Excerpt from The Scotch Banks and System of Issue: Including Translation of Les Banques In the translation of Les Banques d'ecosse, here given, a little freedom has been used, (1) in leaving out, in two or three parts, sentences of purely French application not bearing on the general argument, and (z) in setting aside some of M. Wolowski's appended Tables in favour of the later and more comprehensive statistics which it was necessary to compile for this work. It may be here remarked, though without any bias, on the main subject, or any intention to dwell on the question whether it arises from the flattering conclusion of a distinguished French author, nearly a centnry ago, that Scotland is the country where the spirit of observation has been brought to the greatest perfection, or from the more popular and public style of our banking system, that neither England nor France could produce such an exhaustive detail of its whole banking state as is given'of that of Scotland in our Appendix alone. This remark maybe the more freely made, because, if the statistics of banking in Eng land had been as attainable as in Scotland, one or two of the plain conclusions in the following pages would have been fortified by larger evidence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.