London Country Journal (Newspaper) - July 19, 1735, London, Middlesex f 0 THE By CALEB 15?, Remarks on the Daily Gazetteer the 9th the Cafe of j N E of the or perhaps hath at- length given us Glofs upon the memorable Affair of the Bank Contract which is fo mean a Piece of that I might be front talcing any Notice of it j but when I confider Importance of the Thing many Thousands of innocent Families were utterly ruined by I cannot let it pafs fome farther The Author this now under Bath riot to the of the but rambled into on Hie Rife of the Scheme in and fore I Something on the fame He tells us that who fiands charged with this infamous was to the He when it the that it was big and avoided all Dealings and in it. But This is fo fax from being that it hath been already in the Cafe of the jinking and upon ther that nobody contributed more to the or thero more to his honourable Gentleman ever He may how to deny or endeavour to it ought to remembered that He a in the He was in a Place of by feeing in upon his own which Foundation Faith in a that it a general his good the Bank were the deft in it But Does He think that We have forgot his much Jame Time for ingrafting the the Barii the 600 per the fir the three great Companies into the Debts of the Nation among Them? Mr. J Trenchard treated Conspiracy to the whole Nation into I now come to the Point immediately in Dilute in order to fet it in will to give the Reader a State it between the Cafe of the Jinking V The former tells us upon Appearance of a general in the Year die honourable was font for up out of die Country and as He was then thought to have fome Credit with the He was to exert it in Behalf of the by on the Batik to circulate a Number their It is farther accordingly come up to had a Meeting with a Committee of each at the in the other men in the v after in Conference at this the Bank was upon to and that it was then thought proper to have as & Minute of the of what had been under and to ferve as a of s. future or to be made between the two That there was fome little who write or draw the Minute j but it being the general Defire that Mr. in the whole He put down in what hath ever fince the Bank The gives a Copy of as He which a very that the honourable Soon after or Preamble to and the from his another Scheme was by ables which being the Bank and Company hot only to a of their own Inter but enabled the lick to reduce above more to 5 per by engaging to advance four Millions and an between if it be for redeeming and paying off the Lottery Ails of the 9th and ioth of Queen and the Let the World therefore judge which the equitable Scheme which was projected by the honourable and abortive or which was afterwards and took It is that the fame being the Company's in the Year 1719, and up the Bank to bid Them i but This is fo far from that He was mays an Enemy to the Scheme that it is aft Argument the and implies the Approbation of it. The only who have we of ibis and at that higher than the former were that They coald afford more for it than the that the Bank actually bad five for which was more by three Millions and an half than the Company offered but as all of this are apt to run into They at laft induced to hid en rather than let die Bank have it. This gave Rife to the general which all Ranks of Peor from the vain Hopes of exorbitant and Foundation of all the which upon of the Scheme for admitting of as much in it as Writers I nobody will pretend to deny that ill of it in a great owing to the of the and the Premium They contracted give for it j or to that We have been in a much better if the Bank had k of the Hqw therefore can it be any Colour of or * that ike honourable Gentleman is for any the Tear 1720 i when it He up the Coals tention between the which all the if it be as We are given to in the f Cafe of the Jinking that the Bank not bidding the till He his private in engaging Them to do it material Articles left - that this feting was die 19" th Sept. 1720 and then adds the following f This is that was wrote by Sir this or any other relating to this Affair i and t have been in future Meetings upon this never once On the other it is by there was another Meeting upon ibis four Days after viz. on Friday 23 j. that was and drew up another which had not only a but the Blanks were filled and the Bank agreed to their Capital Stock of 3,775,0001., into the Company at 400 per with fome other particular Articles between - The Author of the hath given us a Copy of this which He fays was always called the Bank and even Us that Original was then lying R. Here therefore are two both of which cannot be and as the - Pout hV Debate is a Matter very great Important which lath long been the rtQ be up when it was tci fo an But the Advocates wre immediately though frequently to plead upon this in I that it would dye away before came Ai when They found in anonymous Writer out in the than He He had much better have let it alone of the He only makes wretched Expedients He the much the Manner as they appear in to the real Bank as but quotes it very for He hath left out both Title the are on - V the honourable was one of and drew up only the former of at up the batter Writing a which I cannot pretend to nor perhaps Gentleman a of it near z. flip the Memory Author of the Cafe of the finking maybe a. Forgery i would it be any Want of conclude it to without better to port it than hath yet been - I am ready to acknowledge die a pretty long Term for any and that the honourable Gentleman hath certainly hid of other Affairs during that It is very probable that He may not have one of the I cannot imagine how it was for Jlim to a. as. which vyas with fo only came up to on plam from the every Body his that Sep. lying before as as the pretended one the gives it. |l and thai off with As m the Meeting of the 19th,. and pretends to take up the Gauntlet i bxx about at a and dares not to He begins with calling this abbut the a notable Piece of though hi a line or two that He knows nothing more of the what He hath from the two Pamphlets The is of. a pretty and hath been often but it is fo far that I do not remember any Attempt to in till the Author of the Confederations undertook diat and to give us Account of the whole if this Writer the Gazetteer j knows p. 88. { zd Edit. 85. ' 1*4-Confederations, p. 88,. Cafe of the Jinking p. 10^.' then He is even minutely and every well as if had happened but it that his fo Well 3s to as to the fame of and fame Variety of what is though tie which lq was which He pretends to two Tears and a of Let the Gentlemanly Memor y But it is in the fame that the whole Story original Bank Contract is but a is with greaf in Several other Places of the fame Paper ' in where jit -is imaginable 4o it to be but as the hath not any where ta upon in it ought to be upon as another wretched Piece of which to a off - - ' ' For my am very well that there is fuch a genuine now in which Genr acquainted with the have already and f not one any in the can make any Doubt oF the ' But if the honourable hath any to believe it a. He dp There are at either oi to the Proceedings It is that fome of honourable Gentlemen be able to recollect ther He was at the Meeting of or who Jit that drew the which is imputed to He might find that Ha not only drew up but two Copies from in his j viz. one for each Company sail about that it coft He it Was after a of arid t Multitude of other This Feems to have fatal what drew lliin into fuch an awkard ' I find my upon this running a I at and
