( s6 9 ) 



birth and education, \vho have fcarce any 

 ideas of honour and juftice, but controuled 

 by fear alone ; and the nature of their, em- 

 ployment laying them open to a multipli- 

 city of temptations, it would be aftonifhing 

 if they continued totally uncorrupt. Ho- 

 nefty, in that rank of people, . is nothing 

 ' but fituation ; if they are concerned merely 

 for themfelyes in buying and felling, and 

 other bufinefs of the fame fort, they habi- 

 tually become accuftomed to that common 

 fort of honefty which keeps them in. 

 decency; but move the fame man into 

 another fphere, in which he touches much 

 money of another perfon's, without moil 

 regular accounts of it, he will as habitually 

 become a rogue* God forbid I fhould 

 hazard a general aflertipn, that all baileys 

 are rogues; I am fpeaking rather of tHe 

 nature of the bufinefs, than the characters 

 of the men : If that has a regular tendency 

 to corrupt its profeflbrs, the chances are 

 undoubtedly againft them. 



The probability of the bailey's not being 

 honeft, muft therefore be left to the rea- 

 der's idea; I fhall only conjecture a few of 

 the ill confequences. 



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