impossible to discover that they are not genuine. This has been proved by bills to a very large amount which have been successfully circulated. Inquire for Q. E. D. at the coffee house from eleven p.m. to four a.m. during the present month." [1]
Robert Dorlon did not change his position while he read the clipping twice through carefully. The first feeling of rage at the treacherous, dishonest man before him gave place to a calmer mind as he endeavored to think out what was best to be done. Of the dastardly work of the counterfeiters, of the false notes scattered throughout the country, he was aware, and he knew too of the sufferings of the people and the straits to which the leaders were put by the action of the unprincipled men who were taking advantage of the weakness of the colonies, not only for their own profit, but also increasing the suffering of the people who were deceived by them and induced to give up their produce or possessions for the worthless paper that was being scattered everywhere. And here was one of the men, who, while pretending to be a friend of the colonies, was engaged in the nefarious work of scattering
- ↑ An exact reproduction of an advertisement as it appeared in a Tory paper in the year 1777.
