§ "That, with regard to the period of 75 years ending with the 1st of January 1796, from the year 1721 to 1758, the market price of gold never at any one time exceeded the mint price by more than 1s. 2½d per ounce, and seldom by more than half that sum; from 1758 to the recoinage of the gold in 1753, the market price of standard gold, in bars, was always above the mint price, and sometimes exceeded it by as much as 3s. 6d. per ounce, being (except during) the period during which the coins were in a debased state; from the recoinage in 1773 to the 25th of Feb. 1797, the date of the restriction, the market price of standard gold in bars never exceeded the Mint price, except for part of the years 1783 and 1784, when it rose 1½d. above the mint price; since the year 1804, the price of standard gold in bars has been always very considerably above the mint price, and from the end of the year 1808 to the present time, has been progressively rising, with occasional fluctuations, till it has been as high as the unprecedented price of 4l. 18s. (4l. 14s.) per ounce, as appears from Wetenhall's tables.