Neither the _Bank_, nor the _East-India_ Company, seem fond of the Project of this _Ingraftment_; and nothing can be argued, but that Something must be done, at least to amuse People with _vain Hopes_: Whereas, the true Interest of our _Country_ would have been, to have laid the _Wound_ open to every one's View; to have shewn the World, what _Dividend_ could be made out of the _Interest_, and what they might expect. Then _Foreigners_ would have sat still; for they could no where else make Five _per Cent._ of _One Hundred Pounds_; and their Money have remain'd here. But if we come to make _Dividends_ of Twelve _per Cent._ and by that means advance the Stock to _Three Hundred_; then those Strangers that had _Four Millions_ Capital, and receiv'd _Two Hundred Thousand Pounds_ per Ann. will have _Four Hundred and Eighty Thousand Pounds_ per Annum, and have a _Demand_ of _Twelve Millions_ on you; which will entirely finish what the late _South-Sea_ Directors so gloriously began. Is this a Time to endeavour at new _Projects_, when the Nation is at so low an Ebb; and when the World is ready, on the least Opportunity given, to put to the _Finishing Stroke_? It is a certain Topick, That every _Relief_ in the Case of the _South-Sea_ Company, will be thought an _Injustice_ to some, who cannot be reliev'd but at the _Expence_ of others. That Way therefore must be taken, that is most Safe and Equal. * * * * * By what has been said, you will easily judge, how little the _poor Sufferers_ are like to expect from this _New Project_; and that if the _Success_ attend it that some People hope, it must be the Ruin of the _Nation_. You likewise see the _Danger_ there is in _Advancing_ of Stocks above their Original Capital; and how necessary it is to restrain Corporations from _Dividing_ more than what their _Original Stock_ will fairly produce; and that such _Practices_ are destructive to the Commonwealth of this _Nation_. Ought not then the _Legislature_ to enter upon speedy _Measures_, and such as may prevent any _Evil Consequence_ that may happen? * * * * * Our Main Business, therefore, is, how to find out _Methods_ to extend our _Trade_; for _Projects_, and _United Companies_, are only contriv'd to _enrich_ a few. We have within our selves, and in _America_, an inexhaustible Fund to _supply_ our selves, and perhaps _Europe_, with what we are now beholden to _Foreigners_ for, and that at the Expence of our _Silver_ and _Gold_; and yet either our _Negligence_, or _private Views_, make us sit still. But otherwise,