The Financial System in Nineteenth-Century Britain (The Victorian Archives Series, 1)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 27, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780195150575
First sentence: During the last session of parliament, a Committee, that is to say, ten or twelve members, of the House of Commons, were appointed to inquire into the cause of the high price of Gold Bullion, that is, Gold not coined; and to take into consideration the state of the circulating medium, or money, of this country.