^IQ MARKET S. 26. 



An evil, which has been long growing \r\ 

 the markets of this -kingdom, has here got to. 

 a height which entitles it to notice. 



Gold cannot here be any longer called the 

 mediuni of property. Let a man fell hi^ 

 whole (lock at market, and it is chance if he 

 bring home more than three or four guineas. 

 The remainder of the value received is 

 PAPER ; — not bank-nates^ — but paper of no 

 other value than that which i$ given it by 

 the engraver, and the name perhaps of fome 

 ihopkeeper, or. other petty ^ banker, wholly 

 unknown to the farmer ; who is, perhaps, en- 

 tirely ignorant as to whether the n^me or 

 names be real or ficftitious. 



One accident, has already happened in this 

 neighbourhood ; and it is matter of aftonilh- 

 nient that more do not follow : a circum- 

 ftance which can only be accounted for by. 

 the profits which this fpccies pf coiners re- 

 ceive *. 



All 



* Not only by the intercfi: of the amount of bills in 

 pr^ula^lon ; but by dead notes ; that is, bills loft and de- 

 flroyed by accident ; the amount of which is clcs^r 

 gain. 



