r, and brown powder, (name
unknown), 1st 100_l._ 2nd 500_l._

Henry Clarke, for using molasses, 150_l._

Kewell and Burrows, for using cocculus india, multum, &c. 100_l._

Allatson and Abraham, for using cocculus india, multum, and porter
flavour, 630_l._

Swain and Sewell, for using cocculus india, Guinea-opium, &c. 200_l._

John Ing, for using cocculus india, hard colouring, and honey, _dead_.

William Dean, for using molasses, 50_l._

John Cowell, for using Spanish-liquorice, and mixing table beer with
strong beer, 50_l._

John Mitchell, for using cocculus india, vitriol, and Guinea pepper,
_left the country_.

Lloyd and Man, for using extract of cocculus, 25_l._

John Gray, for using ginger, hartshorn shavings, and molasses, 300_l._

Jon Hoffman, for using molasses, Spanish juice, and mixing table with
strong beer, 130_l._

Rogers and Boon, for using extract of cocculus, multum, porter flavour,
&c. 220_l._

---- Betteley, for using wormwood, coriander seed, and Spanish juice,
200_l._

William Lane, brewer, for using wormwood instead of hops, 5_l._ and
costs.

* * * * *

That a minute portion of an unwholesome ingredient, daily taken in beer,
cannot fail to be productive of mischief, admits of no doubt; and there
is reasons to believe that a small quantity of a narcotic substance (and
cocculus indicus is a powerful narcotic[71]), daily taken into the
stomach, together with an intoxicating liquor, is highly more
efficacious than it would be without the liquor. The effect may be
gradual; and a strong constitution, especially if it be assisted with
constant and hard labour, may counteract the destructive consequences
perhaps for many years; but it never fails to shew its baneful effects
at last. Independent of this, it is a well-established fact, that porter
drinkers are very liable to apoplexy and palsy, without taking this
narcotic poison.

If we judge from the preceding lists of prosecutions and convictions
furnished by the Solicitor of the Excise[72], it will be evident that
many wholesale brewers, as well as retail dealers, stand very
conspicuous among those offenders. But the reader will likewise notice,
that there are no convictions, in any instance, against any of the
eleven great London porter brewers[73] for any illegal practice. The
great London brewers, it appears, believe that the publicans alone
adulterate the beer. That many of the latter have been con