120 TEA CONSUMPTION IN ENGLAND. 



that wretch who rolls in his carriage, avd spends his life 

 in idleness, corrupting and debauching all who he comes 

 across by his bad example ; and is a curse and a stigma 

 on his species ? 



Of England and Ireland's 30,000,000 of inhabitants, 

 say 



500,000 drink tea twice a-day, or 15 Ibs. yr. each, 7,500,000 Ibs. 

 4,000,000 " once " 7 " 30,000,000 " 



12,000,000 " once a week 1 Ib. per annum, 12,000,000 " 



Total, 49,000,000 Ibs. 



This shows that only 4,500,000 enjoy the daily use 

 of tea, that the other 25,000,000 can have no tea except 

 in case of sickness or on festivities. I may say, and 

 would be near the fact, if I stated that 4,000,000 of tea 

 drinkers alone consumed the 50,000,000 Ibs. There 

 are very few tea drinkers in England or Ireland, who do 

 not take tea morning and evening. Coffee is used more 

 in coffee houses than tea ; the coffee is Id. to IT] pence 

 per cup ; tea, 2 pence to 2 pence per cup, both bad as 

 bad can be. The coffee in many .cases is made from 

 crisped peas, toasted bread, even of things disgusting to 

 mention. Tea is equally adulterated, or substitutes 

 used equally dangerous to health, in all the London 

 coffee houses. All that chicanery and fraud in the tea 

 and coffee trade, in tea and coffee houses, which <rces to 

 injure the health and constitutions of so many citizens, 

 could at any time be easily remedied in the last one 

 hundred years, can be easily remedied to day, if people 

 will inquire, and be not ignorant. 



