text:  When we reflect upon the small amount of the wages of a labouring man it is manifest how important this branch of the subject is; for were gold allowed in Scotland to supersede the paper currency a fresh and most dangerous impetus would be given to the crime of coining; and there cannot be a doubt that in the remoter districts where gold is utterly unknown a most lamentable series of frauds would be perpetrated with little risk of detection but with the cruelest consequences to the poor and illiterate classes