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ration, which, from the acknowledged ingenuity of French Chemists, must be considered in both re- spects, elegant in the extreme, is ready to be racked into casks, or drawn off into bottles, and to be shipped to this country, accompanied with all the instructions, &c. necessary to render the ad- vertisements and placards, respecting it, sufficiently attractive. Let my Readers make a few inquiries as I have done, of individuals who must be inti- mately acquainted with the growth and manufac- ture of French Wines, and on whose veracity they can depend, and they will find, that I have neither made any exaggerated, or incorrect statement, of the prices at which this excellent quality of Claret is to be purchased, nor of the component parts and nature of its composition ; but, on the contrary, that I have forborne enlarging on some facts, too disgusting to appear on paper. CHAMPAGNE. As is the case with several of the foreign Wines on which I have remarked, one of the frauds com- mitted on the Public with this costly description of Wine, through the attraction of cheap prices, is, by substituting another article for it, (the cost of which is very considerably lower,) and disposing of such, as the real Wine. Gooseberry Wine (which, though genuine in it- self, and bearing, in some respects, a slight re- semblance, yet by no means to be compared,