... trade, and navigation which the war had secured to the British nation; together with the loss of theirbest customer, by the stoppage of the war-demand on the part of theirown government; and when ... evidence to the contrary was overwhelming. The honesty and the courage of a majorityof the committee, proved too strong for the arts and the threats of the minister and the Directors; and, at ... by some of his advisers, that thisdiscrepancy between the livre of coin and the livre of paper, ought not to be tolerated; and that it was necessary to raise the standard of the coin,or to...