HLee P1.25 June 23. 18781 THREE LECTURES ON THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS METALS AND THE MERCANTILE THEORY OF WEALTH, DELIVERED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, IN JUNE, 1827. BY NASSAU WILLIAM SENIOR, LATE FELLOW OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, A.M., PROFESSOR OF "He shewed me a very excellent argument to prove that our importing less than we export do not impoverish the kingdom, which, though it be a paradox, and that I do not remember the argument, yet methought there was a great deal in what he said."- Pepys's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 284. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. MDCCCXXVIII. ADVERTISEMENT. THE Statute by which the Professorship of Political Economy is founded, requires the Professor to publish a Lecture every year. In compliance with this requisition I have selected from the course delivered in June, 1827, the portion which appeared to me least unfit for separate publication. As a fragment it is necessarily imperfect. My apology for presenting it to the Public is the necessity imposed on me by the Statute. MAGDALEN COLLEGE, March 20, 1828. N. W. SENIOR. |