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propos'd upon a Peace to reduce the high interest by paying off those Creditors that would not submit to the reduction such loans could only transacted deletion unclear /deletion addition with /addition these great Companys, they alone having where with all to supply the public necessity & whenever this happen'd they have constantly procur'd from Government an additional term to their Charters; thus it has gone on for this Cast Sixty or Seventy Years past & considering the enormous debt the Nation now Labours under, thus in all probability it will continue till some great calamity & a total failure of public credit rescues the Nation from the depression it now lyes under at the expence of some hundred thousand individuals, who whenever this fatal minute comes will be irreparably undone; then & not till then the Landed interest