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the fact, perhaps, to conclude, that the 
golden candlesticks, and» many other 
articles of holy plate, taken away by 
Titus and his soldiers, from the ruined 
Temple of Solomon, were melted down, 
and made into pieces more suitable to 
the sideboards of the luxurious Romans; 
andiin that guise only will the Israelites 
find, it is to be apprehended, these gol- 
den candlesticks, and other sacred uten- 
sils, taken away*by. Titus and his sol- 
diers from the ruined Temple of So- 
Jomon. 
Of a certainty, a very great portion 
of -all the gold and silver that was ever 
extracted from the bowels of the earth, 
was ever smelted, ingotted and barred, 
coined into money; or manufactured 
into plate, must be hidden somewhere 
-and why not a share of it in the bed 
of the Tiber? Dr. Fryer, a physician, 
who, in the reign of Charles II.; tra- 
velled in India, and yas employed on 
@ mission among the native powers, by 
the Old East-India Company, remark- 
ed that,in return for the commodities 
of India, which were then vended in all 
parts of the civilized globe, and many 
others that were not civilized, all the 
treasure of the world found its way 
back to that country, and centred 
there.. ‘‘ The gold and silver,’’ said he, 
“circulates all the world over; yet, in 
India, it is hoarded, regis ad exemplum, 
both by king and people. The King of 
Visiapour having tanks thereof, un- 
sealed, for many ages; and the Gentiles 
hide it, for eternity. So that, though it 
be not the growth of this country, yet 
the innate thrift of the Gentiles, and the 
small occasion for foreign expenses, and 
this/ humour of laying up their. talent 
‘in anapkin, buries the greater part of 
the treasure of the: world, in India.” 
‘This, is, the. only satisfactory clue we 
have,.to. the knowledge of the over- 
\whelming fortunes which Lord Clive, 
‘and the early freeboters of India, com- 
monly called, conquerors and nabobs, 
so suddenly amassed. ‘These tanks, it 
«appears, of the King of Visiapour, and of 
sother hoarders, were the golden mean of 
their immense accumulations—a mean, 
yperbaps; not. yet quite exhausted, as 
“may tbe:seen, so. soon as we get pos- 
ression, of , the almost-conquered king- 
idom of, Ava, At all. events, without 
dooking|: into .motives, these stagnant 
hoards havebeen dispersed among men, 
as fast) as)theyrhave been found; and 
the great good arising from the conse- 
nquent circulations znay Serve, in some 
mmeasure, to whitc-waslt the crimes of 
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Bed of the Tiber. 
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-bles, as 
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the plunderers, and save their ‘souls 
alive. Laas ve 
It had frequently been, until» posses- 
sed of this information, a-question with 
me; what became: of\all the) gold‘ and 
silver which had; in all time,» been! dug 
from out of the earth, and wrought into 
money, plate; and other ‘articles; ‘all 
over the world, from the deluge’ to this 
hour? Surely, were all now in use 
that ever was, the accumulation would 
be so vast, that almost every man of 
substance might have the meanést: of 
his household utensils formed of silver, 
and every fork or spoon of solid gold. 
In olden time, but few had any of the 
precious metals: but those few, in some 
instances, had a prodigious quantity. 
In India, as hath been seen, they were 
hoarded, and the Roman empire teemed 
with them. In the dark ages,. nearly 
all that could be gathered..together 
were applied to pious uses, leaving:not 
much for kings and princes, and scareely 
any for the minor nobility. Silver, ‘in- 
deed, isnow inalmost every hand, though 
far, all things considered, from’ being 
plentifully so; but gold is not. Yet 
silver is perishable, and gold is eyer- 
lasting. How is it, where. is it, and 
what has become of it?,. The tanks, in 
India, are most of them broken, up; 
and there is not supposed ‘to be,a‘mo- 
narch remaining in the world with!an 
overflowing treasury. ~The’ probable 
fact is, that the greater portion of what 
is missing of the precious metals, and 
other valuables, is- concentréd in no 
particular spot or country, but remains 
lost and hidden, by accident or design, 
in many places; and why not some of 
it at the bottom of the Tiber? The 
extravagance of the Romans in furni- 
ture, plate, and jewels, statues; build- 
-ings and decorations, formany: ‘cen- 
turies, after they became the conquering 
masters of the world, exceeded, even 
to the decline, and almost to the fall of 
their empire, all and every excess of 
modern ages, Very many rare and in- 
estimable works of art, formed of the 
precious metals, and of exquisite mar- 
also. comms and) medals and 
jewels, in all their variety of sorts and 
-weight and water, which we know were 
brought to Rome from:other countries , 
or manufactured: there, are now: not 
supposed to be in existence upon the 
face of the carth. Where are they ? 
At the bottom of the sea, swallowed’u 
by earthquakes, consumed in fire, Ind- 
den in_wells, lost in rivers? ? 
Upon, the discovery, and xapacious 
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