1827 Wine and spirit adulterators unmasked

34 Or if fifty-five gallons of the proof Rum in Ex- ample 1st be further reduced to twenty-five and thirty-two per cent, underproof, (the former strength referred to in page 17, and the latter in note * page 17), by the addition of the proper proportion of water, and a larger proportion of the flavoring materials and Extract of Capsicums, the prices would be 7*. lid. and 7s. 2d. per gallon. The terms on which Rums are advertised for ' Ready money only, 1 are 10s. 4d. ; 10s. Sd. ; 1 Is. Qd. ; 12s. ; and 13s. 4d. per gallon (at the two latter prices, the strength of the article to be ' proof '); and I scarcely need, therefore, pursue my calculations for the purpose of showing my readers, the various and enormous profits obtained on Rum, by our cheap Placarders and Advertisers, and the impositions practised on the health and purse of the public, under the plausible pretext that * Ready money only* enables the modest Dealer to dispose of these fine articles at prices so low. In offering, however, one more example of a mode of making up a Rum of * exceedingly Jine flavor? I wish to observe, that a restriction exists, only, as regards the admixture-of the Rectified Spirits I have al- luded to, in my remarks on Brandy, but that all Rums of whatever quality, may be, what is termed, blended together. Hence it is, that a Wholesale Spirit Advertiser, is unable to make use of the ar- ticle of British Rectified Spirits with Rum, be-