text:  Now although we hold that upon every principle of public expediency and justice the legislature are bound to regard with particular tenderness the interests of a body of men who like the Scottish bankers have not only established but administered for such a long time the monetary system of the country with stability temperance indulgence and success equally removed from weak facility and from grasping avidity of gain; we must nevertheless allow that the interests of the public are paramount to theirs and that if it can be shown that the public will be gainers although the bankers should be losers by the change the sooner the metallic currency is established amongst us the better