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An account of the South Sea scheme; and a number of other bubbles; which were encouraged by public infatuation, in the year 1720: and which terminated in the ruin of many thousand families. With a few remarks upon some schemes which are now in agitation. Intended as a warning to the present age.

Publisher: London : Published by J. Cawthorne, December; 1806Description: 21, [1]p.Subject(s): South Sea Company | Speculation
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PAM VOL.88(3) Observations upon the report of the Committee on Marine Insurance, with a few incidental remarks on a pamphlet lately published, entitled "A letter to Jasper Vaux, Esq." To which is added, copy of a report, proposed as an amendment to the report adopted by the Committee on Marine Insurance. By Joseph Marryat, Esq. M.P. PAM VOL.88(4) A defence of joint stock companies; being an attempt to shew their legality, expediency, and public benefit. By Henry Day. PAM VOL.88(5) A defence of the principle of monopoly; of corn-factors, or middle-men: and, arguments to prove that war does not produce a scarcity of the necessaries of life. PAM VOL.88(6) An account of the South Sea scheme; and a number of other bubbles; which were encouraged by public infatuation, in the year 1720: and which terminated in the ruin of many thousand families. With a few remarks upon some schemes which are now in agitation. Intended as a warning to the present age. PAM VOL.88(7) Thoughts on the propriety of granting a pecuniary remuneration to the West India Dock directors; with a view of the situations of the directors of the Bank of England, of the East India Company, and the Imperial Assurance Office, as far as they apply to that proposition. PAM VOL.8(9) A sequel to loans to private individuals to foreign states, entitled to government protection, by the fundamental laws, as a branch of trade; by parliamentary recognition; by the express declaration of Vattel; by the opinion of an eminent living jurist; and by the official notes of the late Cabinet. PAM VOL.89(1) A memorial, read to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, December 18, 1799; and a speech, delivered before the same society, January 29, 1800; by Edmund Cartwright, M.A. and prebendary of Lincoln: with an appendix, containing letters from the late Sir William Jones, Dr. Thurlow, late bishop of Durham, and other distinguished characters. To which are added, certificates of the power of his improved steam engine, and the useful application of his other mechanical inventions.

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