John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, (25 February 1711 – 4 December 1770) was a British politician, political pamphleteer, and genealogist who served as First Lord of the Admiralty.
Jewish Naturalisation Bill debate 1750s
“Sir, it is equally chimerical to propose any advantage from the manufacturers or labor of the Jews, which have been both idly mentioned: whence are these manufacturers, these laboring Jews to come? I question whether any number of Jews at this time exercise any manufacture, or follow any laborious profession in any part of the known world; and in truth, from their obstinate superstition, and the total difference of their custom in every circumstance of life, it would be utterly impossible for them to mix with our people. Sir, if we flatter ourselves with any notion of this kind, we do it in opposition to all experience, both of ancient and modern times.
it directly tends to the ruin, and even annihilation of the present landed interest of England.
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