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Wine,
was
clearly
established
to
his
conviction.
The
way
in
which
he
had
obtained
room
in
his
Sherry,
to
admit
so
much
Cape
Wine,
without
an
increase
appearing,
must
have been
by
his
not
drawing
permits
for
the
quantities
of
Sherry,
or
any
other
White
Wines
(not
being
French
or
Cape)
which
he
had
occasion
to
send
out,
between
the
period
at
which
the
Excise
Officer
had
sur-
veyed
his
stock,
and
the
time
when
the
mixing
took
place,
together
with
the
assistance
afforded
him,
as
being
an
advertiser,
by
the
quantities
he
had
sold
under
one
dozen.
That
this
system
of
adulteration
had
been
fre-
quently
practised
before,
appeared
also
on
the
trial;
and
it
may
readily
be
inferred
therefrom,
(not
to
mention
any
thing
of
the
extent
to
which
it
is
carried,
by
others,
through
the
medium
of
vats,
much
more
capacious
in
size
than
those
used
by
Oldfield,)
that
the
profits
are
sufficiently
adequate
to
occasion
the
risk
of
a
casual
detection,
and
penalty,
of
no
very
great
consequence,
particularly,
as
there
are
several
ways
known
to
the
skilful,
of
preventing
its
publicity
;
or
should
any
doubt
exist,
on
that
which
I
have
thus
advanced,
a
further
insight
into
the
subject,
will,
I
think,
easily
remove
it.
It
may,
perhaps,
be
said,
that
to
allow
of
any
opportunity
for
carrying
on
the
mixing
of
Wines,
(or
at
all
events
in
such
large
quantities
as
by
the
defendant
Oldfield,)
the
exposure
is
too
certain,
and
the
temptation
of
receiving
half
the
penalty,