HLeeP125 June 23.1828.

THREE LECTURES

ON THE

TRANSMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS METALS FROM COUNTRY TO COUNTRY

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
POLITICAL ECONOMY.

"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.