Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Thoughts on the Resumption of Cash Payments by the Bank, and on the Corn Bill, as Connected With That Measure: In a Letter, Addressed to the Right Honorable the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Great stress has been laid by some on the depre ciation of the bank note, when gold rises above the coining price of £3. I7s. Lo-éd. Per ounce; admitting the factato be so, and that, if a person be desirous of exchanging notes for gold, he is compelled to pay 5 per cent. More for the obtainment of the precious metals-will that be a' reason sufficiently strong to ia duce the nation to risk its present prosperity, merely to be enabled to say that a man may have nine guineas.
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