"Attempts to supply document-money by any other standard than immediate conversion into base-money, must necessarily partake on an uncertainty, risk, & danger similar to those that embark in a sailor’s voyage into the sea without a map & without a compass." ~ Walter Boyd, 1811, abridged
A LETTER TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM PITT, ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE STOPPAGE OF ISSUES IN SPECIE AT THE
BANK OF ENGLAND: ON THE PRICES OF PROFUSIONS, AND OTHER COMMODITIES.
2nd Ed