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authorizing the Excise, for the future not 
to object to grocers selling Chicory, or 
mixing it with Coffee. The effect of this 
abrogation of the 3 Geo. IV., cap. 53, 
was speedily felt, and induced the impor¬ 
ters of Coffee in 1842 to complain of it 
to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. These 
representations however, unfortunately, had 
not the desired result, and the consequence 
is, that under the operation of the active 
demand on the part of the dealers, the 
produce of Native, duty free , Chicory, 
which Mr. McCulloch in 1842 estimated 
at 6 72 million lbs., has since at least 
doubled, and is to that extent now en¬ 
croaching on the consumption of Coffee." 
“And this is only what might have been 
expected, for while home-grown kiln-dried 
Chicory can be delivered at 2| per lb. to 
the wholesale dealers, the average price of duty- 
paid Coffee is from 7d. to 9|d. per lb. Ac¬ 
cordingly, even respectable grocers add at 
least 2-oz. of Chicory to 14 of Coffee,, while 
others make the mixture half and half. The 
most experienced officers of the Excise esti¬ 
mate the average proportion of Chicory in 
what is sold in the London shops for Coffee, 
at one third; in the manufacturing towns in 
the country it is said to be fully one half. 
What further portion of pure Chicory is else¬ 
where added to the mixture, it is impossible 
to say; but it is fact, that those descriptions 
of Coffee which will bear the greatest admix¬ 
ture of Chicorv, such as Costa Rica and Ja- 
vaj enjoy, on that account, a marked pre- 
