Bank of England.- Litigation.- Mémoire pour le Sieur Walpole, & Consorts. Contre les Sieurs Guillaume & Alexandre-Jean Alexandre, bound with Précis Pour les Sieurs Thomas Walpole, & Consorts..., and Réfutation Sommaire Pour les Sieurs Walpole & Consorts..., woodcut head-pieces, faint browning and a little soiling, 20th-century boards, leather title label to spine, 4to, Paris, L.Cellot, 1780-1.

⁂Scarce: WorldCat lists one copy each of the second and third mentioned, both in the Yale University Library. An earlier edition of the first, from the library of Benjamin Franklin, was sold by Parke-Bernet in 1955 in an auction of items from the library of Henry S. Borneman.

Concerning the suit between British MP and banker Thomas Walpole, backed by the Bank of England, and the Alexander family of Edinburgh. In 1772 the Alexanders fell into debt and defaulted on several loans owed to Walpole companies secured on land and property in Grenada. The bank demanded the mortgages of the Alexanders' estates in part payment. After the American War of Independence, and the capture of Grenada by the French, the Alexanders claimed French citizenship; Walpole and his confederates pursued the debts in the French courts.

Thomas Walpole (1727-1803) nephew of Sir Robert Walpole, Director of the East India Company (1752-3), in 1768 petitioner with Franklin and several others - acting under the aegis of The Walpole Trading Company - for Crown permission for land grants and trading rights in Ohio.