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ness, and the appearance of any deception is easily glossed over. The whole of the cheap Champagnes made up in France, but more immediately the cheap Still Champagne, may be said to be of a kind, which, from the nature of its composition, is, perhaps, more highly deleterious to the health, than any other Wine whatever, excepting such of the cheap Spark- ling Champagnes, as are made up on the same plan, with regard to some of the materials that are used. It has been remarked by French physicians, as they have occasionally been called in to attend English patients, that in most cases, the indispo- sition of our country men, when they are in France, can only be ascribed to the Champagne which they drink, and which, owing to the avidity with which the English people indulge themselves in its con- sumption, is not only more frequently, than other- wise, supplied to them of an indifferent kind, but of a sort, possessing properties which have the most pernicious and injurious tendency, possible, to the constitution. A little examination into the nature of some of the ingredients, employed in the manufacture of the cheap Still, and Sparkling Champagnes, in France, will fully prove the truth of their observations. The properties of Lead, in refining some par- ticular descriptions of Wines, the various quality of which, as compared with that of others, is widely different, (and among which, these inferior more