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The misery brought upon thoughtless Labouring People and the Children who
are inadvertently led into the Commission of Crimes; and finally from the
great extent to which the business has been carried on within the last
Twenty Years. — Some of these Shops are kept by persons of opulence and
apparent respectability; but whose Servants will purchase whatsoever
is brought without any enquiry whatsoever. It is well known that His
Majesty's Stores are embezzled to an immense extent and after passing
through two or more hands are resold to the Public perhaps one or twice
over. — It is no uncommon thing for persons in this Trade to keep men
for the purpose of knocking out the Kings Mark from Copper Bolts,
new Spikes, Nails, Hoops &c which they purchase from 100 to 200
P Cent under the fair price. — Jews have been known to boast that
they have cleared ten Pounds P Day by purchasing new Copper Bolts
Sheathing Copper, Nails &c at 4d P lb which cost Government four times
that Sum — Innumerable instances can be produced of the extensive
depredations committed not only upon the Kings Stores but upon every
Person who has any property to lose in or about the Capital from a Glass
Bottle or a Brass Candlestick to the richest article of Commerce, and
few Servants after they live a Short Time in London and get a Taste for its
amusements and consequently a Desire to possess Money to gratify their new
want but are corrupted by the ready means the find of obtaining it at
these Iron Shops for whatever they chuse to convey to them. — They are
about 5600 Publicans within the Bills of Mortality who lose from
sixty to Seventy Thousand Pounds a Year in Pewter Pots alone! Incredible
as this may appear it is believed it may be proved beyond all doubt: Is
it not therefore necessary that those people should be put under regulations?
Is it not necessary that the fraudulent part should be abolished and such
regulations introduced as would make it an object for the fair
Trader to Carry it on? There is an extensive resource for fair Trade
and the Profits are so considerable that the Duty will not be felt.
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Identifier: | JB/149/017/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
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itinerant dealers in wearing apparel &c / pawnbrokers selling forfeited pledges by private sale / wholesale dealers in old iron and metals |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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