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not
appear
as
below
the
standard
prescribed
by
Act
of
Parliament,
from
the
time
it
would
otherwise
consume,
it is
only
in
the
event
of
an
information,
or
when
the
Exciseman
has
any
very
great
sus-
picion,
that
he
makes
a
trial
of
such
strengths,
by
the
hydrometer
;
or
if,
from
any
suspected
spirit
having
been
unlawfully
sweetened,
he
can
obtain
no
satis-
factory
result
by
that
instrument,
of
ascertaining
its
real
strength
by
distillation;
which
is
the
only
pro-
cess,
under
the
circumstances
I
have
mentioned,
by
which
it
can
be
truly
discovered.
Should
the
officer
be
able
to
find
that
a
Spirit
has
been
sweetened,
which
has
not
been
admitted
by
him
to
be
either
a
British
or
a
Foreign
Compound
(independently
of
a
penalty,
should
he
find
it
of
an
illegal
strength^,
he
can
enforce
one,
which,
by
a
late
Act,
has
become
attached
to
all
Traders
who
are
detected
of
effecting
this
alteration,
with
such
Spirituous
Liquors
as
do
not
rank
under
the
head
of
Compounds.
The
com-
paratively
small
quantities,
however,
of
Brandy
,
&c.
which
the
Retailers
manage
to
have
on
hand,
made
up
in
a
sweetened
form,
or
of
an
illegal
strength,
when
the
officer
surveys
their
stock,
render
any
detection
extremely
rare.
The
method
therefore,
of
making
up
sixty-three
gallons
of
Brandy
without
the
possibility
of
its
strength
being
proved
by
the
hydrometer,
and
to
answer
the
end,
of
concealing
in
some
degree
such
of
the
ingredients
as
would
otherwise
be
o
too
powerful,
is
given
in
the
following