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the
medium
of
which,
it
is
not
only
the
supplying
of
spurious
and
deleterious
articles,
for
which
con-
siderably
more
is
paid
than they
are
really
worth,
and
filling
their
own
pockets
by
practises
so
dis-
reputable,
but
undermining-,
as
well,
the
very
sub-
sistence
of
those,
who
are too
honest
to
descend
to
such
means
for
obtaining
a
livelihood.
It
is
to
the
individuals
only,
who,
from
outward
circum-
stances,
evidently
follow
such
practises,
that
the
fact
of the
disgraceful
proceedings
1
have
detailed,
being
carried
into
execution,
can
be
attributed.
That
I
have
advanced
no
more
than
the
plain
truth,
the
numerous
convictions
which
have
taken
place
under
the
Excise
Laws,
for
adulterating
Wines
and
Spirits,
or
for
imposing
in
any
other
way
on
the
Revenue
and
the
Public,
with
respect
to
those
articles,
would
fully
evidence,
and
in
a
list
of
which,
it
would
be
found,
that
the
Dealers,
whose
practises
I
have
exposed,
form,
by
far,
the
largest
majority,
although,
I
have
forborne
obtaining
and
publishing
that
list,
lest,
from
the
individuals
whose
names
it
contains,
my
motives
in
offering
this
Treatise
to
Public
notice,
should
be
misconstrued,
and
supposed
to be,
of
a
personal
and
malignant
nature.
From
the
facts
and
arguments,
alone,
which
I
have
submitted,
I
leave
the
Public
to
gather
some
idea
of
the
extent,
to
which
these
fraudulent
adul-
terations
have
been,
and
still
are,
practised,
with
the
honest
conviction,
that
should
they
appear
of