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,