ABSTRACT

In London, where the market had crashed first, perhaps triggering-off the collapse in France and Holland, panic as extreme as the summer's euphoria tightened its grip on social and economic life. Foreign bills drawn on London from Holland, Portugal and Spain were returned protested. 6 On 29

By 22 October Beck was bankrupt, for Applehee's Journal described how you may meet with the melancholy Trophies of one eminent Merchant's Fall, a Pair ofhis remarkable Coach-Horses driven about the Streets in a Hackney-Coach.