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107

either

in

cost

or

actual

quality,

to

the

real

and

ge-

nuine

Champagne,)

is

usually

employed

as

the

sub-

stitute

;

but, as

this

may

be

said

to

form

the

chief

imposition,

with regard

to

the

vending

cheap

Sparkling

Champagne,

from

the

premises

of

the

Dealer,

my

principal

object,

in

the

first

place,

will

be

to

explain

the

manner

in

which

this

Gooseberry

Wine

is

admitted

into

the

stocks,

even

of

our

largest

advertising

and

placarding

concerns,

and

sold

from

thence

as

genuine

Sparkling

Champagne,

and

afterwards

proceed

to

expose

the

admirable

basis

from

which

the

Sillery

and

Still,

together

with

the

Sparkling

Champagnes,

are

puffed

off

to

so

great

an

advantage,

as

being

in

the

London

Docks.

It

is

no

very

difficult

matter

to

suppose

that

many

of

my

Readers

would

have

no

ob-

jection,

occasionally,

to

drink

Gooseberry

Wine,

when

that

Wine

is

really

fine

and

of

good

quality,

yet,

very

few,

I

imagine, with

their

eyes

open,

would

quietly

submit

to

pay

treble

its

value,

be-

cause

sold

under

the

title

and

form

of

cheap

Cham-

pagne.

The

disclosures,

therefore,

which

I

am

about

to

make

with

respect

to

it,

will,

I

trust,

prove

amusing,

if

not

serviceable,

to

those

who

have

hitherto

so

easily

suffered

the

money

to

be

taken

out

of

their

pockets,

only

to

fill

those

of

the

advertiser

of

cheap

Wine.

It

is

well

known

as

a

fact,

to

many

in

the

trade,

that,

at

this

time,

large

parcels

of

Champagnes

are

lying

in

the

docks,

in

the

names

of

certain

individuals

in

London,

which,