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nature, Is liable to equal rilk, and ought therefore to be 

 guarded against with care. Whether It Is pofslble for 

 the legislature, without encroaching too much upon the 

 privileges of a free people, to guard against It, Is doubtful ; 

 but It surely ought to be the study of every cautious man, 

 in his private capacity, to keep as free of transactions of 

 this nature as pofslble, whether he be considered as an 

 active adventurer In this deep game of hazard, or as a paf- 

 slve being, who, by a culpable inattention, may be eventu- 

 ally Involved In the consequences resulting from it. 



We have heard that there Is at present on foot an en- 

 terprise of this adventurous cast, upon a greater scale than 

 ever before was attempted in Britain. A large manufac- 

 turing company in the west of England, It Is said, have 

 had many agents employed for some time past in buying 

 up all the white linens and cotton cloths that can be found, 

 at such prices, as gives the callico printers who are, or lately 

 were in the pofsefsion of these cloths, no room to think 

 they could print them with profit, if the price of printed 

 goods ftiall continue as low as at present ; and as these a- 

 gents confidently afsert, that the company for which they 

 act, will continue to sell printed goods, to any extent that 

 may be demanded, at the present prices, many of the manu- 

 facturers have been prevailed on to sell a great part of 

 their unprinted goods, thinking they thus obtain a very 

 good profit, certain, Instead of a moderate one, contingent 

 only ; and some, we have heard, have even gone such 

 lengths, as to sell the whole of their stock on hand, and to 

 abandon the buslnefs. 



It is of importance, however, to the public, that an ad- 

 venture of this sort (hould be scanned with attention at as 

 early a stage of its progrefs as pofsible, in order that the 

 probable evils it would occasion may be guarded against. 

 "With this view, it will not be impertinent to hazard a few 



