New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-11
TEA AND COFFEE.

whIom, that the rich and wel-born are the favored
and exclusive Slippers thereof but so common ani
universal have these beverages become, that they
nov regarded among the necesssries OF life.
Indeed. the popular knowledge and appreciation arc
very limited and imperfect-that the fin, ntfoduc-
tifn Of tie ChnG-leaf, which now affords our daily
rtfreshment, or the Arabian berry whose aroma eI-
hilrutes lie votares-that the OF these harmless,
if not beathfUl novelties should have spread con-
sternation among the nations OF Europe, on their FIRST
introduction, aDd have been mathematical By the
errors and fiction. Of the learned Yet so il Il, for
PATIS spread alarm At the use Of tee b. the French,
denounoing il as the most fool h and dangerous
novelty Of the age H,HSENASy, in Germany,
csled the tea-dealers immoral members of society,
lying in wait for mems purses and lives aud DR..
DUNCAN, in his treatise hot liquors, charged that
the virtues attributed 10 tea were merely TO encour-
age The importation.
IL 1910, the Dutch ri6ioElei II as hay.water,"
and {" black water" and a century -ani-a half ago
prohibitory duty on Tea recommended in En-
gland, and severe penalties on those who used "the
"diug, the "seducing poison"
Two hundred years ago, our European ancestors
described Coffee as a beverage which was drunk by
the Turks as hot they could endure IT. that It was
black as soot and tasted not much unlike t. and was
good for digestion and mirth. 1t was ridculed in
France BY Rousseau. sstirized in England, its use
suppressed in Asia; and the women of our mother
country in petitiouins against coffee drinking,
in lt6i complained that it mace men as unfruitul
as the deserts wheIce that unhappy berry Is said to
abe brought that the offspring Of our mighty ances-
tors would dwindle into a succession OF apes and
"pigmes and that husband on a domestic meg
" sage would stop by the way to drink couple of
cups CT coffee
The rstaccouns o. the use Of the tea-shrub the
casual notices Of travellers 1t was known in Europe
in 1910; but the Russian Embassador at the Court of
the Moeu in $780, refused large present Of tea for
the Car. being unwilling TO burden himself with that
which was useless The Dutch first introduced it
from Indie; and from Holland it was taken TO En-
gland in 1906 and being admired by persons OF rank
small importations continued and sold at fifteen dol
Lars pound, until the East India Company took up
the trade.
Il is said that tie Dutch, after their first voyage to
China. were enabled to obtain cargo of tea without
money! they took ont great store of dried sage, and
bartered with the Chinese for tea-receivng four
pounds oftea FIR one pound of sage and the demand
for sage became so great that the Dutch unable
to supply (which is a stiking llu traton of the
power of the Imagination upon The palate
1hc Portuguese worn ioi II tNfNf pNb hh t-Hcl
European nations and the Americans, adopt the Chi
nese term Theh and also retain the term BoAca from
the Chinese name of the country from which it comes
(VouIi). And Hysoa is the name of the largest Chi
nese trader in teas two hundred years ago.
The best as well az the most amusing account of
the first use Of tea rs a beverage 10 England is the
handful Of Thomas Garway, the frs, tea maker.
He was tobacconist and coffee man, and retailed
tea in 1860. commencing it the "cure for all dis
"eases.r His attractive handful reads thus:
"Tes in England hath been sold in the leaf for GO,
and sometimes for 80 tho pound weight and, in
resrect Of it's former Searches and dearness, it
hath been only used as regalia in high treatments
and entertainments and presents made thereof TO
princes and giandees till the year 1867. The said
Garwey did purchase quantity thereof, and first
publicly sod the said tea in leaf or drink, made &C
cordng to the directions of the most knowing mer-
chants in tlose Eastern countries. On acknowledge
of tie said Garway's continued care and industry in
obtaining the best tea and making drink very many
roblemen, physicians, and merchants, have ever
since sent to him for the said leaf and daily resort to
hs house 10 dri,k the drink thereof lie sells tea
from l6.. to SOS. apound.'
Tea was not probably in general domestic use in
l6s7; for the Earl Of Clarendon mentions in his diary,
that after a supper party " we drank tea really as
good as | had drank it in China which proves
that tie tea drinking was then novelty with the En-
eisL nobility.
In loss, a celebrated French traveller introduced
coffee after dinner and it was regarded as a rhim.
But ten years after tie Turkish ambassador at Paris
made i fashionable beverage, by charming the eyes
Of the women with the brilliant porcelain cups in
which it was seryed-;he napkins frnged with gold
- a . r.t.t .fo-os an their knees presenting il 70
the ladies. In 1879 cofee-house was opened II
Paris but the custom prevailed to sell beer and wine
and TO smoke and mix with low company in the first
coffee-houses. After a time however the literary
men, the artists, and the wits, established their re-
spectiye cofeebouses, and to which they nightly
reored 10 inhae the fresh and fragrant steams Of the
aromatic berry and enjoy congenial fellowship.
Coffee was introduced into England as early as
1882 by Turkish merchant, whose Greek servant
knew how "to roast and make it," lie opened
coffee house end issued the following handful:
"Tte virtue of the cofree-drink first pubckly
n ade and sold in England by Pasqua Rosee, in st.
Micheels Alley, Cornhill at the sign Of his own
head
AT first the coffee-drink had greater popularity
and influence in England than the tea-drnki and the
cofee-housCs became the resort Of the learned, the
idle aud the curious; and for time, the history Of
these coffee houses was the history Of the manners,
morals and politics Of the people. The several
classes Of society-the mercantile men, the men Of
letters and the men Of fashion, had their respective
cofee-houses; and The Taller was dated from each
alternately 10 depict the manners Of gregarous hu-
msniiy as they rise.
At length these cofec-houses became places Of such
multitudirous resort that complaints made that