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we allow for what our former revenues may fuffer by any dimi- 
nution of confumption, we may ftill call it above four millions. 
In order to carry fuch a plan into execution, care mu ft be 
taken, where money is fcarce, to introduce it in greater quan- 
tities ; and inftead of procrastinating payments, to antici- 
pate them. Money may thus circulate from private hands to 
the public, and be returned to them again every year. Some 
pretend we have yet a large currency in every county : I believe 
they are miftaken ; and if they are, it is as eafy to be accounted 
for, as that we do not drink the tea of china without paying 
for it, in ftlver or gold, to the Chinese, the french, the 
DUTCH, SWEDES, DANES, and PRUSSIANS. 
The general rule of eftimating the prices of things, is by the 
quantity of money in a nation ; and as moft things are dear with 
us, compared to fome other nations, therefore one might con- 
clude that we have a great abundance of money. But I am afraid 
this is as little the real cafe, as that our numbers of inhabitants 
are increafed with our increafe of commerce. A great circula- 
tion of paper-currency, may make it appear as if we were rich 
in gold and ftlver, without being really fo. But granting we 
have gold and ftlver enough for the present circulation, it does 
not follow that there will be enough in all places of the king- 
dom, if taxes are augmented for the fupport of a war. If paper 
is not fo well received in remote counties, great part of the pay- 
ments for what they fupply, fhould be made in gold and ftlver 
coin, and as little of it drawn from thence as poftible. Whether 
it were money, or paper-currency, fo paid, it would fo on revert 
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