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metropolis, prepared for the pur- 

 poses of deception in the most 

 noxious manner. He could not 

 be accused of a desire to inflame 

 the minds of the jury by exciting 

 their private feelings, because no 

 end could be gained by such an 

 attempt. He went for positive 

 penalties, and the verdict could 

 be given only according to the 

 limits of legal enactment. He 

 trusted he should be enabled to 

 trace to the possession of the 

 defendant 80 lbs, weight of the 

 commodity he had been describ- 

 ing ; and if so, he should entitle 

 the crown to penalties amounting 

 in the whole to 840/., a sum by no 

 means large, when compared with 

 the enormity of the offence. 



Thomas Jones deposed, that 

 he knew a person of the name of 

 Proctor, and was employed by 

 him at the latter end of April, 

 1817, to gather a quantity of 

 black and white thorn leaves. 

 Sloe leaves were the black thorn. 

 He also knew a person of the 

 name of John Malins; he was 

 the son of William Malins, a 

 coffee-roaster, in Northumber- 

 land-alley. He did not at first 

 know the purpose for which the 

 leaves were gathered, but after- 

 wards learnt they were to make 

 imitation tea. Witness did not 

 himself gather more than a 

 hundred and a half of these 

 leaves; but he employed another 

 person, of the name of John Bag- 

 ster, to gather them. After the 

 leaves were gathered, they were 

 first taken to his house, and after- 

 wards to Mr. J. Malins', in 

 Goldstone-street. He was to 

 have 2</. per pound for gathering 

 them. In Goldstone-street they 

 were manufactured. They were 



first boiled, and then the water 

 was squeezed from them in a 

 press. They were afterwards 

 placed over a slow fire upon 

 sheets of copper to dry ; while on 

 the copper they were rubbed 

 with the hand to curl them. At 

 the time of boiling there was a 

 little verdigrise put into the water 

 (tliis applied to green tea only). 

 After the leaves were dried, they 

 were sifted ; this was to separate 

 the thorns and stalks from them. 

 After they were sifted, more 

 verdigrise and some Dutch pink 

 powder were added ; this made 

 them resemble green tea, and the 

 work was finished. The Dutch 

 pink was a hard substance, and 

 was scraped with a knife ; he did 

 not know its component parts. 

 It was shook up with the tea; 

 and, together with the verdigrise, 

 gave the leaves that yellowish 

 green bloom observable on 

 genuine tea. They had no parti- 

 cular name for this process, ex- 

 cept giving the bloom. The 

 black tea went through a similar 

 course as the green, except the 

 application of Dutch pink ; a 

 little verdigrise was put in in the 

 boiling, and to this was added a 

 small quantity of logwood to dye 

 it, and thus the manufacture was 

 complete. The drying operation 

 took place on sheets of iron. 

 Knew the defendant, Edward 

 Palmer, who kept a grocer's shop 

 in Red Lion-street, Whitechapel. 

 He took some of the mixture he 

 had been describing to his shop. 

 The first time he took any was in 

 May, 1817. In the course of 

 that month, or the beginning of 

 June, he took four or five 7-pound 

 parcels. He did not see Mr. 

 Palmer, at the time he took the 



parcels, 



