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5 Ditto, Ditto[83] 6,80 Small Beer, six samples 0,75 Ditto, Ditto[84] 1,28 FOOTNOTES: [48] See pages 119, &c. [49] Child, on Brewing Porter, p. 7. [50] Child, on Brewing Porter, p. 16. [51] Ibid. p. 16. [52] "Minutes of the Committee of the House of Commons, to whom the petition of several inhabitants of London and its vicinity, complaining of the high price and inferior quality of beer, was referred, to examine the matter thereof, and to report the same, with their observations thereupon, to the House. Printed by order of the House of Commons, April, 1819." [53] 56 Geo. III. c. 2. [54] Copied from the Minutes of the Committee of the House of Commons, appointed for examining the price and quality of Beer.--See pages 18, 29, 30, 31, 36, 43. [55] The average specific gravity of different samples of brown stout, obtained direct from the breweries of Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co. Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, and Co. Messrs. Henry Meux and Co. and from several other eminent London brewers, amounted to 1,022; and the average specific gravity of porter, from the same breweries, 1,018. [56] 2 Geo. III. c. 14, Sec. 2. [57] 59 Geo. III. c. 53, Sec. 25. [58] Copied from the Minutes of the Committee of the House of Commons, appointed for examining the price and quality of beer, p. 19, 29, 36, 37, 43. [59] See Minutes of the Committee of the House of Commons for reporting on the Price and Quality of Beer, 1819, p. 29. [60] 7 Geo. II. c. 19, Sec. 2. [61] See List of Publicans prosecuted and convicted for mixing table beer with strong beer, &c. p. 129. "Alum gives likewise a smack of age to beer, and is penetrating to the palate."--_S. Child on Brewing._ [62] Copied from the Minutes of the Committee of the House of Commons, appointed for examining the price and quality of beer, p. 38. [63] See Mr. Carr's evidence in the Minutes of the House of Commons, p. 32. [64] 42 George III, c. 38, Sec. 12. [65] See Minutes of the House of Commons, p. 32. [66] Copied from the minutes of the Committee of the House of Commons, appointed for examining the price and quality of Beer, 1819, p. 29, 36, 43. [67] See the Parliamentary Minutes, p. 94. [68] Mr. Barclay has not specified the relative proportions of brown stout and of bottling beer which are introduced at such an augmentation of expense. [
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