§ An hon Member begged to ask the right hon. Gentleman, if he were aware that there was a large portion of the gold coinage—he believed one-third of it—deficient in weight, and that the Bank of England refused to take it in payment? and also whether it was in the contemplation of her Majesty's Government to have any alteration made with respect to the gold coinage?
§ The Chancellor of the Exchequerreplied, that he was sensible of the inconvenience to which the hon. Gentleman referred, and that her Majesty's Government were about to adopt some measures to remove the inconvenience now felt.