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is mentioned as a fact, which ( can be supported by the testimony of some of our first-rate importers and French Wine growers, that the cost to the manufacturers, of the inferior Clarets thus shippedy is not more {at the outside), than two sous per bottle ; that the charge from them to our English cheap sellers, is at about ten or twelve sous per bottle, equivalent to 5s. or (>s. sterling per dozen ; that the expences of bottles, case, and freightage, do not exceed 4*. Qd. per dozen more ; and the duty and other charges, at the utmost calculation, 19s. per dozen. Thus, supposing a case of this Wine to cost as follows : L. s. d. 3 dozen prime Claret, at 5s. 6d. - 0160 Expense of bottles, case, freightage, &c. at 4s. 6d. 13 6 Duty on 3 dozen, and Landing Charges, &c. at 19s. - . 2 17 One 3 doz. Case of prime Claret, at 29s. per dozen, is 470 The means by which they are enabled to advertise it at the low prices we see, and the extent of pro- fit derived from this reputable branch of the cheap seller's business, may be at once estimated ; whilst a short insight into the mode of its manufacture, will clearly prove that the French adulterators are by no means less deficient in the art of imposition, (al- though their efforts are confined but to one or two O articles of Wine), than their brethren, the English adulterators. H 2