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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140624.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<STC T="W">R936b</STC>
<STC T="G">c.121.g.6.[1]</STC>
<STC T="C">R230157</STC>
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<HEAD>REMARKS ON TRADE IN A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A <HI>Committee-man</HI> and an <HI>Interloper.</HI></HEAD>
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<SPEAKER>Committee-man.</SPEAKER>
<P>WHAT think you now, was not our Plot well laid?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Interloper.</SPEAKER>
<P>What Plot, 'Pray you? for I'm ignorant.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Com.</SPEAKER>
<P>To get Money, Man; not again&s;t Church or State, you may be &s;ure.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Interl.</SPEAKER>
<P>A Plot to get Money, do you &s;ay? Why, you'll mo&s;t of you be ruin'd: Two Ships are ca&s;t away, <HI>Bantam</HI>'s taken by the Dutch, the <HI>China</HI>-Trade's lo&s;t, <HI>Heugley</HI> not &s;urrendred to the new Agent, your E&s;tates le&s;s worth this Week by thirty or forty thou&s;and Pound a Man than the la&s;t; you mu&s;t &s;top all <HI>Pay|ments,</HI> a down-right <HI>Break</HI> follows, and then where are you!</P>
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<SPEAKER>Com.</SPEAKER>
<P>You're ignorant enough i' con&s;cience, if you take all the&s;e Reports for Truth, and not &s;o &s;harp neither as I took you for; my purpo&s;e is to open this <HI>Intrigue,</HI> to rectifie your <HI>Notions,</HI> and detect &s;ome <HI>Practices,</HI> which being un|der&s;tood, you cannot be impo&s;ed on.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Interl.</SPEAKER>
<P>'Twould plea&s;e me well to be in any hone&s;t Plot to get Money; I think my &s;elf in as fair a way for that as any of you all, and perhaps hone&s;ter: They talk &s;trange things of you abroad, of the Mea&s;ures you take; that <HI>Ar|bitrary Government</HI> is no where exerci&s;ed but with you; you get Mens Stock from 'em, and afterwards make 'em pay for it again; you take their Money and Goods, and open your Trea&s;ury at plea&s;ure; and yet in de&s;pight of the <HI>Tib</HI> and the <HI>Tom,</HI> Judgment has reach'd you; you're divided among your &s;elves, and all at a &s;tand at la&s;t.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Com.</SPEAKER>
<P>You hug your &s;elf too much without cau&s;e, the Cards are playing, our bu&s;ine&s;s is half done, and the Game's as good as our own: You'll think it &s;trange to tell you, I can make <HI>Stock</HI> worth 350, or 150 <HI>per Cent.</HI> at plea&s;ure; I'll buy great Parcels at the <HI>fir&s;t</HI> Rate, and &s;ell at the <HI>&s;econd,</HI> and yet be a Gainer. This is true, as &s;ure as Two and Two make four.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Interl.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nay, you have more Tricks than a Dancing Bear; but he that buys dear and &s;ells cheap, mu&s;t needs be a Lo&s;er, as I'm convinc'd many of you are, and that by your own Confe&s;&s;ion.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Com.</SPEAKER>
<P>True, it is confe&s;s'd, and that we have lo&s;t great E&s;tates, and are divi|ded among our &s;elves, and all this without fal&s;hood, take us in our own &s;en&s;e.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Interl.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why, you are not <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> I hope; how are the&s;e things con&s;i&s;tent?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Com.</SPEAKER>
<P>Very well. Know then that this Intrigue was hatch'd long &s;ince, Stock engro&s;s'd, Methods re&s;olv'd on for the rai&s;ing and falling it, which by the help
<PB REF="2">of <HI>Romantado</HI>-Votes, and &s;ome other practices are regularly effected, and the <HI>Stock</HI> (laid up in Lavender) di&s;pers'd into numerous hands at great Rates; what may &s;till remain, is re&s;erv'd for the next ri&s;e, together with tho&s;e loo&s;e Corns we may pick up from needy or frighted people, at low Rates; and thus we may hold on, till &s;ome accident di&s;&s;olves us, or, (which may be fatal) till our de&s;ign be di&s;covered, and the people be afraid to deal with us.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Interl.</SPEAKER>
