Samuel Kent 129 125 38 June There is a folly, indeed (for I will not call it a vice) with which the ladies of this age are particularly charged; it is, that not only their airs and their drefs, but even their faces are French. I am forry to fay it, what by travelling abroad, and by French milleners, Sir Richard Lloyd declined on the day Amantua-makers and hair-cutters at home, of election. 625 542 229 1191 850 817 121 108 Double return. Evesham, Rt. Hon. Sir John Rush 122 122 97 96 220 120 out, Bart. 97 Samuel Gumley Luke Robinson 31 B C our politeft affemblies feem to be filled with foreigners. But how will it astonish many of my readers to be told, that while they are extolling the days of good queen Befs, they are complimenting that very reign in which thefe fashions were originally introduced! I shall make good my affertion by publishing an authentick letter, written by that fubtil minifter Sir William Cecil (afterwards lord Burleigh) to Sir Henry Norris, Q. Elizabeth's ambaffador at the court of France. This letter was originally printed in the year 1663, among a collection of state letters called Scrinia Ceciliana, or Mylleries of government, and is as follows. SIR, The queen's majesty would fain have a taylor that had skill to make her apparel both after the French and Italian manner; and the thinketh that you might use fome means to obtain fome one fuch there as ferveth that queen, without mentioning any manner of requeft in the queen's majesty's name. D First to caufe my lady your wife to ufe fome fuch means to get one, as thereof knowledge might not come to the queen mother's ears, of whom the queen's majesty thinketh thus ; that if he did not understand that it were a matter wherein her majefty might be pleasured, the would offer to fend one to the queen's majefty: Nevertheless, if it cannot be fo obtained by this indirect means, then her majefty would have you devife fome other good means to obtain one that were skilful. Beverley, Sir Wm. Codrington, Bart. 700 E WALES. 562 456 Sterling, James Campbell, by a majority of one vote, which was his own, against Mr. Haldane. [An alphabetical Lijt of the MEMBERS in our next.] T HE WORLD of June 6, endeavours to fhew, that the prefent age is not, upon the whole, worfe than former ages; G and then mentions the reigning vices of the prefent times, as luxury, gaming, and corruption; but obferves, that hymanity, charity, and the civilities of life, never abounded fo much as now: After which, the writer concludes thus: Yours in all truth, References to Mrs. WELLS's Houfe. See the Tair cafe. 2 Dreffer. 3 Chimney. Stairs into the room from the kitchen. 5 Stairs into the cellar. 6 The ftairs into the wash-houfe. 7 A copper. 8 An oven. 9 A cheft of drawers. 10 The window in the north end of the room. 11 The window in the caft fide of the room. chimney. 3 A head-way into the wash12 The 14 Old pulleys for a jack. houfe. N. B. The bottom of the windows, No, 10 and 11, is 9 feet one inch from the ground without fide. The room or workfhop is ver the cellar and wash-house. JOUR 249 1754: JOURNAL of the PROCEEDINGS and DEBATES in the POLITICAL CLUB, continued from P. 208. In the Debate begun in your laft, the next Speech 1jhall give you, was that made by A. Pofthumius, ubich was to this Effect. My Lords, I government, I fhall be against inferting in an act of parliament any claufe or provifo, or any words that might feem to confirm or eftablish their opinion, which would be the effect of the exception or provifo A propofed by this bill; for it is a known rule in law, that Exceptio firmat regulam in cafibus non exceptis; therefore to enact, or rather to leave it enacted, that no Jew tho' born in this kingdom, whilft he continues a Jew, fhall purchase or hold any real cftate relating to the church, is in effect to enact, that fuch Jews may purchase and hold all other forts of real eftates, which would, I think, be of the most dangerous confequence to our government both in church and state. RISE up to agree with the noble duke who prefented this bill, and with the noble lord who spoke laft, fo far as to think, that the law paffed laft feffion for enabling us to naturalize the Jews, ought to be repealed; and in this B I can agree with the greater freedom, as I then openly declared against the bill's being paffed into a law; but then I think the repeal ought to be general, and without any fuch exception or provifo as the noble duke has been pleafed to infert in this bill; for C with fuch a provifo, if it remains in the bill, I fhall oppofe as much as I can its being paffed into a law, because I should rather chufe to have the law paffed laft feffion to ftand without a repeal, than that it should be repealed with fuch an exception, D