Can all the Corporations in _London_, put together, be so well depended upon, as the _Exchequer_; which is supported by the _Government_, who are able and willing to make good all their own Contracts, but are not answerable for the Losses of any Corporation; all being oblig'd to sit down and be content with their own? Can any Corporation desire more, than that the _Government_ compel their own Members, and their Estates, to make good to answer for their _Mismanagement_? Separate then the _Standers-by_ from the _Gamesters_, and let the Unconcern'd declare their Opinion, Whether, in all Corporations, the _Directors_ have not an unknown Advantage over all the other Members? Is it so in the _Exchequer_? Tell me then, why a Hundred Pound in a Corporation, is more valuable than a Hundred in the _Exchequer_? Is it not because you can part with your Property with much more Ease by way of _Transfer_ in _London_? Which is not practis'd at the _Exchequer_: Besides, the _Transferring_ is near at Hand. The _Directors_ of any Corporation, if not truly _honest_, may impose at all Times upon the rest of the _Proprietors_, by making a Dividend above the intrinsick Value of the Nett Produce of _Profit_; and the _Legislature_ would do well to provide against such Practices for the future. If due Encouragement was given for the Importation of _Iron_, _Hemp_, _Pitch_ and _Tar_, from our own _Plantations_, the Export of a great deal of our _Bullion_ would be sav'd, our _Colonies_ encourag'd, and we should be then able to supply the _Dutch_, _French_, _Spaniard_, _Italian_ and _Portugueze_ with Iron, and bring in Two Hundred Thousand Pounds _per Ann._ Balance of Trade. If the _South-Sea_ Company would trade to our own Islands, _viz._ the _Bahama_, and to _Carolina_; that Trade alone would bring them in Five Hundred Thousand Pounds _per Ann._ and with a small Expence, if well manag'd. A PROPOSAL To Restore _Publick Credit_, and Pay the _Nation's_ DEBTS. I. _That the =South-Sea= Company be put in =Statu quo=; and if the Estates of the late =Directors=, their Aiders and Abettors will not do it, the =Government= to make up what is wanting._ II. _That the =Subscriptions= at =Three Hundred=, =Four Hundred=, =Eight Hundred=, and a =Thousand=, be all paid into the =Exchequer= at =Two Hundred=, and there to have a Credit for =One Hundred=; for which the =Government= is to pay Ten =per Cent.= until the =One Hundred= shall be paid off: And that those who have not paid full =Two Hundred=, do make up that Sum within the Time limited by the late =Directors=._