A SPEECH 



USED BY 



SIR FRANCTS BACON, KNIGHT, 



IN THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF COMMONS, QUINTO JACOBI, 

 CONCERNING THE ARTICLE OF 



THE GENERAL NATURALIZATION 



OF 



THE SCOTISH NATION. 



IT may please you, Mr. Speaker, preface I will use 

 none, but put myself upon your good opinion, to 

 which I have been accustomed beyond my deservings ; 

 neither will I hold you in suspense what way I will 

 choose, but now at the first I declare myself, that I 

 mean to counsel the house to naturalize this nation : 

 wherein, nevertheless, I have a request to make unto 

 you, which is of more efficacy to the purpose I have 

 in hand than all that I shall say afterwards. And it 

 is the same request, which Demosthenes did more 

 than once, in great causes of estate, make to the 

 people of Athens, &quot; ut cum calculis suffragiorum 

 &quot; sumant magnanimitatem reipublica3,&quot; that when 

 they took into their hands the balls, whereby to give 

 their voices, according as the manner of them was, 

 they would raise their thoughts, and lay aside those 

 considerations, which their private vocations and 



