a 
perhaps it might not be bigger than the 
extremity of one of his fingers, Helikewite 
faid that the fruit grew.in {mall bunches. 
If your Correfpondent is defirous ot any 
further information on this fubject, and 
will expre!s his wifhes in your Mifceliany, 
I fhall be glad to an{wer themas far as lies 
in my power. we Si 
Now. 6, 1805, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ERMIT me, by means of your valu- 
able Publication, to call the attention 
of fuch of your readers as are interefied in 
the circulation of inland bills of exchange, 
fo an innevation which has within thefe 
few years heen introduced into this ufeful 
and neceflary channel for making pay- 
ments between difant places, and parti- 
culasly in the capital, where the inconve-,, 
nience is chiefly experienced. Inftead of 
a bill drawn by the country-merchant or 
dealer on his correfpondent in- London, 
whofe acceptance ftamps a credit on the 
drawer, and affures the holder of its regu- 
Jarity, one frequently receives a {purious 
produétion, fomething between a promif- 
fory-note and a bill, but intended by the 
inventor to pafs for the latter, from the 
knowledge that a gote would not fo rea- 
dily be seceived in payment. They are 
generally drawn on checks from a hand- 
fome engraved plate, in which the ufual 
form of a bill is preferved, with the cuf- 
toimary addrefs of a bavker ; but tn filltug - 
up the blanks, an “J, or a“ We,” is 
inferted or interlined before the word 
‘© pay,” and ‘© At,” inftead of ** Jo,” 
before the addres, thus giving the appear. 
ance of .a bil to an inftrument which is 
inferior to a note, as it does nof even con- 
tain a promife to pay. I have feen in 
fome of thele /ham-diils the ** At” placed 
almeft imperceptibly in the ornamented 
marginal checks, and ethers. whieh are 
made payable to the order of the drawer : 
both thefe infances I cannot but confider 
as premeditated endeavours to delude the 
unwary, and raife money on falfe pre- 
eences. I would not however with to 
charge all who have adopted the pra€tice 
with criminal intention, as I have nodoubt 
many have done it through ignorance and 
the iefluence of example, but it may with. 
out any breach of charity be afferted, 
that they all want to appear to have, 
owhat they have not, credit and ‘conneétion 
with a London banker. 
It may ce afked, What is the particu- 
’ Tay jmcouvenieace attending thele bills, 
Deceptions in Bills of Exchange.—Fruit-Trees. 
[Feb. 1, 
which occafions this heavy complaint? I 
anlwer by the ‘following cafe:—A fhop- 
keeper in Yorkfhire or elfewhere has a li- 
mited credit with a wholefale dealer in 
town, fuppofe fifty pounds at a time, the 
la parcel to be paid for when the next is 
. 
ordered : his ftock being nearly out, he 
takes his cafh and fmail-notes (which po- 
licy will- not permit to be fent out of the 
country) to bis neighbour, a dealer in 
bills, who feems to live in good credit, and 
afks him in return for a bisllon London : 
he readily gives him his ‘¢ I pay” note at 
two months, apparently on his baoker, 
which is fent up with the order to his 
correfpondent : the latter, not aware of 
the deception, fends the bill perhaps from 
Whitechapel to the banker’s in Pall-mall 
for acceptance,.where it is left till the next 
day, when being calied for, it is returned 
with the remark chat it is not a bill on 
the houfe, but muft be prefented again 
when due, and if they have effects it will 
then Le paid. Here is a waite of fonr 
hours ef perhaps the moft valuable partof 
the day, and the tradefman is alio reduced’ 
to the unpleafan: alternative of doubling 
the amount of the debt for tae two moaths, 
of offending his cuttomer by avowing his 
miitruft : he thinks it his intereft to chufe 
tne firft, and at the expiration of the time 
finds the note difhonoured : the drawer 
‘Trans away, and the cnfiomer, unable to 
bear the lofs, becomes infolvent. ‘Faéts 
of this nature are by no means unfre- 
quent. 
The immenfe circulation of fi&titious 
paper. has long been a fubje&t of general 
complaint in the trading-world, and many 
have had occafion to rue the effeéts of it. 
It furely muft be the opinion of every 
friend to the commercial charaéter of the 
country that the evil fhould be remedied ; 
and that the matter may be ferioufly taken 
up by fome perfons of influence, is the 
with of fi 
An Enimy To DECEPTION. 
London, Dec. 11, 1805. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
~SIR, 
Wie months agofome obfervations 
7% 
appeared in your Magazinz refpeet-. 
ing the growth and bearing of fruit-trees 
atter taking from the trunks or branches 
cylinders of bark 5 and in cafe of any of 
your readers making experiments of a 
iimilar nature, the writer begged they 
might be communicated through the fame 
medium, ye 
me On 
