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have
seen
too,
the
long
advertisements,
in
which
great
and
splendid
advantages
were
offered
to
those
who
chose
to
embark
in
them
:
the
most
un-
bounded
wealth
promised
and
expected.
In
those
instances,
however,
the
results
have
dis-
covered
the
impositions,
and
exposed
(though
con-
veyed
under
fine
high
sounding
expressions)
the
adulteration
of
principles
(if
I
may
be
allowed
the
term)
to
what
has
been
proved
to
be,
false
and
empty
purposes.
We
have
blamed
those
persons
who,
under
the
supposition
that
all
the
professions
were
genuine,
were
induced
to
embark
in
such
under-
takings,
and
who
found,
by
sad
experience,
they
had
been
deceived
by
spurious
articles.
Notwithstanding,
the
credulity
of
the
public
is
not
exhausted.
Other
and
not
less
egregious
impositions
are
now
placed
before
them
by
Advertising
and
Pla-
carding
Wine
and
Spirit
Merchants,
the
falsehood
of
whose
pretensions,
are,
in
some
respects,
more
easily
detected,
as
the
Duties
on
Wines
and
Spirits,
and
their
cost
at
the
Docks,
are
generally
known
;
and
it
must
therefore
appear,
in
a
great
degree,
extra-
ordinary,
to
persons
unacquainted
with
the
intrica-
cies
of
the
business,
how
it is
possible, for
those
advertisers
and
placarders,
to
sell
their
articles
at
a
less
price,
than
their
real
and
apparent
cost.
I
think,
I
shall
discharge
a
valuable
duty,
if
I
clear
up
the
mystery,
and
prove,
that,
instead
of
vending
on
lower
terms
than
others,
and
gaining
less profit,
they
are
absolutely
realizing
larger
profits
than
re-
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