Excerpt from De Bow's Review of the Southern and Western States, 1851, Vol. 11: Devoted to Commerce, Agriculture, Manufactures, Internal Improvements, Statistics, General Literature &C He retired to Geneva, where he gave an extraordinary proof of his power of extracting money from the dryest sources, by gaining large sums at the expense of the sober-minded and close-fisted citizens of that puritanic little commonwealth. In Genes and Venice he gave such evi dance of his invariable luck at play, that the magistrates of those two cities deemed it their duty to interfere, for the protection of their fellow citizens. And banished Law from these over-exhausted theatres of his exploits. At Florence. He became acquainted with the Duke of Van dome, whom he favored with the loan of a large sum of money. At N eufchatel he obtained access to the Prince of Conti, to whom, as to the Duke of Vendome, be imparted his financial schemes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.