This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1765 Excerpt: ...of tranfadting for foreigners, to brokers and jobbers in the ftocks to buy and fell for themfelves, without any property in, or out of the funds; and, perhaps, without any defign of tranfferring or accepting the funds they buy or fell, but, at moll, only paying or receiving the odds at the time of fettling.--. Hence, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1765 Excerpt: ...of tranfadting for foreigners, to brokers and jobbers in the ftocks to buy and fell for themfelves, without any property in, or out of the funds; and, perhaps, without any defign of tranfferring or accepting the funds they buy or fell, but, at moll, only paying or receiving the odds at the time of fettling.--. Hence, for the different purpofes of the jobbers, the bulls and the bears, one thing will be propagated in the city and another at St James's.--The miniftry are turned toply-turvy in whifpers, and let by the ears in private letters from the Hague.--Invafions, rebellion, flat-bottomed boats, fchemes, fecret negotiations, and all the other chimeras that falfe hopes or fears, or rather an unaccountable ignorance and credulity, render fubfervient to the purpofes of ftockjobbing., Illustration of the preceding table. This fpecies of deluders, although they are by far the moft numerous body, would lofe much of their influence, if they were not countenanced and abetted by thofe very people, whofe imereft, did they know it, fhould direct them to a Conduit quite the contrary; 1 mean thofe gentlemen of rank and fortune, who have very confiderable properties in the funds. Thus, for inftance, a gentleman, who, perhaps, enjoys a confiderable poft in the nation, and, for that reafon, may be fuppofed to have the earlieft intelligence of all events that have any influence upon the ftocks, and whofe honour will not admit the fuppofition of his propagating a falfehood; in order to fettle a great account in the alley to his advantage, fhould he report a piece of news to be true, which had never cxifted exifted any where but in his own brain, and retail it in whifpers by his emifi"arie&; Ihould he go further ftill, and confirm this relation by an actual fale or ...
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