Alphabetical Index to Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange.
Alison, Remarks on the National Debt, 83
Annuities, Policy of, 85
Asgill, Mr., on reducing the National Debt, 87
Baily, Francis, Defence of the Brokers, 72, 81
Bank of England,—First Charter, 27th July, 1694, 9
”” First payment of Government dividends, 23
”” Directors of, from 1694 to 1847, 156
”” Dividends of, from 1694 to 1849, 161
Barbier, Mr., on the National Debt, 87
Barclay and Co., Bankers, Operations of, 104
Baring and Goldsmid, Anecdotes of, 61, 75
Barings, Sketch of the House of, 75
Barnard, Sir John, Opposition to the Stock Exchange, 26
”” Act against Stock Gambling, 27
Blackboard, Notices of the, 55, 120
Blunt, Sir John, Originator of the South-sea Bubble, 23
Bolland, James, Execution of, for forgery, 119
Bolingbroke, Remarks on the National Debt of England, 82, 84
Bonaparte, Policies on the life of, 79
Bowring, and the Greek Loan, 106
Bridgewater Canal, 90
Brokers, Acts against, 71
’Change Alley, Origin of, 10
Charitable Corporation Frauds in London, 19
Chatham, Lord, Opinions of ’Change Alley, 57
Clayton, Sir Robert, notice of, 8
Cochrane, Lord, Fraud of, 80
Consols, Highest and Lowest Prices of, for 120 years, 153
Daniels, Joseph Elkin, Fraud of, 69
Douglas, Heron, & Co., of London, Failure of, 39
Dunbar, Speculations of, 118
East India Company, Stock of, 9, 18
”” Restriction of its Dividends, 37
Elizabeth, (Queen,) Numerous Monopolies granted by, 8
Equitable Loan Company, Charter of, 97
Exchequer Bills, First Fraud in, 17
Exchange Alley, Anatomy of, 135
Fordyce, Alexander, Fraud of, 40
Foreign Loans contracted, 17
Fox, Charles James, Anecdote of, 58
Frauds and Forgeries, 32, 40, 69, 77, 80, 100, 119
Furness, Sir Henry, Anecdote of, 11
French Revolution, Effects of the, 64
Germany, Attempted Loan for, 26
Gideon, Sampson, the Jew Broker, 33, 118
Goldsmid, Abraham and Benjamin, 59
” Suicide of, 60
Gordon, Lord George, Anecdote of, 58
Gray, Thomas, Plan for Roads, 92, 94
Greece, Loan to, 104
Guatemala, Loan to, by English Capitalists, 103
Guise, Count de, Notice of, 119
Guy, Thomas, Anecdote of, 12, 25
Hebrew Brokers, Number limited to Twelve, 42
Hume, David, Remarks on the National Debt, 84
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