Memoir of the life of John Law of Lauriston

76 LIFE OF JOHN LAW
what is really very diverting, some are ex-
tremely apprehensive of my losing the money
I have got, who, to my certain knowledge,
are very much mortified at my getting it. I
am not insensible of distant dangers which
may attend the funds here, and I wish our
own were absolutely free from them; but for
the objections which have come from even
considerable people in England, they prove
more that they have learned their own busi-
ness by rote, than that they have any true no-
tions of the principles of these matters. I
know a pretty extraordinary instance of some-
thing of this kind, if I could venture to tell ;
but thus far I may venture to say, that either
Mr. Law knows nothing, or some who carry
their heads very high in England know less
than people imagine.
" I wish I had known of a certain compli-
ment paid to Mr. Law by order,* before he
* It would seem that Lord Hay was desired to intro-
duce Lord Belhaven to Mr. Law, as a private friend,
while Mr. Law was apprised from some other quarter,
by order, that Lord Belhaven was employed by the
Prince. The whole affair is sufficiently mysterious,