1827 Wine and spirit adulterators unmasked

order to refine, and reduce them to ti fit state for bottling, at once finishes the manufacture of these delectable mixtures. That one of the chemical agents, which is used if not most carefully applied, must be highly delete- rious, I am satisfied of, from my being already ac- quainted with two instances, in which some indivi- duals were made ill, and the cheap Champagne they had been drinking, found, on analization, to contain a portion of Lead, in its worst form ; and were the cases, which must frequently, in a greater, or less degree, occur, to be made Public, by the sufferers themselves, a most beneficial result would, proba- prices paid to the Frenchmen, for these two descriptions of prime Champagne, is at the rate of about eighteen francs, or 15*. per dozen, the cost of the bottles, case, and freightage, at about 5s. 6d. and the duty, and landing charges, 19*'. per dozen more, making a total cost of only 39*. 6d. per dozen. The profits, I leave my Readers to es- timate. Before, however, I conclude this Treatise, and in order to leave no part of the ground unturned, it may, perhaps, be necessary to render some ge- neral account of the method, by which several of our Advertising Dealers are able to placard up other cheap Wines, in dock, because it is a scheme which conceals an additional imposture, with bly, ensue to the community at large. The