Paper Against Gold, Or, the 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 MoneyJohn Doyle, 1846 - 432 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Act of Parliament alarm amount Anti-Jacobin appears assignats Bank Company bank notes Bank of England bank-notes Bankers Bill Bullion Committee called cash cause circulation COBBETT coin compelled consequence continue course creditors demand depreciation dividends effect England notes Exchequer fact February five pounds France French fund-holder Gentlemen GEORGE ROSE give gold and silver 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 ruin seen shillings Sinking Fund sort speech Stock suppose taxes thing thousand pounds tion told venal whole words writers
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 406 - 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.
Seite 233 - Act, shall be laid before both houses of parliament within one month after the making thereof, if parliament be then sitting, or if parliament be not then sitting, within one month after the commencement of the then next session of Parliament.
Seite 272 - 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 inclusive.
Seite 209 - An Act to 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 payments of money, and to prevent the legal tender of such bills as are now subsisting from being prolonged beyond the periods limited for calling in and sinking the same.
Seite 197 - 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.
Seite 370 - Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that in case any person shall refuse to take the said oaths when tendered to them, which every justice of the peace is hereby...
Seite 201 - ... the effect of the unusual demands for Specie that have been made upon the Metropolis, in consequence of ill-founded or exaggerated alarms in different parts of the Country...
Seite 34 - An Act for granting to their Majesties several duties upon tonnage of ships and vessels, and upon beer, ale, and other liquors, for securing certain recompenses and advantages in the said Act mentioned, to such persons as shall voluntarily advance the sum of fifteen hundred thousand pounds towards carrying on the war with France.
Seite 196 - Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Twenty-fourth Day of June One thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, if any Engraver, Etcher, Printseller.
Seite 143 - Public at large, that the general concerns of the Bank are in the most affluent and prosperous situation, and such as to preclude every doubt as to the security of its Notes.