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IV. Experiments and Observations on the various Alloys , the 
specific Gravity , and on the comparative Wear of Gold. Being 
the Substance of a Report made to the Right Honourable the 
Lords of the Committee of Privy Council , appointed to take 
into Consideration the State of the Coins of this Kingdom, and 
the present Establishment and Constitution of his Majesty’s 
Mint. By Charles Hatchett, Esq. F. R. S. 
Read January 13, 1803. 
List of the Committee appointed on the 10 th of February, 
1798, to take into Consideration the State of the Coins of this 
Kingdom. 
Earl of Liverpool, President. 
The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. 
The Lord President of the Council. 
The Lord Privy Seal. 
His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State. 
The Master General of the Ordnance. 
The First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty. 
The First Lord Commissioner of his Majesty's Treasury,, 
and Chancellor of the Exchequer. 
His Majesty's Secretary at War. 
His Grace the Duke of Montrose. 
The Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty’s Court of King's 
Bench, 
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