A scheme for payment of the sum of 49,301,855 £. 6 s. 1 d. 1/2
Subtitle: being the national debt of Great-Britain, as it stood the 31st of Dec. 1730 ... which, if enacted into a law, will be of infinite service to the merchants trading to the West Indies, infallibly secure our possessions of Gibralter and the island of Minorca, totally abolish smuggling, and be of singular advantage to the woollen manufactory : humbly offered to the consideration of the British Parliament
Publisher: Printed for J. Wilford
Published: 1732
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Public Debts; Galleys; Punishment
Notes: Attributed to Joseph Davies by Goldsmiths' Lib. cat. Deduced from the fact that part of the scheme is to make all convicts into galley slaves, a favorite nostrum of Davies. Cf. Hanson.