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part of the police and the revenue officers; 
but the only effectual remedy is to buy 
coffee before it is ground; and as a mill 
for grinding may be bought for a small 
sum, and coffee is so!d ready “roasted,' 
there is, in this way, no great difficulty in 
obviating adulteration. Those who use 
ground coffee will also be secure against 
fraud if they resort only to shops of the 
highest character. 
We observed in the former edition of this 
work, that “sound policy would seem to 
suggest that the duty on foreign coffee should 
be materiaily reduced; for though it be 
absolutely less now thah formerly. it amounts 
to 8 ,2/5d. per pound, being double that on 
coffee from a British possession. But its 
reduction to about 6d. per pound, at the 
same time that it. would allow Brazil and 
other foreign coffee to be freely entered 
for consumption in the event ot the sup¬ 
ply of British colonial coffee becoming de¬ 
ficient, rising in price, would leave a pro¬ 
tection of no less than 50 per cent, in 
favour of the latter ; which surely is as 
much as can be conceded with any due 
regard to the interests of the consumer." 
And we are glad to have to state that, 
in 1844, the duty on foreign coffee was 
reduced to 6 l/10d. per lb. 
Tne introduction of tea and coffee, ifc 
has been well remarked, “has led to the 
most wonderful change that ever took place 
in the diet of modern civilised nations, 
