The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-18 00:00:00

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I ',Ve have already inserted the Article to which this pas-
..;e alludes.

(l.rom The Ifibrrniau Journal, Dublin, plug. 13.)
" The frauds which ate daily th-scovered and
eposed, and punishments inficted upon the
c',eiits who priictice them, seem t.o have lost all
siie power of example, in this our good city.-111
s• ,in we have beard of bundre(k thousands of
in the shape of fines, beil-;l;ic,vied in Eng
] old on those who sull ots Ica—here the
I,,.„ctice is idmolt ge4teral, as Will tsppear, %%lien it
vcl.3t immulise tptlnlifies of this stuff
13trly been Sci2cd by the Itcve.ttue•OlEceit,

wlto in this ins'attre 'wive become the ~Ttinti,eti,
01. „„, health. Indeed, it is utterly onsate, wi-
les: trout the -mO-1 putable bons, N, to oily any
thing antler the name of tea, though the Legis-
lature ha. %liffiCielltly interfered, and it is the
fault of the subject if he suffer under the fraud, •
as the means of punishing the cheat are easy and
ample ; hut there are minor frauds for which no
punishment is provided. What will the public
think when they are infortnel. that mock pepper
is itupor:ed in large bales. That is mock pep-
per they will naturally ask ? We shall inform
them—a little of the sweepings of a ship in which
peppur hai la,..en imported, called pepper dust,
mixed with a IRege quantity of pipe-clay moisten-
to! with water, and while soft. atttutly totrued
into sin ill roond balls resembling the seed pep-
pet. Of this composition, nu e k pepper, both
white „,,,t1 idack, may he had in absintlaoce ; for to
make the black, it is only necessary to moisten
the rompoSitioll With a SollitirOl of Copperas, in a
decoction of logwood ;. a Cheaper still, in tanner's
wise This slid is openly entered at our
Cus-
tow-holm, by the 1/411,e of Mock l'epper, with-
out ditty. Now if it contains any pepper, the
duty thereon is withheld front the Revenue, which
is a 111+10 but if it coolant none, then those
who purchase it are defrauded of their money.
Another article of (pocket y Onglaise fraud) is
Cobetts. This WAS all atotuatic, formerly much
relied upon in medicine ;- it is now a culinary
article, and of course subject to fraud.
" Neititcw the Revenue Board nor the Revenue
Officers can he sol.oosed capable of detecting those
sophistications ; the :Roard should charge their
officers, when sttelt articles are imported, to •eutt
a small sample of them In the ,4tpoth caries Hall
for eXilltlitlalioo, the Governor anti no-kctors of
which Establishment, it callow be doubted, wouN
at aV times, for the public benefit, he featly to
examine, chemically or pharm kit y, any
substance so submitted. We most not forget !hat
to those Gentlemen we owe the suppression of the
Brewers' Druggist ; that one them, in los
place in the Common Council, rose, and pub-
licly exposed the vile practices of certain Brewers
of that day, impotiug to their abominable bever-
age, the ptevidence of nervous, of paralytic, and
of liver complaints. We must not forget the ri-
diculons affidavits of Brewers, nor their malicious
case laid before Conticil, in order to found au ac-
tion against the Gentleman that exposed them.
Yet on that very exposure has the Legislature laid
the heaviest penalties against those who would
destroy the healtit of their fellow-creatures for
I sordid gain.
" be practices of fraudulent Brewers weee,till
of late, more injurious to the country titan even
the muck tea and the mock spices art nowt to the
East India Company. 'the person to whom we
have alluded asserted roundly, that almost every
article in the Materia Medics (barley and hops
excepted) entered into the vile composition of the
beverage then called porter. To prove this lie
'examtned by analysis, publicly, at the Elaboratory
of the Apothecaries fluff, three gallons of porter
bought at an eminent l'orterbouse, three gallons
of l'ien's small beer, and three gallons of his ale.
The result of the ale '•was a quan•ity of ardent
spirit, very sweet (abiskey), proportioned to the
quantity of malt employed (about a Laurel to the
barrel of ale.)----The small beer also, itt propor-
tion, having an extract or gluten and sacchat
ine
matter, which the vinOns fermentation had not
sufficiently decompos,d—the whole pleasant,
Wholesome and mutative. But the result of the
porter cannot he described—no words can express
the abonitilable Stuti--;it is still at the Hall."

