128 tobacco: its use and abuse. 



heel rests on the floor of her cellar, its top reaches out 

 of the roof. We speak a literal fact, as any one who 

 procures an order for the purpose may convince himself 

 by actual inspection. We are sure that the quantity of 

 tobacco which is required to supply it must amount to 

 some tons in the year. Nay, so considerable is it, that 

 ships are employed specially to bring over this tobacco, 

 and these ships have a dock of one acre in extent at the 

 port of London, entirely for their exclusive reception. 

 In a word, the Queen's tobacco-pipe, its dimensions, its 

 attendance, its supply, and consumption of tobacco, are 

 without any parallel in any age or nation." 



Dr. Budgett adds : " The great Tobacco Warehouse is 

 called the Queen's Warehouse, because it is rented by 

 Government for £14,000 a year. This warehouse has 

 no equal in any other part of the world. It is five acres 

 in extent.'' 



137. The following extract is from an article which 

 appeared in the 178th number of " Cassell's Illustrated 

 Family Paper," page 163. The statistics may be relied 

 on, seeing that they are derived from various authentic 

 sources, such as Ihe writings of Husson, De Wateville, 

 Soy, and other contributions by able authors, which will 

 be found in the "Annuaire de TEconomie Politique," as 

 well as obtained from official documents. If the report 

 respecting the Emperor be true, his example affords 

 another of the many melancholy proofs, which history 

 supplies, of the prostration of power and trust, to the 

 fallacious machinations of expediency — expediency which 

 upsets that righteous administration for upholding which 

 Kings are ordained to rule, and Princes to decree justice. 



