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This,
reduced
to
the
relative
strengths
of
ten,
seventeen,
twenty-five,
and
thirty-two
per
cent,
un-
derproof,
with
the
proportionate
quantities
of
Ale
or
Porter
jto
soften
it,
and
Extract
of
Grains
of
Paradise,
or
Capsicums,
to
give
it
the
appearance
of
a
greater
strength
than
it
possesses,
costs
10*.
;
9*.
5d.
;
8s.
9|rf.
;
and
8s.
4d.
per
gallon
;
and
my
Readers
may,
therefore,
(when
they
consider,
be-
sides,
that
the
incalculable
expenses
of
advertising,
&c.
are
not
reckoned
in
any
of
the
foregoing
ex-
amples,)
form
some
notion
of
the
extent,
to
which
the
tempting
opportunities
of
adulteration
are
pur-
sued
with
this
article,
and
the
profits
which
such
practices
enable
the
unfair
Dealer
to realize at
the
placarded
prices.
Without
enlarging,
however,
on
the
frauds
prac-
tised
with
Hollands,
by
the
admixture
of
a
pro-
portion
of two-thirds
of
Rectified
Spirits
to
one
of
Hollands,*
and
as
well
also
with
Compounds,
such
as
Peppermint,
Cloves,
fyc.
we
now
arrive
at
that
grand
climacteric
of
all
adulteration
in
the
ar-
ticle
of
Spirits,
viz.
BRITISH
GIN.
It
will
no
doubt
appear
an
extraordinary
cir-
cumstance,
to
such
of
my
Readers
as
are
unac-
quainted
with
the
nature
of
the
concerns,
at
which
*
Rectified
Spirits
costs
about
125.
6rf.
per
gallon,
if
reduced
to
proof.
Hollands
pays
the
same
duty
as
Brandy,
and
is
usually
to
D