_Painters’ Colours or Pigments, Hats, Broad Cloth, Kerseymeres,
Linens, Laces, Cambrics, Silks, Jewellery, Stationary, &c._
The spirit of adulteration pursues poor John even into his domestic
arrangements. Should he design to decorate his dwelling—“his neat
suburban cottage”—and have the walls or wainscot of his drawing-room
painted a delicate pink colour to rival the carnation tints of the
cheek of his “cara sposa,” or those of his breakfast parlour, to
imitate the lively blue of the bright eyes of his “lovely cherubs,”
the vile sophisticators mar all his wishes, and he is able to obtain
nothing else than dull and darkling daubs. In fewer words, he cannot
obtain genuine colours wherewith to have his house painted. And this
sophistication does not only extend to the common house-paints, (as
where white lead is mixed with carbonate or sulphate of barytes;
vermilion with red lead, and a long et-cetera;) but should honest
John wish that his hopeful progeny may rival the Zeuxis or Apelles
of antiquity, or confine his paternal longings to the more modern
artists—a Reynolds, a Gainsborough, a Moreland, or a David,—he has
the mortification of seeing his fond illusions dissipated by the
adulterating manufacturers of ultramarine, carmine, lake, Antwerp
blue, crome yellow, Indian ink, and all the other et-ceteras of
artist-decoration.
The covering of even John’s sconce is not exempt from sophistication.
In the room of the dear bought, far fetched beaver, the adulterators
adorn John’s pate with a strange combination of wool and the homely
and cheaply purchased fur of the rabbit and mole. This, it must be
admitted, is cruel usage of the good old gentleman, and must, as
the witty author of the Indicator says, bring to his mind an odd
association of ideas, (namely, of cheatery and forgiveness,) in one
of those communings with his hat’s lining, while, like a polite
worshipper, he is whispering his preparatory ejaculations, before he
turns round with due gravity and composure, and makes a bow of genteel
recognition of the Mr. and Mrs A. and the Misses B. who have assembled
in the pew before him.
Nor is he better treated by his clothier or man’s mercer. Not to
mention the slight texture of the articles, and the substitution
of inferior materials for the “_best superfine_ Spanish” and the
“_super-extra_ Saxony,” the sly varlet artfully stitches the selvage
of broad cloths, kerseymeres, and ladies’ “extra superfine,” dyed of a
permanent colour, to the edge of cloth dyed with a fugative or fading
dye; and this operation is performed with so much skill and nicety as
to elude John’s most penetrating optics.
Neither are Mrs. Bull and her “lovely daughters” more exempt from the
knaveries of the linen-draper, the dealers in laces, veils, silks,
“Cashmere shawls,” French cambrics, and the other paraphernalia of
the female wardrobe: they are all sophisticated, and often no more
like the native article than “the moon is like green cheese.” Like
“a true bred knight,” I shall not forget to furnish the female part
of Mr. Bull’s family with the means and criteria for judging of the
goodness of those commodities, in the work which, as I have before
said, I have nearly ready for press. Nor shall I omit to take notice in
the same publication, to give directions for the proper selection of
the articles of furniture of the old gent’s house; such as feathers,
blankets, carpets, &c. &c.
While gallantly professing my knight-errantry in the cause of Mrs. Bull
and “her lovely daughters,” I find that I have made an unpardonable
omission—not a word on laces and muslins! To propitiate their “kind
consideration,” I hurry to supply the unpardonable omission. Let
then every “lovely fair one” know that laces are now generally made
from single cottons (instead of good double thread, as was formerly
the case), and in order to make them look fine and clear, they are
stiffened with starch, which occasions the delusive articles, as soon
as they are washed, to fall to pieces. In some articles of lace,
particularly veils, many of the springs and flowers are fastened on
with gum, which, as soon as they are wetted, immediately fall off and
betray the cheatery. Caps and other articles of female habiliments sold
in the streets, are often united together in the most ingenious manner
by means of gum or paste.
Muslins are not free from sophistication-ingenuity. Poor, thin, rough
specimens are rendered stiff, high glazed, and thick with a quantum
sufficit of pipe-clay, &c.; sometimes a paper-pulp is spread over the
deteriorated article; and the fibres of the cotton which ought to be
dressed off, are left in order to hold the composition put in.
Stockings are often rendered stiff and thick to the feet, by bleaching
them with brimstone. And coarse woollen cloth receives the addition of
large quantities of fuller’s-earth to give it body and closeness; while
the right or pressed side is finished off with oil, in order to give
the cloth a fine, soft, and smooth appearance. Never choose woollen
cloth which is glossy and stiff.
