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PROSPECTUS OF THE LONDON WINE COMPANY,
No. 141,' FLEET-STREET,
To Commence on THORSDA Y NEXT, 29th NOVEMBER.
irT PON the announcement of an Undertaking,
Ille .of no ordinary magnitude,• the Propeietorsfeetit proper
to submit to the consideration of the Public the following view
of its objects and arrangements :
The LONDON WINE COMPANY, after having occu-
pied the greater part of the present year in building and fitting-
up appropriate Premises, take leave to announce their, inteetion.
of commencing Business on the 29th Instant- These Premises -
are situated in the extensive Court, the entrance to which is by
the Gateway, 141, FLEET-STREET ; and comprehending
the whole of the inner. Court, are formed upon a scale fully ade-
quate- to the transaction of business of the utmost magnitude.—
The Cellets, which are peculiarly dry and spacious, are at pre-
sent stocked, and will always contain froth 30,000 to 40,000
Dozens of toe choicest Wines, of every class and Country.
But although this Company ftelit necessary thus to-conform
with the 'usual mode of giving publicity to the nature and ex-.
tent of their Establishment, they would rather invite direct and
personal examination of its merits, as they ann at no other pre-
ference than that which they may be really found to deserve ;
and having taken the utmost care- to be furnished with none
but genuine Wines,-Of the best flavour and quality, they offer
that invitation with peculiar confidence. As they cannot, how-
ever, calculate upon general attention to any invitation or ad-
dress on mere anonytnous authority, especially after the fre-
quent delusions to which the Public have been subjected, the
Company .think it proper to declare, that with them originated,
and by them is at present conducted, the LONDON GE-
NUINE TEA COMPANY, 23, 'LUDGATE-HILL, with
all its extensive ramifications. The success of this Company is
confessedly without Parallel in-the 'annals of trade. }or al-
though it commenced business so late as 1818, it is at preseet,
notwithstanding the importance and respectability of its com-
petitors, at the head of the Tea Trade ;—lts utility is indeed
admitted, and its establishment complete.
To those, then, who, during the existence of ' that Company,
have thought proper to honour it with their patronage, the Pro-
prietors feel assured that they may refer on this occasion for the
superior character of their articles, and the consistent rectitude
of their dealings ; and' resolving to make the same system the
rule of their conduct in their new Establishment, they cannot
doubt of success.
Hut having sensibly felt the good effect of that system, 'it
would be a dereliction of the duty which they owe to the. Public,
as well as of the duty which they owe to themselves, to hazard
`their obvioui interest by any departure from its principle, or by
any relaxation of its character. Looking, indeed, to permanent.
reputation, which is essential to permanent profit, they cannot
allow any temporary expedient to interfere with their purpose.
Of course, then, they can never descend to obtrude any such
promises as daily appear in the imposing placards which are so
ostentatiously, exhibited in almost every thoroughfare in town,
with regard to " Cheap Wines," those %Vines being offered at a
price, for which they could not possibly be sold, were they really
of the quality or character which. they purport to possess.—
Ifut the solicitude of the London Wine Company shall be, in
their new Undertaking, what it has uniformly been in the Tea
Trade, namely,—to render their Stock comparatively cheap
rather by the superior quality of that - Stock, Wan by disposing
of an inferior article at a lotv price, which at any price mast be
dear to the consumer.
Thus, while the London Wine Company disclaim all affecta-
tion, their object being to establish an equitable reciprocity by
securing a fair article for the Public, with a fair profit for theme
selves, the Proprietors hope to reduce that system of imposture,
which under the alluring guise of cheapness has been too long
prevalent; and thus, to accomplish that with respect to Wines,
which they unquestionably effected with respect to Teas.
The lamentable practice of adulterating Wines, has, unfor-
tunately; gone to •a most alarming excess of late years; and to
the very considerably augmented importation of what are term-
ed Cape" Wines, that adulteration is principally to be attributed.
The facilities, indeed, which these Wines, both red and white,
afford to the adepts in such reprehensible practices, are becoine
so very glaring, while the quality of those Wines is so notori- -
ous4 bad, that the London Wine Company have determined
at the outset that on no consideration shall Cape Wines ever be
admitted into their Cellars.
The London Wine Company are amply supplied with Ports
of the generally esteemed best vintages, among which they have
a large Stock that has been from 4 to. 32 years in bottle ; while,
to insure a supply of the finest .FRENCH WINES, they have
had a special Agent in that country upon whose skill and in-
dustry they can confidently rely, from the Wines which he has
-already forwarded.
But since this establishment has been in contemplation ; and
especially since preparations have commenced fa: bringing it to
maturity, the Company have availed themselves of every op-
portunity that offered, for selecting the oldest and finest Wines
from the cellars of the most eminent merchants in the City.
They have happily too met with occasions,
.peculiarly favour-
able to their object, among merchants retiring from business,
and private gentlemen about to break up their establishments;
find there is scarcely any eminent shipper, for the last thirty
years, froth whose importations the Company have net made
purchases, under the guidance of the most competent judges
of Nines, Vhose advice and aid the Proprietors have engaged
in the conduct of their new Establishment.
The London Wine Company will allays keep a Stock of
Foreign Spirits, which may be depended upon as being of g-
nuine and superior qualities, and which will be sold at equi-
table Prices, both wholesale and retail.
Such are the grounds upon which the Proprietors of this
Company take leave to solicit the patronage of the Public.
The character of the London Genuine Tea Company affords,
it is presumed, a sufficient guarantee to gentlemen resident in
the Country, or to families occasionally visiting Town, for the
punctual and faithful execution of any orders with which they
may be plbased to favour the London Wine Company.
This Company think it proper to state, that they can execute
no orders- for less than one dozen of Wine.
The following is a Statement of the Company's Wines, with
• their Prices :
Fine Port (old in the wood) . per dozen 42s
Ditto, warranted vintage 1815 (ditto) . . 46s
Crusted Bottled Port e ; . 54s to 72s
Superior old ditto, 5 to 8 years in bottle . 72s to 84s
Ditto, 8 to -.:.`e ditto . 84s to 6 -Guineas
Old Port in wood . . • pet pipe X9O to £126
Fine old Sherry • . per dozen 46s
Superior old Pale ditto - , . 's4s to 60s
Particularly soft-flavoured Amontillado . 60s to 65s
Curious old Sherry, 16 years in beak ' . • 6 Guineas
Fine old Sherries in wood . per pipe £95 to X 126
Fine West India Nladeira • . per dcien 50s to 60s
East India ditto, . . . 70s to 84s
Most cuiloas ditto, 6 to 16 years in bottle 6 to 10 Guineas
Madelras in wood . . per pipe £llO to £126
Very fine Teneriffe , . per dozen 42s to 4(s
Bucellas • • • • 48s
Calcavella • . . . 45s
Lisbon . • • • • 45s
&c. &c.
-- - FRENCH WINES.
Light-fia,voured Claret . . . per, dozen 72s
,
Very fine Clare: . . . . 90s
Clarets, first growth, 3/argot and Lafitte . £to £5 les
Latour
. , 5 Guineas
• •
White and Red Hermitage . . . 5 Guineas
Saeterne . . , . . 75s to 90s
Baisac • • • - • . 7.5 s to 90s
Cod Rotie . . . . . £5 10s.
Frontign ac • . . • . . £4
Champagne • • • • 90s to 7 Guineas
uperior curious Burgundy . . , . sto 7 Guineas
deck . . - • • • . • . 4to 8 Guineas
3leeelle . . .. . . fiOs to 7'28
•
An Agent will be appointed in every Principal Town, but
no application, will be:eceivett unless the postage is paid. •

