It is not for me to go beyond the purpose of this meeting, or to lay before you certain plans of my own regarding the credit of nations.
I may start, as does our learned friend, simply from established principles of human nature.
"It is true that the coinage is a creature of the government.

Yet I believe it to be true that the government lives purely upon credit; which is to say, the confidence of the people in that government.
"Now, we may reason in this matter perhaps from the lesser relations of our daily life.

What manner of man do we most trust among those whom we meet?
Surely, the honest man, the plain man, the one whose directness and integrity we do not doubt.

Truly you may witness the nature of such a man in the manner of his speech, in his mien, in his conduct.
Therefore, my Lords and gentlemen, it seems to me plain that we shall best gain confidence for ourselves if we act in the most simple fashion.
"Let us take up this matter directly with Parliament, not seeking to evade the knowledge of Parliament in any fashion; for, as we know, the Parliament and the king are not the best bed-fellows these days, and the one is ready enough to suspect the other.

Let us have a bill framed for Parliament--such bill made upon the decisions of these learned gentlemen present.