erved, if allowed to
be freely exported.

1. The Gold Currency restored.

_Consequences, if taken off, will be as above:--viz._

THE BANK RESTRICTION.

_Consequences of its Operation are as follows:--viz._

1. Disappearance of the legal Gold Coin.

2. The Issues of Bank of England Notes and Country Bank Notes
extended.

3. Paper Accommodation, creating False Credit, Fictitious Capital,
Mischievous Speculation.

4. The Circulating Medium enormously enlarged.

5. Rents and Prices of Articles of the first Necessity doubled and
trebled.

6. The Income and Wages of small Annuitants, and Artizans and
Labourers, insufficient to purchase Necessaries for their Support.

7. Industry reduced to Indigence, broken-spirited, and in the
Workhouse: or, endeavouring to preserve independence, lingering in
despair, committing suicide, or dying broken-hearted.

8. The Temptation to forge Bank of England Notes increased and
facilitated.

9. New and sanguinary Laws against Forgery ineffectually enacted.

10. Frequent and useless inflictions of the barbarous Punishment of
Death.

GENERAL DISTRESS INCREASED.

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Public executions always brought together a large gathering of men and
women, not always of the lowest order, indeed many wealthy people
attended. "The last person publicly executed at Northampton," says Mr.
Christopher A. Markham, F.S.A., "was Elizabeth Pinckhard, who was found
guilty of murdering her mother-in-law, and who was sentenced to death by
Sir John Jervis, on the 27th February, 1852. As a rule all executions
had taken place on a Monday, so a rumour was spread that the execution
would take place on Monday, the 15th of March; accordingly the people
came together in their thousands. They were, however, all disappointed;
some of them said they wished they had the under-sheriff and they would
let him know what it was to keep honest people in suspense; and one old
lady said seriously that she should claim her expenses from the sheriff.
However, on Tuesday, the 16th March, Mrs. Pinckhard was executed before
an immense number of persons, estimated at ten thousand, the day fixed
having by some means or other got known."[7] The conduct of the crowds
which gathered before Newgate and other prisons was long a blot on the
boasted civilisation of this country, and there can be little doubt that