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Annuity Notes
Note continued
Whether Government saw was aware of this at the time, is a
point which at prese this time of day it might
perhaps be difficult to ascertain , They might see
it but not be able to profit by it. Improvement in Exchequer Notes If [+] [+] in times such as those ub such a reign as of King William or Queen Anne, the connected
circle of London money'd men concerned in insisting
upon sm large sums in preference to small sums ,
it would be difficult for Government Ministers to resist: —
pressed by the exigencies of the moment , it might
have been hazardous and perhaps impracticable , to
want for the success if an experiment , upon a the more
extended scale. As to the money'd men some would
be aware of this, others not: witness the directors
Bank, who guided it should sum rather by
habit than reflection , , for such a length
of time, to give that extension to the circle of customers
for this paper , which when given at last
relieved them from their embarassments , and seems
to have proved that the scarcity which had produced
these embarassments might - as properly be
stated a scarcity of small notes , as a scarcity
of cash.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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Frances Wright |
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