169 whether, in case the wisdom of the nation shall think fit to our coin, without erecting a national bank, the rule for lessening or avoiding present inconvenience should not be so to order matters, by raising the silver and depressing the gold, as that the total sum of coined cash within the kingdom shall, in denomination, remain the same, or amount to the same nominal value, after the change that it did before?
170 whether all inconvenience ought not to be lessened as much as may be; but after, whether it would be prudent, for the sake of a small inconvenience, to obstruct a much greater good? and whether it may not sometimes happen that an inconvenience which in fancy and general discourse seems great shall, when accurately inspected and cast up, appear inconsiderable?
171 whether in public councils the sum of things, here and there, present and future, ought not to be regarded?
176 money being a ticket which entitles to power and records the title, whether such power avails otherwise than as it is exerted into act?
180 whether beside that value of money which is rated by weight, there be not also another value consisting in its aptness to circulate?
204 whether there be any woollen manufacture in birmingham?
205 whether bad management may not be worse than slavery? and whether any part of christendom be in a more languishing condition than this kingdom?
212 whether it be not true, that within the compass of one year there flowed from the south sea, when that commerce was open, into the single town of st. malo's, a sum in gold and silver equal to four times the whole specie of this kingdom? and whether that same part of france doth not at present draw from cadiz, upwards of two hundred thousand pounds per annum?