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53

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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