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from some cause or other hops would, iu a 

 week or two, rise in the market. He would 

 only be held as a clever man. He virtually 

 does the other out of two hundred or two 

 thousand, the difference between the present 

 price of his hops, and what the other knows 

 by superior information or superior foresight 

 they would be worth in a week hence. The 

 better does no more, so far as betting is con- 

 cerned. No one finds fault with the merchant, 

 nor in fairness ought they more to blame the better 

 so far as his betting transactions are concerned. 



So far the better and the man of business, 

 if they each get a pull in their favour, act 

 wisely, or err (as you please), but taking it 

 either way, their transactions are about on a 

 par. We now come to a line of conduct that 

 places both in a very different position, and 

 subjects either to our unmitigated repretension. 



I believe it will not be denied that measures 

 have been taken by influential men to cause a 



