A discourse about trade [electronic resource] : wherein the reduction of interest in money to 4 _. per centum, is recommended : methods for the employment and maintenance of the poor are proposed : several weighty points relating to companies of merchants : the act of navigation : naturalization of strangers : our woollen manufactures : the balance of trade : and the nature of plantations, and their consequences in relation to the kingdom, are seriously discussed : and some arguments for erecting a court of merchants for determining controversies, relating to maritime affairs, and for a law for transferrance of bills of debts, are humbly offered.