•

-Mr.. EDITOII-Chauce lately threw in my way
a small Volume, entitktd " A Practical Grammar of the nig-
lish Language, by the Rev; •pAviD BLAIR," which I care-
lessly opened at pages 92 and 93 on the Article " Tautology."
It is curious enough to observe, that in the list of improprie-
ties given by this Author in the pages-before alluded to, bow
much he appears to. differ .from Writers who have pfeceded
him, and whose works, there can belittle question, bay?. tended
gregly to foral the genius and structitre of our Language. It
has been asserted, and I believe wit`: great truth,' that our pre-
sent translation of the Bible is a fine specimen of the genuine
English 'tongue, whether • considered in relation to_the struc-
ture of, thOsentences, or choice of the expressions it contains.--
The general acknowledgment .of .the unrivalled beauty, sim-
plicity, . and energy of its composiiion' , may be considered as a
pretty evident proof of this assertion, and I fancy there 2.. e but
fetv.who would wish to set alterat44.7is in i:s style Whether
or •not the Rev. David Blair be one of that number, I can-
not say; though it is very clear that many- of what he terms
improprieties occur in the sacred volume passim. •
It is to be remarked with regard to Tautology, that repeti-
tions, even of words, when they bring additional energy to the
sentence, cannot be classed, properly speaking, wider that, head ;
they may be compared to blows, which, when repeated, give to
matter,-an additional impetus. Can any one be inseessible to
the force of the repetition in the following sentences ?

