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Beware of liars! John Winter, the pretended
printer of Frederick-Town, has lately pub-
lished an address in Baltimore, to the inhabi-
tants of this town and county, and expects to
palm them on the illiterate as printed in this
town; wherein he neglects mentioning his "old
Tricks" being his downfall, and without a speedy
reformation he will soon come to his former
abode - The public are thus timely desired to
take the above caution. He flatters the public
in his old way of lying - whereas this day he
uttered a most daring one, to a gentleman in
this town, respecting the editor of this paper,
concerning of his having disposed of his printing
apparatus, &c. &c.

Winter must have been in trouble - part of it at
least, financial; and apparently was feeling his way
toward the rcestablishment of his weekly newspaper,
as the statement about Bartgis' having sold his print-
ing apparatus may indicate.

Winter did reestablish his newspaper, this time
under the title of Rights of Man, on February 5, 1794.
He had advertised in Baltimore for either a composi-
tor or a partner, the latter to be "any decent person,
belonging to the profession, who will not be afraid of
undergoing a little fatigue".²⁴ The partner did not
materialize until after the Rights of Man had begun
Publication under Winter, alone; but before the news-
paper had been in existence two months, a notice ad-
dressed to its subscribers in Baltimore, telling them
to send for their papers every Friday evening to Mr.

24 Maryland journal. April 19, 1793,