A few years since some of the more respectable
members of the Stock Exchange, perceiving the thraldom in which the
public funds of the country were held by the tricks and manouvres of the
Jew party, determined to make a stand against them: among these was a
highly respected member of parliament, a great sporting character, and
a very worthy man. His losses proved excessive, but they were promptly
paid. In order to weaken his credit, and, if possible, shake his
confidence and insult his feelings, the Jew took an opportunity, during
High 'Change, of telling him, 'Dat he had got his cote and vaistcote,
and he should very soon have his shirt into de bargain:' in this
prophecy, however, Mr. Mordecai was mistaken; for the market took a
sudden turn, and the gentleman alluded to recovered all his losses in a
short time, to the great discomfiture ~125~~of the high priest and the
Jews. In private life he is equally abrupt and vulgar, as the following
anecdote will prove, at his own table: A christian broker solicited some
trifling favour, observing, he had granted what he then requested to
another member of the house, who was his brother-in-law. 'Vary true,
vary true,' said Solomon Gruff, as he is sometimes called, 'but then you
do not shleep vid my shister, my boy; dat makes all de differance.
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