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PUBLISHED BY GEO. B. WHITTAKER, AVE-MARIA LANE.

1825. 302545

LONDON:

COX-AND BAYLIS, PRINTERS, GREAT QUEEN STREET.

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AS, notwithstanding the accumula- transmitted to us by an intelligent cor

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tion of documents on the widely ramifying topic of Joint-Stock Companies, the double duty of preparing for this month, not only the usual current number of our Magazine, but the Supplement also for the precedent volume, has precluded the necessary time and attention for the digestion and arrangement of those materials,-and for marking, with requisite discrimination, the line of distinction between the speculative bubbles, whose object, or, at least, whose operation, must be the prompt enrichment of the projectors by shing funerals, £1,200,000, at the Fleece Tavern,

one hundred and three years ago as appears by the following list of joint-stock companies, extracted from the Weekly Packet, a newspaper of that time, dated January 2, 1720:

anticipated interest upon a moon-shine
capital, and those which have a real
tendency to the advancement of some
necessary or beneficial object, involving
the general good;-and as, also, one of
the communications with which it was
in contemplation to commence the me-
ditated series, has not yet come entire
to hand, the Editor deems it necessary
to suspend again the discussion of that
important subject; and to satisfy him-
self, for the present, with merely re-
peating his warning to those who are
about to invest, or to pledge, their bonâ-
fide capital, in any of these projects, to
make use of a little precautious calcula-
tion and inquiry, before they give exor-
bitant premiums, for mere flourishing
prospectusses, to those who have, in
reality, advanced no capital at all,-
cept what may have been expended in
ink and paper for their delusive puffs; nor
have placed themselves, in reality, under
any necessity of ever advancing any :
and who, from the nature of the specu-
lations, are sure to be themselves en-
riched, though the concerns they have
projected should ultimately fall into
utter bankruptcy, and involve the real,
i, e. the ultimate and permanent sub-
scribers and proprietors, in beggary and
ruin.*

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* Infatuations of this kind appear at certain times, and under the influence, we suppose, of certain planets, to be endemical. The joint-stock star (whether dog star, or by whatever other more discriminative name it may be called,) raged with something like a correspondent fury just MONTHLY MAG, No. 406.

For building or buying ships to let or freight at Garraway's, Exchange-alley, £1,200,000.

For the raising the growth of raw silk, £1,000,000. For lending, upon the deposit of goods, stock, tallies, &c. at Robins, Exchange-alley, £1,200,000. For buying and selling of estates, public stocks, government securities, and to lend money, £3,000,000. For carrying on the undertaking business for furCornhill.

For buying lead mines and working them, Ship Tavern.

£4,000,000 for purchasing and improving commons and waste lands, Hanover Coffee-house."

Blanco and Saltortugas.
A subscription for effectually settling the Islands of

For supplying the London market with cattle,
Garraway's.

For smelting lead-ore in Derbyshire, Swan and Rummer.

£2,000,000 for importing walnut-tree from Virginia, Garraway's.

For purchasing tin and lead mines in Cornwall and Derbyshire, Half-moon Tavern.

£2,000,000 for an engine to supply Deal with fresh water, &c. Black Swan.

For making Joppa and Castile soap, Castle Ta

vern.

£4,000,000 for exporting woollen stuffs, and importing copper, brass and iron, and carrying on a general foundry, Virginia Coffee-house.

This day, the 8th instant (Jan. 1720), at Sam's Coffee-house, behind the Royal Exchange, at three in the afternoon, a book will be opened for entering into a joint-copartnership for carrying on a thing that will turn to the advantage of the concerned.

For a settlement in the Island of St. Croix, Cross Keys.

2,000 shares for discounting pensions, &c. Globe Tavern.

£4,000 for improving all kinds of malt liquors, Ship Tavern.

A Society for landing and entering goods at the Custom-house, on commissions, Robins.-£2,000,000 for a Friendly Society, for purchasing merchandize and lending money, King's Arms.

£2,000,000 for purchasing and improving fens in Lincolnshire, Sam's.

£4,000,000 for improving lands in Great Britain, Pope's Head.

The Gold and Silver Society.

For extracting Silver from Lead, Vine Tavern.
For trading to Barbary and Africa, Lloyd's,
Making Iron from Pit-coal.

Insurance Office for Horses Dying Natural Deaths,
stolen or disabled, Crown Tavern, Smithfield.
A rival to the above for £2,000,000 at Robins's.
For furnishing London with Hay and Straw, Great
St. James's Tavern.

£100,000 for a perpetual motion by means of a wheel moving by force of its own weight, Ship Tavern.

A copartnership for insuring and increasing Children's fortunes, Fountain Tavern.

£400,000 for manufacturing iron and steel, Black

Swan Tavern.

£200,000 to be lent upon pledges, Blue Coat Coffee House.

£2,000,000 for erecting salt-pans in Holy Island, John's Coffee House.

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