26.  Qu.  Whether even our private banks, though attended with such hazards as we all know them to be, are not of singular use in defect of a national bank?

27.  Qu.  Whether without them what little business and industry there is would not stagnate?  But whether it be not a mighty privilege for a private person to be able to create a hundred pounds with a dash of his pen?

28.  Qu.  Whether the mystery of banking did not derive its original from the Italians?  Whether this acute people were not, upon a time, bankers over all Europe?  Whether that business was not practised by some of their noblest families who made immense profits by it, and whether to that the house of Medici did not originally owe its greatness?

29.  Qu.  Whether the wise state of Venice was not the first that conceived the advantage of a national bank?

30.  Qu.  Whether at Venice all payments of bills of exchange and merchants’ contracts are not made in the national or pubic bank, the greatest affairs being transacted only by writing the names of the parties, one as debtor the other as creditor in the bank-book?

31.  Qu.  Whether nevertheless it was not found expedient to provide a chest of ready cash for answering all demands that should happen to be made on account of payments in detail?

32.  Qu.  Whether this offer of ready cash, instead of transfers in the bank, hath not been found to augment rather than diminish the stock thereof?

33.  Qu.  Whether at Venice, the difference in the value of bank money above other money be not fixed at twenty per cent?

34.  Qu.  Whether the bank of Venice be not shut up four times in the year twenty days each time?

35.  Qu.  Whether by means of this bank the public be not mistress of a million and a half sterling?

36.  Qu.  Whether the great exactness and integrity with which this bank is managed be not the chief support of that republic?

37.  Qu.  Whether we may not hope for as much skill and honesty in a Protestant Irish Parliament as in a Popish Senate of Venice?

38.  Qu.  Whether the bank of Amsterdam was not begun about one hundred and thirty years ago, and whether at this day its stock be not conceived to amount to three thousand tons of gold, or thirty millions sterling?

39.  Qu.  Whether besides coined money, there be not also great quantities of ingots or bars of gold and silver lodged in this bank?

40.  Qu.  Whether all payments of contracts for goods in gross, and letters of exchange, must not be made by transfers in the bank-books, provided the sum exceed three hundred florins?

41.  Qu.  Whether it be not true, that the bank of Amsterdam never makes payments in cash?

42.  Qu.  Whether, nevertheless, it be not also true, that no man who hath credit in the bank can want money from particular persons, who are willing to become creditors in his stead?