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cessity into a mere recommendation to use better articles ; as the 

 retailer can assert that his customers require the deterioration 

 of the article, being unwilling to give more than a certain 



owner was absent, and took samples of his goods for examination at the 

 hall. Foreseeing the result, he sent some of his particular friends to the 

 shops of the managers of the Company, to purchase the same articles. On 

 answering to the summons about his medicines, he said, that the samples 

 were not fairly taken from his shop, as the medicines were not finished 

 making, but that he had brought some with him, which he would stand by. 

 He then produced the samples bought out of their own shops, which they 

 immediately condemned. Upon this decision, he offered to bring forward 

 the parties, who were waiting at the door, to swear that these very medi- 

 cines had been bought at their own shops ; but they immediately made the 

 matter up. 



The Company also wished to supply the Royal Household ; but being dis- 

 appointed, and Mr. Malthus being appointed, they immediately visited his 

 shop, and condemned his medicines. 



Mr. Goodwin's case was different: he was a wholesale apothecary, and 

 manufacturing chemist; he also supplied the Royal African Company with 

 medicines for their forts, after much opposition from the Company of Apo- 

 thecaries. Dr. Shadwell having bought some small articles from him, which 

 were booked, the collecting clerk, at Christmas, inserted the amount in his list, 

 and called several times on the Doctor for the money, which was only a few 

 shillings ; vexed at the trouble given him for such a trifle, the collecting clerk 

 got into a passion, and the Doctor threatened vengeance. Upon which, on 

 the 10th June, 1727, the visiters came to Goodwin s house at Charing-Cross, 

 during his absence on 'Change, and burnt many of his articles in the street ; 

 told a person who came to buy some oleum anisi, that it was not good, 

 nor anything in the shop; and carried off, to justify their proceedings, some 

 emplastrum meliloti, which had been two or three years in Africa, and had 

 come back in a chest brought to be refitted. They then went to another shop 

 of his in Charles street, Westminster, and condemned the goods there, taking 

 away a chest of articles to be examined. Mr. Goodwin did not sit down 

 quietly under this injurious treatment, but appealed to the law, and recovered, 

 1 believe, 600/. damages. 



It further appears from these pamphlets, that after supplying the East India 

 Company for some years, the Apothecaries Company lost the supply, which 

 was given to Bevin and Company, of Lombard-street, and Johnson of Fen- 

 church-street. Upon which they procured a pamphlet to be written, entitled, 

 '' Frauds detected in Drugs," of which I have not been able to obtain a sight. 

 This appeal seems to have been successful, for they again obtained the supply 

 of the East India Company, which they still retain, although they have lately 

 lost that of the Navy, in consequence of the discussions, it is said, that took 

 place upon their unsuccessful attempt to procure the supply of the Army also. 

 It is probably on account of this loss, that Mr. Brande, the superintending 

 chemical operator, has published " The Origin of the various Establishments 

 for conducting Chemical Processes, and other Medicinal Preparations, at 

 Apothecaries' Hall;" and inserted the^ whole in the Quarterly Journal, as 

 being that which is most read among the higher classes of society, of authority 

 in the State. Whether this puff oblique will be as effectual as the former 

 pamphlet, remains to be seen. 

 The pamphlets alluded to are,— 



1. Monopoly made a Property; or, the Navy Surgeon's Memorial to the 

 managing Apothecaries in Black Friars. 1708. 8vo. pp. 7G. 



2. The Case of James Goodwin, Chyraist and Apothecary. 1727. Folio, 

 pp. 4, 



