foreknowledge of what must necessarily be uncertain, viz. the circumstances regulating the Course of Sterling and Indian Exchanges to be requisite to prognosticate the success of the Mint - but points out circumstances in which occasionally the ruling Exchanges might render minting temporarily profitable.
19. On the other hand Your Lordship's letter can oppose to the views of the Commission, framed after long protracted and anxious consideration and to the opinions of the Bankers whose profession it is to study the course of Exchange and dealings in Bullion and Coin.
...hadvocate that cause which suit their profit...
20. That letter embodies in a convenient shape the florid talk which may be harmlessly indulged in by gentlemen who have no responsibility and are not called on to provide funds to meet the expenditure essential for carrying out any costly and protracted experiment, whose solution they desire. It is not perhaps important if Mr. Kinzie pronounces the "financial success of the mint a question apart". He thereby merely puts himself out of court altogether.
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