247.  Qu.  Whether interest paid into the bank ought not to go on augmenting its stock?

248.  Qu.  Whether it would or would not be right to appoint that the said interest be paid in notes only?

249.  Qu.  Whether the notes of this national bank should not be received in all payments into the exchequer?

250.  Qu.  Whether on supposition that the specie should fail, the credit would not, nevertheless, still pass, being admitted in all payments of the public revenue?

251.  Qu.  Whether the pubic can become bankrupt so long as the notes are issued on good security?

252.  Qu.  Whether mismanagement, prodigal living, hazards by trade, which often affect private banks, are equally to be apprehended in a pubic one?

253.  Qu.  Whether as credit became current, and this raised the value of land, the security must not of course rise?

254.  Qu.  Whether, as our current domestic credit grew, industry would not grow likewise; and if industry, our manufactures; and if these, our foreign credit?

255.  Qu.  Whether by degrees, as business and people multiplied, more bills may not be issued, without augmenting the capital stock, provided still, that they are issued on good security; which further issuing of new bills, not to be without consent of Parliament?

256.  Qu.  Whether such bank would not be secure?  Whether the profits accruing to the pubic would not be very considerable?  And whether industry in private persons would not be supplied, and a general circulation encouraged?

257.  Qu.  Whether such bank should, or should not, be allowed to issue notes for money deposited therein?  And, if not, whether the bankers would have cause to complain?

258.  Qu.  Whether, if the public thrives, all particular persons must not feel the benefit thereof, even the bankers themselves?

259.  Qu.  Whether, beside the Bank-Company, there are not in England many private wealthy bankers, and whether they were more before the erecting of that company?

260.  Qu.  Whether as industry increased, our manufactures would not flourish; and as these flourished, whether better returns would not be made from estates to their landlords, both within and without the kingdom?

261.  Qu.  Whether we have not paper-money circulating among, whether, therefore, we might not as well have that us already which is secured by the public, and whereof the pubic reaps the benefit?

262.  Qu.  Whether there are not two general ways of circulating money, to wit, play and traffic? and whether stock-jobbing is not to be ranked under the former?

263.  Qu.  Whether there are more than two things that might draw silver out of the bank, when its credit was once well established, to wit, foreign demands and small payments at home?

264.  Qu.  Whether, if our trade with France were checked, the former of these causes could be supposed to operate at all? and whether the latter could operate to any great degree?