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Another instanceprecident that may be endowedalledged
affording a presumption that no such lowinferior rate
of interest as is proposed will be accepted of by the
public in the case of a papera mass of annuity the value of which
depends upon its passing in circulation for the at & from
corresponding to the principal of that rate of interest
is that of the existing price of Government paper
called an Exchequer Bill.
The Exchequer Bill thus it is (it may be called)
that among the persons who accept of this price
of paper as an equivalent for cash there are
many to the of & when options it may it may be necessary
that the cash should corresponding quantitybe forthcoming in this hand at a
ad inferior to that at which Government undertakes
either to give cash for it or to accept it
in lieu of cash, and whose dependence therefore as
far as the principal sum of the Bill is concerned, is
on the market. That is a persons in open
no obligation to do that which is requisite, intentions.
But less again behold the consequence
This paper Government is unable to circulate
at any less interest than 5 1/3 per cent: and yet the
proposed new paper is reported to be circulated
at an interesta rate of sca so high as 3 per cent!
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