An account of the trials on bills of exchange, wherein the deceit of Mr. John King and his confederates, and the pretence of lending money is exposed / [Joanna Southcott].

  • Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814.
Date:
[1807]
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Credit: An account of the trials on bills of exchange, wherein the deceit of Mr. John King and his confederates, and the pretence of lending money is exposed / [Joanna Southcott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Copy of a letter from Joanna Southcott to J. King. .First Letter, sent January 1, 180”. Sir, , ’ I take the liberty of writing to you, in answer to the words that you said to Mr. Sharp, that you could not believe that the God of the universe, whom we all ought to adore, would converse upon such things as bankers’ bills. As to the bankers’ bills I do not understand ; all I can understand of the matter, from what I have lately heard from my friends, is this: that you advertise to the world at large, money lent immediately on bills, or notes of hand. For which reason they applied to you, and gave you their bills, according to your advertisement, to borrow the money upon the bills. This is all I know respecting the bills ; and they tell me, they gave the bills into your hands, to a large amount, for you to raise money upon, for them ; but instead of raising the money for them, for they to pay their just debts, they wanted it for, you have circulated their bills, which has brought them under arrests to pay bills they have never had any money or value for. Now, as I do not understand the law, and never heard be- fore in my life, that any man could advertise to lend money on bills, or bonds, and circulate them in the world in any man’s name, before they had received tiie money ; this l did not know, that any man dared to do ; but I shall leave the law and come to reason, justice, equity, and truth, between man and man. If a man apply to you for money, because he wants to pay a debt at that time, ought you not to lend the money, or return him his bill, and faithfully tell him you cannot supply him with the sum he wanted, or get friends to raise it for him ? This, injustice, you