265.  Qu.  Whether the sure way to supply people with tools and materials, and to set them at work, be not a free circulation of money, whether silver or paper?

266.  Qu.  Whether in New England all trade and business is not as much at a stand, upon a scarcity of paper-money, as with us from the want of specie?

267.  Qu.  Whether paper-money or notes may not be issued from the national bank, on the security of hemp, of linen, or other manufactures whereby the poor might be supported in their industry?

268.  Qu.  Whether it be certain that the quantity of silver in the bank of Amsterdam be greater now than at first; but whether it be not certain that there is a greater circulation of industry and extent of trade, more people, ships, houses, and commodities of all sorts, more power by sea and land?

269.  Qu.  Whether money, lying dead in the bank of Amsterdam, would not be as useless as in the mine?

270.  Qu.  Whether our visible security in land could be doubted?  And whether there be anything like this in the bank of Amsterdam?

271.  Qu.  Whether it be just to apprehend danger from trusting a national bank with power to extend its credit, to circulate notes which it shall be felony to counterfeit, to receive goods on loans, to purchase lands, to sell also or alienate them, and to deal in bills of exchange; when these powers are no other than have been trusted for many years with the bank of England, although in truth but a private bank?

272.  Qu.  Whether the objection from monopolies and an overgrowth of power, which are made against private banks, can possibly hold against a national one?

273.  Qu.  Whether banks raised by private subscription would be as advantageous to the public as to the subscribers? and whether risks and frauds might not be more justly apprehended from them?

274.  Qu.  Whether the evil effects which of late years have attended paper-money and credit in Europe did not spring from subscriptions, shares, dividends, and stock-jobbing?

275.  Qu.  Whether the great evils attending paper-money in the British Plantations of America have not sprung from the overrating their lands, and issuing paper without discretion, and from the legislators breaking their own rules in favour of themselves, thus sacrificing the public to their private benefit?  And whether a little sense and honesty might not easily prevent all such inconveniences?

276.  Qu.  Whether an argument from the abuse of things, against the use of them, be conclusive?

277.  Qu.  Whether he who is bred to a part be fitted to judge of the whole?

278.  Qu.  Whether interest be not apt to bias judgment? and whether traders only are to be consulted about trade, or bankers about money?

279.  Qu.  Whether the subject of Freethinking in religion be not exhausted?  And whether it be not high time for our freethinkers to turn their thoughts to the improvement of their country?