A TALE tit, 111 YnTERY.-We copy the following
from the Leeds Mercury of Saturday :—" About
40 yews ago a person in tins neighbourhood, in
humble circumstances, of the name of Slater,
Clothier by trade, but who in the harvest mood's
generally weal into the agricultural districts to
labour as it reaper, disappeared in a very
ttcvs-
riot's and unaccountable way, nod was never
since heard of till last Saturday. 'nine had healed
the wounds %ditch Snell an event was calculated
to excite in his domestic circle, awl all rueluiry
atter him hail long siii,:ecensrd. Rot last Satin
day, while one of his suns, who is a respectable
MatilifaCtUrer at Yeadon, was tiatisactiog some
business in a public-house, at Ktighley, an aged
man came IWO the room, and begged for a 411111
suns to buy a gill of b, cr. Ili the course of con-
versation the name of __slater Iwa3 mentiolied, wilco
the old man, lopeating the onus, said, ' your
name Slates r and added, ' about 4U years Agri
killed et Mali of that name, and b the
.11
comer of a corii-fiold, about 12 miles below
York.' This extraordinary derlara ioo, combined
with the tone and the inalintr of the di,,,,ippedt-
ance of the senior Slater, tixed the atieutioti of
his son, and the all man was warned to consider
the natitie and piadrable coos( ((ounce of his horrid
declaration, lest the fate of Logcne Aram should
be his. lie then began to waver, add said it was
not lie that killed Slater, hut he was killed, and
lie could point out the spot where he was bit-
tied, The friends of the deceased telt themselves
called *Too, of course, to institute .111 enquiry
into the transaction, and yesterday lies Sitter,
attended by the constable of Yeadon, and aceeou-
panied by the old matt, whose !taint! fur the pee-
sent we think it proper to withhold, passed
throuvli this town on their way to York, to in-
vestigate the ciretimst,inces mum the spot, and, it
possible, to unravel this tale ut mystety."
A young WOlll4ll, SClVaht to Nlr. Woon, of
Granr4 im, on tVedilesday last aveol up the Chord,
spire of that town, by a ladder fixed fur the pur-
pose of replacing the ball and a new weather-
cock, which was displaced lately in a violent storm.
For a considerable time sue disported herself on
that eminence, and afterwards descended without
any accident, to the astonishment of a large num-
ber of spectators.
A few days ago, when the farm servants of
Clashbenny, Perthshire, were taking dowo a hay-
stack, they discovered a hen iii the centre at it,
which had been enclosed for the space ot 3',2. clays.
The poor creature Was reduced almost to a 5),,....1e-
t0n, and nearly dead, having subsisted all that
time without either food or wafer. It is thatiglit
he animal had gone 011 the stack when it .was
hut partially built, and (hiring "the time the men
were at dinner, who at their velum lia4.!
tier up.

ASSIZE•' INTELLIGENCE.

GLOUCESTER ASSIZES, Ara. 1.1.

The Assizes for Gloucestershire and the City of
Gloucester were to commence on IVednesday, but
in consequence of the immense press of business
at Monmouth, Mr. baron GARROW did not_artiee
here until some minutes after 12 o'clock at night ;
the Commission was immediately aliened, and the
Learned Judge, much oppressed with fatigue, re-
tired to rest.

At ten on Thursday, his Lordship went to the
Cathedral ►with the 'ionl form, and afterwards te-
turned to his lodgings, to wait the arrival of Mr.
Justice HOLROYD, ►s•)to did not come in town until
two. A consultation immediately ensued, on the
irregularity of opening the Con►mission after
n►iduight on Wednesday. Judge CrArt ow. at tour
o'clock, proceeded to the Com t, ►when his Lord-
ship, on the Crown side, rose, and addressed the
intended Grand Juries nearly as follows :

1 think it necessary, my Lords and Gentle-
men, to inform you, that I feel we are in a very
awkward predicament ; the business in an adioiu-
ing county was so great, that after incessant la-
bour and fat igue, I could not quit it until late last
evening, and then .the Jury were locked up ; my
learned brother could not leave Monmouth until
this morning, and from the circumstance of the
Commiision not being opened until after twelve
last night, I felt some doubts about the regula-
rity of our proceeding, and we have come to the
resolution of dispatching the Under-Sheriff to
Lotoltin,` to take my Lord Chancellor's direction
Ito.* we are to act. I shall proceed to swear the
Grand Juries, ai'd you u ill go through your busi-
ness in finding such Bills as you may think re-
and 1 shall from time to time adjourn the
Conrt, until Saturday morning, when trials will
come on in the tis---41.manner. I feel much regret
at this delay, but assure yi,o„that both my brother
Judge and mystAt are convinced it was unavoid-
able."