• O earth ! earth ! earth ! hear the voice of the
For mine's beyond beyond (comparative impatience)—Shaks.
Cymbeline.
Te, dulcis conjux, te solo in littore secum,
Te, veniente die, te, decedents, canebat.—Virg. Georgica.,
I fled and cricd.out death ;
Hell trembled a the hideous name, and sighed

From all her naves, and back resounded Death.—Milton.
Neither can a word, when it adds a more decisive clearness to
the sentence, and prevents a question, be termed tautological.
Expletives, which are intimately connected in different forms
and degrees with the respective genius of every language, as
far as I lcnow of, cannot, I conceive, come under the imputa-
tion of being tautological.
In fact all irregularities in language, provided they are
sanctioned by custom, must be as regular and proper as regu-
larities themselves ; custom of course is decided by the autho-
rities of Authors, whose works are held in repute.
Before I copy for you the list of the Rev. D. Blair's excep-
tionable phrases, 1 will merely say, that the words again,
back, np, down, &c., not only in some cases convey to my
mind a fresh, an& consequently distinct idea ; but that some-
times they appear to extend, and amplify the idea given by the
verb, with which they are conjoined. The few quotations,
Which are inserted in opposition to D. Blair's list, might with
facility have been multiplied, had not some regard have been
shewn to brevity and the patience of your Readers.
But to proceed with Mr. Blair's instances of error, " The
verb " tu returi," signifies to " go" or " come back," or
" go" or " came again :" yet we sometimes hear and read,
" return back" and ." return again," and even return back
again." Rev. D. Blair.
"igain is not always used as signifying repetition ; for " it
serves to mark opposition or contrariety, transition to a new
consideration, or to an event in succession." Dr. Johnson.
' Behold yon mountain's hoary height,
Made higher with new mounts of snow;
digain, behold the winter's weight
Oppress the lab'ring woods below. Dryden.

Who art thou that answerest again? Rom. 9. 20:

In neither of these cases is repetition implied by " again"
Bask •' to the place from whence one came." Dr. Johnson.
And he turned himself 'about from them and wept and re-
turned to them again. Genesis, 42. 24.
And sent forth the dove, which returned not again. to him
any more.—Gen. viii. 12:
They turned back again from pursuing him.-2 Chron.
xviii.. 32.

It tells him thou returnest again.—Page 141 of a late work,
called Rouge. et Noir.
Question—Did he return only half-way, or did he return
Lath ?

To converse means to talk together, and therefore it is wrong
to say they were conversing together.—Rev. D.• Blair.
Now, as a person may converse either by writing, by an in-
terpreter, by signs at a distance, or by speaking together, one
may surely inquire, " did they, converse together or• by an in-
terpreter ?"

. .
• . ,
• . .
To /id/ includes the idea of down, as to rise does that of up:
for we cannot say to rise down, or to fall up.' It is improper
therefore, because unnecessary, to say fall down or rise up :
and for the same reason raise up, 10 up, ascend ,up, and sink
down, descend 6lown,plunge clown, are wrong.—Rey D. Blair.
-But down they All
BY thousands.—Milton.
Down he.fdl.--Chaucer.
• And he fell down before him.—'.latthew. xviii.. 26 and 29. •
So down he fell, that th' earth him underneath
Did groan.=Fairy Queen.
Now morn with rosy light had streaked the sky,
-Up rose the sun,. and up rose Emily.—Dryden. - .•
rise Judgment against this generation,
xxis.
Slbali
shall condemn it.—New l'estament.—See slab Numbers,
xxiii.
It is true, may it be said, that he rose from his seat, but not
up. Allowing this language to be correct, to rise must mean
one thing, and to rise no another.
Raised him an the third day from the dead.—New Test. See
also 2 Sam. 12: 11. -•
Lift up your heads, 0 ye Gates ! and be ye lilt up ye ever-
lasting doors !---Psalms.
Your guests are coning ;
Lift up your countenance.—Winter's Tale. Shaks.
Lift up the writings of men above it.7--.1-looker..
See to what a godlike height
' - The Roman virtues life up mortal man.:-Addison's Catc.
Lr/•red irl, by success.—ActerbAq.
Up is sometimes, emphatically added to 4.—nr. johnsori.
See also Dr. Iln!fl, Illair's well known skrmons, Vol. 1., page
126, line 14, p. 139, 1. 4, and p. 140, 1. 2. •
Surely one may say with pr ..can lip it, but I cant
aopriety,.
lift it up."
-He ascended up on high, and led captivity..captive.:—Bible,
town sink, the giant —Dryden.
Our author provides for the deseenthng and Conveyance down
of Adam's power to posterity.—Locke. - . .
Observing such • gentle and gradual ckscents downivards.---
Locke.
Plunge do: en one would imagine to be .correct, because to
'plunge does not neccsssrily imply it dole lill Urn movement.
." Imean to y/nnge the.boy in pleasing sleep.,,_:_brydep. •
A person may pluu,cre himself .into a stream Without dicing,
and plunze a dagger in another in an upwnrti direction.
Here, with your permission, we ill pause, aral conclude the
remainder in another letter. 1'3E31 0.

