While our _Money_, which is the Blood of the _Body Politick_, is suffer'd to run out, and there is no Supply, all _Projects_ for restoring _Credit_, and keeping up the Spirits of the _People_, will prove abortive. _Trade_, and the Noblest Undertakings for Employing the _Poor_, must be at a full Stop, if Money be wanting to carry them on. 'Tis certain, that until we have a greater Plenty of Money, _Trade_ and all other Business must be assisted with _Paper Credit_; and if it does not receive Voluntary Credit, it will never be made by Force. And if our Affairs are rightly managed, our Estates are doubled, and secur'd; if not, the best Estates will soon be worth nothing. That _Paper Credit_ may have an immediate Currency, it is necessary for the _Exchequer_ to issue out as many _Notes_ as they shall be able to circulate, with a _Tax_ of a _Guinea_ on every _Transfer_; the one Half to be paid by the _Buyer_, and the other by the _Seller_. That those _Bills_ be to discharge the Debts due and owing by the _Government_: And that the said _Bills_ be circulated in _London_. Some make a mighty Noise, that if our _Coin_ be raised, _Foreigners_ will not take it. I answer, For that Reason we ought to raise it. If we are to pay _Foreigners_ any Thing upon the Balance of an Accompt, we ought to pay them as near as we can in their own Coin. That no Person (under severe _Penalty_) presume to raise the _Price_ of any Thing, on Account of the Alteration of the _Coin_; otherwise the _Name_ is only alter'd, and not the _Value_ of our Coin: There being as much Reason for the _Parliament_ to put a _Value_ thereon, as for a _Goldsmith_ to do it on wrought Plate. But the first Care to be taken, is, How the _Nation_ may prevent any Advance in _South-Sea_ Stock above what it was before; so that _Foreigners_ concern'd may not receive a _greater Principal_ than a Hundred Pound, and Five _per Cent._ as they did before this unhappy _Ingraftment_: For the Stock, by the said _Ingraftment_, will be of such a Magnitude, that a Hundred _per Cent._ Advance will, in all Probability, give the Strangers such a Capital, as will amount to more than the whole _Cash_ of the Kingdom. The _Foreigners_ have taken an Alarm since our late _unhappy Mismanagement_; and are only waiting for some _New Project_, to sell out, and strip us entirely: So that if we will consider our own _Preservation_, we must rather _depretiate_ our Stocks, than seek Means to _augment_ them. It is a receiv'd Maxim, _Salus Populi Suprema Lex esto_: This I take to be meant of the _whole Body_, not of some Parts of the _People_. And tho' _Thousands_ may suffer, yet it is a receiv'd Rule, That the _Whole_ is first to be consider'd, when it comes in Competition with any _Parts_. Therefore, in our present Case, the _Whole_ is to be consider'd; and the _Preservation_ of that, is to weigh down against all the Hardships that may happen to _Particulars_.