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The Third General Head Discusses this Question, Whether it be or be not absolutely Necessary at this time to Re-establish the Coins.
IT will readily be Granted, That the Melting and New Fabricating the much grea∣ter Part of all the Silver Moneys of the Realm (as the Clipt Pieces are) would be a Work very improper to be Enterprized in the heat of an Important and Expensive War; if the doing thereof were not in∣dispensibly necessary, to render effectual the very Ways and Means, which in Par∣liament may be Resolved upon, in refe∣rence to Aids or Supplies for Carrying on of the same War, and to produce a Species of Money that may be Useful and Service∣able for the Upholding of the Commerce, and for answering not only of the Pub∣lick,