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deavour
to
cheat
the
Public,
and
enrich
themselves.
My
object
has,
alone,
been
to
expose
the
tricks,
by
which
fraudulent
dealers
are
enabled
to
cover
the
system
of
adulteration
and
imposition
they
practise,
and
which
they
induce
the
Public
to
patronize,
only
by
the
effectual
aid,
which
is
afforded
them,
by
the
extraordinary
low
prices
they
are
(as
I
have
shown)
so
well
qualified
to
advertise,
and
through
be
made,
the
only
legitimate
retailer,
is
materially
injured
in
his
business.
Thus,
a
labouring
man
will
now,
at
his
usual
dinner
hour,
call
at
a
Public-house,
(the
keeper
of
which
dare
not
refuse
him
entrance),
in
order
to
cook
his
victuals
at
tlie
Tap-room
fire,
for
which
no
charge
is
made,
although,
as
some
remuneration,
and
which
is
the
least
that
can
be
expected,
he
probably
purchases
a
pint,
or
half
pint
of
Porter,
the
total
profit
on
which,
is
about
one
penny.
No
sooner,
however,
is
his
dinner
concluded,
than
from
the
superior
attraction
offered
in
the
article
of
Spirits,
he
imme-
diately
resorts
to
a
Gin-shop,
very
likely,
situated
within
a
few
doors
of
the
poor
Publican,
and,
as
is
generally
the
case,
without
even
so
much
as
a
seat,
on
which
to
sit
down.
Here,
the
labourer
partakes
of
his
two
or
three
glasses
of
Gin,
out
of
which
the
Gin-
shop-keeper
clears
a
profit,
nearly
equal
to
the
whole
amount
which
has
been
received
by
the
Publican,
although
the
latter
deals
in
precisely
the
same
articles,
and
has
to
afford
the
greatest
ac-
commodation,
without
any
extra
charge.
To
so
great
a
length,
indeed,
has the
evil,
inflicted
by
these
Gin-shops,
arrived,
that,
with
few
exceptions,
it
is
now
only
by
those
persons
who
hold
leases
under
Brewers,
that
the
Public-houses
so
held,
have
not
been
converted
into
Gin-shops,
or
the
necessary
and
proper
ac-
commodation,
discontinued
to
the
poorer
classes
of
the
community.
It
is,
also,
a
singular
fact,
that
in
the
late
depreciation
of pro-
perty,
it
has
been
only the
Public
houses,
that
have
so
materially
suffered,
Gin-shops,
still
maintaining
the
enormous
prices,
-which
the
value
they
have
acquired,
by
the
means
I
have
shown,
enables
their
proprietors
to
obtain.