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 the drawer carries them about him all over the country, and disposes of them, a second indorces, a third accepts, but none to pay.

But notwithstanding all the arts and insinuations of these Swindlers, they are easily singled out in a company, from a pretended hurry in business, and fear of detection; eyeing every person askance, doubtful of having seen them before.

There are more Pickpockets in and about London, than in all Europe beside, that make a trade, and what they call a comfortable living by their employment.—The Opera, Play-Houses, Capital Auctions, and Public Gardens, swarm with them; and of late years they have introduced themselves into our very Churches, in which they have not been less successful, at a charity Sermon preached by a Romaine or other noted orator, than at the Theatres, at a Benefit, when the principal parts have, been played by a Kemble, Siddons, Jordan, Incledon, Munden, and other first rate performers. To set forth the different ways