52,25
Gin (Hodges's,[102]) 3 samples, procured from retail dealers 48,25
Ditto (Ditto,)[102] procured from the manufacturer 52,35

FOOTNOTES:

[88] George III. c. xxviii. May 1818--"An Act for establishing the use
of Sikes's hydrometer in ascertaining the strength of spirit, instead of
Clark's hydrometer."

[89] Sixteen and a half per cent. proof, according to Sikes's
hydrometer.

[90] 30 Geo. III c. 37, Sec. 31.

[91] According to Clarke's hydrometer.

[92] Observations on Malted and Unmalted Corn, connected with Brewing
and Distilling, p. 167; and Shannon on Brewing and Distilling, p. 232,
233.

[93] Water.

[94] This operation forms part of the business of the so-called brewers'
druggists. It forms the article in their Price Currents, called _Spirit
Flavour_.

Wine lees are imported in this country for that purpose: they pay the
same duty as foreign wines.

[95] Observations on Malted and Unmalted Corn, connected with Brewing
and Distilling, p. 167.

[96] Apicius Redivivus, 2d edition, p. 480.

[97] Clark's hydrometer.

[98] 30 Geo. III. c. 37, Sec. 6.

[99] Shannon on Brewing and Distilling, p. 198.

[100] Ibid. p. 199.

[101] Repository of Arts, p. 350, Dec. 1819.

[102] Own experiment.

_Poisonous Cheese._

Several instances have come under my notice in which Gloucester cheese
has been contaminated with red lead, and has produced serious
consequences on being taken into the stomach. In one poisonous sample
which it fell to my lot to investigate, the evil had been caused by the
sophistication of the anotta, employed for colouring cheese. This
substance was found to contain a portion of red lead; a method of
sophistication which has lately been confirmed by the following fact,
communicated to the public by Mr. J. W. Wright, of Cambridge.[103]

"As a striking example of the extent to which adulterated articles of
food may be unconsciously diffused, and of the consequent difficulty of
detecting the real fabricators of them, it may not be uninteresting to
relate to your readers, the various steps by which the fraud of a
poisonous adulteration of cheese was traced to its source.

"Your readers ought here to be told, that several instances are on
record, that Gloucester and other cheeses have been found contaminated
with red lead, and that this contamination has produced serious
consequences. In the instance now alluded to, and probably in all other
cases