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but with cap in hand, and with the addrefs of. 

 Your Moft llkiftrious Lorclfhip. The treafuiy of 

 the Republic is filled with gold and filver, and the 

 common people are never paid but in a fort of 

 copper coin, called a piece of four tarins, equi- 

 valent, in ideal value, to abour eightpence of our 

 mony. and intrinfically worth tittle more than two 

 farthings. It is ftamped with this device, no?i as, 

 fedfidcs ; " nor value, but confidence." What a 

 difference do exclufive poffeiïions, and gold, intro- 

 duce between man and man 1 A grave porter, in = 

 Holland demands of you mgoiitgueldt, that is, good 

 money, for carrying your portmanteau the length 

 of a ftreet, as much as the humble Maltefe Baftaze 

 receives for carrying you and three of your friends, 

 a whole day together, around the ifland. The 

 Dutchman is well clothed, and has his pockets lined 

 with good pieces of gold and filver. His coin pre- 

 fents a very différent infcription from that of a 

 Malta : you read thefe words on it : Concordia res 

 farva crefcunt ; " through concord fmall things in- 

 creafe." There is, in truth, as great a difference 

 between the power and the felicity of one State and 

 another, as between the infcriptions and the fub- 

 llances of their coin. 



In Nature it is that we are to lock for the fub- 

 fiftence of a people, and in their liberty, the chan- 

 pel in which it is to flow. The fpirit of monopoly 



has 



