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tice particularly, as the greater part of its consumers, who are the sick and invalid, are led to believe, (except in a very few cases,) that it is the foreign Tent which they pur- chase. The chief, and most general imposition practised, is the substitution and sale of British Tent ; a compound, manufactured by the Rectifiers, and as unlike the foreign (which is from the juice of a grape), in flavor and beneficial quality, as can well be imagined in two things intended to re- semble each other. By those cheap sellers, who, may be supposed to possess a larger share of con- science, Cape Tent is substituted, or the foreign and genuine Wine occasionally disposed of, in a mixed state only. RED CAPE, Advertised under various denominations, such as Cape Port, Pontac, 6fc. It is but very recently that this Wine, has become an article of sale, in the placards, and advertisements, of our cheap sellers, and the object of its being introduced there, is not a little obvious, to all acquainted with what are termed the secrets of the trade ; particu- as no extraordinary low prices are quoted for it, instances), nor is it in any way made a leading article, as is the case occasionally, with Cape Madeira and Cape Sherry. The adul- teration of it, when required, is performed by the admixture of that proportion of Cyder, and the in this Treatise, more larly, (except in a very few