Part 1: Query 271
Qu.
Whether it be just to apprehend danger from trusting a national bank with power
to extend its credit, to circulate notes which it shall be felony to
counterfeit, to receive goods on loans, to purchase lands, to sell also or
alienate them, and to deal in bills of exchange; when these powers are no other
than have been trusted for many years with the bank of England, although in
truth but a private bank?