get almost all that Capital Trade into their Hands as follows.

They concerted Matters, and all at once fell to selling off their
Stock, giving out daily Reports that they would be no longer
concern'd, that it was a losing Trade, that the Fund at bottom was
good for nothing, and that of two Societies the Old one had not 20
per Cent. to divide, all their Debts being paid; that the New Society
had Traded several Years, but if they were dissolv'd could not say
that they had got any thing; and that this must be a Cheat at last,
and so they resolv'd to sell.

By this Artifice, they daily offering to Sale, and yet in all their
Discourse discouraging the thing they were to sell no Body could be
found to buy.

The offering a thing to Sale and no Bidders, is a certain
never-failing prospect of a lowring the Price; from this Method
therefore the value of all the Banks, Companies, Societies and Stocks
in the Country fell to be little or nothing worth; and that was to be
bought for 40 or 45 Lunarians that was formerly sold at 150, and so
in proportion of all the rest.

All this while the Crolians employ'd their Emissaries to buy up
privately all the Interest or Shares in these Things that any of the
Solunarian Party would sell.

This Plot took readily, for these Gentlemen exposing the weakness of
these Societies, and running down the value of their Stocks, and at
the same time warily buying at the lowest Prices, not only in time
got Possession of the whole Trade, with their Grants, Privileges and