If the creditors of the public, indeed, were generally much in debt to other people, they might in some measure compensate their loss by paying their creditors in the same coin in which the public had paid them.

如果公众的债权人确实普遍欠其他人很多债，他们可能会以公众支付给他们的相同硬币向债权人支付债务，从而在某种程度上弥补他们的损失。