Excerpt from Treatises and Essays on Subjects Connected With Economical Policy: With Biographical Sketches of Quesnay, Adam Smith Ricardo
See Memorandum on the Silver Coinage of 1817. By the Master of the Mint, p. 378 of the Appendix to the Lords' Report on the Resump tion of Cash Payments by the Bank.
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