This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ...state; and much, indeed, is it to be deprecated, that it should ever be the reverse. It is gtateful to re, flection to know, how many and essential are the advantages which trifling sums may produce to the necessitous, if such trifles are but timely bestowed, and as properly applied. Banks.--The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ...state; and much, indeed, is it to be deprecated, that it should ever be the reverse. It is gtateful to re, flection to know, how many and essential are the advantages which trifling sums may produce to the necessitous, if such trifles are but timely bestowed, and as properly applied. Banks.--The Banking-houses in the town are three in number, viz.: --The original, called the Old Bank, under the firm of Michel!, Mills, and Co.; the New Dank, under the firm of Wigney, Stanford, Valances, and Co.; and the Union Bank, under the firm of Brown, Hall, Lashmar, West, and Co. The opulence of these firms are suitable to the responsibilities of the establishments; and as their a u--t. Boarding Houses concerns arc managed upon the broad and correct basis of liberality, their utility is commonly felt and admitted. The Old Bank and the Union Bank are situated nearly opposite to each other, in and not far from the bottom of North-street; and the New Bank, in Steyne-lane, with a second entrance to it from Castle-square. The notes issued by these Houses, are for jlO. b. sBt. and sSl. Those in value above sSl. are made payable in London. Boarding Houses.--Than Brighthelmston, no town in the kingdom can be better furnished with those convenient accommodations for visitants, called Boarding-houses; and which here, from their judicious management, may be said, to include all the advantages of an inn, without its bustle, and all the comforts of a private house, without the inconvenience of being engaged in domestic concerns. For the moderate stipend of &112s. 6d. weekly, an individual, in one of those establishments, many live in the most sumptuous manner, and, what is often more desirable to a stranger, get introduced to the best company, and...
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