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Hints March 4 1811
The experience of later years has proved to us that the increasd Energies of trade have extended themselves to the Precious metals & that the Prices of Gold & Silver, formerly liable to little alteration even from century to century have of late fluctuated almost as much & as rapidly as those of other articles of commerce
This Fluctuation of Price have renderd the Precious metals of this time wholly unfit to serve the Purpose of money circulation at at fixd & certain value, as they have done for many Centures, & have already causd a large proportion of the Gold coins of the Realm to disappear having been for some time & still continuing to be much higher as Bullion than the Rate at which it is Issued as Coins from His My Mint
The Price of Silver has now Risen so high that the Silver dollar tokens to issued by the Bank of England is already worth more as Bullion than the Rate at which it was originaly deliverd into Circulation & as the Law does not preclude the holders of these Pieces to from disposing of them at the best Price they can obtain, there are no reasonable grounds for doubting that unless some Remedy is interposd, silver money will soon become as scarce as gold already is
in order to ward off this Calamity which must at once re relice every kind even if