Excerpt from History of the Bank of England, Vol. 1: Its Times and Traditions The panic of 1825, its assumed causes and con sequences, the varying opinions of the first men of the day, with particulars of the loans and companies which ruined half England, have been collected from past and present authorities, and the writer believes that in no other work can so complete an amount of information concerning this fearful crisis be obtained. In collecting and arranging the scattered facts rela ting to his subject, the writer feels that the task might have fallen into far abler hands; but he ventures to say, that no exertion has been spared in resorting to every known source of information, governed in each instance by an undeviating regard for truth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.