Excerpt from Important Notices of That Which Concerns the Pecuniary Credit of a State, and in Particular That of England The following pages are a summary View and compression of what the writer has already said on the same vital subject, with such important and new matter, as appeared to him most likely to draw the Reader's attention to it, and to the necessity there is, with our immense amounts of Paper Money, for the earliest institution of a Mint, Paper, Standard of Value, together with the ground work of an act of Parliament, for establishing the same. Capital in Gross, embraces all the commodities produced in the world, and including that of gold. Capital in Fractions, is the first capital, coined into money, and if of a gold material, from its portability, the capital in gross is carried in our pockets; but if wanted to a greater amount than there is gold bullion to be commanded, as the mate rial for our money, - paper money, representative only of capital in gross, not portable, is obliged to be substituted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.