Life of Thomas Guy.-Imposition in Sailors’ Tickets.-Foreign Loan attempted.-Sir John Barnard.-Expresses of the Jobbers.-Foreign Commissions.-Origin of Time-Bargains.-Attempt to stop them.-Its Inadequacy.-Proposal to reduce the Interest on the National Debt.-Opposition of Sir Robert Walpole.-New Mode of raising Loans.-Comparative Interest in Land and Funds.-Punishment of Manasseh Lopez.-The first Reduction of Interest.-Life of Sir John Barnard. The Earliest National Debt.-History of Tontines.-Of the Money Interest, its Origin, Extravagance, and Folly.-Royal Exchange.-First Irredeemable Debt.-Tricks of the Brokers.-Jobbing in East India Stock.-False Reports.-Importance of the English Funds.-Picture of the Alley.-Systematic Jobbing of Sir Henry Furnese, Medina, and Marlborough.-Thomas Guy, a Dealer in the Alley.Įnormous Bribery by William.-Increased Taxation.-Speech of Sir Charles Sedley.-Wrongs of the Soldiers.-Defence of William.-Moral Disorganization of the Country.-First Exchequer-Bill Fraud.-First Foreign Loan.-Romantic Fraud in 1715.-Political Fraud of ’Change Alley.-Interference of the House of Peers.-First Hoax.Ĭharitable Corporation Fraud.-Its Discovery.-Appalling Effects and Remedy.-Marlborough’s Victories, their History, and the Loans they brought.-Augmented Importance of the Stock Exchange.-Dislike to the Members.-Increased Loans.-Difficulties in procuring them.-Statement of Sir Robert Walpole.-Gifts of Contractors to Clothiers.-First Payment of Dividends by the Bank.-South-Sea Anecdotes. Of the money power of England, intended toĪncient Mode of supporting Governments.-Ignorance of Political Economy.-Mercantile Greatness.-Early Supplies.-Tulip Mania.-Accession of William. The present volume is a popular narrative Of Grellier, of Fenn, render such a production Stock Exchange the works of McCulloch, of Hamilton, Wilkinson’s Law of the Publicįunds, should be possessed by every member of the Which the writer acknowledges his obligations, and The volume does not profess to be statistical,-thereĪre abundant works of a financial kind upon Of that encumbrance which must, sooner or later, be Trifling purpose, may be useful in the consideration It was raised for no idle cause, and increased for no Stock Exchange, is the object of a portion of theĪny work which tends to familiarize the originĪnd progress of the National Debt, which shows that With its whimsical transactions, were such strikingĮxemplars and to group these subjects around the Poyais, with its melancholy tragedy, and the Greek, Railways to popularize those loans, of which the To relate the difficulties in the early history of Sketch of the causes which necessitated, and theĬorruptions which increased it to reproduce its principalĬharacters to detail the many evils of lotteries ![]() With the National Debt to present an anecdotical To gather the many remarkable incidents connected
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