The Report of the Committee, appointed to examine into the Project, commonly called the Harburgh-Lottery.

HARBURGH LOTTERY.

Verlag: Printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's. 1723, 1723

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[2], 24 [i.e. 22]pp. Final two pages misnumbered. Folio. Some foxing to outer leaves, evidence of old damp to lower edge of titlepage repaired on verso. One manuscript correction to text. Disbound. ESTC T44712. FIRST EDITION. The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious. John Shute, first Viscount Barrington, 1678-1734, was expelled from the House of Commons on 15 Feb. 1723, on account of his connection with the Harburgh Lottery, one of the bubble speculations of the time. It was an excessive punishment supposed to be the responsibility of Sir Robert Walpole, whose administration Lord Barrington had opposed. Barrington had unwillingly assumed the sub-governorship of the Harburgh Company, of which the Prince of Wales was the governor, at the express command of the King, and seems to have been made the scapegoat of royalty. This lottery took its name from the place where it was to be drawn, the town and port of Harburgh, on the river Elbe, where the project was to establish a trade for the woollen manufacture between England and Germany. As soon as the manufacture charter was passed, and subscriptions taken in for raising the stock, shares sold at an exorbitant price, 50/- being paid for a share on which only 2/- had been advanced. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 51383

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Titel: The Report of the Committee, appointed to ...

Verlag: Printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's. 1723

Erscheinungsdatum: 1723

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