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On The Music Of The Ancients.

the richest clothes , which people would touch no more , and are going to burn . There are actually in the streets to the amount of 200 , 000 Iivres . The disorder and confusion has hitherto been extremely great , but all our hopes are in the great care of the chevalier de Langeron , governor of the town . He has ahead } ' caused some shops to be opened . The change of the governor , and of the seasonby the grace of Godwill be advantageous . Had we not

, , affected to deceive the public , by assuring them that the evil which , reigned was not the plague ; and had we buried tlie dead bodies which lay a wh : le fortnight in the streets , I believe the mortality had ceased , and we should have had nothing to do but provide against the extreme misery which necessarily must be the sequel of this calamity .

' You cannot imagine the horror which we have seen , nor can any believe it that has not seen it ; my little courage has often ' almost failed me . May it please Almighty God to let us soon see an end of it . There is a great diminution of the mortality ; and those that hold that the moon contributes to all this , are of opinion , that we owe this diminution to the decline of the moon and that we shall

; have reason to fear when it comes to the full . For' my part , lam convinced , we owe all to the mercies of God , from whom alone we must hope for relief in the deplorable condition ' w ' e have been in so long a while . I am , & c , ' ' HENRY , BISHOP OF MARSEILLES !

Origin And History Of Promissory Notes And Paper Credit.

ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF PROMISSORY NOTES AND PAPER CREDIT .

[ cOVCr . I . 'BED FI 10 M PACK lt'S-1 HTT-IUS the trade of the Goldsmiths grew anil flourished till the . year 166 7 , when , an alarm taking place in consequence of the Dutch sailing up the Thames , and burning some , ships at Chatham , a run was made on the Goldsmithsand their credit was shaken .

, They seem , however , to have been recovering from that blow , when Ciiaries the II . in ^ 6 71-2 , tool ; the violent measure of shutting up the Exchequer , and impounding there between thirteen and fourteen hundred thousand pounds of their principal money , beside the current interest due upon it . Previous to this period , their prosperity was so increasing , and

money , came , so fast into their hands , that they were perpetually employed in devising new modes of disposing it to advantage ., without being under the necessity of having recourse to their own Paper-credit to support their trade . But the shutting of the Exchequer threw the whole commerce of the City into confusion , and made extraordinary expedients necessary to sustain every part of the sysjerc ;

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LONDON: Article 2
TO READERS, CORRESPONDENTS, &c. Article 3
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE, AND CABINET OF UNIVERSAL LITERATURE, Article 4
ON COURTSHIP AND COQUETRY. Article 7
COPY OF THE INSCRPITION ON THE FOUNDATION STONE OF WEARMOUTH BRIDGE. Article 9
A SERMON, Article 10
ON DEATH. Article 14
PREDILECTION OF THE TURKS FOR THE GAME OF CHESS. Article 17
ESSAYS ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH HISTORY AND CLASSICAL LEARNING. Article 18
CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF EDWARD KELLY, THE ALCHEMIST. Article 24
ON THE MUSIC OF THE ANCIENTS. Article 26
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 29
ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF PROMISSORY NOTES AND PAPER CREDIT. Article 31
EXCERPTA ET COLLECTANEA. Article 34
FATAL PESTILENCE IN THE AIR, IN THE REIGN OF HENRY III. Article 35
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 38
POETRY. Article 48
WINTER, AN ODE. Article 49
SONNET, ON SEEING JULIA GATHERING ROSES IN THE DEW. Article 50
EPITAPH, ON AN OLD FAVOURITE DOG. Article 50
A SONG. Article 51
A SONG. Article 51
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Article 52
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Article 52
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 58
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 59
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 60
INTELLIGENCE OF IMPORTANCE FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. Article 60
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Article 64
OBITUARY. Article 69
L1ST OF BANKRUPTS. Article 73
INDEX TO THE SEVENTH VOLUME. Article 74
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On The Music Of The Ancients.

the richest clothes , which people would touch no more , and are going to burn . There are actually in the streets to the amount of 200 , 000 Iivres . The disorder and confusion has hitherto been extremely great , but all our hopes are in the great care of the chevalier de Langeron , governor of the town . He has ahead } ' caused some shops to be opened . The change of the governor , and of the seasonby the grace of Godwill be advantageous . Had we not

, , affected to deceive the public , by assuring them that the evil which , reigned was not the plague ; and had we buried tlie dead bodies which lay a wh : le fortnight in the streets , I believe the mortality had ceased , and we should have had nothing to do but provide against the extreme misery which necessarily must be the sequel of this calamity .

' You cannot imagine the horror which we have seen , nor can any believe it that has not seen it ; my little courage has often ' almost failed me . May it please Almighty God to let us soon see an end of it . There is a great diminution of the mortality ; and those that hold that the moon contributes to all this , are of opinion , that we owe this diminution to the decline of the moon and that we shall

; have reason to fear when it comes to the full . For' my part , lam convinced , we owe all to the mercies of God , from whom alone we must hope for relief in the deplorable condition ' w ' e have been in so long a while . I am , & c , ' ' HENRY , BISHOP OF MARSEILLES !

Origin And History Of Promissory Notes And Paper Credit.

ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF PROMISSORY NOTES AND PAPER CREDIT .

[ cOVCr . I . 'BED FI 10 M PACK lt'S-1 HTT-IUS the trade of the Goldsmiths grew anil flourished till the . year 166 7 , when , an alarm taking place in consequence of the Dutch sailing up the Thames , and burning some , ships at Chatham , a run was made on the Goldsmithsand their credit was shaken .

, They seem , however , to have been recovering from that blow , when Ciiaries the II . in ^ 6 71-2 , tool ; the violent measure of shutting up the Exchequer , and impounding there between thirteen and fourteen hundred thousand pounds of their principal money , beside the current interest due upon it . Previous to this period , their prosperity was so increasing , and

money , came , so fast into their hands , that they were perpetually employed in devising new modes of disposing it to advantage ., without being under the necessity of having recourse to their own Paper-credit to support their trade . But the shutting of the Exchequer threw the whole commerce of the City into confusion , and made extraordinary expedients necessary to sustain every part of the sysjerc ;

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