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 clearances all ready at the instant for disposal to those merchants who, from the exigencies of the times, found themselves compelled to resort to such practices. Indeed these knaves knew perfectly well that if the merchants of England refused to participate in this "filthy commerce," the traders in Boston would not have any such scruples, still less those of Pappenburg, or some of the ports of Danish Holstein.