1827 Wine and spirit adulterators unmasked

have seen too, the long advertisements, in which great and splendid advantages were offered to those who chose to embark in them : the most un- bounded wealth promised and expected. In those instances, however, the results have dis- covered the impositions, and exposed (though con- veyed under fine high sounding expressions) the adulteration of principles (if I may be allowed the term) to what has been proved to be, false and empty purposes. We have blamed those persons who, under the supposition that all the professions were genuine, were induced to embark in such under- had been deceived by spurious articles. Notwithstanding, the credulity of the public is not exhausted. Other and not less egregious impositions are now placed before them by Advertising and Pla- carding Wine and Spirit Merchants, the falsehood of whose pretensions, are, in some respects, more easily detected, as the Duties on Wines and Spirits, and their cost at the Docks, are generally known ; and it must therefore appear, in a great degree, extra- ordinary, to persons unacquainted with the intrica- cies of the business, how it is possible, for those advertisers and placarders, to sell their articles at a less price, than their real and apparent cost. I think, I shall discharge a valuable duty, if I clear up the mystery, and prove, that, instead of vending on lower terms than others, and gaining less profit, they are absolutely realizing larger profits than re- B 2 takings, and who found, by sad experience, they