Just published, price 5s., cloth, 



WILLIAM PATEESON, 



THE MERCHANT STATESMAN, 

 AND FOUNDER OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND. 



BY S. BANNISTER, M.A., 



Formerly Attorney-General of New South Wales. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



Athenaeum. 



" The Life of Paterson is an interesting episode in the history of 

 his age." 



The Leader. 

 " William Paterson was among the wisest men of his age, and this 



! iy is a fitting memorial of his patriotism and genius 



This biography, intrinsically valuable and interesting to all classes, 

 is peculiarly welcome as a book for the instruction and encourage- 

 ment of the young." 



Saturday Review. 



"William Paterson was evidently a man of great enterprise, 



oriuinality. firmness, and sense; his career was full of strange vicis- 



he powerfully affected the fortunes of Scotland during a 



quart or of a century ; ho was brought into contact with the most 



eminent men of his day." 



Spectator. 



" However acquired, Paterson possessed considerable knowledge, 

 both of history and of the principles of trade and currency of a 



sound kind It is only within these few years that his liberal 



free trade notions have been reduced to practice, if they are now. 

 .... On a more difficult, because a less palpable subject than free 

 trad* . namely, currency, Paterson's ideas Avere not only in advance 

 of many theorists of his age, but of ours also." 



Morning Post. 



"William Paterson, driven by religious persecution from his 

 native land, at an early age zealously took to mercantile matters, 

 and became opulent at the West Indies. He then settled in London. 

 Besides founding the Bank of England, he originated the ill ma- 

 naged Darien Colony; constructed the Sinking Fund of 1717; 

 started a Company still in existence, to supply the north of London 

 with water from the Hampstead Hills ; and wrote several admirable 

 letters upon trade and finance." 



The Examiner. 



" Mr Bannister's Life of Paterson, is, on the whole, to be com- 

 mended for the pains spent on its execution. It is a valuable little 

 book." 



Edinburgh Coorant. 



" The author of this Memoir of the Founder of the Bank of 

 England, and projector of the Darien Scheme, deserves great credit 



