Excerpt from The Outline of a Plan for Bringing the Scotch and English Currency to the Same Standard Bullion Value, and Producing a Sterling Country Bank Note of Exchangeable Value, Convertible in Every Place to Gold Coin: Very Humbly Addressed to Those in Authority; To the Scotch and English Country Bankers; And to the Public The remedy that has suggested itself to the writer is to return to first principles, as far as it is now practicable to do so, and to the same con trol being established over the value* of all the different parts of the currency of the realm, as the government always exercised when it con sisted alone of bullion coin, and as early as the long lapse of time in which the contrary practice has prevailed, may now make possible. 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.