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ation should be made in the system, for the sake of the fair Trader, for the benefit of the revenue, and for the protection of the public health. I feel

it, however, due to many respectable

and worthy

who are neither cheap sellers

Gin-shop-keepers,

nor advertisers, who, by fairly who vend at a moderate price, earned and equitable profits, main- tain themselves, and their families, to state, that although the facts, with regard to the facilities for adulterating, apply to the whole of their class, as a body without a single reservation, yet that the circumstance of those facilities, being rendered subservient to base purposes, will rest more strongly on the individuals, who are ready to bear down, all of the same trade, whether belonging to their own community, or not who live by fair dealing, or who happen, unfortunately, to be less knowing than themselves; and, before I conclude this division of my subject, I cannot but bear tes- timony from my personal experience, and know- ledge, of the exceptions, which the methods re- sorted to, in the conduct of business, by the more honourable individuals, to whom I have alluded, form, to the profligate, and dishonest contrivances, of their placarding rivals. 1 cannot but expect, that this Treatise, will excite the rancour of the advertisers, and be construed to be, as indeed it in some measure is, an attack upon them. This consideration is one which is far from discouraging, because it is by the outcry they and