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1811, George Canning, “On the Report of the Bullion Committee,” speech given on 8 May, 1811, in Robert Walsh (editor), Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning, Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, 1853, p. 141, Never did the wildest and most hostile prophesier of ruin to the finances of this country venture to predict that a time should come, when, by the avowal of Parliament, nominal amount in paper, without reference to any real standard value in gold, would be the payment of the public creditor.