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300 its its repositories, Contrary to the universally received engagement between the bank and its creditors.

Enquiries took place at the same time into the affairs and conduct of the East and West India Companies, and other public bodies; various abuses were discovered; and in most cases it was judged expedient to dismiss the principal officers and servants of the companies, &c. from their employments.

These discoveries of maladministration in various branches of the public service, together with the memory of former injuries, which rankled in the breasts of many, exciting a strong desire for revenge, produced much fermentation. Addresses, powerfully supported, were presented to the provisional representatives, demanding that all the members of the old government, and other persons concerned in the management of the bank and public companies, should be put under arrest; and that the most rigorous enquiry mould be made into their delinquencies, in order that public justice, and the vengeance