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colouring matter called JBerry-dye, necessary, to answer the extent, to which the placarder wishes to reduce the cost price. The chief end, however, in view, in advertising it for sale, is, in order to give as plausible a face to the possession of it as possible, so that when the adulterator, uses it in his Port Wine, in which a requisite decrease has previ- ously been obtained, the disappearance of a nearly similar quantity of Red Cape, to occupy the place of that decrease, may not have any singular or suspi- cious appearance; which would be the case, did he not give some reason, (by placarding or advertising it,) to suppose that a similar quantity might have been sold. With those of our advertisers and pla- carders, who are Gin-shop-keepers, the facilities for thus imposing on the Excise Officers, are very great, as they are able to avail themselves of the interpre- tation, to which they are always open, of having disposed of some considerable quantity over their counters, without having been under the necessity of drawing any permit, which would expose them to a greater risk of detection.

CAPE MADEIRA, and CAPE SHERRY.

Singular as it may appear, that Wines, the better qualities of which are sufficiently indifferent, when in a genuine state, and of themselves, should be made a source of profitable imposition, through the medium of adulteration, it is not less the fact,