Experience has shown us the Folly and Falsity of those plausible Insinuations, that such a Naturalization would take the Bread out of _Englishmen's_ Mouths. We are convinced, that the greater Number of Workmen of one Trade there is in any Town, the more does that Town thrive; the greater will be the _Demand_ of the Manufacture, and the _Vent_ to foreign Parts, and the quicker _Circulation_ of the _Coin_. The Consumption of the _Produce_ both of _Land_ and _Industry_ increases visibly in Towns full of People; nay, the more shall every particular industrious Person thrive in such a Place; tho indeed _Drones_ and _Idlers_ will not find their Account, who wou'd fain support their own and their Families superfluous Expences at their Neighbour's Cost; who make one or two Day's Labour provide for four Days Extravagancies. And this is the common Calamity of most of our _Corporation Towns_, whose Inhabitants do all they can to discourage Plenty, Industry and Population; and will not admit of Strangers but upon too hard Terms, thro the false Notion, that they themselves, their Children and Apprentices, have the only Right to squander their Town's Revenue, and to get, at their own Rates, all that is to be gotten within their Precincts, or in the Neighbourhood. And therefore such Towns (through the Mischief arising by _Combinations_ and _By-Laws_) are at best at a Stand; very few in a thriving Condition (and those are where the _By-Laws_ are least _restrictive_) but _most_ throughout _England_ fall to visible Decay, whilst new Villages _not_ incorporated, or more liberal of their Privileges, grow up in their stead; till, in Process of Time, the first Sort will become almost as desolate as _Old Sarum_, and will as well deserve to lose their Right of sending Representatives to Parliament. For certainly a _Waste_ or a _Desert_ has no Right to be represented, nor by our original Constitution was ever intended to be: yet I would by no means have those Deputies lost to the Commons, but transferr'd to wiser, more industrious, and better peopled Places, worthy (thro their Numbers and Wealth) of being represented.