“The frauds committed in the tanning of skins, and their conversion
into leather; and in the manufacture of cutlery and jewellery,”
says Mr. Accum, “exceed belief.” And I can assure my readers that
that gentleman is not mistaken in his assertion; and, had he added
that of cabinet wares and silver plate of all sorts, he would not
have over-stepped the limits of truth. To those acquainted with the
manufacture of silver goods, it is well known that you cannot always
be sure that the various costly articles are of the legal standard
with which Pride and Vanity, Luxury and Fashion, when they “set up
for _Gentry_ and _Stylish_ people,” and have a desire for “_shewing
off_,” gratify their whims and fantastic notions of gentility, and
their ambition of “_outplating and outdishing_” their friends and
neighbours. The prosecution instituted some years ago against a
“legitimate” son of Crispin for the manufacture of shoes, the soles
of which were ingeniously united to the welts by only six stitches in
each shoe, while the external parts of the soles exhibited evident
traces of a multiplicity of stitches rivalling the number of the stars
of the firmament of the heavens in extent and variety, and their exact
mathematical precision seemed to display the exertion of the genius of
a Euclid, cannot have slipped the recollection of all my readers.
And to complete the climax of sophistication, even the paper on
which John gives birth to his “winged words,” and expresses his
indignant feelings at the extent and the audacity of the frauds and
impositions practised on his good-nature and credulous disposition,
is sophisticated. In the manufacture of paper, a large quantity of
plaster of Paris is often mixed up with the paper-stuff, instead of
its consisting of good linen rags only, and the foreign substance is
added to increase the weight of the commodity. Nor is he, when, like
ourselves, desirous of having his thoughts and discoveries rendered
“enduring for ages,” (monumentum ære perennius,) by having them cast
in stereotype, and thus “save a penny,” exempt from the designs and
contrivances of sophistication;—the founder deceives him by casting
his “words that breathe and thoughts that burn” in a metal as soft
and ductile as lollipop. Thus honest Bull is circumvented in all his
intents, and surprised and overpowered at every turn by the Genius of
Sophistication.
CONCLUSION.
Friend Bull! if thou hast carefully and dispassionately (that is,
if thou hast sufficiently divested thy honest mind of its usual
scepticism—videlicet, its unwillingness to be convinced against its
constitutional prejudices,) read my disclosures, I am willing to
believe that thou wilt readily admit that I have established all my
allegations of the frauds and impositions to which thou art subject
in this sophisticating age, and that I have proved the truth and
propriety of the title of my little book, “DISEASE AND DEATH IN THE
POT AND THE BOTTLE.” What remedy (for a good advocate seldom forgets
that prospective part of his duty,) to recommend thee to adopt,
in order to free thyself from the knavery and effrontery of the
sophisticators, I know not, except, hermetically to close thy jaws
so as to prevent the entrance of any of the sophistications into
them, or the more pleasurable remedy of preferring a petition to thy
“gracious Sovereign,” who “can do no wrong,” praying “the omnipotency
of Parliament,”—in its “collective and superlative wisdom” to take
thy deplorable case into consideration,” and to devise some means, in
the plenitude of its conjoint wisdom, to protect thee and thy “little
ones,” in this “land of equal law,” from the arts and devices of slow
poisoning. In the success of thy humble and righteous remonstrance
believe me, thy fellow sufferer, and “enemy of fraud and villany,”
will heartily and sincerely join.
THE AUTHOR.
* * * * *
POSTSCRIPT.—In reviewing my well-meant, and, I trust, useful
denunciations of fraud and villany, I find that I have omitted to speak
of false weights and measures. But as the proverb says, better late
than never. Not to mention the trick of clapping a piece of weight or
other metal underneath the scale in which the commodity to be sold
is weighed; commercial balances are frequently misconstructed for
fraudulent purposes, by making the arm from which the substance to be
weighed is suspended longer than that from which the counterpoise is
hung, thereby giving the substance to be weighed a greater leverage.
⁂ _Authenticated_ communications of adulterations thankfully received,
and liberally paid for.
APPENDIX.
Note to page 28.
I have said at the above mentioned page that “the perfection of
adulteration is in gin;” and on reviewing that passage I have no cause
to modify the expression; but must, with all my heart and soul, assent
to the declaration of honest Jonas Hanway, that it is “a liquid fire;”
and must further agree with the said true-hearted old Englishman, that
“it should be sold only in quart bottles, sealed up with the king’s
seal, with a very high duty, and never sold without being mixed with a
strong emetic.” This I admit is a very harsh prescription, and no doubt
every true lover of “blue-ruin” will exclaim, notwithstanding that he
or she is aware that their “comfort” is in the most abandoned state of
adulteration, and is a rank slow poison, equally ruinous to the health
and the purse;—What! a gin-drinking nation, and yet not a drop of “the
genuine”—of the popular English beverage, the diurnal consumption of
which in the metropolis alone, would inundate the largest parish within
the bills of mortality—not a drop of “the genuine” to be had for money!
