Paper Against Gold: Or, The History and Mystery of the Bank of England, of the Debt, of the Stocks, of the Sinking Fund, and of All the Other Tricks and Contrivances, Carried on by the Means of Paper MoneyJ. Doyle, 1834 - 432 pages |
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Act of Parliament alarm amount Anti-Jacobin appears assignats Bank Company Bank Directors bank notes Bank of England bank-notes Bankers Bill Bullion Committee called cash cause circulation COBBETT coin compelled consequence continue course creditors demand dividends effect England notes Exchequer February five pounds France French Gentlemen GEORGE ROSE give gold and silver GOLDSMIDT Government guineas holders House of Commons increase inquiries interest issued Jacobins Judges labour legal tender Letter loan look Lord King matter means measure ment millions mind Minister National Debt necessary never Newgate notes in gold opinion Order in Council paid paper paper-money passed pay their notes payment persons PITT PITT's present produce promissory notes public credit purchase quantity real money reason receive Report Restriction ruin seen shillings Sinking Fund sort speech Stock Stoppage of Gold suppose taxes thing tion told venal whole words writers
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Page 422 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 249 - Council made under this Act shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within Six Weeks after issuing the same, if Parliament be then sitting, and if not, then within Six Weeks after the commencement of the then next Session of Parliament.
Page 225 - prevent Paper Bills of Credit hereafter to be issued in any of His Majesty's " Colonies or Plantations in America from being declared to be a legal tender " in payment of money, and to prevent the legal tender of such Bills as are " now subsisting from being prolonged beyond the periods limited for recalling
Page 159 - I see nothing of the character and genius of arbitrary finance ; none of the bold frauds of bankrupt power; none of the wild struggles and plunges of despotism in distress ; no lopping off from the capital of debt ; no suspension of interest; no robbery under the name of loan ; no raising the value, no debasing the substance of the coin.
Page 214 - An Act for further restraining the negotiation of Promissory Notes and inland bills of exchange under a limited sum within that part of Great Britain called England.
Page 288 - Reports of Cases argued and determined in " the Court of Common Pleas and Exchequer Chamber and •' in the House of Lords, from Michaelmas Term, in the 40th " year of the reign of George III. (1799) to Michaelmas •• Term, in the 42nd Year of the same reign (1801), both
Page 217 - England should forbear issuing any cash in payment, until the sense of parliament can be taken on that subject, and the proper measures adopted thereupon, for maintaining the means of circulation and supporting the public and commercial credit of the kingdom at this important conjuncture...
Page 192 - COMMITTEE appointed to examine and state the total Amount of Outstanding Demands on The BANK of ENGLAND, and likewise of the Funds for discharging the same...