<P>And then good night <HI>Nicholas.</HI> But what mean you by tho&s;e <HI>Votes</HI> ju&s;t now &s;poke on?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Com.</SPEAKER>
<P>Oh! Tho&s;e are making <HI>two</HI> Hundred Pounds of <HI>one,</HI> with the holding up a finger, for &s;ending out only <HI>thirty Ships,</HI> to fetch <HI>twelve Thou&s;and Tun</HI> of Goods, that we will pay but three <HI>per Cent.</HI> Intere&s;t, and the like; the very Nick of time wherein to run up Stock and to run it off too! which de&s;ign was well ad|vanc'd and promoted by the greatne&s;s of that <HI>Sale,</HI> and the private intimations then given of a Dividend; which with other &s;ea&s;onable Rumours, I promi&s;e you, was di&s;creetly manag'd, and to good purpo&s;e.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Interl.</SPEAKER>
<P>There were &s;ome three or four Wi&s;e Men among you, who made Hay in that Sun-&s;hine, but were however &s;everely damn'd by the re&s;t for their good fortune.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Com.</SPEAKER>
<P>Neither the one nor the other, take my word; the Wi&s;e Men were only Agents for the whole, and the &s;everity no more than pretended. I mu&s;t needs know how things go <HI>within</HI> Doors.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Interl.</SPEAKER>
<P>But to my knowledge, &s;ome forward men bought much at high Pri|ces; I &s;aw them pay the Money; I pity them with all my heart; and yet they're well enough &s;erv'd, becau&s;e they are &s;o proud and &s;elf-conceited.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Com.</SPEAKER>
<P>Hold! You run on at a &s;trange rate; few of the&s;e were real Bargains, tho&s;e that were, had as many Proprietors in them, as tho&s;e Bargains had, where &s;elling was in the ca&s;e. The <HI>Club</HI> of <HI>Officers</HI> are a good in&s;titution, having ma|ny ends and u&s;es in their contrivance; The want of <HI>Money,</HI> cau&s;ed by our &s;elves, the <HI>Votes</HI> thereupon, the offering our <HI>Bonds</HI> for Money, and the pretended <HI>Di|vi&s;ions</HI> among&s;t us, were all of excellent <HI>u&s;e</HI> too, to further our de&s;ign. To the&s;e we may add the Kings doing us new Honours, and our defeating your Tribe of Interlopers, and whatever may make a noi&s;e, and rai&s;e du&s;t about our affairs, to amu&s;e and confound mens minds.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Interl.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ju&s;t now I hear that Twenty <HI>T. Merchants</HI> do put in to be of the <HI>Com|mittee,</HI> and will buy up Stock to &s;trengthen their Party again&s;t the next Election.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Com.</SPEAKER>
<P>That's a plea&s;ant &s;tory; I remember the very &s;ame this time Twelve-month. Do you hear of the New Vote to make no Dividends till Debts called in be all paid, and to keep no Money at Intere&s;t but what we're de&s;ired on New Bonds?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Interl.</SPEAKER>
<P>This Sugar-plumb will do no harm; they &s;ay People are well plea&s;ed with it.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Com.</SPEAKER>
<P>I hope it will do us good &s;ervice, for more than ordinary is de&s;ign'd by it. I'm bewitched for not &s;elling off all this while. What an E&s;tate have I lo&s;t by holding! The thoughts of it almo&s;t di&s;tract me.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Interl.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why are you &s;o <HI>Melancholy</HI> of a &s;udden? I fear all's not right with you. I thought what you've been &s;aying, was impertinent, and the fruits of an intem|perate fancy.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Com.</SPEAKER>
<P>To deal truly with you, I have drawn in abundance to their va&s;t lo&s;s; and to take off ill thoughts, I mu&s;t condole and &s;ympathize with the &s;ufferers; whereupon there's no &s;u&s;picion of a Plot. This means does call in and cancel my <HI>Obligations,</HI> which I could not do otherwi&s;e without Jealou&s;ie; this al&s;o makes way to leave me hand&s;omely out of the <HI>Committee;</HI> other benefits ari&s;e from my pre&s;ent <HI>dull humour,</HI> but time will &s;et all things to rights. <HI>Farewell.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Jo&s;eph Hindmar&s;h,</HI> Book-&s;ellar to his Royal Highne&s;s, at the <HI>Black Bull</HI> in <HI>Cornhil;</HI> And Entred according to Order. 1683.</P>
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