When I got to my lodgings I related the circumstance to some of my friends and they told me he had cheated me in this way: that it was common for them to carry bad money about them in their mouths, and, when this fellow had caught the good half-guinea in his mouth, he changed it for a bad one.

This is one of the thousand tricks they play every day.

I have likewise received eleven bad shillings on the road between Liverpool and this place, and it is hardly to be wondered at, for the shilling pieces here are just like old buttons without eyes, without the sign of an impression on them, and one who is not accustomed to this sort of money will never know the difference.
"I find, as mama used to tell me, that I must watch my very teeth or they will cheat me out of them." "_Friday, 16th, 1811._ This morning I called on Mr.Bromfield and delivered my letters.

He received me very cordially, enquired after you particularly, and invited me to dine with him at 5 o'clock, which invitation I accepted....

I find I have arrived in England at a very critical state of affairs.