COURT OF CHANCERY., Nov. -26: •
-The bout) CICANCELLOA. Wag aliS day occupied Ilea:
three o'clock in hearing causes of no pu'ziic interest.
His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR. difil;Csz..4 of a nutrib,?r
of causes of no interest but to the parties Colle.raCa: •

• •
COURT,OF. KING'S BENCH, Novntantri. 25. .
LIBEL UPON I-lER LATE MAJESTY. •. •
THE KING V. RICHARD BLACOW, CLERK:
Mr. DENMAN—I have to. play our Lordships'-imlgment
upon the Rev. Richard Blacow. i. be defendant having ap-
peared on the floor of the Court,
Mr. Justice Hor.ROvn, before whom the information against
the defendant was triad at the late Assizes at Lancaster, pro-
eceiLd to read his notes of the case ' • from which it appeared,
that the defendant, in his vocation of Clergyman, and from the
pulpit of St. Mark's Church, Liverpool, in the course of a ser-
mon which he was-then preaching, delivered the following libel
Of and concerning her late Majesty :
••" The term cowardly: -which they have now laid to my
charge, I think you will do inc the justice to sayzdoes not be-
;tag to me ; that feeling was never an inmate or my bosom I
ci It ter whaathe Jacobins raged around us with all their fury ;
nor in -the precut day of Radical uproar and delusion. The:,
latter, indeed, it mast .be allowed, have one feature aboat thein
even more hideolia and disgusting than the .Jacobins themselves.,
They fell down and worshipped the Goddess of Reason', a most.'
respectable and deeent,sort of being, compared with that which
the Radicals have. set .up as the idol of their worship. They
have elevated the Goddess of Lust on theriedestal of shame, an
object of alLothers the most congenial to their taste, the most
deserving of their homage, the most worthy of their adoration.,
After exhibiting her claims to their favour in two distant quar-
ters of the globe, after compassing set:and land with her guilty
Paramour, to gratry to the full her impure desires, and even
polluting the holy sepulchre itself with her presence, to which
she was carried •.in mock majesty astride upon an ass, she re-
turned to this hallowed soil so hardened in sin, so bronzed with
infamy, so callous to every feeling of decency or of shame, as
to go on Sunday last, clothed in the mantle of adultery, to kneel
down at the altar of that God, who is c of purer eyes than to
behold iniquity,' when she ought,rather to have stood bare-
foot in the aisle, covered with a sheet as white as unsunned
snow,' doing penance • for her sins ! Till this had been done, I
would never have defiled. my hands by plating the sacred sym-
bols in hers; and this she would have been compelled to do in
those good old days when church discipline was in its-pristine
vigour and activity." • ,
The publication of the libel having been proved, the defen-
dant was found guilty.
The CHIEF JUSTICE, addressed himself to Mr. Blacow,
asked him if he' had any affidavits which he was. desirous of
submitting to the Court 7,
Mr. Blacova-;.None, my Lord.
The CHIEF JUSTICE—Mr. -Denmati, have you any affi-'•
davits ? •
Mr. DENatAN—No, my .Lord ; as the defendant offers no
affidavit—neither shall I. •
'The CHIEF JUSTICE—Has the defendant any thing to offer
in Mitigation of punishment ?
Mr. Blacow (bowing respectfully)—No, my Lord, nothing
Whatever. ' -
-Mr. DENarara—Undex the eh cumstances in which this case
stands, my Lord, I certainly shall not trespass on the time of
the Court. •
Mr. BROUGHAM—I really - feel it unnecessary to address
many words to your Lordships. You have heard the libel read
of which the defendant has been convicted—but your ,
ships have not heard the defence which he made for himself
upon his trial, and I will venture to say,- that there never was
in this country exhibited a scene so indecorous—so degrading to
the character of a man, and more especially to the character Of
a Clergyman—a scene distinguished by the utterance of such
base and foul calumnies. •
Mr. Justice BEST—This is not repeated on the notes which
have been read to the Court.
- Mr. BRouomix--,-For that- very reason I wish to inform
your Lordships ofwhatdid actually occur, and I appeal to the
Learned Judge by whom the case was tried, with great efrett,
whether he ever witnessed a more disgraceful exhibition in a
Court of Justice ? As to the libel itself, it is sufficient for me,
in praying the judgment a the Court, to request your Lord-
ships' attention to the slanders—the vile , gross, and indecent
slanders, of which that libel is composed and which were de- '
livered by a Clergyman of the Church of England from the pul-
pit, in his vocation of Minister of the Gospel—as well as to the
fact that it is not the first time of this man having been convicted
of -a similar ofilinee.
Mr. Justice BEST—Have you an affidavit to this?
. Mr. BitoodnAm—l have, my Lord. The sentence of the
Court will be found upon its tiles, and I have an affidavit to
prove that the defendant is the person who was convicted and
received that sentence. If the Court shall think fit I will put it
in.—(An affidavit was handed in.)
Mr. Justice BEST—This affidavit shOuld have been read
before; in order to afford the defendant an opportunity of
reply. •
,
Mr. BnoupnAAl—l have not the smallest objectiob that the
defendant should be permitted to reply.
The CHIEF JUSTICE—In point of regularity, this affi-
davit ought to have been read before the defendant was call-
ed upon. The'affidavits on both sides should be read in the
first instance. Perhaps it is hardly Worth while to read this
1 affidavit \

