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attached
to
the
offence,
too
strong
for
the
persons,
who
are
ordinarily
employed
where
such
practises
are
carried
on,
to
withstand,
without
paying
them
most
exorbitant
wages
to
purchase
their
secresy.
If
my
present
limits
would
permit,
I
could
detail
many
plans
by
which
these
difficulties
are
to
be
surmounted.
The
singular
fact,
however,
that
the
detection
of
this
nefarious
traffic
was
owing
en-
tirely
to
the
disclosures
of
an
accomplice,
who
was
influenced
by
mo
fives
of
revenge,
and
that
the
three
men,
besides the
clerk,
employed
in
the
business,
and
on
the
premises,
by
Oldfield,
swore
in
the
course
of
the
trial,
that
they
had
never
seen
any
mixing
of
Wine
whatever,
going
on,
(although
the
fact
had
then
been
clearly
established
in
the
preliminary
step
to
adulteration,
of which
he
was
convicted,)
will,
I
apprehend,
be
conclusive
enough
as
to
there
being
no
lack
of
means,
in
respect
to
the
finding
of
opportunities
for
adulterating,
with-
out
my
perplexing
my
Readers
with
technical
statements.
In
proceeding
to
give
an
account
of
the
various
modes
of
adulterating
Wine,
and
as
a
reason
for
my
rendering
the
proportions
in
the
illustrative
ex-
amples,
relating
to
this
part
of
the
subject,
on
so
large
a
scale,
it
is
perhaps
requisite to
premise,
that
one
of
the
grand
secrets
in
the
art
of
cheapen-
ing
Wine,
is
by
the
vatting,
or
keeping
a
number
of
large
vats
in
the
which
to
mix
and
adulterate
the
different
Wines.