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&quot;jus suffragii vel tribus,&quot; and &quot;jus petitionis sive 

 &quot; honorum :&quot; for all ability and capacity is either of 

 private interest of &quot;meum et tuum,&quot; or of public 

 service ; and the public consisteth chiefly either in 

 voice, or in action, or office. Now it is the first of 

 these, Mr. Speaker, that I will only handle at this 

 time and in this place, and refer the other two for a 

 committee, because they receive more distinction and 

 restriction. 



To come therefore to the inconveniences alleged 

 on the other part, the first of them is, that there may 

 ensue of this naturalization a surcharge of people 

 upon this realm of England, which is supposed 

 already to have the full charge and content : and 

 therefore there cannot be an admission of the adop 

 tive without a diminution of the fortunes and con 

 ditions of those that are native subjects of this 

 realm. A grave objection, Mr. Speaker, and very 

 dutiful ; for it proceeds not of any unkindness to the 

 Scotish nation, but of a natural fastness to ourselves; 

 for that answer of the virgins, &quot; Ne forte non suffi- 

 &quot; ciat vobis et nobis,&quot; proceeded not out of any envy 

 or malign humour, but out of providence, and the 

 original charity which begins with ourselves. And 

 I must confess, Mr. Speaker, that as the gentleman 

 said, when Abraham and Lot, in regard of the great 

 ness of their families, grew pent and straitened, it is 

 true, that, brethren though they were, they grew to 

 difference, and to those words, &quot; Vade tu ad dexte- 

 &quot; ram, et ego ad sinistram,&quot; &c. But certainly, I should 

 never have brought that example on that side ; for 

 we see what followed of it, how that this separation 



