y fraudulent brewers, when compared with the methods employed
by them for rendering beer noxious to health by substances absolutely
injurious.

To increase the intoxicating quality of beer, the deleterious vegetable
substance, called _cocculus indicus_, and the extract of this poisonous
berry, technically called _black extract_, or, by some, _hard multum_,
are employed. Opium, tobacco, nux vomica, and extract of poppies, have
also been used.

This fraud constitutes by far the most censurable offence committed by
unprincipled brewers; and it is a lamentable reflection to behold so
great a number of brewers prosecuted and convicted of this crime; nor is
it less deplorable to find the names of druggists, eminent in trade,
implicated in the fraud, by selling the unlawful ingredients to brewers
for fraudulent purposes.

_List of Brewers prosecuted and convicted from 1813 to 1819, for
receiving and using illegal Ingredients in their Brewings._[70]

Richard Gardner, brewer, for using adulterating ingredients, 100_l._,
judgment by default.

Stephen Webb and another, brewers, for using adulterating ingredients,
and mixing strong and table beer, verdict 500_l._

Henry Wyatt, brewer, for using adulterating ingredients, verdict 400_l._

John Harbart, retailer, for receiving adulterating ingredients, verdict
150_l._

Philip Blake and others, brewers, for using adulterating ingredients,
and mixing strong and table beer, verdict 250_l._

James Sneed, for receiving adulterating ingredients, 25_l._ and costs.

John Rewell and another, brewers, ditto, verdict 100_l._

John Swain and another, ditto, for using adulterating ingredients,
verdict 200_l._

John Ing, brewer, ditto, stayed on defendant's death.

John Hall, ditto, for receiving adulterating ingredients, 5_l._ and
costs.

John Webb, retailer, for using adulterating ingredients.

Ralph Fogg and another, brewers, for receiving and using adulterating
ingredients.

John Gray, brewer, for using adulterating ingredients, 300_l._ and
costs.

Richard Bowman, for using liquid in bladder, supposed to be extract of
cocculus, 100_l._

Richard Bowman, brewer, for ditto, 100_l._ and costs.

Septimus Stephens, brewer, for ditto, verdict 50_l._

James Rogers and another, brewer, for ditto, 220_l._ and costs.

George Moore, brewer, for using colouring, 300_l._ and costs.

John Morris, for using adulterating ingredients.

Webb and Ball, for using ginger, Guinea peppe