Considering the benefit the nation will have by this addition to the money; that the land will be improv’d, so be more valuable, rents be well payed, and that debitors by paying a value equal to what is contracted for, may free their persons and estates from the danger they are now exposed to. 2. That the money’d man will receive punctual payment, in a money of a more certain value than silver or any other goods, and be in no danger of confusion. 3. That trade will flourish, and these who depend on it be encouraged. 4. That the condition of the other degrees of the people will be better’d. 5. That the nation will be able to maintain itself in order, and resist its enemies. These reasons considered, the question then will be, whether we will improve the country as much as it is capable, without being at any expence for a measure of trade, or continue as we are in hopes of silver from other nations. It will be a great advantage to this nation, that by the register we are capable of putting this proposal in execution, and enjoying the benefit of it; when other nations, tho’ they resolv’d upon it, would for some years be incapable of it. tho’ for the general good of Europe it were to be wish’d England were as capable of it as we are. I have not had time to put my thoughts in that order they ought to have been, and am forc’d to leave out answers I design’d to have given to some objections I have heard made against this proposal; but if the parliament think good to enter upon the consideration of it, I don’t doubt but it may be made appear to be of great and certain advantage; that it cannot possibly be any way hurtful to the country in general, and that it may be so ordered, as not to be hurtful to any person, but on the contrair. FINIS. Books printed and sold by ROBERT and ANDREW FOULIS. In pure Greek, on fine writing paper, in quarto, Homeri Ilias, 2 vols Æschylus Sophocles With Latin translations in quarto, Æschylus, 2 vols Demetrius Phalereus de elocutione In pocket volumes the following, Homeri Ilias, 2 vols Hippocratis Aphorismi Xenophontis de Agesilao rege oratio Pindari opera Anacreon Æschylus, 2 vols Sophocles, 2 vols Aristotelis poetica Demetrius Phalereus Xenophontis Hiero Theophrasti characteres Epictetus M. Antoninus Aristotelis de mundo Cebetis tabula cum notulis Lucretius Ciceronis opera omnia, 20 vols Horatius, editio altera Terentius Phaedrus Philosophiae moralis institutio compendiaria, auctore Fr. Hutcheson, editio 2da auctior Cornelii Nepotis vitae excellentium imperatorum; of the same size of page and type, with Cicero’s works Professor Hutcheson’s introduction to moral philosophy, translated from the Latin An essay on the composition and manner of writing of the ancients, particularly Plato, by J. Geddes Advocate