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(16) be enabled to prevent any future attempts of the like nature upon them by theſe peſts of ſociety. This new ſpecies of knavery, carried on by Swindlers, appears ſpecious in itſelf, the practitioners thereof ſetting themſelves up for men of property and integrity, the more eaſily to defraud the unwary and ignorant out of their ſubſtance and effects; to obtain which, among many, the following is practiſed: A number of them, being connected together, take a genteel houſe in a reputable part of the town, and divide themſelves into claſſes of maſters, clerks, out-riders, ſhopmen, porters, and ſervants. From their making a ſhew of opulence, they eaſily obtain credit, and lay in goods of every kind, which they ſend into the country, and ſell or barter for other commodities, which they bring up to London and ſell for ready-money, generally taking in exchange double the quantity, and paying for the ſame with notes of their own drawing, indorſing, and fabricating, for the purpoſes of cheating the poor deluded farmer, ſhopkeeper, and tradeſman, in the interior parts of the country. With reſpect to trądeſmen in town, the goods they take of them on truſt, they diſpoſe of to Jews, and