CHAP. XXIX. Continuation of the royal bank of France, until 252 the time the company cf the Indies promised a dividend of 200 livres _per_ action, CHAP. XXX. Inquiry into the motives of the Duke of Orleans 256 in concerting the plan of the Mississippi, CHAP. XXXI. Continuation of the account of the royal bank 265 of France, until the total bankruptcy the 21st of May 1720, CHAP. XXXII. Conclusion of the Mississippi scheme, 270 CHAP. XXXIII. Why credit fell, and how it might have been 276 supported, CHAP. XXXIV. How the diminishing the denomination of the 284 paper in circulation, by the arret of the 21st of May 1720, destroyed the credit of France, when the same arbitrary measures taken with regard to the coin had produced no such effect, CHAP. XXXV. How a bank may be safely established in France, 289 as matters stand at present, CHAP. XXXVI. Of banks of deposit and transfer, 291 CHAP. XXXVII. Of the bank of Amsterdam, 292 CHAP. XXXVIII. Of the agio of the bank of Amsterdam, 294 CHAP. XXXIX. Continuation of the same subject; and 298 concerning the circulation of coin through the bank of Amsterdam, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PART III. Of Exchange. CHAP. I. OF the first principles of exchange, 310 CHAP. II. How to determine exactly the true and intrinsic 316 value of the metals, coin, or money, in which a balance to foreign nations is to be paid, CHAP. III. How to remove the inconveniences which occur in 325 paying balances with the metals or coin of a nation, CHAP. IV. How the price of exchange, _in a prosperous 333 trading nation_, may be prevented from operating upon the whole mass of reciprocal payments, instead of affecting the balance only, CHAP. V. How, when other expedients prove ineffectual for 344 discharging of balances, the same may be paid by the means of credit, without the intervention of coin or bullion; and who are they who ought to conduct that operation, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PART IV. Of public Credit. CHAP. I. Of the various consequences of public debts, 348 CHAP. II. Of the rise and progress of public credit, 351 CHAP. III. Of anticipations, or borrowing money upon 354 assignments to taxes, for the discharge of principal and interest, CHAP. IV. Of the state of public credit in France before 367 the reign of Louis XIV. and of the sentiments of the great Richlieu upon that subject,