An essay on the publick debts of this kingdom ..To which is subjoined an enquiry into the general convenience of reducing farther the interest of our publick debts below 4 per centper annumIn a letter to a Member of the House of Commons . THE PREFACE- Here may ferha^s ap-pear fomethtng too af-^ fuming m the Attemptsof an Author, to informthe Tublick, or to di-re6i their Sentiments a~bout Matters of general Importance, toadmit of a better Reception or Enter-tainment from the Town than what Ter-formances of this kind have of late Tearsgenerally met with. I have thoughtA X there^. iv 57:?^ Prefac
An essay on the publick debts of this kingdom ..To which is subjoined an enquiry into the general convenience of reducing farther the interest of our publick debts below 4 per centper annumIn a letter to a Member of the House of Commons . THE PREFACE- Here may ferha^s ap-pear fomethtng too af-^ fuming m the Attemptsof an Author, to informthe Tublick, or to di-re6i their Sentiments a~bout Matters of general Importance, toadmit of a better Reception or Enter-tainment from the Town than what Ter-formances of this kind have of late Tearsgenerally met with. I have thoughtA X there^. iv 57:?^ Preface. therefore, that It may not be improperio mention my Reafon for the Tiihlica-tion of the following Sheets, as an A-fology for it with the Reader ; to whomI can with great Truth and Sincerityreprefent, that I Jhould never havethought any Knowledge which I had, orany T^ifcoveries in my Tower^ of ourCircumftances with regard to our pre-fent T>ebts, worth jhe piblick Notice,if I had not frequently 7net with fome^ on this SubJ£^^ which appear-ed to me very generally to-prevail, andfirmly io be infifled on and believed muchto the ^ifadvantage of our TublickCredit, and. which at -the fame Time Ihave flatteredmy felf might be confu-ted afid removed, from ftich Informationsonly as .1 Jhould. be able, on this Occa-fion,^to colleci. 1 have fo often heardit affirmed,, that our TublickDebts haveincreafed upmp tks fmcc the, Trovifiionsmade for the Difcharge of them, that ithas fometimes feemed to me to he themore common Opinion even of thofe Ter-fous who ar^mof interej
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