..... . .
(The affidavit was withdrawn.)
linou nsi--3ly Lords, • I feel it quite unnecessary to
trouble the Court by going hack to the former ca‘e. Your
Lordships see the tenour of the Itbel itself. You know tile cha-
racter which the party, I cannot say does—but which be ought
to support—the occasion upon winch this libel was published,
and the person to whom it.applied : that this defendant is one
of those individuals who are engaged in a conspiracy, for the
purpose of propagating, openly as well as in secret, the vilest
slanders which it is possible for - the human imagination to in-
vent, and to .heap .upon public and private character every abuse
Which may appiar calculated to serve their profligate purposes,
as well as of those who are determined to listen to and give
countenance to such calumnies. The latter are not less charac-
terized than the formei by malignity or base time-serving, al-
though•the former May'llaire less prudence in their designs—as
I think has been made to appear -from the whole course of this
case. The defendant has come forward upon this occasion—not
to apologize for the publication with winch he stands charged,
hut to aggravate it by an exhibition of additional malignity ;
and he now appears,in the last stage of theprOceeding, courting,.
as he did on his trial, theignominyattaehed to his t.anchtgt, and
bravini= the punishment due to his offence. I now leave him to
the jtagment and to the justice of your Lordships, satisfied
that you will feel, yourselves Loand, regarding the situation in
which he stands,. to pass that sentence weich, under all the cir-
cumstances, his crime shall appear to deserve:- It would be
superfluous to niake'any further remark ; s'euill therefore not
add one word more. •
The Court, after remaining in deliberation for about twenty
minutes,
Nit.. Justice BAY LEY proceeded to pass sentence on the de-
fendant in the following words :—lt is niy painful duty, to be
called upon to, pass on you, the Reverend Richard Iliseow, a
_Clergynian of the Church of Briglande the sentence of this
Court for a libel; first' uttered by you in your capacity of a
Clergyman, in a place set mart fur very different purposes, and
afterwards printed and published as part of a sermon preached
in die Church of St. Mark. It is 'in itself a very great evil,
that a plate so sacred should be perverted to such purposes. It
•ougllt. to have been. with very different. feelings that tne minds
Of those who attended should have been impressed, nor should
- you,-upon so solemn an .occasion, have mingled with Christian
instruction any observations upon living characters. We all
. have snflicient faults of our own to col.rect, without ceinnienting
upon the faults
others. It is no smell aggravation of the
, case; that there did not exist an Unanimity of -opinion oft the
topic that is the subject of this libel. It was, therefore, at the
time you litiOntd it, eahefilated to produce different feelings
iri different minds; but not-such feelings as might to preVall
a house of Christian worship ; ,the nature of_ tne place itself is
olc of the great stings in this case,—that which gives Co it a
freithre of peculiaragravation. I must gay, that you have ex-
ercised e. wise discretion,- in having declintit, to offer. any thing
this.dayin enitation.of the;offer.ce of.- which yon have been
convicted ; and I hope that determination arose from a convic-
tion, that, on 106.1;;I:g bilCk ten yoUr eonduct,. Yon saw nothing
in it. for which yen- could Offer any! defence. Taking all the
circumstances of the Or, into ,coiaatier4tign, the sentence of the
Court on you ie,
.that you do pay to'the Ring a fine of Ore
ntiared Totrtas l that you be committed to the ettetody of the
Marshal of the Marshalsea of this Court for the term of Six
Qalenclar,Months ;.that. at the expiration of that time you do