The directors of such joint-stock companies, however, being the managers rather of other peoples money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own. Like the stewards of a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to small matters as not for their masters honour, and very easily give themselves a dispensation from having it.Negligence and profusion,
