Chronicles and characters of the stock exchangeFrancis, John, of the Bank of England
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Chronicles and characters of the stock exchange
Francis, John, of the Bank of England
Speculation; Stock Exchange (London, England)
Hume, Joseph, and the Greek Loan, 105
Johnstone, Cochrane, Fraud of, 80
Joint Stock Companies, Speculations in, 73
Life Insurance, Notices of, 125, 127
” ” Indisputable Company, 127
” ” Policies on Diseased Lives, 128
” ” Fraudulent Companies, 130
Liverpool and Manchester Railroad, 93
Loans to Continental Powers, 104, 115
” New, Frauds, &c., 44, 154
” Since 1793, and Rates of Interest, 154
Lopez, Manassez, Punishment of, 29
Lotteries, Invention of, 49
” Employed by the State, for Revenue Purposes, 47
” Evils of, and Frauds in, 49
” Abolition of, 53
” Effects of, 50
Loyalty Loan, Subscriptions to, 68
Marlborough’s (Duke of) Victories, Effects of, 21
MacGregor, Gregor, Notice of, 100
Mining Companies, Speculations in, 98
Moneyed Interest, Origin, Extravagance, and Folly of the, 7
National Debt (The), Remarks on, 1, 6, 23
” ” Proposal to reduce the Interest on, 28
” ” Increase of, 1740-1766, 32, 35
” ” Curious Proposition to pay off, 66, 86
” ” Review of, 82
” ” Smith, Paine, Hervey, Graham, on, 84
Newcastle, Duke of, Notice of, 118
Petty, Sir Henry, Proposal for a Sinking Fund, 72
Pitt, William, Policy of, 64, 65
Plomer, Sir Thomas, Fraud on, 77
Portugal, Loan to, by English Capitalists, 115
Poyais Fraud, Disastrous Effects of the, 100
Ricardo, David, Notice of, 77
Rice, John, Execution of, for Forgery, 32
Rothschild, Notices of, 109, 111
” Death of, 114
Royal Exchange, (The) Notice of, 8
Secret Service Money, 37
Sedley, Sir Charles, Speech of, 13
Sinking Fund, the Origin of the, 34, 55
Spanish Stock, Fall in, 116
Speculations of 1825, 108
South American Loans, 99, 103
South-sea Bubble, Notices of the, 23, 25
Sprot, Mark, Death of, 74
Stephenson, on Railroads, 94
Stock Exchange, Increased Importance of, 22, 76
” ” Opposed by Sir John Barnard, 26
” ” Origin of the Blackboard, 55
” ” Removal of, 67, 108
” ” Increase of Business, 1810-15, 76
” ” Morals and Manners of the, 121
” ” Rules of the Board for its Members, 124
Time Bargains, Origin of, 27
Tontines, History of, 6
Tulip Mania in Holland, Sketch of, 4
Vansittart, Mr., Modification of the Sinking Fund, 78
Walpole, Sir R., Opposition to the German Loan, 26
” ” ” to a Reduction of Interest on National Debt, 28
” ” Adoption of the Sinking Fund, 34
” ” Remarks on the National Debt, 84
Walsh, Benjamin, Trial of, for Fraud, 77
Wilkes, John, Anecdotes of, 42
William III., Modes of raising Money for War Purposes, 7
” Enormous Briberies of, 12
” Increased Taxation under, 13
” Defence of his Policy, 14
Transcriber’s Notes
pg 32 Changed: conscience of Rice took the the alarm
to: conscience of Rice took the alarm
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