The Humble PROPOSAL of GILBERT MALKIN and P. B. For making England Flourishing and Happy.  
THe Poor's Rates, as now Established, may be Computed to be Three hundred thousand Pounds per Annum, which may be Settled for One hundred Years as a Fund, to be under the Regulation and Government of whom the Parliament think fit, and the Governors may have certain Salaries, and issue out Bills of Credit (none to be under 5 s. or above 20 l.) to the value of Thirty Millions, which Bills of Credit, may by the Sanction of a Law, be Currant in all Payments, etc. and may be Disposed of, as followeth;  l. Nine Millions to Purchase a Real Estate in Land, for the Use of the Poor 9000000 Four Millions to be Laid out in Building so many Houses, as shall be thought Sufficient and Necessary for Employing the Poor of all Cities, Counties, Towns, and Parishes; and Laying in a Stock of Wool, Hemp, Flax, and other English Manufactures, to set the Poor to work 4000000 Twelve hundred thousand Pounds to Pay the Royal-Bank, and Set the Fund for that Interest at Liberty 1200000 Eight hundred thousand Pounds for Maintenance of the Poor, and Paying Salaries until the Work-houses can be fitted; and Stock provided, and the Land Bought, which may all be done in two Years 800000 Fifteen Millions for the Use of the Government, which may be paid by so much a Year, as shall be thought fit 15000000 Total in Bills 30000000 The Governors every Year to Pay and Cancel Bills, to the Value of 300000l. whereby at the Hundred Years end all the Bills will be Cancelled.  
The Advantages to the Nation by this, are; Fifteen Millions to the Government, to Ease the Nation of Taxes 15000000 For Land to be purchased, which will Maintain the Poor, and Ease the Parishes ever after 9000000 In Houses and Stock, Four Millions 4000000 The Annual Rents, Issues, and Profits of Land, and Stock, besides a Hundred thousand Pounds a Year, to Maintain the Poor, that cannot work; and Sixty thousand Pounds a Year, to Pay the Charge, and Salaries of the Undertaking, will be at least Four hundred thousand Pounds a Year, which in a hundred Years, amounts to Forty Millions 40000000 And if the Four hundred thousand Pounds, be Laid out as it Comes in Yearly, the Product of it at but Two in the Hundred, will, in a Hundred Years, amount to Forty Millions 40000000 To Pay the Royal Bank, Twelve hundred thousand Pounds 1200000 The Advantage to the Nation; will be more than 109200000  
Bills of Credit may be so Contrived, to be Renewed and made Durable, and be Less subject to Counterfeiting than Money.  
The Poor by this will be well Provided for; Youth Virtuously Educated, and kept out of Idleness; and there will be neither Beggar, nor any Complaint in our Streets, and all done without any Additional Tax in the space of One hundred Years; and there will be an abatement of all the present Tax, at the End of the said Term.  
Many other vast Benefits will accrue to the Nation, which for brevity sake are omitted, as the Proposer can make appear; and they doubt not but they can give Satisfactory Answers to all the Objections can be made against their PROPOSALS.