66.  Qu.  Whether even a wicked will entrusted with power can be supposed to abuse it for no end?

67.  Qu.  Whether it be not much more probable that those who maketh such objections do not believe them?

68.  Qu.  Whether it be not vain to object that our fellow-subjects of Great Britain would malign or obstruct our industry when it is exerted in a way which cannot interfere with their own?

66.  Qu.  Whether it is to be supposed they should take delight in the dirt and nakedness and famine of our people, or envy them shoes for their feet and beef for their belies?

70.  Qu.  What possible handle or inclination could our having a national bank give other people to distress us?

71.  Qu.  Whether it be not ridiculous to conceive that a project for cloathing and feeding our natives should give any umbrage to England?

72.  Qu.  Whether such unworthy surmises are not the pure effect of spleen?

73.  Qu.  Whether London is not to be considered as the metropolis of Ireland?  And whether our wealth (such as it is) doth not circulate through London and throughout all England, as freely as that of any part of his Majesty’s dominions?

74.  Qu.  Whether therefore it be not evidently the interest of the people of England to encourage rather than to oppose a national bank in this kingdom, as well as every other means for advancing our wealth which shall not impair their own?

75.  Qu.  Whether it is not our interest to be useful to them rather than rival them; and whether in that case we may not be sure of their good offices?

76.  Qu.  Whether we can propose to thrive so long as we entertain a wrongheaded distrust of England?

77.  Qu.  Whether, as a national bank would increase our industry, and that our wealth, England may not be a proportionable gainer; and whether we should not consider the gains of our mother-country as some accession to our own?

78.  Qu.  Whether the Protestant colony in this kingdom can ever forget what they owe to England?

79.  Qu.  Whether there ever was in any part of the world a country in such wretched circumstances, and which, at the same time, could be so easily remedied, and nevertheless the remedy not applied?

80.  Qu.  What must become of a people that can neither see the plainest things nor do the easiest?

81.  Qu.  Be the money lodged in the bank what it will, yet whether an Act to make good deficiencies would not remove all scruples?

82.  Qu.  If it be objected that a national bank must lower interest, and therefore hurt the monied man, whether the same objection would not hold as strong against multiplying our gold and silver?

83.  Qu.  But whether a bank that utters bills, with the sole view of promoting the public weal, may not so proportion their quantity as to avoid several inconveniencies which might attend private banks?