Of Banks. CHAP. I. Of the various kinds of credit, 141 CHAP. II. Of private credit, 144 CHAP. III. Of banks, 146 CHAP. IV. Of banks of circulation upon mortgage or private 150 credit, CHAP. V. Such banks ought to issue their notes on private, 153 not mercantile credit, CHAP. VI. Use of subaltern bankers and exchangers, 154 CHAP. VII. Concerning the obligation to pay in coin, and 157 the consequences thereof, CHAP. VIII. How a wrong balance of trade affects banks of 161 circulation, CHAP. IX. How a grand balance may be paid by banks, without 162 the assistance of coin, CHAP. X. Insufficiency of temporary credits for the payment 164 of a wrong balance, CHAP. XI. Of the hurt resulting to banks, when they leave 165 the payment of a wrong balance to exchangers, CHAP. XII. How the payment of a wrong balance affects 169 circulation, CHAP. XIII. Continuation of the same subject; and of the 178 principles upon which banks ought _to borrow abroad_, and _give credit at home_, CHAP. XIV. Of optional clauses contained in bank notes, 195 CHAP. XV. Of subaltern banks of circulation, and of their 202 competition with one another, CHAP. XVI. Of some regulations proper to be made with 205 regard to national banks, CHAP. XVII. When, and in what case, banks should be obliged 208 to keep open books, CHAP. XVIII. Is it the interest of banks to grant credits 210 and cash accompts to exchangers and others, who make a trade of sending coin out of the country? CHAP. XIX. Application of the principles above deduced, 212 towards forming the policy of circulation, CHAP. XX. Objections to this doctrine, 215 CHAP. XXI. How, by a return of a favourable balance, the 218 bank may be enabled to pay off the debts due to foreigners, and thus deliver the nation from that burden, CHAP. XXII. Of banks of circulation, established on 220 mercantile credit, CHAP. XXIII. Of the first establishment of Mr. Law’s bank 235 of circulation, in the year 1716, CHAP. XXIV. Account of the variations of the French coin 236 some time before and after the death of Louis XIV. CHAP. XXV. Continuation of the account of Law’s bank, 239 CHAP. XXVI. Account of the royal Mississippi bank of 243 France, established on public credit, CHAP. XXVII. A short account of the French company of the 247 Indies, CHAP. XXVIII. Chronological anecdotes, 250