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Show .i_.u_. 83 SERIES or ANSWERS TO proportionably l‘ndlikewife. Wonderfully great and new !' And, as you faid of one of Mr. BURKE'S Speeches, admirable and excellent! Go on therefore, great Sir, and continue to il- lumine our dark Minds with more Difcoveries. Go on, and prove to a Demonltration, that 3. Guinea, for Iiillance, if it fhould be light in ow» w-wM-A9w,9."c,,»-~_,-,~,r' POPULAR OBJECTIONS. 89 But {till fome perhaps will be apt to aflt, Why is Dr. PRICE f0 full of Wrath particularly againf't the Bank of England? ,And what Part of their Conduct has f'tirred up his patriotic In- dignation to fuch a Degree ? I will inform them by telling the w/zole Truth refpeéling a certain Tranfaétion, where the Do€tor contents himfclf Vv'eiglit, or of a greater Alloy than the Standard, with telling a little Truth, 21 very little indeed, is ft) for a dad Gained. omitting every Circumll'ance, which would have placed the Subjeft in ajult and pi‘oper Light. BUT, my kind Inl'truétor, while you are bu~ fled in thefe alflrufl Invel'tigations, you omitted to mention one Thing, which perhaps is the only Thing worth mentioning in this Affai r, viz. That the great national Security again l't be- ing over-run with Paper Money, or Paper Cred it is, that no Banker's Note, not even a Note of the Bank of England, Can be offer ed in Payment as a legal Tender. omitted to mention. Now this you But why? Even becaufe EVER fince the Reign of Queen ANN (and how long before cannot be afcertained) it wa cultomary with Government, when in Want, to get Money advanced by rich Individuals on the Credit of the Land and Malt Tax; which Sums were repaid, as foon as the Money arifmg from thefe Taxes were received and brought into the Exchequer. This Practice was attend- ed with bad Confequences. For firlt, the Mo- you r favourite lime/l 1/117267‘ft‘61775 had made a Law ney was generally borrowed on very diladvan- turmerly, and have time made a fimilar Law, declaring that Paper Money may be offered as a tageous Terms; the Lenders making .3 Prey legal Tender, and that it mull be accepted , under Penalty of Dent/z, as a full DilCharge. [See this iniquitous Proceeding expofed in leveral of my Trails, and particularly in 'I‘xaét V. dedicated to the Continental Congrefsl Now Dr. PRICE chofe to conceal this important Circ umltance. But. of the Public in Proportion as the hxrgencxes of the State became More apparent: And fe- condly, if the Lenders found themfelves di- fireflied for MOney before the Time of Payment of the Taxes came round, which was frequently the Cafe; they ufed to fend, or carry thefe ex- chequer Tallies to the ALLEY in order to i G raile |