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106

ration,

which,

from

the

acknowledged

ingenuity

of

French

Chemists,

must

be

considered

in

both

re-

spects,

elegant

in

the

extreme,

is

ready

to

be

racked

into

casks,

or

drawn

off

into

bottles,

and

to

be

shipped

to

this

country,

accompanied

with

all

the

instructions,

&c.

necessary

to

render

the

ad-

vertisements

and

placards,

respecting

it,

sufficiently

attractive.

Let

my

Readers

make

a

few

inquiries

as

I

have

done,

of

individuals

who

must

be

inti-

mately

acquainted

with

the

growth

and

manufac-

ture

of

French

Wines,

and

on

whose

veracity

they

can

depend,

and

they

will

find,

that

I

have

neither

made

any

exaggerated,

or

incorrect

statement,

of

the

prices

at

which

this

excellent

quality

of

Claret

is

to

be

purchased,

nor

of

the

component

parts

and

nature

of

its

composition

;

but,

on

the

contrary,

that

I

have

forborne

enlarging

on

some

facts,

too

disgusting

to

appear on

paper.

CHAMPAGNE.

As

is

the

case

with

several

of the

foreign

Wines

on

which

I

have

remarked,

one

of

the frauds

com-

mitted

on

the

Public with

this

costly

description

of

Wine,

through

the

attraction

of

cheap

prices,

is,

by

substituting

another

article

for

it,

(the

cost

of

which

is

very

considerably

lower,)

and

disposing

of

such,

as

the

real

Wine.

Gooseberry

Wine

(which,

though

genuine

in

it-

self,

and

bearing,

in

some

respects,

a

slight

re-

semblance,

yet

by

no

means

to

be

compared,