To The Editor Of The Time...
Slr,-X'ou would confer a beinenthe public by exposing the practices of a set of swindlers who, under the pretext of disposing by auction of ' plendid articles of furniture, t he genuine pronerty ef a gentleman, taken under an execution"-.for thus the style of their plausible advertisements run-Pnd by means of cham bidders, chouse the unwary into the purchase of the worst trash at most ex- travagant prices. A fricnd of mine, a few days since, at one of these sales, held at a house in Leigh-street, Burton-crescent, taken by these thieves for the purpose, had thc misfortune to be tricked by them out of a con. siderable sum of money, In return for which he received articles of furniture not worth a twentieth part of the purchase-money. To thie disgrace of their professios, auctionecrs are in the habit of lending themsel7es to these practices; at least I judge so, from the circumstance that at two of these sales attended by me, the same person acted in the capacity of auctioneer, though in the advertise- ments of the sales different auctioneers were named. These impostors are now laying their snares in Joln-atreet, Adelphi, at No. 21, where the writer has himself been once caught, and would therefore warn others from a similar fate. I remain. Sir- v-n,r n hont - EXPOrSITOR. London, Oct. 14. TO T/hE EDITOR OP THE TIAES.