Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Last week, the town of Douglas, in the Isle of Man, was thrown into no small commotion by the appearance of a stranger, who offered to sell any quantity of guineas at ten and eleven shillings each.

The very highest authority in the Island was applied to, a warrant was issued, and executed; and the wag was upon the point of being committed to prison—when the sapient informers, by some means or other, came to understand that ten and eleven make twenty-one!—The Humbug was undertaken for a trifling wager; it is superfluous to add, that "more than the winner shared in the laugh."