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Alchemy Pursuit Leads to Disastrous Speculation and Debt
The narrative describes a man of aristocratic bearing involved with stock speculators, gamblers, and vice-seekers. He pursued alchemy in Camberwell using a private laboratory and trusted a charlatan empire to turn baser metals into gold. He allegedly diverted his income to fund the French National Debt to gain an imperial throne by purchase.
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Camberwell
France
People’s College
Nottingham
Council Chamber
Paisley
Financial Reform Association of
Liverpool
Buranary
Birmincham
Bosehall
Warwick Assizes
Edward Bunner
Samuel Bunner
J. H. Hill
John Smith
Tempereance Society
National Temperance Society
Exeter Hall
Cassell
Bacchus
Messrs
Hudson
Whittaker
Smith
National Provident Institution
London Tavern
Badentea