VI UA-58907690-1
TO
THE
READER.
SINCE
writing
the
accompanying
work,
an
alteration
in
the
cash
price
of
Gin,
from
the
Rectifiers
to
the
Trade,
has
taken
place.
The
scale,
however,
offered
to
the
notice
of
the
Public,
in
the
division,
which
more
imme-
diately
treats
on
the
article
of
Gin,
in
this
Treatise,
ap-
plies
equally
as
well,
in
respect
to
its
extensive
adultera-
tion
and
reduction,
as
though,
another
scale
was
ex-
hibited,
adapted
to
the
present
prices
which
are
quoted
for
it.
The
terms
which
the
Author
has
mentioned,
and
which
are
agreeable
to those,
at
the
time
this
work
was
commenced,
are,
for
Gin
twenty-two
per
cent,
under-
proof
9s.
4d.
and
for
the
article
at
seventeen,
per
cent,
un-
derproof
10s.
per
gallon.
The
recent
alteration
which
has
taken
place,
renders
the
cash
prices
from
the
Rectifiers
to
the
Trade,
for
the
former
strength
8s.
6d.
per
gallon,
for
the
latter
9s.
By
some
of
our
placarders
and
advertisers,
Gin
is
now
sold
at
the
low
price
of
5s.
4d.
per
gallon,
to
enable
them
to
do
which,
and
to
permit
of
its
being
vended
at
that
sum
per
gallon,
(allowing
for
the
sugar
and
etceteras,
used
in
sweetening
and
making
up,)
it
takes
sixty-Jour
gallons
and
a
half
of
water,
and,
further
to
admit
of
a
profit
of
only
6d.
per
gallon,
sixteen
gallons
more,
of
the
same
liquid,
making
a
total
of
eighty
gallons
and
a
half
of
water,
to
every
100
gallons
of
Gin
at
8s.
6d.
per
gallon.
This
cal-
culation
is
offered
to
the
Reader,
to
show,
that,
although
the
prices
which
relate
to
the
article
of
Gin
in
this
Treatise,
differ
from
those,
at
present
fixed
by
the
Rec-
tifiers,
yet
the
circumstance,
does
not
in
the
least
affect
the
general
statement
of
facts.