Yes, Bull, whether thou beest of the masculine or feminine gender,
this is the truth; and it is a circumstance, the reformation of which
would well become the labours of the informing tribe and the bellowers
of radical reform. Here there would be a fine field for radicalism and
“informing” to exercise themselves in.
Note to page 83.
I have stated at page 83, that fish out of season is unwholesome. The
following fact will confirm the truth of this assertion. It is well
known that in Ireland and Scotland, where great facility is presented
to the country people in catching salmon, both during and after
the spawning season, the eating of the fish in that state has been
productive of very serious consequences to the health of the consumers.
Probably the unwholesome consignments of noxious fish obtained
_exclusively_, as the fashionable fishmongers phrase it, out of season,
and to be purchased only at extravagant prices, often occasion to their
epicurean customers and the legitimate gourmands much of the illness
assigned to other causes.
Note to page 87.
At page 87, I have said that the quantity of tea consumed in this
country is between twenty and thirty millions of lbs. weight; but I
forgot to state that between two and three millions of pounds sterling
are drawn out of the pocket of the public yearly in its purchase,
either in the form of price or of duty. Surely the expenditure of this
enormous sum by the good people of this country, and considering that
tea has become so essential a part of the diet of every person in the
kingdom, imposes an obligation on the sovereign company of tea dealers
in Leadenhall Street to take care that the inhabitants of “this land of
milk and honey,” who pay nearly eight times as much as their neighbours
do for the same article (namely bohea tea), have a good and fresh
commodity, instead of the tasteless, parched, insipid, and scentless
rubbish which they retail out to the public, after having remained in
the warehouse long enough to perish its good qualities even were its
flavour and taste ten times more delicious and grateful than they are.
Would it not, as it has been well said, be to the credit of some of our
genuine members of the legislature to endeavour to procure the sale of
a pure and good article, instead of the trash that is foisted upon the
public at present, and which they cannot appeal from, by introducing a
law into parliament legalizing the purchase of the article from other
hands than the Leadenhall Street monopolists.
Note to page 89, &c.
An experienced friend in the tea trade who has read over and approved
of the various tests I have mentioned at page 89, &c. for detecting the
qualities of tea, has kindly furnished me with the following valuable
communication:
“As a ready test of black tea being manufactured from old tea-leaves,
dyed with logwood, &c. moisten some of the tea, and rub it on white
paper, which it will blacken when not genuine. If you wish to be more
particular, infuse a quantity of the sample in half a pint of cold soft
water for three or four hours. If the water is then of an amber colour,
and does not become red when you drop some oil of vitriol or sulphuric
acid into it, you may presume the tea to be good. Adulterated black
tea, when infused in cold water, gives a bluish black tinge, and it
becomes instantly red with a few drops of oil of vitriol.
Note to page 154.
I observe that I have forgotten to give “a local habitation and a name”
among the morning water and Sir Reverence doctors, to his _Doctorship
Doctor_ Laing, of Newman Street, Oxford Street. And I have to beg
pardon, most humbly and reverently, for passing over the quondam
Greenwich Crumples, alias _Doctor_ Cameron, alias _Mister_ Coley, in
Berners Street, Oxford Street;—the _Doctor_ to a new patient with his
morning water and “_shiners_” in hand, but _Mister_, when the said
“_humbugged_” patient, having discovered the fraud practised upon him,
returns to “_blow up_” the _Doctor_ for his tricks and ignorance.
Note to page 166.
After all the vapouring and drivelling nonsense that has been said,
sung and trumpeted forth by a certain portion of the Periodical Press
respecting the “Simplicity of Health,” it is really consoling to find
at last a man of sense and critical acumen having spirit and honesty
enough to relieve the public from the delusions under which it is
suffering from the book in question.
“An immense quantity of drivel,” says the spirited Editor of The
Edinburgh Literary Journal, 1829, “has found its way into books
professing to give an account of the best mode of preserving health;
but of all the drivel it has ever been our lot to peruse, that
contained in the work entitled the “Simplicity of Health,” is the most
pre-eminent.” The ingenious and honest reviewer, after having pointed
out several of the fooleries and extravagancies of the book, adds, “We
have no patience with a piece of humbug like this; we shall not insult
the good sense of our readers with more of this doting nonsense.”
It must be admitted that this sentence is dictated in the strictest
and the justest sense of criticism, and that had all those who have
ventured to laud and recommend that dangerous little book adopted
somewhat of its spirit, much bodily and mental suffering might have
been saved to many people who will become the victims of its misjudged
and culpable directions.
