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15. Another rectifying Distillery, on a 
smaller scale. 
16. Another making and _ rectifying 
Distillery, on a large - scale; capital 
£300,000. 
17. London Genuine Wine Company, 
for importing and supplying Vintners 
and the Public in general, with Port, Ma- 
deira, and Sherry Wines, free from adul- 
teration; capital £500,000, in shares of 
50 each. 
18. Britannic and India Wine Com- 
pany; capital from £250,000, to 
£500,000, in shares. of £100 each. 
19. Genuine Wine Company ; capital 
£50,000. , 
20. London Subscription Wine Com- 
pany for supplying the Public with Fo- 
reign Wines of the first quality, for ready 
money; capital £50,000,in shares of £80. 
. | 21, Genuine Wine and Foreign -Spirit 
Company. 
22. The London British Vinegar Com- 
pany; capital’£100,000, in shares of £50 
each, with power to the Committee to 
mcrease the capital by the sale of addi- 
tional shares. 
23. Vinegar Manufactory Company; 
capital £50,000, in shares, of £25 each. 
24, Corn, Flour, and Provision Com- 
pany, upon a very large scale, with the 
view of supplying Government, &c. 
25. United Public Dairy, for the sale of 
milk, 
°26. New Medical Laboratory, for the 
preparation and sale of Genuine Medi- 
eines; capital £50,000, in shares of £50 
each. 
27. British Coal Company, capital 
£300,000, in shares of £50 each, with 
power to the Committee to increase the 
capital by the sale of additional shares. 
28. Newcastle and Sunderland Coal 
Company; capital £100,000, in shares of 
£50 each. 
29, Shields Coal Company. 
30. National Light and Heat Com- 
pany, by F. A. Winsor, 97 Pall Mall; ca- 
pital £1,000,000, in shares of £30 each. 
31. London Cloathing Company, for 
supplying the Army, Navy, and Pablie 
with Clothes; capital £100,000, in shares 
of £25 each. 
82, United Weollen’Company. 
$3. Linen Company for Commission 
Sales; capital £500,000, in shares of 
«£100 each. : 
34. London Commission Sale Come 
pany, for making advances on Produce 
and manufactured Goods, and selling 
them to advantage; capital £1,000,000, 
in shares of £50 each, 
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Danger of cleaning Bottles with Lead-shot. [March 1, 
$5. British Commission Company ; 
ant ig £1,000,000, in shares of £100 
each. 
36. Albion London Information Office, 
for Sale or Exchange of Estates, Manors, 
Livings, &c. the disposal of appointments . 
th practice in the liberal professions, 
Ge 
37. Company for purchasing Canal 
Shares, and lending Money for complet- 
ing Canals; shares of £10 each. i 
_ 38. British Copper Company; J. 
Jones, Lambeth. 
39. Cambrian Copper Company; ca- 
pital £100,000. 
40. Paper Manufacturing Company, 
by R. Dodd. 
41. The London Bank, by Mr. Brown 
of the Golden-lane Brewery; capital 
£5,000,000, in shares of £100 each; £5 
to be paid on subscribing. . 
49. National Deposit, Interest, and 
Credit Bank, by F. A. Winsor; capital 
£5,000,000, in £50shares; to commence 
business on the ist of January 1808. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazines 
SIR, . 
INING sometime ago at a friend’s 
house, when the wine and liquors 
were brought on the table, the discourse 
happened to turn upon the improvement 
these articles receive by long keeping; 
upon which I was invited to taste some 
Hollands recently taken from an ancient 
deceased relative’s cellar, supposed to 
be nearly thirty years old. A quantity 
of it bemg mixed in a tumbler with 
warin water and sugar, the whole in- 
stantly assumed a turbid milky appear- 
ance. Struck with the singularity of the 
circumstance, at my suggestion it was 
tried with some cold water tresh from the 
spring, when exactly the same phenome-~ 
non took place, which induced me to pro= 
nounce it to be occasioned by a quantity 
of lead dissolved in the Hollands, and 
which, in the mixture, had become de- 
composed by the alkaline and earthy salts — 
contained in the water. To be assured 
of this being the fact, we procured such 
‘tests as were to be obtained at the mo- 
ment; such as the alkaline, sulpburets, 
é&c. and on adding them to a portion of 
the Hollands, a copious dirty black pre= __ 
cipitate fell down, which had exactly the 
same appearance of that precipitate 
from acetite of lead by the same t 
Upon a further examination of the 
containing the liquor, a black 
was observed at the bottom, an 
neath eighteen or twenty 
