It was Whig, not accidentally, but necessarily.

It must have instantly stopped payment if it had ceased to receive the interest on the sum which it had advanced to the government; and of that interest James would not have paid one farthing.

Seventeen years after the passing of the Tonnage Bill, Addison, in one of his most ingenious and graceful little allegories, described the situation of the great Company through which the immense wealth of London was constantly circulating.

He saw Public Credit on her throne in Grocers' Hall, the Great Charter over her head, the Act of Settlement full in her view.

Her touch turned every thing to gold.