text:  "At the same time that your committee recommend that the system of currency which has for so long a period prevailed in Scotland should not under existing circumstances be disturbed they feel it to be their duty to add that they have formed their judgment upon a reference to the past and upon the review of a state of things which may hereafter be considerably varied by the increasing wealth and commerce of Scotland by the rapid extension of her commercial intercourse with England and by the new circumstances that may affect that intercourse after the re-establishment of a metallic currency in this country