CHAPTER XXXVIII.

THE ROTHSCHILDS.

The Beginning of the Financial Career of the Great 397

House of Rothschild.—The Hessian Blood Money was the

Great Foundation of their Fortune.—How the Firm of

the Five Original Brothers was Constituted.—Nathan

the Greatest Speculator of the Family.—His Career in

Great Britain, and how he Misrepresented the Result

of the “Battle of Waterloo” for Speculative

Purposes.—Creating a Panic on the London Stock

Exchange.—His Terror of being Assassinated.—His Death

Causes a Panic on the London Exchange and the Bourses