1827 Wine and spirit adulterators unmasked

121

tinning a temptation, for the public to enter his re-

ceptacle. A person applies to a Wholesale Dealer, or a Gin-shop-keeper, who has a Wholesale License in addition to his Retail one, and who may have a placard up, announcing 1 cheap Wines to be sold in dock, and requests an order to taste them. The seller manages to provide him also, with an order, or two, for some other Wines, a little higher in price, the consequence is, the purchaser tastes the whole, finds a material difference, calls again on the seller, and is either persuaded to take a cask of that, at the advanced price, or else, to be supplied out of one of the large IVine vats, on the same terms as stated for the lowest quality of those in dock, being assured that it is a similar description of Wine, only improved so much, by lying in so great a body. Thus, we see that whether the operations of our placarders and advertisers, be confined to the art of adulteration, that of displaying in their advertise- ments to the greatest advantage, the superior qua- lifications, they so modestly claim to themselves, above all other dealers, in the knowledge and mode of purchasing, and disposing of Wines and Spirits,, in deceiving the Public with pompous offers, (the conditions of which, however, are so framed, that only one point of law is given to their customers, whilst the sum of the remaining nine, viz. pos- session of the cash, is retained by themselves), or