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ceding evening in an adjoining room, di- 

 vided only by a deal partition, and heard the 

 entire plan formed by the party concerned ; 

 that if I consented to let him j i le, my ivare 

 was to lose, and he was to be rewarded/' 



However trifling or superfluous a recital 

 of these circumstances may appear to the 

 well-informed and long-experienced sports- 

 man, they are no less necessary with the ju- 

 venile adventurer, to establish the existence 

 of facts, and expose the various' means of 

 almost inexplicable duplicify, invention, and 

 imposition, by which the opulent, libe- 

 ral, and inconsiderate are so frequently 

 reduced to a state of repentant destruction. 

 Theii' introduction will consequently serve 

 to render incontrovertible the proof of such 

 practices ; and to demonstrate the folly and 

 danger of encountering so great a complica- 

 tion of *leliberate villany and systematic 

 depredation, where there must ever remain 

 so confused a prospect of extrication, with 

 cither SUCCESS or emolument. Under the 

 influence of such reflections as must natu- 

 rally arise from a knowledge of, and retro- 

 spective allusion to, such incredible acts of 



