While these sheets were at the press, we had another little test of their knavery to the public; and it is not at all owing to them that the thing ran no farther. The contrary winds and storms, &c., had disappointed the king’s enemies, and the Spanish fleet was driven back to Spain in a shattered and defeated condition, as appears by the public account of those things: but in the interval of this news came an account, on the other hand, that some of the party were arrived in Scotland, that they had beat it up, notwithstanding all the opposition of nature, the hindrances of winds and seas. Immediately stocks fell two per cent., nor did the good news of the defeated return of the rest animate these men to keep up the interest, by which it appears that they are acted more by the bad principle than by the good; that they choose rather to do evil than to do good; that they sink faster than they rise, and are willinger to do harm than good to the government.
From whence I infer, that the government, looking upon them as they really are, rather enemies than friends to the general interest, should rather incline to root them out than preserve them. AMEN.
ENGLISH FUNDS.
HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICE OF THREE PER CENTS IN EACH YEAR, FROM 1731 TO 1848.
| Highest. | Lowest. | |
| 1731 | 99 | 94 |
| 1732 | 101 | 96 |
| 1733 | 103 | 92 |
| 1734 | 94 | 90 |
| 1735 | 98 | 92 |
| 1736 | 113 | 100 |
| 1737 | 107 | 105 |
| 1738 | 106 | 102 |
| 1739 | 105 | 97 |
| 1740 | 101 | 98 |
| 1741 | 101 | 98 |
| 1742 | 102 | 98 |
| 1743 | 103 | 100 |
| 1744 | 99 | 90 |
| 1745 | 92 | 85 |
| 1746 | 89 | 75 |
| 1747 | 86 | 81 |
| 1748 | 91 | 76 |
| 1749 | 102 | 91 |
| 1750 | 101 | 98 |
| 1751 | 103 | 97 |
| 1752 | 106 | 101 |
| 1753 | 106 | 104 |
| 1754 | 104 | 102 |
| 1755 | 101 | 90 |
| 1756 | 90 | 88 |
| 1757 | 91 | 86 |
| 1758 | 98 | 89 |
| 1759 | 88 | 79 |
| 1760 | 83 | 76 |
| 1761 | 88 | 66 |
| 1762 | 87 | 63 |
| 1763 | 96 | 82 |
| 1764 | 86 | 80 |
| 1765 | 91 | 85 |
| 1766 | 90 | 87 |
| 1767 | 91 | 87 |
| 1768 | 93 | 88 |
| 1769 | 89 | 84 |
| 1770 | 87 | 78 |
| 1771 | 88 | 81 |
| 1772 | 95 | 87 |
| 1773 | 87 | 86 |
| 1774 | 89 | 86 |
| 1775 | 90 | 87 |
| 1776 | 90 | 81 |
| 1777 | 80 | 76 |
| 1778 | 72 | 61 |
| 1779 | 64 | 59 |
| 1780 | 63 | 60 |
| 1781 | 59 | 56 |
| 1782 | 61 | 53 |
| 1783 | 68 | 58 |
| 1784 | 57 | 54 |
| 1785 | 71 | 55 |
| 1787 | 78 | 69 |
| 1789 | 81¼ | 71⅝ |
| 1790 | 80⅞ | 70½ |
| 1791 | 89¾ | 75¾ |
| 1792 | 97¼ | 72½ |
| 1793 | 81 | 70½ |
