Others thought that the management ought to be entrusted to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of the capital.

[516] After the Revolution the subject was discussed with an animation before unknown.

For, under the influence of liberty, the breed of political projectors multiplied exceedingly.
A crowd of plans, some of which resemble the fancies of a child or the dreams of a man in a fever, were pressed on the government.

Preeminently conspicuous among the political mountebanks, whose busy faces were seen every day in the lobby of the House of Commons, were John Briscoe and Hugh Chamberlayne, two projectors worthy to have been members of that Academy which Gulliver found at Lagado.

These men affirmed that the one cure for every distemper of the State was a Land Bank.