Parliament. From their sons indeed there is less to fear, who by
birth and nature may come to have the same interest and inclinations
as the natives.

And though the expedient of Fabius Maximus, to contract the
strangers into four tribes, might be reasonable where the affairs of
a whole empire were transacted by magistrates chosen in one city,
yet the same policy may not hold good in England; foreigners cannot
influence elections here by being dispersed about in the several
counties of the kingdom, where they can never come to have any
considerable strength. But some time or other they may endanger the
government by being suffered to remain, such vast numbers of them
here in London where they inhabit altogether, at least 30,000
persons in two quarters of the town, without intermarrying with the
English, or learning our language, by which means for several years
to come they are in a way still to continue foreigners, and perhaps
may have a foreign interest and foreign inclinations; to permit this
cannot be advisable or safe. It may therefore be proper to limit
any new Acts of naturalisation with such restrictions as may make
the accession of strangers not dangerous to the public.

An accession of strangers, well regulated, may add to our strength
and numbers; but then it must be composed of labouring men,
artificers, merchants, and other rich men, and not of foreign
soldiers, since such fright and drive away from a nation more people
than their troops can well consist of: for if it has been ever seen
that men abound most where there is most freedom (China excepted,
whose climate excels all others, and where the exercise of the
tyranny is mild and easy) it must follow that people will in time
desert those countries whose best flower is their liberties, if