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quarter of brown malt ; which porter they sold for 

 twenty-three shillings per barrel. From my own 

 personal knowledge, a London brewer, half a cen- 

 cury since, drew from a quarter of the best Herts 

 white malt, only two barrels of fine ale, which he 

 sold to publicans at forty shillings, and to private 

 houses at two guineas, per barrel. It was perhaps 

 a singular instance, he used no adulteration what- 

 ever. The immense lengths which have been drawn 

 since, both in the porter and pale beer brewery, are 

 an abundant proof of the virtue of taxation, in im- 

 proving the art, by exciting the chemical skill of 

 the brewer. A late observation of Mr. Woodhouse, 

 in parliament, is the best commentary on this : the 

 honourable gentleman observed, that notwithstand- 

 ing the vast increase of population, the consumption 

 of malt has not increased, during upwards of the 

 last thirty years : and the patriotic Lord Teynham, 

 at a late meeting in London, on the malt and 

 beer duties, those disgraces to our national finance, 

 repeated the following extraordinary fact ; at the 

 present moment there is a less consumption of malt, 

 by two-thirds, than there was in 1773 ! Mr. Ma- 

 berly's motion for changing the duties, merits the 

 most serious attention from every Englishman who 

 values his own, or the interests of his country. 



Having thus cleared the way, I proceed, address- 

 ing myself particularly to those who already do, or 

 seriously purpose to brew their own beer ; assuring 

 them of the vastly superior salubrity of the pure 

 extract of malt and hops, over the most luscious, 

 stimulating, and palateable compound, however sci- 

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