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Article THE EVILS OF WAR. ← Page 3 of 3 Article ON SHAM WAREHOUSES, AND PRETENDED MERCHANTS. Page 1 of 2 →
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The Evils Of War.
Upon the whole , it is evident , that nothing can result from SITCT ? Systems but disappointment , want , and beggary . For neither the laws of Providence , the course of Nature , or the rules of sounct Politics will ever bear a separation from genuine morality—not tomention that the victors themselves will experience , that in vanquishing others they are only preparing a more magnificent tombfor their own interment .
On Sham Warehouses, And Pretended Merchants.
ON SHAM WAREHOUSES , AND PRETENDED MERCHANTS .
To the Printer of the Freemasons' Magazine , or General ancf -Complete Library . SIR , IT will appear Somewhat strange to yon , when-1 affirm , that 1 doubt not in a very few years there will be hardly found such atradesman in the
thing as a shop , or a whole city of London . I would not be understood that this will be owing to the present stagnation of trade : what I mean is , that every little shop-will be called a warehouse , and the petty owner of it stile himself a merchant . The number of those warehouses are already so considerable ,, that you can hardly go into the most obscure street , or bye-lane ,, without
meeting an abundance of them in every occupation : — For instance , I have seen a saddle warehouse , whose owner has . been suspected for a footpad , because nobody would trust him with a horse ; a Yorkshire shoe-warehouse , the master with scarce a shoe to his foot ; a stocking-warehouse , the famil y all out at heels ; a-Scotch linen-warehouseand an Irish linen-warehouse
consistino-, , of nothing but remnants , and those in rags ; a tea-warehouse , with a number of Pekin , singlo , and fine hyson cannisters , all empty ; a snuff and tobacco-warehouse , with scarce a pipe full of one , or a pinch of the other . I have often met a Norwich crape-warehousein mourning foritself ; and more than one medicinal warehouse sickof it ' s own physic .
In like manner we may observe a prodi gious number of those humble retailers , who have assumed to themselves the appellation of merchants , though they never visit the custom-house but on account of their making false entries , and are so far from having their faces known on the 'Change , that they scarce ever stir from behind their counters . Onewhose imported stock does not amount
, , perhaps , to above half a dozen gallons of each sort laid in at a time ' commences at once a wine-merchant ; and another , who deals out his spirituous liquors by quarterns and half quarterns in a gin-shop , & r ni ght-celter , claims an equal ri ght to be distinguished as a rum
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Evils Of War.
Upon the whole , it is evident , that nothing can result from SITCT ? Systems but disappointment , want , and beggary . For neither the laws of Providence , the course of Nature , or the rules of sounct Politics will ever bear a separation from genuine morality—not tomention that the victors themselves will experience , that in vanquishing others they are only preparing a more magnificent tombfor their own interment .
On Sham Warehouses, And Pretended Merchants.
ON SHAM WAREHOUSES , AND PRETENDED MERCHANTS .
To the Printer of the Freemasons' Magazine , or General ancf -Complete Library . SIR , IT will appear Somewhat strange to yon , when-1 affirm , that 1 doubt not in a very few years there will be hardly found such atradesman in the
thing as a shop , or a whole city of London . I would not be understood that this will be owing to the present stagnation of trade : what I mean is , that every little shop-will be called a warehouse , and the petty owner of it stile himself a merchant . The number of those warehouses are already so considerable ,, that you can hardly go into the most obscure street , or bye-lane ,, without
meeting an abundance of them in every occupation : — For instance , I have seen a saddle warehouse , whose owner has . been suspected for a footpad , because nobody would trust him with a horse ; a Yorkshire shoe-warehouse , the master with scarce a shoe to his foot ; a stocking-warehouse , the famil y all out at heels ; a-Scotch linen-warehouseand an Irish linen-warehouse
consistino-, , of nothing but remnants , and those in rags ; a tea-warehouse , with a number of Pekin , singlo , and fine hyson cannisters , all empty ; a snuff and tobacco-warehouse , with scarce a pipe full of one , or a pinch of the other . I have often met a Norwich crape-warehousein mourning foritself ; and more than one medicinal warehouse sickof it ' s own physic .
In like manner we may observe a prodi gious number of those humble retailers , who have assumed to themselves the appellation of merchants , though they never visit the custom-house but on account of their making false entries , and are so far from having their faces known on the 'Change , that they scarce ever stir from behind their counters . Onewhose imported stock does not amount
, , perhaps , to above half a dozen gallons of each sort laid in at a time ' commences at once a wine-merchant ; and another , who deals out his spirituous liquors by quarterns and half quarterns in a gin-shop , & r ni ght-celter , claims an equal ri ght to be distinguished as a rum