The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-15 00:00:00

SODA WATER.

ROUGHSEDGE and Summits have hitherto relied on
the discernment of the public to discover and appreciate
the superior quality of the Arated Water produced by
their manufactory, and they have scorned to have re-
course to any tricks. In the present day some persons
consider it requisite to make use of puffs and quackery
in order to extend the sale of their own productions by
detracting from the merits of rival establishments. R.
and S. have such strong grounds of reliance on the supe-
riority of their own soda-water and lemonade, founded
on the recommendation of the most eminent of the
faculty, on the results of the most searching chemical
analyses, and the extensive and still increasing demand
for them by the public, both at home and abroad,
that they have hitherto treated the insinuations
of quackery alluded to with the contempt they
deserve. But if these indirect insinuations are
still to be obtruded on the public, R. and S. feel
themselves justified in offering those explanations that
may enable the public to judge for themselves. If R. and
S. have placed the name of Schweppe upon their bottles,
it was never to mislead the public as to connexion with
years, during the very
that firm, but for the purpose of announcing a legitimate
fact, and always subordinate
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was the engineer and manufacturer of the waters sold
by that house in London, Derby, and Bristol. It is
many years since any
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person, having the slightest
connexion with the name or family of the late Mr.
Schweppe, has been connected with . any house in the
trade. In the year 1834, the proprietor of the busi-
ness carried on under the name of
Schweppe and Co.
sold his interest to persons with whom R. and S.
declined to remain : they preferred employing their in-
dustry and practical knowledge in establishing a business
for their own mutual profit. Whether the waters since
manufactured by the present firm of Schweppe and Co.
retain the quality which acquired for that house all its
celebrity, 8,. and S. decline to give an opinion ; but, in
justice to themselves, they do, with the most perfect con-
fidence and good faith, say that—highly as some ma-
nufacturers seem to estimate the bottles which bear
their name (expensive an item as bottles are), and diffi-
cult as it is to prevent retail tradesmen from returning
wrong ones—there is no bottle bearing any other than
their own, however celebrated, to which Roughsedge and
Summers would wish to add the reputation to be derived
from filling them with waters of their own manufactory.
ROUGHSEDGE and SummEas only desire such patronage
as may be deserved from the lErated Waters produced
at their own nuznufactory, and sold under the labels of
their own name.-37, Bridge-street, Bristol.
A few days ago two brothers, who were mowing
1
together in a meadow at Theil, in the lle-et-Vilaine, having
quarrelled, one struck the other with such violence with the
stone used for sharpening the scythes, that he died a few hours
dermas,