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Life Assurance.—Its Benefits.—Its Commencement.—Suicide of an Insurer.—Insurance of Invalid Lives.—The Gresham.—Sketch of the West Middlesex Delusion. 125

APPENDIX.

The Anatomy of Exchange Alley; or a System of Stock Jobbing. Proving that Scandalous Trade, as it is now carried on, to be Knavish in its Private Practice, and Treason in its Public. 135

Stock Tables; Dividend Tables. 153

CHRONICLES AND CHARACTERS

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STOCK EXCHANGE.

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