CHAP. I. Of money of accompt, 526 What money is —— Definitions —— Money a scale for measuring value, —— Principles which determine the value of things 527 Prices not regulated by the quantity of money, —— But by the relative proportion between commodities and 528 the wants of mankind, Necessity of distinguishing between money and price, 529 Money of accompt what, and how contrived, —— Examples of it, 531 Bank money, —— Angola money, —— CHAP. II. Of artificial or material money, —— Usefulness of the precious metals for the making money, 532 Adjusting a standard, what? 533 Debasing and raising a standard, what? 534 The alteration of a standard, how to be discovered? —— Of alloy, —— CHAP. III. Incapacities of the metals to perform the office 535 of an invariable measure of value, 1. They vary in their relative value to one another, —— All measures ought to be invariable, —— Consequences when they vary, 536 Defects of a silver standard, 537 Arguments in favour of it, —— Answers to these arguments, 538 Usefulness of an universal measure, 539 They have two values, one as coin, and one as metals, 540 Smaller inconveniences attending material money, —— It wears in circulation, —— It is inaccurately coined, 541 The coinage adds to its value, without adding to its —— weight, The value of it may be arbitrarily changed, —— Trade profits of the smallest defects in the coin, ——