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HE many ſhocking crimes committed in and about London, as well as frauds and cheats daily practiſed on the unwary tradeſman, mechanic, and deluded countrymen, call aloud for detection and diſcovery.—Much has already been written from time to time on this ſubject, and, in many inſtances, with good effect; but, as too much praiſe cannot be beſtowed on Virtue, ſo neither can too much be written in pourtraying Vice in its proper deformity, in order to give mankind a deteſtation thereto; therefore a timely warning againſt that variety of iniquity and roguery, which at preſent is carried on by the wicked and abandoned, to the injury and frequent ruin of the unhappy as well as unthinking part of the world, who have the misfortune to fall into their hands, becomes ſtill neceſſary.