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order
to
refine,
and
reduce
them
to
ti
fit
state
for
bottling,
at
once
finishes
the
manufacture
of
these
delectable
mixtures.
That
one
of
the
chemical
agents,
which
is
used
if
not
most
carefully
applied,
must
be
highly
delete-
rious,
I
am
satisfied
of,
from
my
being
already
ac-
quainted with
two
instances,
in
which
some
indivi-
duals
were
made
ill,
and
the
cheap
Champagne
they
had
been
drinking,
found,
on
analization,
to
contain
a
portion
of
Lead,
in
its
worst
form
;
and
were
the
cases,
which
must
frequently,
in
a
greater,
or
less
degree,
occur,
to
be
made
Public,
by
the
sufferers
themselves,
a
most
beneficial
result
would,
proba-
bly,
ensue
to
the
community
at
large.
The
prices
paid
to
the
Frenchmen,
for
these
two
descriptions
of
prime
Champagne,
is
at
the
rate
of
about
eighteen
francs,
or
15*.
per dozen,
the
cost
of
the
bottles,
case,
and
freightage,
at
about
5s.
6d.
and
the
duty,
and
landing
charges,
19*'.
per
dozen
more,
making
a
total
cost
of only
39*.
6d.
per
dozen.
The
profits,
I
leave
my
Readers
to
es-
timate.
Before,
however,
I
conclude
this
Treatise,
and
in
order
to
leave
no
part
of
the
ground
unturned,
it
may,
perhaps,
be
necessary
to
render
some
ge-
neral
account
of
the
method,
by
which
several
of
our
Advertising
Dealers
are
able
to
placard
up
other
cheap
Wines,
in
dock,
because
it
is
a
scheme
which
conceals
an
additional
imposture,
with