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Sharper, who has got a genteel education, and has a good addreſs and converſation, has more the power of deluſion at will than the unlettered cheat, devoid of addreſs, and other requiſites, to complete the pretended gentleman, and therefore ſhould be more carefully avoided.—Theſe villains, having run through their fortunes at an early period of life, by aſſociating with profeſſed gamblers and ſharpers, who, having eased them of their money, in return complete them for the profeſſion by which they have been ruined; thus qualified, they ſet up for themſelves, throw aſide honor and conſcience, and quote the lex talionis for deceiving others as they they themſelves have been deceived.

gentry are to be met with at all public places of diverſion, the Horſe-race, Cock-fight, Billiard, and Hazard-tables.—They pretend to be men of quality, or independent fortunes; many of whom keep their equipages and filles de joye, without a foot of land, or ſhilling in the funds, merely by dint of induſtry, in taking in the unthinking ſpendthrift, juſt come to poſſeſſion of his eſtate, and