1827 Wine and spirit adulterators unmasked

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Thus, shall I have introduced six dozens of this fictitious Wine, protected by the same dock per- mit which accompanied the indifferent Champagne from the docks, and which places me beyond all any Excise Officer. The Wine is sparkling, and, to the generality of its consumers, appears to possess all the requisite character of real Champagne ; and, aided by that eager confidence which is placed on the truth of the assertions contained in my captivating pla- cards and advertisements, I am able to dispose of this substituted and fictitious article, the total cost of which, at the outside, is no more than 43s. 6d. per dozen, at a cash profit of 165. 6d. if I ad- vertise it at 60s. or if at 63s. per dozen, the small remuneration of only 19s. Qd. per dozen. The dangerous nature and tendency of the Wine, which is occasionally puffed off to so much advan- tage, by the aid of Extracts from Theoretical Treatises on Wine, the introduction of a little of the jargon of the numerous French agents, who are constantly dunning the trade with their pro- fessional disquisitions, and the never failing at- traction of cheap prices, requires only to be gene- rally known, to put a decided stop to a system, which conceals as great a portion of fraud and im- position, as exists in almost any other branch of the adulterator's business, particularly as from the circumstance of the Wine being: in the London O Docks, a greater reliance is placed on its genuine- liability of detection from