1. A severe commercial crisis occurred in England soon after the outbreak of war between that country and France. The financial panic beginning in March, 1793, resulted in numerous failures among British banks and in a steadily increasing number of bankruptcies throughout the spring of that year. David Macpherson describes this crisis as follows: “The funds immediately felt the shock. The three-per-cents, which had been at 97⅛ in March 1792, and had been gradually depressed by the apprehension of war, now, on the certainty of it, fell almost instantaneously from 79⅞ to 70½. But they rose again as soon as April to 81; and, though they never afterwards came near to 80, yet they kept for a long time at prices rather higher than could be expected, owing to the men of property on the continent pouring their money into our funds, which they thought the most secure deposit in Europe” (David Macpherson, Annals of Commerce, Manufactures, Fisheries, and Navigation, with Brief Notices of the Arts and Sciences Connected with Them. Containing the Commercial Transactions of the British Empire and Other Countries, From the Earliest Accounts to the Meeting of the Union Parliament in January 1801; and Comprehending the Most Valuable Part of the Late Mr. Anderson’s History of Commerce … [London, 1805], IV, 264).

2. King was a director of the Bank of the United States.