To the public in general, who so befriend

Their laudable endeavour, your gold to exchange,

Yet reluctantly confess, they think it most strange

Their opening a Bank, shou’d be impudent thought,

By those who are strangers to their KERECTER[33], and note,

And flatter themselves, the following reasons will prove

Their right to be Bankers, and objections remove.

The title, they presume, will command the esteem

Of those who at a distance, from hence, may have seen

Their elegant Notes; their clothes—they vow, and declare,