This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810-01-01 edition. Excerpt: ...seems to have suffered-as yet no suspension of its productive powers, and bids fair to be not less prolific of pamphlets than its memorable precursor, the Bank-Restriction-Bill. Since the late increase of these performances, it deserves remark that the balance, in point of number, has changed sides, and is now in favour of the Bank, the Bullion-Report having called forth assailants of all descriptions, . Among such a variety of tracts, several must, in course, be possessed of slender claims to attention; but, since the subject is of very great importance, we have prescribed it to ourselves, as a rule, to insert in our pages a notice of every work on it which may be offered to the public Vntil the doubts of the country shall be -e.t at rest by the.adoption of some specific measure on the part of the Legislar ture. Our own sentiments being already before our readers, the present article shall be chiefly appropriated to an exposition., of the opinions of others: but no one of die productions, which we are now about to review, exhibits a connected system, and therefore rour criticism must consist, in a great measure, of n 6eries of observations on detached passages. Such insulated remarks cannot possess for our readers the interest of a continued disquisition; and it is fair to warn them that the pe& rusal of a critical comment on these publications is to be regarded more as a task than a pleasure;--a task, however, to the performance of which they must find themselves stimulated by the expectation of the approaching discussion in parliament. (I.) Of the pamphlets in the prefixed list, that of Mr. Hill, though not the most bulky, will be found, by the aid of close printing, to be one of the longest; and indeed it ranks among the..