-Wraham Newland, Esq. "Cashier of the Bank of England. Published July 1808 by B. Crosby & Stationers Court. Collier, John Dye THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM NEWLAND, ESQ. LATE PRINCIPAL CASHIER AT THE BANK OF ENGLAND; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THAT GREAT NATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE LATE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE Chancellor of the Exchequer with the Bank, AND A LIST OF THE STATUTES Passed relative to it, from the time of its incorporation. Embellished with a Portrait, from an original Painting. LONDON: PRINTED FOR B. CROSBY AND CO. J. ASPERNE, CORNHILL; T. BOOSEY, BROAD STREET PREFACE. THE little piece of Biography now submitted to the attention of the Public, has no sudden vicissitudes of fortune, or deep involutions of distress powerfully to excite the sensibility of the reader. The potentates of the earth will not be brought under his view, to extort his admiration, attract his envy, or gratify his curiosity; but if by this nar rative he will not learn how to become great, he may receive some hints, in a lesson of much higher importance, how to become happy. The history of those who have trodden the ordinary paths of life, and have proceeded in their course with increasing credit and usefulness, is more conducive to improvement, than the motley adventures of romance, |