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in the Times newspaper); together with 
the names and addresses of the several so/i- 
citors concerned, as far as I have hitherto 
ascertained them; but regarding which 
latter part of my late design, I had much 
yet to accomplish. From the very origin 
of nearly all Joint-stock Companies to the 
end of their existence (and I might in- 
clude herewith trusts and commissions, 
and public bodies, generally,) the solicitor 
or solicitors thereto are important person- 
ages, always beneficially interested; and, 
not unfrequently, they enjoy, as the proverb 
saith, “the best birth in the ship,” how- 
ever otherwise officered; which have been 
amongst my reasons for wishing to put the 
solicitors’ residences on record, as the best 
means of locally identifying the seyeral 
Companies. For avoiding here the repe- 
titions of addresses, whenever the same 
solicitor occurs again, I have, instead of the 
address, shewn by figures in brackets [ ] 
the numerical order of such repetitions. 
Against each of the thirty-one classes of 
subjects under which the proposed new 
Companies appear to me to range them- 
selves, I have mentioned the number of 
such Companies—amounting, in my whole 
Mr. Farey’s Lists of the new Joint-Stock Companies. 
[Mar. 1, 
-lists collectively, to the amazing number 
of 228 Companies! I have also here men- 
tioned the total amount of capital which is 
proposed to be subscribed to each class of 
subject ; but, for the sake of exhibiting ap- 
proximate totals, these sums are in part 
roughly estimated, as to those Companies 
whose precise capital I have not learned, 
and which uncertainty is marked by notes 
of interrogation [?] after the sums. ‘These 
capitals, collectively, in my whole lists, 
amount to the astonishing probable sum of 
£166,671,000 sterling!!! 
From whence, let me here ask, is one- 
half, or even one-fourth, of this amount to 
come, without very seriously deranging 
the monied affairs of the nation, and, as I 
fear, further depressing in the scale of so- 
ciety that meritorious and rapidly-increas- 
ing class, whose only or chief capital is 
their knowledge, skill, and industry ?— 
These are questions on which ] beg your 
permission to invite the discussion of your 
able correspondents ; and subscribe myself 
Your obedient servant, 
Joun Farey, 
Mineral Surveyor and Engineer. 
Howland-street, 13th Feb. 1825. 
LIST OF JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES, 
Projected in the Years 1824 and 1825, for effecting various Purposes, 
as under,—viz. 
28 Banking, Investment, Insurance, 
&c. Companies, whose proposed total of capital is 
about £53,000,000 Sterling / / 
2 Bath, or Bathing, Companies; total capital £750,000: viz. 
Metropolitan Marine Bath Company ; 
capital £500,000, and shares £50.—Solici- 
tors, Sweet and Co., 6, Basinghall-street. 
Royal National Bath Company ; capital 
£250,000. Shares £50, and deposit £2.— 
Solicitor, George Abbot, Mark-lane. 
4 Brewing Companies; total capital £430,000: viz. 
Edinburgh Porter Brewery Company ; 
capital £150,000. 
Public Ale Brewery; capital £50,000, 
and shares £10. 
United Table-beer and Ale Brewery 
Company; capital £200,000, and shares 
£20. 
Wharston and Deritend Brewery Com- 
pany. — Solicitor, Thomas Mole, Moor- 
street. 
2 Brick-making Companies ; capital £800,000 : viz. 
British Patent Brick Company ; capital 
£300,000, and shares £50.— Solicitors, . 
Kearsley and Co., 49, Lothbury. 
London . Brick Company; Capital 
£500,000, shares £50, and deposits £1.— 
Solicitor, Charles Kaye, Dyer’s-buildings, 
Holborn. 
4. Bridge-building Companies; capital about £250,000? viz. 
Kerne New Bridge Company: now be- 
fore Parliament. 
Kingston New Iron Bridge Company; 
capital £40,000, and shares £100. 
Shields New Iron Bridge, over Tyne. — 
See vol. lviii. p. 280. 
Swale Iron Bridge, to Sheppy Island ; 
tontine: capital £24,000, shares £12, and 
deposits £2.— Solicitors, P. Young and 
Co., St. Michael’s-alley, Cornhill. 
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