1827 Wine and spirit adulterators unmasked

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WINE.

" One glasse of drink, I got by chance, '"Twas Claret when it was in France, "But now from it moche wider: "I think a man might make as good "With green crabbes, bojTd in Brazil wood, " And half a pinte of Cjjder." An Old Song.

USED in moderation, and as dispensing 1 by its cheering influence, an additional zest to several of our social enjoyments, Wine may be said to form one of the blessings of life. That it constitutes a luxury, to which more consideration is attached than to almost any other whatever, is sufficiently ob- vious to need any extraneous remarks to prove it, so, nor do I think it by any means less clear, that, in the existing state of society, it is an article which has almost become a necessary of life.* The object, however, of this Treatise, is not to point out the benefits which the rational use of Wine confers on mankind, but by guarding the Public against the pernicious adulterations which are prac- X

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