To word, and draw up the address.

Th’ expence, agreed by numerous votes,

Attending this address of thanks;

Was all to be paid out in notes,

Of Sir James Duncan’s best of banks.

[32] Alluding to the king’s reply to the b——’s address, usual on the first day of the year, expressive of a desponding prediction, truly alarming.


THE ADDRESS
OF
SIR J. DUNCAN, AND CO.

Of the Scale de Cross Bank, to the Ladies, Gentlemen, and Merchants, of Newcastle upon Tyne, and its Environs.

Sir James Duncan and Co. their kind compliments send