David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Gentlemen, — As it has been impossible for the whole of what I said to the Livery of London, on the day of election, and what I intended further to say, could be all got ready for the papers, through the multiplicity of business in which I am engaged, I hope the conclusion of what I intended saying with respect to my debts, on account of which I have been so much traduced, will be satisfactory to my fellow-citizens for the present. ”

“ Having invested money in South Sea Stock, he was made a Director of the Company, an honour which cost him dear. His reverses of fortune, however, did not shorten his life. His manor was sold to the Duchess of Marlborough for £15,000. His property was seized and sequestrated by the House of Commons, as were the properties of all the directors, in order to pay the Company’s creditors; at the same time a sum of money was returned to each as a grant or allowance. ”

“ It will be observed that his three elder sons successively became baronets. The baronetcy expired with the third, who maintained the high character of the family, and I give some incidents in his life.
Stephen Theodore Janssen was a leading London merchant. His signature appears to the merchants’ loyal manifesto, in view of the Rebellion of 1745, and he was considered to have done very good service to the Government at this epoch. In 1747 he was elected one of the Members of Parliament for the city of London. In 1748, the year of his father’s death, he became an alderman. ”