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that appears recently to have overtaken 
an article which, ever since 1784, has, 
more than any other, furnished our poli¬ 
tical economists with stilting instances in 
proof of the now generally received doc¬ 
trine, that every well considered reduction 
in the Import duties, will, by the increase 
in the consumption which follows it, even¬ 
tually compensate the revenue for any 
temporary sacrifice it may have submitted 
to in this process?’’ 
<£ The cause of that change is sufficiently 
notorious, and the history of it is this:- 
In Germany the root of the Chicorium 
Intybus , L. or Succory, a species of En¬ 
dive, indigenous also to our island, has 
for the last forty years been prepared and 
sold on a large scale as a cheap substitute 
for Coffee. From Germany it was, thus 
prepared, subsequently also introduced in¬ 
to this country ; but as a duty was levied 
upon it equal to that which Coffee paid, 
and as by 3 Geo. IV. cap. 53, the sale 
of any roasted vegetable substance in imi¬ 
tation of Coffee was, under a penalty of 
£50., restricted to persons not being dealers 
in Coffee; the interest of our grocers was 
not then enlisted in pushing it into any 
extensive use. The import duty on Foreign 
Chicory led, however, in time, to the cul¬ 
tivation of that root here, and when in 
this way a supply of it, free of any duty , 
Fad grown up, means were found in Au¬ 
gust, 1840, to procure a Treasury order 
