Second Sight

,—the power of seeing things to come, said to be peculiar to the Scotsmen: e. g. when Loughborough seized the seals, almost an universal bankruptcy took place, and he, in a very short space of time, issued out upwards of 400 commissions of bankruptcy, at the moderate rate and profit of 10l. each commission. “How are we ruined?” 10 times 400 is 4,000l.—“How are we ruined?”