The Consequence of Naturalizing Foreigners (BM 1868,0808.3914)

A broadside railing against immigration and the Bill to naturalize foreigner Protestants, listing their supposed characteristics and the negative consequences for Great Britain; with an etching by T Fox showing the figure of Britannia seated on a throne, holding a cornucopia. On the left next to the throne is a group of begging foreigners including a pregnant woman from the Palatine with a child in her arms, another on her back and a third tugging at her apron; a Spaniard; a Turk; an Italian; an African; a German, a Jew; a Dutchman; and a French boy wearing wooden shoes. On the right side British citizens looking backwards anxiously. Engraved title and inscriptions, and with letterpress title and verses in four columns. (n.p.: 1751)