Note 88 — PART II. CONTAINING Remarks on some Particulars in a Speech at opening the Budget in April 1776.

This is said on the supposition, that the last call would bring in no more than was expected, or about three millions. Its having brought in above double this sum makes little difference. For it proves, that the whole quantity of gold coin must have been (according to Lord North’s method of computing) 21 or 22 millions; and the quantity deficient more than a grain about 15 millions; and, consequently, six or seven millions (that is, near a third) will still remain to be the quantity deficient less than a grain.