Excerpt from On the Currency in Connexion With the Corn Trade; And on the Corn Laws: To Which Is Added, a Postscript on the Present Commercial Stagnation In the developement of this proposition, i shall confine myself, in a great measure, to the variations in the price of Wheat, in connexion with the state of the circulation, and refer only incidentally to the prices of other productions. This course is sug gested by the consideration, that in all the speeches and publications on the subject of the currency, wheat is the article mainly insisted upon, as fur nishing, by its elevation during the restriction, and by its fall since the resumption of cash payments, a proof, that the effects of those measures upon the value of the currency were much beyond the degree indicated by the difference between paper and gold. And I am the more readily induced thus to con fine the discussion, seeing that a particular investi gation of the causes which have affected the prices of articles other than corn, would embrace too wide a field, and lead to details of inconvenient length. Besides, that I have already given a full and, as I conceive, a satisfactory explanation of those causes in a former publication (high and Low Prices), the repetition of any part of which, if not absolutely es sential, would be unpardonably tedious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.