and my reafon is very evident: Whatever opinion the noble duke may have of our common law, with refpect to Jews born in this kingdom, I must think, and I have the best authorities for my opinion, that no Jew born here can be deemed a na. E tural-born fubject whilst he continues to be a Jew, or intitled as fuch to purchase and hold any real estate longer than our fovereign pleafes to allow him to hold or poffefs fuch a purchase. This was, this is ftill, I think, the common law of this F kingdom; but as this has been lately brought into doubt by the opinion of fome of our modern lawyers, who feldom give themselves the trouble of studying our ancient records, and much lefs the conftitution of our D of B June, 1754 Their I fay, my lords, both in church and ftate; for the reverend bench muft not imagine that the former would always be preferved by our laying the Jews under a difability to purchase any thing relating to the church, if at the fame time we impower them to purchase all the lay fees in the kingdom. power will increase with their property, and as their power increases their privileges will increafe. Even at this time they are indulged with the privilege of having publick fynagogues, tho' exprefsly contrary to law; and after a great number of them have been naturalized by being born here, or by the American act, we could hardly refuse establishing this privilege by a new toleration act in their favour. The next boon they would probably obtain, would be a general naturalization of all their brethren; and then I may venture to prophefy, that the Jews would be the highest bidders for every land eftare brought to market in this island, by which means they might at last get poffeffion of al! 250 PROCEEDINGS of the POLITICAL CLUB, &c. June the lay fees in the kingdom. As do- C by the royal family now upon our thrane. After My lords, I fhall readily grant, that a people may be in fuch circumftances as to render a naturali. zation of fome fort of foreigners not only proper but neceffary. a general devaftation by war, fa. mine, or peftilence, a naturalization of foreigners may be neceffary, or in the infancy of trade in any country a naturalization of foreign merchants, manufacturers and artificers may be neceffary; but in all cafes of naturalization these two rules ought in prudence to be obferved: Firit, not to naturalize at once, or in a fhort time, fuch a number of foreigners as may, by uniting toge ther, become any thing near to an equal match for the natives. And, fecondly, never to naturalize fuch foreigners whofe latest progeny must always continue a people feparate and diftinct from the people that naturalized them. As to the first of these two rules, I am fure, it ftands in need of no illuftration; but as to the fecond, I fhall fuppofe, that for ftrengthening our fugar colonies, and for peopling them with fubjects instead of flaves, a scheme were propofed for naturalizing all the Blacks born in any of them without any other condition whatsover: I will fay, that our adopting fuch a fcheme would be ridiculous, becaufe their progeny would always continue to be a diftinct people; but if the conditions were added, that no fuch Blacks fhould be naturalized unless they declared themfelves Chriftians, and that no fuch black man fhould be naturalized unlefs he married a white woman, nor any black woman unless the married a white man, the ridicule of the scheme would be very much foften This, I know, my lords, may be deemed chimerical at firft view; but will not appear quite fo chimerical, if we confider that the first body of Saxons called over to this ifland, did not amount to above 2 or 3000 men, and yet in lefs than 150 years D that nation, tho' not near fo well united among themfelves as the Jews are, made themselves mafters of the greatest and most fertile part of this ifland; nor let it be objected, that the Jews are not a warlike people as the Saxons were, for a change E of circumstances, with a few proper regulations, may produce an intire change of manners; and tho' nothing of this kind fhould happen, if they have the fole or the greateft command of money, they may prevail with one half of the natives p to affist them in fubduing the other, for we know the power of money in politicks as well as in war. Thus it mult appear not to be altogether impoffible to imagine, that the Jews may by this fcheme of naturaliza. tion, which we now feem to be fo Ged, because their progeny would in, fond of, make themselves at last the chief masters of this ifland, and if they fhould, no one can fuppofe they would fubmit to be governed 2 time unive and coalefce with the reft of the people: It might a little, alter the complexion of the people of thefe iflands; but they would all |