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I OBSERVED, in the last edition, that with regard 

 to a duck gun If a sportsman could afford to have 

 one of the very best that could possibly be turned 

 out of hand, he would, I was confident, get better 

 served by Mr. Joseph Manton, than by any one in 

 the trade ; because his fine boring and other finish- 

 ing were done entirely by picked workmen in his 

 own house, under the immediate eye of himself, or 

 his agents. Here he had rooms, with a good light 

 to work in, and the very best of tools, and other 

 conveniences, instead of having the different parts 

 of the gun hawked about the streets from one poor 

 journeyman to another; at the risk of ultimately 

 requiring patchwork, in order to disguise from the 

 customer their not fitting together in a sound and 

 workmanlike manner. 



[But now (May 8t/iJ I regret to say, that this 

 concern is broken up, and the greater part of the 

 ivorMng machinery, such as no other gunmaker in 

 Europe could produce, has been sold off'; and the 



