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 eng Finance, Public -- Great Britain -- 1688-1815 -- Early works to 1800. Guinea (Coin) -- Early works to 1800. Coinage -- England -- Early works to 1800. Money -- Early works to 1800. Foreign exchange -- Early works to 1800. eebo Plain truth: or, arguments humbly offer'd to prove, that nothing inferiour to a total prohibition of all gold and silver once melted in England, will n/a 1695 4 1435 2 0 0 0 0 0 13.94 C The rate of 13.94 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-11 Sampled and proofread 2014-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Plain Truth : OR , ARGUMENTS Humbly Offer'd to prove , That nothing Inferiour to A Total Prohibition OF ALL GOLD and SILVER ONCE Melted in England , Will prevent its Exportation .

THE Melting down of almost all our Mill'd Money , The present great want of Treasure to defray the Expence of the War , The deadness of our Manufactures ( especially Woollen ) The unparallell'd abuse of Clipping and Counterfeiting ; The raising of Guinea's above their Intrinsick Value ; The turning the small remains of our Mill'd and Broad Money into a sort of Ware , so that 't is bought and sold , at Prices far beyond its Original Value , With the extravagant price of Silver and Gold Bullion , are All so plainly the Mischievous Consequences of the Exportation of the Treasure of the Land , that it has pleas'd the Great Council of Our Nation to take the Matter into their Consideration , in order to apply a Remedy to these Growing Evils .

But the Men who have brought these Mischiefs upon us , being sensible , That if An Effectual Means were us'd to Prevent Exportation , it would stop the Current of their Profit ; have therefore us'd all their Power and Interest ( and do still use it ) to hinder such a Good Law , Or if They cannot altogether hinder a Law , then to procure such an one as may put the whole Power into their Own hands .

And here since the Open and Bare-faced Truth must be spoken ( Loqui Volumus , nam scimus Amyclas tacendo periisse ) Some of the most powerful Goldsmiths and Refiners , &c. of London have been the Great Exporters of our Treasure , if not worse — Clippings and Ingots of Mill'd Money are not distinguish'd by Smell , from Forreign Silver .

These are The Men that have been the great Remora's of this most Necessary and Profitable Law ; And therefore when the House of Lords were pleased to intimate to the Goldsmiths , that they should prepare a Bill to prevent these Mischiefs ; 't was descanted ( agreeable to the sincerity of these Men ) in these Words , Since they Will have a Rattle , they must have a Rattle .

't is Natural to All Men , to remove the Scandal to their Neighbours Door which should lie at their Own , and therefore say these Men ( with a seeming Concern ) Those Rogues the Iews carry away all the Silver out of the Nation ( so sensible are they that Exportation of our Treasure is Odious and Destructive ) Tho' at the same time they are careful that the Guilt of the Nations Ruine shall not lie altogether on the Iews , by Eporting Themselves as much as they can .

If therefore the Power of determining whether Silver be Lawful , i.e. Forreign Bullion , be left to These Men , 't will be , in plain Words ( since we must speak plain ) To make Criminals Judges of their own Offence .

That an Oath of the Lawfulness of Bullion to be Transported , will not stop the Mischief , is apparent ; since if the Exporter ▪ himself Melt either Clippings , Money , &c. ( which is neither difficult , tedious , or laborious ) privately first into small Ingots , &c. and his Servant afterwards melt the same Numerical Ingots , &c. into larger , for Exportation , The Servant will become capable of Swearing , that what he Melted was neither Clippings , Plate , nor the Coin of the Kingdom .

Those who have evaded the Law in Melting down our Mill'd Money , and Clipping the Broad ; Those who raise to themselves Estates by secret Gainful ways , &c. Will never want Men to Swear ( if they boggle themselves ) to evade a New Law , which leaves 'em the liberty of Exporting what they please , at the Expence of an Oath .

It 's from a due Regard to the Honour which a Bill that has past thro The most Honourable House of Lords , and has been twice read in the Honourable House of Commons , has thence obtain'd ( and not as it came from Those who call'd it a Rattle ) that we do not presume to shew the Invalidity of That Bill , &c. But surely there can be no Material Objection against the Prohibiting All Gold and Silver once Melted in England , but such as carries with it some dark-side to hide some Mens particular Profits , at the damage of the Nation , and the Encouragement of Perjury .

It 's therefore humbly Pray'd ,

That a Law be made to Prohibit All Gold and Silver once Melted in England , and the Proof to lie on the Exporter , that what he Exports is Forreign Bullion ( according to that most just and provident Resolution of the Committee , &c. ) to facilitate which ( if the Parliament think fit ) it may be Enacted ,

That All Forreign Bullion Imported in Ingots for the future ( Forreign Coins by their Stamp and Character will speak for themselves , and may be exempted ) be enter'd at the Custom-House , Custom free , and there to receive some Stamp , &c. Gratis , On Oath first made , that That Bullion was received on board from some parts beyond the Seas , in the same form which now it bears , &c. Which Entrance will ( if it comes to be Exported ) help the Exporter in his Proof : And that no Bullion be Exported , but what is found so enter'd .

That All Gold Imported , not in Ingots ( if Exported ) be not Melted here in this Nation .

Such a Law can be detrimental to None , but Such as desire to increase their private Wealth , by ways destructive to the National Interest .

This will give Liberty to no sort of Men to use the Law to insult on their Neighbours , or raise Objections where there are none , or to find none where they ought to be rais'd .

't will establish no new Office , or harras the Subject by new Directors of what is , or is not fit to be Exported .

't will lay no Men under the Temptation of Perjury , by Profit to themselves , or fear of a Master , &c. And as to what relates to the Prevention of Clipping , if our Money be new Mill'd ( which is the only Effectual Way to prevent it ) nothing need be added on that Head .

And for Preventing the Melting of our Money for the future , if the Law Provide that the Money be raised ▪ ( according to the Resolution of the Committee ) and whatever is raised , to go towards the Fund for making good the Clipt Money , This will prevent Melting down at Home , and will also return it , if carried Abroad , and also pefectly Cure a Pernicious Practice used by some Men , of Culling the Weightiest Money to Melt down , in order to be Recoin'd ; which practice will still continue , if the Profits of Coinage be not diverted to some such good Purpose , as making good the dificiency of our light Money , &c.

This Honourable House will soon distinguish betwixt this Paper and that Shoal of Proposals , Projects &c. offer'd with intimations of private Advantages to particular Men , Since here 's no other Good but the Publick , design'd : No New Offices proposed to gratifie Projecters , &c. No dangerous and tempting Profits to be put into the Power of a few Men who have already given no very good proofs of their preferring the Publick before Private Interest .

The Honesty of this Paper will therefore ( it 's hop'd ) carry with it it 's own Recommendation to this August Assembly ; Whom the Great God bless and make truly Honourable , in becoming the Healers of the Wounds of this Nation .

Plain Truth : OR , ARGUMENTS Humbly Offer'd to Prove , That nothing Inferiour to A Total Prohibition OF ALL GOLD and SILVER ONCE Melted in England , Will prevent its Exportation .