An argument to prove, that it is the indispensible duty of the creditors of the public to insist, that government do forthwith being forward the consideration of the state of the nation [electronic resource] : In order to ascertain, as near as may be, the annual receipts and expenditure of the state; and, by providing efficient and adequate funds for the sum in which the latter shall be found to exceed the former, to strengthen the public credit, restore public confidence. By John Earl of Stair.