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71. The following instructions for the making of 

 porter, will clearly show what sort of stuff is sold at 

 public-houses in London ; and we may pretty fairly 

 suppose that the public-house beer in the country is 

 not superior to it in quality, " A quarter of malt, with 

 these ingredients, will make jive barrels of good por- 

 ter. Take one quarter of high-coloured malt, eight 

 pounds of hops, nine pounds of treacle, eight pounds 

 of colour, eight pounds of sliced liquorice-root, two 

 drams of salt of 'tartar, two ounces of Spanish-liquor- 

 ice, 'and half an ounce of capsicum" The author 

 says, that he merely gives the ingredients, as used by 

 many persons. 



72. This extract is taken from a book on brewing, 

 recently published in London. What a curious com- 

 position ! What a mess of drugs ! But, if the brew- 

 ers openly avow this, what have we to expect from the 

 secret practices of them, and the retailers of the arti- 

 cle ! When we know, that beer-doctor and brewers'- 

 druggist are professions, practised as openly as those 

 of bug-man and rat-killer, are we simple enough to 

 suppose that the above-named are the only drugs that 

 people swallow in those potions, which they call pots 

 of beer ? Indeed, we know the contrary ; for scarcely 

 a week passes* without witnessing the detection of 

 some greedy wretch, who has used, in making or in 

 doctoring" his beer, drugs, forbidden by the law. And, 

 it is not many weeks since one of these was convict- 

 ed, in the Court of Excise, for using potent and dan- 

 gerous drugs, by the means of which, and a suitable 

 quantity of water, he made two buts of beer into three. 

 Upon this occasion, it appeared that no less than nine- 

 ty of these worthies were in the habit of pursuing the 

 same practices. The drugs are not unpleasant to the 

 taste ; they sting the palate : they give a present re- 

 lish : they . communicate a momentary exhilaration : 

 but, they give no force to the body, which, on the con- 

 trary, they enfeeble, and, in many instances, with 

 time, destroy ; producing diseases from which the 

 drinker would otherwise have been free to the end 

 of his days. 



