Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.
[Footnote 3], originally on page [5]: The day of the month was missing.
[Footnote 64], originally on page [178]: “M‘Culloch’s” was printed that way, with the right-curling apostrophe.
Page [186]: “controul” was printed that way.