An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Britain during the Present and Four Preceding Reigns; and of the losses of her trade from every war since the Revolution ... To which is added an Essay on Population by the Lord Chief Justice HaleJohn Stockdale, 1794 - 254 pages |
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Page xlvi
... house of Lane , Son , and Frafer ftopt payment , to the amount of almost a million of money . This great failure involved the fate of feveral very fub- ftantial traders . But , none of thofe houfes had fuftained any damage from the war ...
... house of Lane , Son , and Frafer ftopt payment , to the amount of almost a million of money . This great failure involved the fate of feveral very fub- ftantial traders . But , none of thofe houfes had fuftained any damage from the war ...
Page lvi
... houfes either fell , or tottered . I cannot learn , that any Dutch houses either fell , oṛ tottered , in confequence ... houfe of Peter Tepper and Company , at Warfaw , which had long borne the character of વ Namely , David Van Lennep ...
... houfes either fell , or tottered . I cannot learn , that any Dutch houses either fell , oṛ tottered , in confequence ... houfe of Peter Tepper and Company , at Warfaw , which had long borne the character of વ Namely , David Van Lennep ...
Page lviii
... houfes failed , not in confequence of war , but in confequence of peace . When the emprefs had impofed her terms on Turkey , thefe British mer- chants fuppofed , that the exchange would rife : but , it fell , after the peace , though ...
... houfes failed , not in confequence of war , but in confequence of peace . When the emprefs had impofed her terms on Turkey , thefe British mer- chants fuppofed , that the exchange would rife : but , it fell , after the peace , though ...
Page lx
... houfes , which circulate promiffory notes , have not contributed , in any confiderable degree , to our pre- fent diftrefs t . The truth is , without running into fantastical talk , that Lancafhire , having a vaft ma- nufacture , and an ...
... houfes , which circulate promiffory notes , have not contributed , in any confiderable degree , to our pre- fent diftrefs t . The truth is , without running into fantastical talk , that Lancafhire , having a vaft ma- nufacture , and an ...
Page lxi
... houfes of Par- liament , feem difpofed to impute our present " diftreffes , in a great measure , to the increase of banking - houses , iffuing promifory notest . " You name the Duke of Norfolk , as one , who had fallen into this mistake ...
... houfes of Par- liament , feem difpofed to impute our present " diftreffes , in a great measure , to the increase of banking - houses , iffuing promifory notest . " You name the Duke of Norfolk , as one , who had fallen into this mistake ...
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