| 1794 | 72⅜ | 62¾ |
| 1795 | 70½ | 61 |
| 1796 | 70⅝ | 53¼ |
| 1797 | 56½ | 47½ |
| 1798 | 58 | 47¼ |
| 1799 | 69 | 52⅝ |
| 1800 | 67¼ | 60 |
| 1801 | 70 | 54¼ |
| 1802 | 79 | 66 |
| 1803 | 73 | 50¼ |
| 1804 | 58⅞ | 53¾ |
| 1805 | 62 | 57 |
| 1806 | 64⅝ | 58½ |
| 1807 | 64⅜ | 57⅝ |
| 1808 | 69⅛ | 62⅝ |
| 1809 | 70⅜ | 63⅜ |
| 1810 | 71 | 63¼ |
| 1811 | 66¾ | 61¾ |
| 1812 | 63 | 55⅛ |
| 1813 | 67½ | 54½ |
| 1814 | 72½ | 61½ |
| 1815 | 65¾ | 53⅞ |
| 1816 | 64⅝ | 59½ |
| 1817 | 84¼ | 62 |
| 1818 | 82 | 73 |
| 1819 | 79 | 64⅞ |
| 1820 | 70¼ | 65⅝ |
| 1821 | 78¾ | 68¾ |
| 1822 | 83 | 75⅜ |
| 1823 | 85¾ | 72 |
| 1824 | 96⅞ | 84¾ |
| 1825 | 94¼ | 75 |
| 1826 | 84½ | 73⅞ |
| 1827 | 89½ | 76¾ |
| 1828 | 88⅜ | 80⅞ |
| 1829 | 94¼ | 85⅝ |
| 1830 | 94¼ | 77½ |
| 1831 | 84¾ | 74⅞ |
| 1832 | 85¾ | 81⅝ |
| 1833 | 91¼ | 84¼ |
| 1834 | 93 | 87½ |
| 1835 | 92⅞ | 89¼ |
| 1836 | 92¼ | 86⅝ |
| 1837 | 93⅞ | 87⅞ |
| 1838 | 95¼ | 90⅝ |
| 1839 | 93⅞ | 89¼ |
| 1840 | 93⅛ | 85¾ |
| 1841 | 90½ | 87¼ |
| 1842 | 95⅛ | 88 |
| 1843 | 97⅛ | 92⅛ |
| 1844 | 101¼ | 96½ |
| 1845 | 100⅝ | 91⅞ |
| 1846 | 97¾ | 93¼ |
| 1847 | 94 | 78¾ |
| 1848 | 89½ | 80 |
LOANS RAISED SINCE 1793, WITH THE RATES OF INTEREST.
| Year. | Amount. | Per cent. | ||
| 1793 | £4,500,000 | £4 | 3s. | 4d. |
| 1794 | 11,000,000 | 4 | 10 | 9 |
| 1795 | 22,600,000 | 4 | 15 | 8 |
| 1796 | 18,000,000 | 4 | 14 | 9 |
| ” | 7,500,000 | 4 | 12 | 2 |
| 1797 | 18,000,000 | 5 | 12 | 6 |
| ” | 16,120,000 | 6 | 6 | 10 |
| 1798 | 17,000,000 | 6 | 4 | 9 |
| 1799 | 3,000,000 | 5 | 12 | 5 |
| ” | 15,500,000 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 1800 | 20,500,000 | 4 | 12 | 2 |
| 1801 | 28,000,000 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| 1802 | 25,000,000 | 3 | 19 | 2 |
| 1803 | 12,000,000 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 1804 | 14,500,000 | 5 | 9 | 2 |
| 1805 | 22,500,000 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| ” | 1,500,000 | 5 | 16 | 4 |
| 1806 | 20,000,000 | 4 | 19 | 7 |
| 1807 | 14,200,000 | 4 | 14 | 7 |
| ” | 1,500,000 | 4 | 16 | 4 |
| 1808 | 10,500,000 | 4 | 14 | 6 |
| 1809 | 14,600,000 | 4 | 11 | 7 |
| 1810 | 13,400,000 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| 1811 | 12,000,000 | 4 | 13 | 6 |
| 1812 | 22,500,000 | 5 | 5 | 7 |
| 1813 | 27,000,000 | 5 | 8 | 4½ |
| ” | 22,000,000 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
| 1814 | 24,000,000 | 4 | 14 | 1 |
| 1815 | 36,000,000 | 5 | 12 | 4 |
| 1835 | 15,000,000 | ” | ” | ” |
| 1847 | 8,000,000 | 3 | 7 | 6 |