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prices
on
their
placards
to
what
scale
soever
they
please.
They
have,
besides,
this
circumstance
in
their
favour,
that,
although
they
may
occasionally
advertise
Clarets
in
the
London
Docks,
on
as
low,
or
perhaps
lower
terms,
with
regard
to
price,
than
that
which
they
manufacture,
(the
means
of
doing
which
it
is
also
my
intention
to
lay
before
my
Readers,)
the
latter
is
much
better,
as
possessing
apparently
greater
body,
less
chance
of
turning
sour,
and
being
altogether
of a
more
saleable
na-
ture,
and
though
by
no
means
approaching
even
to
the
middling
qualities
of
genuine
Claret,
they
are
able
to
advertise
it,
as
of
an
exceedingly
fine
de-
scription.
Since
the
reduction
of
the
duties,
the
avidity
with
which
our
English
cheap
sellers,
have
laid
hold
on
any
article
of
Wine
that
afforded
them
the
least
chance
of
imposing
on
the Public,
has
given
rise
to
a
most
cordial
co-operation
on
the
part
of
several
French
Dealers
in
the
same
honest
design,
in
order
to
facilitate
the
sale
of
manufactured
French
Wines,
and
which
it
is
evi-
dent
(from
the
bare-faced
assurance
with
which
they
are
puffed
off,
and
from
the
want
of
a
caution
against
the
serious
effects
of
this
coalition)
has
fully
answered
the
purposes
of
both
parties,
par-
ticularly
as the
profits
attached
to
this
kind
of
bu-
siness,
(notwithstanding
the
prices
are
quoted
at
so
low
a
rate,)
it
will
be
seen,
are
tolerably
remu-
nerating.
It
will,
no
doubt,
excite
some
surprise,
when
it