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by
being
compelled
to
conduct
the
wholesale
de-
partment
of
his
business,
separately,
and
at
a
certain
distance
from
the
place
at
which
his
retail
trade
was
carried
on
;
thus,
not
a
little
evidencing
the
suspicions
entertained
by
Government
on
the
very
subject
I
have
been
discussing.
The
Gin-shop-
keepers,
however,
alive
to
this
annihilation
of
their
means
of
deceiving
the public
any
longer,
by
a de-
putation
to
the
Chancellor
of
the
Exchequer,
and
by
representations
(the
importance
of
which,
to
their
own
individual
interests,
must
be
pretty
clear
to
my
Readers),
procured
the
obliteration
of
this
obnoxious
clause,
unanswered
by
the
proper
and
cor-
rect
counter-statements,
which
ought,
and
could
have
been
made,
on
the
part
of
the
respectable
Wine
and
Spirit
Merchant,
and
which,
there
can
be
little
doubt,
would
have
had
the
effect
of
causing
the
completion
of
the
Act,
in
its
original
form.
The
following
explanation,
however,
which
places
the
case
on
its
own
merits,
and
as
it
really
stands,
will
enable
my
Readers
to
draw
their
own
conclusions
on
the
points
I
have
submitted
to
them,
with
respect
to
this
portion
of
my
subject,
and
may
not
perhaps,
altogether,
be
considered
uninteresting.
The
present
mode
by
which
a
Wholesale
Spirit
Dealer's
stock
is
taken,
is
such,
as
not
only
to
ren-
der
it
impossible
for
him
to
adulterate
his
goods,
or
by
any
means
to
defraud
his
customers,
but
even
to
place
needless
difficulties
in
the
way
of
his
business,
though
nothing
more
be
desired
by
him,
than
to
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