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to the public purfe; but if the gold and filver coin already on the 
fpot, or which may be afterwards paid, were drawn in large pro- 
portions out of fuch county, there would be danger of a ftagna- 
tion. Without money the laborer will never work chearfully : 
there is a magic power in gold and filver : the brifk circulation 
of it is a great fpur to induftry, and therefore great care fhould 
be taken to make quick payments for what the inhabitants of 
fuch counties fupply ; but to procraftinate payments in the man- 
ner pracftifed of late years in this nation, can end in nothing 
but fhame and diftrefs in public as well as private concerns. 
Farewell. I am yours, &c. 
LETTER XXIV. 
To the fame . 
Madam, 
I F you was to tell your coachman to drive on before he had 
put-to his horfes, might not one fuppofe you had loft your 
wits. Let us firft think of one means at leaft to provide for 
the current service, in the moft effectual manner, and with- 
out diftrefting our fellow-fubjedts before we calculate on the 
advantages of it. 
If the good people of this ifland would open their eyes to 
their true intereft, fo far from being repugnant to the converting 
their plate into coin, if war fhould render additional taxes 
necessary, and create a call for a greater circulation of money 
than the prefent currency of the kingdom can bear, they ought 
to rejoice that they have fuch a refource. Were only half our 
plate to be coined, and if fuch half amounts to no more than 
five or fix millions, I am perfuaded it would put the people in 
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