Friend Bull! if thou hast carefully and dispassionately (that is, if thou hast sufficiently divested thy honest mind of its usual scepticism—videlicet, its unwillingness to be convinced against its constitutional prejudices,) read my disclosures, I am willing to believe that thou wilt readily admit that I have established all my allegations of the frauds and impositions to which thou art subject in this sophisticating age, and that I have proved the truth and propriety of the title of my little book, “Disease and Death in the Pot and the Bottle.” What remedy (for a good advocate seldom forgets that prospective part of his duty,) to recommend thee to adopt, in order to free thyself from the knavery and effrontery of the sophisticators, I know not, except, hermetically to close thy jaws so as to prevent the entrance of any of the sophistications into them, or the more pleasurable remedy of preferring a petition to thy “gracious Sovereign,” who “can do no wrong,” praying “the omnipotency of Parliament,”—in its “collective and superlative wisdom” to take thy deplorable case into consideration,” and to devise some means, in the plenitude of its conjoint wisdom, to protect thee and thy “little ones,” in this “land of equal law,” from the arts and devices of slow poisoning. In the success of thy humble and righteous remonstrance believe me, thy fellow sufferer, and “enemy of fraud and villany,” will heartily and sincerely join.

THE AUTHOR.

Postscript.—In reviewing my well-meant, and, I trust, useful denunciations of fraud and villany, I find that I have omitted to speak of false weights and measures. But as the proverb says, better late than never. Not to mention the trick of clapping a piece of weight or other metal underneath the scale in which the commodity to be sold is weighed; commercial balances are frequently misconstructed for fraudulent purposes, by making the arm from which the substance to be weighed is suspended longer than that from which the counterpoise is hung, thereby giving the substance to be weighed a greater leverage.

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