The well-known attempt to defraud the Stock Exchange occurred in 1814; but the features of the hoax were so like that of 1806, and its effects so similar on the members, that a brief notice is deemed sufficient. Prior to February, 1814, various brokers were employed by persons, some of whom were not accustomed to speculate in Capel Court, to purchase government securities to the amount of £826,000. Among other and less important individuals, were Lord Cochrane and Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, M. P., who, when information arrived that some French officers had landed at Dover, with the news of Bonaparte’s death, took advantage of the consequent rise, to sell the stock they had previously purchased. In a short time, however, it was discovered that the “French officers” were fictitious, and that the news was false. Every endeavour was made to discover the inventors of the plot; suspicion was pointed at persons who had bought so largely and sold so well; and Lord Cochrane, Mr. Johnstone, M. P., with several more, were tried for conspiracy, and found guilty. The committee of the Stock Exchange did not, as in the previous case, cancel the bargains made, but left the parties to the remedy which the law provided. Mr. Johnstone fled from the country, and Lord Cochrane was dismissed from the navy. But public opinion has reversed the decree, and reinstated his Lordship in that service of which he was the pride and the ornament. In consequence of the above fraud, it became necessary to serve certain law processes on many of the members; and an attorney’s clerk, ignorant of the custom of the Stock Exchange, or confident in the sanctity of his mission, ventured boldly in. The solemn character of the law was no defence, and scarcely was his errand known, when he felt as willing to retire as he had been anxious to enter. The disgraceful mode in which a stranger is usually treated by the jobbers and brokers was carried out in its fullest extent, and it was not until he had received his initiation into the manners of the members that he was allowed to leave the mart dedicated to Mammon. In 1815, the first French loan was negotiated in London. The fall of Napoleon, the return of Louis le Gros, the personal expenses of the monarch, and the pecuniary concessions of the government, demanded a supply to which French capitalists were unequal; and a successful attempt was made to borrow in the English market. In the following year an act was passed, authorizing the transfer of stock upon which no dividend had been claimed for ten years, to the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt.