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spectable
persons
in
the
trade,
although
they
resort
to
so
expensive
a
plan,
as
that
of
advertising-
in
the
newspapers,
and
distributing
printed
bills,
&c.
But,
as
ray
object
in
this
treatise
is
as
much
to
expose
the
adulterations
and
impositions
which
are
practised
with
Spirits
as
well
as
with
Wine,
I
will
commence
with
a
few
remarks
on
the
former,
and
illustrate
my
position
by
calculation,
whereby
the
public
will
be
enabled,
to
see
behind
the
curtain.
And
here,
I
wish
it
to
be
clearly
understood,
that,
as
one
professing
the
feelings
and
principles
of
a
fair
tradesman,
and
who
can
conscientiously
af-
firm
that
he
has
been
such,
and
only
such,,
it is
not
my
intention
to
bear
hard
on
the
whole
of
any
one
class
of
Advertising
1
and
Placarding
Wine
and
Spirit
Merchants,
indiscriminately,
for
the
delin-
quency
of
a
part,
any
further
than
I
am
supported
by
unanswerable
facts
;
but
merely
to
show,
that,
such
impositions
and
adulterations
do
exist,
and
in
what
manner,
and
by
whom,
they
are
chiefly
prac-
tised;
to
the
detriment
of the
honest
trader,
and
the
sacrifice
of
the
health
and
pockets
of
those
to
whom
*
ignorance
is
bliss.'
It
is,
however,
a
singular
fact,
that
the
majority
of
our
Spirit
Advertisers
and
Placarders
is
com-
posed
of
Gin-shop-keepers
;
but,
as
there
is
no
spi-
rit
whatever
so
much
adulterated,
or
with
which,
{through
the
medium
of
cheap
prices,)
so
much
de-
ception
is
practised,
as
with
the
article
of
Gin,
it
may
not
appear
altogether
so
extraordinary
that,