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It were better, perhaps, that no bank notes were issued in any

part of the kingdom for a smaller sum than £5. Paper money would

then, probably, confine itself, in every part of the kingdom, to

the circulation between the different dealers, as much as it does

at present in London, where no bank notes are issued under £10

value; £5 being, in most part of the kingdom, a sum which, though

it will purchase, perhaps, little more than half the quantity of

goods, is as much considered, and is as seldom spent all at once,

as £10 are amidst the profuse expense of London.