tenth century,
ii. 3.

MISSISSIPPI SCHEME, the, its history, i. 1-44;
financial difficulties in France, expedients of the Regent Orleans, i. 6;
official peculation and corruption, 7;
John Law's propositions; his French cognomen, "Lass;" his bank
established, 9;
his notes at a premium; branch banks established; Mississippi trading
company established; bank made a public institution; extensive issue
of notes, 10;
opposition of the Parliament, 11;
the Regent uses coercion; Mississippi shares rise, 12;
the Company of the Indies formed; magnificent promises; immense excitement
and applications for shares; Law's house in the Rue de Quincampoix
(_engraving_), 13;
hunchback used as a writing-desk (_engraving_), 15;
enormous gains of individuals, 14, 16, 19, 20, 26;
Law's removal to the Place Vendome, 14;
continued excitement, 15;
removal to the Hotel de Soissons (_engraving_), 15;
noble and fashionable speculators, 17;
ingenious schemes to obtain shares (_engraving_), 18;
avarice and ambition of the speculators; robberies and murders, 20;
a broker murdered by Count d'Horn, and robbed of shares (_engraving_), 21;
temporary stimulus to trade, and illusive prosperity; Law purchases
estates, and turns Catholic, 24;
his charity and modesty, 25;
caricatures of him, as Atlas, 25;
"Lucifer's new row barge," 29;
in a car drawn by cocks, 40;
increase of luxury in Paris, 26;
the Regent purchases the great diamond, 27;
symptoms of distrust; coin further depreciated, 28;
use of specie forbidden, at Law's suggestion, 29;
popular hatred excited, 30;
fall of shares, 31;
conscription for the Mississippi gold mines (_engraving_), 31;
further issue of notes, and increased distrust and distress, 32;
payment stopped, and Law dismissed from the ministry, 33;
his danger from the populace, 33, 35, 38;
D'Aguesseau's measures to restore credit (_portrait_), 34;
run on the Bank, 34;
fatal accidents in the crowd, 34;
the Mississippi and India companies deprived of their privileges, 39;
Law leaves France, 40;
D'Argenson's dismissal and unpopularity, 42;
Law's subsequent history and death, 43;
caricatures of the scheme in its success and failure, 25, 29, 37, 40, 44.

Modern prophecies, i. 222-241.

Mohra, in Sweden, absurd charges of witchcraft, and numerous executions,
ii. 177.

Mohun, Lord, his duel with the Duke