... another place By James the death of his brother, Coutts, a merchant in Lon- deemed a large and being a man of high character as a merchant, as well as of very popular and agreeable manners, he ... ill-used, and I have seen his eyes, Avhich Avere black and piercing, flash as Avith lightning, if any attempt Avas made to overreach him in a bargain But his passion Avas of short continuance, and easily ... dressing-plate his own journeys on the him say, that, the daughter of a leading man of the lie was at Paris, he made her a present of a set of MEMOIRS OF A BANKING-HOUSE continent, and in the transacting...