Goods and Merchandizes of other Strangers (not Naturalized or made Denizons) and Export great and con&s;iderable Sub&s;tance in their Names.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>Herewith agree the Statutes of 11 <HI>H.</HI> 7. <HI>cap.</HI> 14. and 22 <HI>H.</HI> 8. <HI>cap.</HI> 8. pur&s;uant to the de&s;ign of which Laws, few or no Aliens were Natura|lized during the Reigns of King <HI>Edward</HI> the Sixth, Queen <HI>Mary,</HI> Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> and King <HI>James.</HI> And how greatly the Trade and Wealth of the Nation were thereby increa&s;ed, during the pro&s;perous Reigns of the two latter of the &s;aid Princes, none that are conver&s;ant in Hi&s;tory can be ignorant of.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides which Mi&s;chiefs, Experience hath di&s;covered further Inconveniencies, in admitting Aliens and Strangers to have and enjoy a free Trade upon equal Terms with His Maje&s;ties Native Subjects. As,</P>
<P>That the Trade, by Commi&s;&s;ion would be by Aliens taken out of the Hands of His Maje&s;ties Subjects, both at home and abroad, and the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Merchants would be under&s;old in the Prizes of their Commodities by Aliens, who can live more hardly, and at le&s;s Charges, in Lodg|ings, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> then the King's Subjects, to the Di&s;couragement of the Gentry, in training up their younger Sons in Trade, which was formerly e&s;teemed and proved a good Provi&s;ion for them, and many arrived thereby to great E&s;tates and Preferment, which few now do.</P>
<P>By the &s;econd Rule in the Book of Rates, annexed to the Act of Tonnage and Poundage, Goods Imported, and again Exported by <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> in Twelve Months, and Aliens in Nine Months, draw from Their Maje&s;ties half the Cu&s;toms paid by them on the Importation and in &s;ome Ca&s;es more than half.</P>
<P>By the Act of Tonnage and Poundange, Merchants <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;u&s;taining lo&s;s in their Goods Exported, by Enemies, Pirates, or peri&s;hing in the Sea, draw back the whole Cu&s;tom from His Maje&s;ty, which Prejudice His Maje&s;tie will &s;u&s;tain from Aliens Naturalized.</P>
<P><HI>By the Act of Navigation for the increa&s;e of Mariners and Shipping, it is provided, That &s;undry Commodities, &s;uch as Ma&s;ts Timber-boards, Foreign Salt, Pitch, Tar,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>imported in any other Ship or Ve&s;&s;el than what is Engli&s;h Built, or truly and without fraud, belonging to the People of</HI> England, <HI>and which is otherwi&s;e Navigated and Manned than the &s;aid Act directs,</HI> viz. <HI>The Ma&s;ter, and three Fourths of the Mariners (not being Engli&s;h) &s;hall be deemed Aliens Goods, and pay Cu&s;toms, and City, Town, and Port Duties, and the Goods of Alie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">s.</HI></P>
<P>Now if Aliens be Naturalized, the true intent of this Act is fru&s;trated, the Mariners di&s;couraged, and driven into Foreign Parts for a Lively-hood, and the Building of Shipping (the &s;trength of the Nation) made of little or no advantage.</P>
<P>The Increa&s;ing the Importation of Commodities, and thereby His Maje&s;ties Cu&s;toms, the only Advantage propo&s;ed by the Naturalizing Aliens, will in half a Years time, at furthe&s;t, be fru&s;trated; Ina&s;much as this Nation cannot con&s;ume all the Commodities Imported, which will occa&s;ion the Price to fall, and &s;o the Importation by con&s;equence to cea&s;e: For it is evident, that no Commodity bears a Price, and turns to Accompt, but the Supplies are &s;o con&s;iderable in three Months, in the &s;ame becomes a Drug.</P>
<P>And moreover, it is not to be forgotten, That even in <HI>Holland,</HI> where for Rea&s;ons incon&s;i&s;tent with the Nature and Con&s;titution of this Kingdom, they have admitted Foreigners to a free Trade with them, yet even there a very con&s;iderable difference is made between Aliens and Natives: For Aliens pay there, upon Importation and Exportation of their Commodities, con&s;iderable Duties and Tolls to the City, Town, and Port, where the unlade their Goods, which are not paid by Natives.</P>
<P>In fine, It is conceived to be great Prudence for all <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Subjects, for the Benefit of them&s;elves and their Po&s;terity, to u&s;e all di&s;creet and lawful means to prevent the&s;e frequent Naturalizations of Aliens, as well for keeping up and increa&s;e of His Maje&s;ties Revenue, for pre&s;erving and maintaining the Honour and Intere&s;t of the Engli&s;h and Native Merchants, and preferring the younger Sons of the Engli&s;h Gentry, as ge|nerally for advancing the good of all His Maje&s;ties Subjects, and keeping up the Magi&s;tracy in all Corporations in its due Honour and Repu|tation, by pre&s;erving their Tolls, City, Town, and Port Duties.</P>
<P>But if it &s;hall be thought fit &s;till to continue this great favour to Strangers, it is Humbly De&s;ired that it may be with this Provi&s;oe; <HI>(That they may not be in better Circum&s;tances than our Natives Freemen,)</HI> Viz.</P>
<P><HI>Provided always, and be it further Enacted by the Authority afore&s;aid, that nothing in this pre&s;ent Act contained &s;hall exempt or be con&s;trued to exempt any of the &s;aid Per&s;ons what&s;oever who &s;hall claim or receive any Benefit by this Act, from the Payment unto the Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of the City of</HI> London, <HI>any Tolls or Du|ties what&s;oever heretofore Lawfully Enjoyed or Received by them; But the &s;ame &s;hall &s;till be Paid, as it this Act had not been made.</HI></P>
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