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adjudged to be natural-born fubjefts of this realm, except 
children of parents attainted of treafon, or that are in the 
aft uni fervice of a foreign prince at enmity with us. 
4 - Geo. II. c. 21. See Alien. Every foreign feaman, who 
in time of war ierves two years on-board an Engliffi fhip, 
is ip) of ado naturalized. 13 Geo. III. c. 3. And-all foreign 
Proteftants and Jews, upon their redding feven years in 
•any of the Britilh colonies, without being ablent above 
two months at a time, or ferving two years in a military 
capacity there, are, upon taking the oaths, naturalized to 
all intents and purpofes, as if they had been born in this 
kingdom; and therefore are admiffible to all fuch privi¬ 
leges, and no other, as Proteftants or Jews born in this 
kingdom are entitled to. 
When it was propofed in May laft (1818), to revive the 
alien-bill, it was difcovered, (tor the knowledge of it 
leems to have been for many years totally loft,) that, by 
an act of the Scotch parliament in 1695, confirmed at the 
Scottifh union, and by feveral adds fince, every foreigner, 
who purchafed tool, ltock in the Bank of Scotland, be¬ 
came to all intents and purpofes naturalized. Such an 
aid, though conlidered as obfolete, might become the 
means of defeating any alien-bill that could be palled in 
the united kingdom; it fhould, therefore, have been long 
fince repealed, though it was originally framed with a very 
good intent; namely, that of encouraging foreigners to 
fettle among us, and to inveft their money in a bank 
which the Scotch themfelves were too poor to make effec¬ 
tive. Minillers were puzzled by the difcovery; but, as 
it had been previoully determined to prorogue and difi'olve 
-the parliament immediately, there was not time for the 
total repeal of the aft ;, a claufe was therefore added to 
the alien-bill for “ fulpending its eft'efts till a certain 
time after the meeting of the enfuing parliament,” when 
no doubt it will be repealed. 
'To NATURALIZE, v. a. [ naturalize)’ , Fr.] To adopt 
into a community; to inveft with the privileges of native 
fubjefts.—The lords informed the king, that the Irifh 
might not be naturalized without damage to themfelves 
or the crown. Davies. To make natural; to make eafy 
like things natural.—He rifes frefh to his hammer and 
anvil; cuftom has naturalized his labour to him. South. 
NAT'URALLY, adv. According to the power or im- 
pulfes of unaflifted nature.—Ourlovereign good is defired 
naturally; God, the author of that natural defire, hath 
appointed natural means whereby to fulfil it; but man, 
having utterly difabled his nature unto thefe means, hath 
had other revealed, and hath received from heaven a law 
to teach him how that which is defired naturally mult 
now fupernaturally be attained. Hooker. —If fenfe be not 
certain in the reports it makes of things to the mind, 
there can be naturally no fuch thing as certainty of know¬ 
ledge. South. —According to nature ; without affeftation ; 
with juft reprefentation.—The thoughts are to be mea- 
fured only by their propriety; that is, as they flow more 
or lefs naturally from the perfons and occafions. Dryden. 
Tliefe things fo in my fong, I naturally may fhow; 
Now ?.s the mountain high ; then as the valley low; 
Here fruitful as the mead; there, as the heath be bare; 
Then, as the gloomy wood, I may be rough, though rare. 
Drayton. 
Spontaneoufly; without art; without cultivation: as, 
There is no place where wheat naturally grows. 
NAT'URALNESS, f. The ftate of being given or pro¬ 
duced by nature.—The naturalnefs of a delire is the caufe 
that the fatisfaftion of it is pleafure, and pleafure impor¬ 
tunes the will; and that which importunes the will, puts 
a difficulty on the will refufing or forbearing it. South. — 
Conformity to truth and reality ; not affeftation.—Horace 
fpeaks of thefe parts in an ode that may be reckoned 
among the fineft for the naturalnefs of the thought, and the 
beauty of the expreffion. AddiJ'on. 
NA'TURE,/. [Fr. from natura, Lat.] An imaginary 
being fuppofed to prelide over the material and animal 
N A T 
world.—When it was faid to Anaxagoras,The Athenians 
have condemned you to die; he faid. And nature them. 
Bacon. 
Thou, nature, art my goddefs ; to thy law 
My fervices are bound. Shaliefpeare's K. Lear. 
The native ftate or properties of any thing, by which it 
is difcriminated from others. — The nature of brutes, be¬ 
sides what is common to them with plants, doth confift 
in having fuch faculties, whereby fliey are capable of ap¬ 
prehending external objefts, and of receiving pain or 
pleafure from them. Wilkins. 
Why leap’d the hills, why did the mountains (hake ; 
What ail’d them their fix’d natures to forfake ? Cowley. 
The conftitution of an animated body: 
Nature , as it grows again tow’rd earth, 
Is fafliion’d for the journey, dull and heavy. Shaliefpe art. 
We’re not ourfelves, 
When nature, being opprefs’d, commands the mind 
To fuller with the body. Shakcfpeare's K. Lear. 
Difpofition of mind ; temper: 
Nothing could have fubdued nature 
To fuch a lowneis, but his unkind daughters. Shaliefpeare- 
The regular courfe of things : 
My end 
Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence. Shaliefpeare. 
The compafs of natural exiftence.—If their dam may be 
judge, the young apes are the molt beautiful things in 
nature. Glanville .— The conftitution and appearances of 
things.—The works, whether of poets, painters, moralifts, 
or hiltorians, which are built upon general nature, live for 
ever; while thofe which depend for their exiftence on 
particular cuftoms and habits, a partial view of nature, or 
the fluctuation of fafhion, can only be co-eval with that 
which firftraifed them from obfeurity. Reynolds .— Natural 
affeftion, or reverence ; native fenfations: 
Have we not feen 
The murdering fon afeend his parent’s bed. 
Through violated nature force his way, 
And ftain the facred womb where once he lay ! Pope. 
The ftate or operation of the material world : 
He, binding nature faft in fate, 
Left free the human will. Pope. 
Sort ; fpecies.—A difpute of this nature caufed mifehief 
in abundance betwixt a king and an archbifhop. Dryden .—• 
Sentiments or images adapted to nature, or conformable 
to truth and reality. — Only nature can pleafe thofe taftes 
which are unprejudiced and refined. AddiJ'on.—Nature 
and Homer were, he found, the fame. Pope .— Phylics; 
the fcience which teaches the qualities of things: 
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night, 
God faid, Let Newton be, and all was light. Pope. 
Of this word which occurs fo frequently, with fignifica- 
tions fo various, and fo difficultly defined, Boyle has given 
an explication, which Dr. Johnfon has epitomifed as 
follows : 
Nature fometimes means the Author of Nature, or 
Natura Naturans; as, Nature hath made man partly cor¬ 
poreal and partly immaterial. For Nature in this fenfe 
may be ufed the word Creator. 
Nature fometimes means that on whofe account a thing 
is what it is, and is called ; as when we define the nature 
of an angle. For nature in this fenfe may be ufed ejfence, 
or quality. 
Nature fometimes means what belongs to a living crea¬ 
ture at its nativity, or accrues to it by its birth, as when 
we fay, a man is noble by nature , or a child is naturally for¬ 
ward. 
