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EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS.

became the founder of a family, which is still known in France under the title of Marquises of Lauriston.


NECK OR NOTHING.[1]

In the next chapter will be found an account of the madness which infected the people of England at the same time, and under very similar circumstances, but which, thanks to the energies and good sense of a constitutional government, was attended with results far less disastrous than those which were seen in France.

  1. Neck or nothing, or downfall of the Mississippi Company,—From a print in Mr. Hawkins' Collection.