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their Royal Highnesses the Duke 

 of Cambridge and his bride, the 

 Princess of Hesse, on board. 

 Their Royal Highnesses reached 

 London yesterday. The royal 

 couple had a rough passage from 

 I Calais, and the Duchess was 

 much indisposed. They arrived 

 at Cambridge-house a little before 

 six, and were received with accla- 

 mations by a large assemblage of 

 spectators. The Landgrave of 

 Hesse-Cassel (the father of the 

 Duchess) arrived at the same 

 time, and was accommodated 

 with a neighbouring house in 

 South Audley- street. The Duke, 

 immediately after dinner, went 

 to pay his dutiful respects to his 

 Royal mother. 



Board of Excise, May 27. 



Selling Ground Beans and Peas 

 for Coffee. 



Rex V. Samuel Hallet. — The 

 defendant Hallet, a grocer and 

 dealer in tea and coflPee, residing 

 in New Compton-street, St. 

 Giles's in-the-Fields, was charged 

 with having seven pounds of the 

 imitation of coffee in his posses- 

 sion, &c, 



Charles Henry Lord, an officer 

 of the Excise, being sworn, 

 stated, that he and Spencer, an 

 officer, went on the 2St]i of Feb. 

 last to the shop of the defendant, 

 and asked for an ounce of coffee, 

 at three halfpence per ounce. He 

 received the same, and having 

 paid for it left the shop. He 

 examined the same at a house 

 near where the defendant lived, 

 and found it was part coffee and 

 part the imitation coffee, or 

 what the defendant called veget- 

 able powder, which is nothing 

 jnore nor lew than burnt beans 



and peas ground in a mill. He 

 went back to the defendant's 

 shop, and asked him to show him 

 some Is. coffee, not ground, 

 which, upon examination, he 

 found genuine. He then told 

 the defendant that he suspected 

 that he commonly dealt in adul- 

 terated coffee, and asked him if 

 he had any of the vegetable 

 powder in his house : he replied, 

 that he had a small quantit}', and 

 took a canister from a shelf, which 

 contained 6 and a half pounds of 

 the vegetable powder. He (wit- 

 ness) then searched the place, 

 and found some other coffee 

 mixed with the vegetable powder, 

 which was in a state apparently 

 prepared for sale. 



Spencer, an officer of the 

 excise, corroborated the above 

 evidence. 



The 6 lb. and a half were a 

 mixture of beans and coffee, and 

 the quarter of a lb. was the same 

 kind of stuff ground and ready 

 for sale. 



The defendant said, that he 

 did not know he was acting con- 

 trary to the excise laws by keep- 

 ing " vegetable powder" in his 

 possession, that he was obliged to 

 sell the same at a low price, or 

 he should lose his custom. 



A commissioner stated, that 

 he could not be ignorant that he 

 was acting illegally ; that by sell- 

 ing such abominable stuff, he 

 was injuring the health of the 

 public ; and the Board of Excise 

 was determined to punish those 

 found dealing in the illicit manner 

 described, with the utmost seve- 

 rity. 



The defendant was convicted 

 in the penalty of 50/. 



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