FOOTNOTES:
[7] “The prince of Hesse Cassel,” said Rothschild, “gave my father his money. There was no time to be lost; he sent it to me. I had £600,000 arrive unexpectedly by post; and I put it to such good use, that the prince made me a present of all his wine and linen.”
[8] In 1824, it was said that public attention was so entirely absorbed by financial operations, that the movements of Mr. Rothschild and a few London capitalists excited an intensity of expectation scarcely inferior to the march of armies.
[9] The intelligence of this gentleman was so good, that he was the first to announce the Paris revolution of July to Lord Aberdeen, and the victory of Waterloo was known to him some days before it was made public.
[10] Mr. Salomons attributed the difficulties which followed his death to the sudden withdrawal of the dexterity with which he managed the exchanges, as Mr. Rothschild prided himself on distributing his immense resources, so that no operation of his should abstract long the bullion from the Bank.
[11] For a Memoir of Rothschild, see the Bankers’ Magazine, Vol. II. p. 473, et seq.