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which
it
is
expedient,
that
every
one
should be
made
acquainted.
Many
people
imagine
that,
by
pur-
chasing"
Wines,
(no
matter
of
whom,)
so
long
as
they
are
in
docks,
where
there
is
no
opportunity
for
adulteration,
they
must
necessarily
be
of
good
quality.
This
is
by
no
means
the
case,
and
I
firmly
believe,
several
persons
have found
it
so
to
their
cost;
because,
it
often
happens,
with
the
description
of
Wines,
for
which
such
low
prices
are
quoted,
that
the
quality,
even
of
such
as
are
made
up,
and
manufactured
of
spurious
ingredients
at
home,
is
superior
in
body
and
taste.
At
the
time
the
last
reduction
in
the
duties
took
place,
some
hundreds
of
pipes
of
Wine,
lying
in
the
London
Docks, and
never
considered
of
value
sufficient,
to
pay
the
then
rate
of
duty,
viz.
64/.
per
pipe,
were
immediately
bought
np
by
interested
individuals,
for
a
purpose
by
no
means
difficult
to
understand.
The
characters
of
some
of
these
Wines,
were
such,
as
to
hold
out
the
presumption,
that
if
they
were moved,
and
the
lees
disturbed
in
them,
their
transit
to
something
of
the
nature
of
vinegar,
would
be
extremely
rapid
;
others
con-
sisted
of
nothing
more
than
a
compound
of
thin
meagre
flavorless
Wine,
with
a
large
portion
of
bad
Brandy,
the
whole,
however,
to
be
purchased
for
a
very
few
pounds,
and
of
parties
glad
to
get
rid
of
them
on
any
terms.
Lately,
and
only
since
the
dis-
turbances
have
taken
place
in
Portugal,
a
vast
quan-