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sufficient
weight,
to
induce
many
to
apply
where
the
genuine
article
is
sold
at
a
moderate
price,
a
more
effectual
stop,
would
be
put
to
this
most
un-
justifiable
system,
than
could,
perhaps,
be
done
by
any
other
method
whatever.
Should
it
be
urged,
in
reply
to
these
facts,
by
any
of
the
class
to
whom
what
I
have
here
stated
applies,
that
I
have
divulged
secrets
which
ought
strictly
to
have
been
confined
to
the
Trade,
1
an-
swer,
that
by
no
honest
Wine
Merchant
(such
an
one,
who
makes
the
quality
and
genuineness
of
his
goods,
and
the
moderation
of
his
prices,
the
test
of
his
respectability),
are
the
different
materials
for
adulterating,
and
the
method
of
their
application,
with
which
he
may
have
become
acquainted,
from
long
intercourse
with
all
classes
of
Dealers,
con-
sidered
by
any
means
secrets,
either
as
belong-
ing
to
the
trade,
or
worth
the
keeping;
and
al-
though,
the
reasons
which
induce
me
to
publish
this
Treatise
anonymously,
will
be
better
esti-
mated,
by
those
in
the
trade,
or,
who
are
more
inti-
mately
acquainted
with
the
description
of
people,
from
whose
guilty
practises
I
have
removed
the
veil,
yet,
as
to
all
persons,
in
a
greater
or
less
de-
gree,
it
must
be
evident,
that
in
an
open
discussion,
in
which
the
class
alluded
to,
have
nothing
to
lose,
but
a
source
of
profit
unworthy
of
honest
men,
and
which,
besides,
is
calculated,
whether
as
a
means
of
conveying
fresh
advertisements
of
their
pre-
tensions
to
the
Public,
as
an
extra
opportunity
for