HC Deb 13 February 1832 vol 10 cc271-2

Sir James Graham moved the Order of the Day for the House going into a Committee of Supply.

Mr. Stuart Wortley

was very desirous of putting a question to the noble Lord op-positer especting the Curreney Question. He understood a report had been spread abroad, to which many people attached a belief, that there was some intention, on the part of his Majesty's Ministers, to alter the law which had passed in the year 1826, relating to the small-note restriction. It was of great importance that the public should not be under a delusion—if delusion it were—upon the subject; and, therefore, he begged to know, whether there was any truth in the report, that Government intended to propose any alteration in the Currency?

Lord Althorp

was not aware that any such report had obtained belief; but he begged to assure the hon. Gentleman that, with respect to the Currency Question, his Majesty's Government had no intention whatever to propose any alteration.