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of the finest quality, are improved by lying to- gether in so large a body ; the next, that his sell- ing exclusively for ready money only, enables him to part with his Wine at so low a price, and that it scarcely affords him any profit at all. The Wine tastes full to the palate, is of brilliant colour, and if Port, the purchaser is assured (and with truth, from obvious reasons which shall be shown to my Readers,) that it will be quite crusted in two or three months. These, and other like as- surances, conclude with a gaurantee, that the Wine is warranted to turn out as represented, and that the cash, with all expenses, will be returned, if it does not prove to do so; though, be it ob- served, the seller cunningly manages to retain the nine points of law in his own favour, (namely, possession of the cashj leaving only the poor remaining one to the purchaser, the value of which, he may probably have to estimate to his cost. The many quibbles, by which this bargain is afterwards evaded, alone forcibly illustrates the notorious remark once made by an individual be- longing to this famous class of advertisers, ' That a customer once, forms the extent of their ex-

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them, is by their address ; from the same party, and for a similar purpose, is by good luck !' From the 'flattering tale* thus told, and which that a second visit,