OF WILLIAM PATERSON, FOUNDER OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND; WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE AUTHOR, HIS CONTEMPORARIES, AND HIS RACE. EDITED BY S. BANNISTER, M.A., OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD; FORMERLY ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF NEW SOUTH WALES. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. "Paterson has a prodigious genius."-J. Stewart, Edinb. 1700. The Car- "With a sufficient share of the fervidus ardor of his countrymen, he had a LONDON: EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE. M.DCCC.LVIII. 210. b. 43. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. Charles Montague, Earl of Halifax, i-John Law of Lauriston, xli-Thomas Sheri- dan, lxii-Thomas Brodrick and Alan Brodrick Lord Middleton, lxv-Sir Robert Walpole and William Pulteney Earl of Bath, lxvii-John Locke, lxxii -Paul Daranda, lxxv-Michael Godfrey and Gilbert Heathcote, lxxvii- Robert Douglas and James Hodges-Dampier, Wafer, and Long, lxxviii— Andrew Fletcher, Principal Dunlop, and Robert Blackwood, lxxix. John Paterson of Penyvenie, lxxxi-William Paterson of Edinburgh-John Paterson, Archbishop of Glasgow, xcvii-John Paterson, M.P. of London-Clementina Account of the most eminent financier of Paterson's time, Charles Montague, Earl of Halifax, with whom his relations were friendly. SEEING how exclusively authors of the period during which the most active part of Paterson's life was passed, namely, from 1677 to 1719, limited themselves to its religious, its political, or to its purely literary aspects, and how each individual seems to have held the narrowest field of observation, indulging little in the discursive spirit now prevalent, it is not surprising that his name should rarely occur in the writings of the distinguished divines, statesmen, and wits of the time. Few of the published books were even advertised, and still fewer made the subjects of immediate criticism in any shape. Paterson, a zealous member of the Church of Scotland, was less a theologian than well-grounded in Scripture, and warmly attached to the "charity" which knits all mankind, and chiefly all Christians, together. Of state affairs a most a |