IV. As to the fourth Thing proposed, The Necessity the Nation lies under to have its Credit settled this present Sessions, it will appear, if we consider, how _London_ now stands in Competition with all _England_ besides, as to the Specie of Money, and how it will stand before another Sessions: ’Tis generally agreed, that about one Moiety of the Money of _England_ is already Center’d in that great City, and the rest is not enough to pay the Debts owing to it, together with his Majesty’s Revenues, Bonds already entered into, and Taxes now to be given, for Six Months longer, besides the Foreign Bills, which are generally made payable there, all which must be return’d in Specie; for though by an Act of this present Sessions: Intituled, _An Act for the farther Remedying the ill State of the Coin of this Kingdom_, it is among other things provided, That all Money that shall be brought in upon Account of Taxes, or Revenues, or Loans, at Five Shillings and Eight Pence _per_ Ounce, shall be carried to the next adjacent Mint, in order to be Re-coined, yet this will no way be Serviceable to the Country, unless a Credit be settled, it must otherwise be sent up to _London_ after coined for want of Returns, the Debts due to the Country being paid there in Bank, which is Sixteen _per Cent._ worse than Money, and those due from the Country demanded in Specie, so that the Money of _England_ is every Week brought up thither; and then, if it be next considered, what Methods are left to the Country to draw it back again, _viz._ by Provisions and some few other Things, ’twill be reasonable to believe, that seeing the supply made from that City to the Country is greater than what is made from the Country thither, all the Cash of _England_ will center there in a short Time, to the Ruining of the other Trading Cities, and disabling of the Country to pay future Taxes; and this will make the dependence on _London_ still greater, till by its own Bloatiness it must at last burst, when the Estates of the Traders shall consist only in Debts due from the Country, which must still lye out for want of a Specie to pay them in; so that all the Advantage _London_ will receive, is, that it will be last ruined. Now if a good Credit be settled out of Hand, and the Mints continued in the Country, the Money that is now there, may be still kept there, and Methods found out to increase it, and the Trade of _England_ carried on with an equal Circulation in all places; this will keep up the Rents of the Lands of _England_, which must otherwise fall in their Values, suitable to the distance they stand in from that great Metropolis.