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according
to
the
opinions
of
the
maker-up
as
to
which
answers
the
purpose
best;
their
properties
being
similar,
with
respect
to
their
giving
a
hot
taste
in
the
mouth,
which
passes
for
strength with
the
persons
imposed
upon.
Colouring
1
,
Colouring
consists
merely
of
a
preparation
of
S
o
burnt
sugar.
It
is
employed
to
bring
up
the
colour
of
Brandy
which
may
have
become
too
pale
by
the
V^
preceding
mixtures.
It
is
used
to
answer
the
same
end
with
Rum.
The
reasons
for
the
appli-
cation
of
sugar
will
be
seen
in
the
course
of
my
remarks.
My
Readers
being
thus
necessarily
informed
of
the
ingredients
which
compose
the
various
adul-
terations
of
Brandy,
after
a
few
further
remarks,
in
order
to
render
them
still
better
acquainted
with
the
nature
of
the
subject
on
which
I
am
treating,
I
will
offer
to
their
notice
such
examples
as
shall
clearly
prove
the
facts
I
have
advanced.
By
a
late
Act
of
Parliament
all
dealers
are
allowed
to
reduce
Brandy,
Rum,
Arrack,
Hol-
lands
&c,
to
any
degree
of
strength
not
less
than
seventeen
per
cent
underproof,*
by
Sykes's
Hy-
*
My
acquaintance
with
the
Wine
trade
has
been
very
ex-
tensive,
and
enables
me
to
state
that
I
have
never
known
any
of
those
individuals
who
carried
on
what
may
be
termed
the
more
respectable
business,
(that
is,
where
the
Wine
Merchant
depended
more
on
the
quality
of
his
article
than
on
any
extraordinary
cheap-
ness
in
price,)
to
keep
their
Brandies
and
Rums,
&c.
at
a
less
strength
than
six
or
eight
per
cent,
underproof,
although
they
were
allowed
by
the
Act
to
reduce
them
to
seventeen
percent,
un-
derproof.