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either in cost or actual quality, to the real and ge- nuine Champagne,) is usually employed as the sub- stitute ; but, as this may be said to form the chief imposition, with regard to the vending cheap Sparkling Champagne, from the premises of the Dealer, my principal object, in the first place, will be to explain the manner in which this Gooseberry Wine is admitted into the stocks, even of our largest advertising and placarding concerns, and sold from thence as genuine Sparkling Champagne, and afterwards proceed to expose the admirable basis from which the Sillery and Still, together with the Sparkling Champagnes, are puffed off to so great an advantage, as being in the London Docks. It is no very difficult matter to suppose that many of my Readers would have no ob- jection, occasionally, to drink Gooseberry Wine, when that Wine is really fine and of good quality, yet, very few, I imagine, with their eyes open, would quietly submit to pay treble its value, be- cause sold under the title and form of cheap Cham- pagne. The disclosures, therefore, which I am about to make with respect to it, will, I trust, prove amusing, if not serviceable, to those who have hitherto so easily suffered the money to be taken out of their pockets, only to fill those of the advertiser of cheap Wine. It is well known as a fact, to many in the trade, that, at this time, large parcels of Champagnes are lying in the docks, in the names of certain individuals in London, which,