The burst of indignation and ridicule expressed by the Critic
respecting Hortator’s foolish directions for “_Squirting water briskly
into the eyes_ BY _a syringe_,” is too fraught with truth and utility
to be omitted: “Is it not plain from this, that the poor squirting
wretch must have bleared and blood-shot eyes? Imagine a beautiful girl
at her morning toilette, presenting one of this dirty old booby’s
squirts at her clear blue laughing eyes! But the fact is, this impudent
old wife must be descended from a long line of tailors, who have bred
in and in, till the imbecile race has ended in the scarecrow who has
spawned the “Simplicity of Health.”
It is with much satisfaction that I am able to support the opinion
which I have expressed at page 166, by so just and judicious a
criticism as the above; had I stood alone in opinion, that opinion
would have been assigned to any other than its true cause—_a sense of
public duty_, which ought with every true patriot to be paramount to
every other consideration.
* * * * *
I shall now close my well meant, and I hope I may say, useful and
patriotic little volume, with a few words respecting those pests
and scourges of society, the sharking and extortionate part of the
pawnbroking trade, and those banes of human comfort and existence the
madhouses.
PAWNBROKERS.
It has been well said, that as the poorest, the most distressed, and
the most friendless are those who are compelled to have dealings with,
and are exposed to the “tender mercies” of pawnbrokers, it is of the
utmost consequence that such men as follow the calling should be
honest, correct, and even humane characters. For the sake of honesty it
is to be hoped that there are many of this description; but a little,
and but a little unhappy experience when urgent necessity may compel
the unfortunate to have recourse to shops of this description, will
convince the most thoughtless person alive, that there are numbers
of heartless, griping, and extortionate scoundrels in that trade,
whose conduct and dealings are a disgrace to the most contemptible
sharper and swindler alive,—who by every species of fraud, extortion,
and oppression, rob, harass, and plunder the poor and the miserable,
and add to the distresses of those whose misfortunes have reduced
them to have dealings with the detestable harpies. The taking of
illegal and excessive interest is comparatively the least important
of their delinquencies, though this to the poor and unfortunate is
grinding in the extreme, as these knaves in their dealings with those
who have neither money nor friends, treat the act of Parliament for
the regulation of the Pawnbroking trade as a mere dead letter. The
substitution of articles of inferior description for such as are of a
greater value,—the taking off the gold hands and removing the interior
works of watches, and replacing them with others which resemble them,
of base metal or inferior value,—and the scraping or diminishing
articles of plate and the cases of watches, are well known to those
whose wants or emergencies compel them to send their property on its
travels up the spout of the pop-shop. And through the defect of the
law, and as the poet Crabbe says, “the protection of a drowsy bench,”
sufferers but rarely obtain any redress. A periodical writer, in
expressing his abhorrence of the frauds of these vermin, recommends
the sufferers to lay “incessant informations against the malpractices
of these villains.” But had that kind-hearted man been acquainted with
the fact that informations have been repeatedly laid, and have always
miscarried, and will always miscarry while the law remains in its
defective state, he would, no doubt, have recommended a petition to
Parliament, praying to subject the infamous impostors to the punishment
of transportation for their audacious and daily frauds and swindlings
practised “on the children of sorrow and the heirs of unnumbered woes
and wants.” The fate of informations has been fully proved in the
numerous instances in which a scoundrel in the neighbourhood of Snow
Hill has defeated the purposes of justice by the contemptible quibbles,
evasions, and subterfuges resorted to by his attorney in all cases
in which he has been summoned before the magistrates at Guildhall,
and by whose very disgraceful objections as to technicalities, he has
contrived as hitherto, to laugh at and hold in contempt both Law and
Justice!!!
PRIVATE BEDLAMS.
“Where the noble mind’s o’erthrown.”
How true is the remark that “the history of the _Red_ and _White
Houses_,” like that of the Red and White Roses, would afford many
interesting though appalling particulars were they collected in a
detailable form.
“For who to that dread spot consigned,
Amid the maniac’s horrid yell
Has liv’d, and in that den confined,
Could not some secrets of the madhouse tell.”
“Yes! there still live some few who have escaped perpetual torture and
confinement, which the soothing care of _disinterested friends_ would
have buried alive in those inquisitorial receptacles, but for the acute
discernment of the eye of humanity, which accident or curiosity had
directed to the spot.
“Of private madhouses there has long been but one prevailing opinion.
The generality of them are instituted as a medium of existence by
talentless and avaricious individuals, who are better, by far, adapted
for the office of turnkeys to Newgate, than for the exercise of such
moral and physical means as would appear calculated to restore lost
reason. They manage these things much better in Paris; but it is not
our intention to enter into particulars as regards the management of
these licensed houses of correction in the home department, where every
fibre of humanity appears paralysed, where victims are left to linger
out their miserable and wretched existence, and to perish by means we
know nothing of.” Instances innumerable are on record of the improper
treatment of the unhappy persons immured in these dreary abodes; the
inquest that sat at the Elephant and Castle, Pancras Road, on the body
of a poor woman named Ann Goldstock, alias Coldstock, in the month of
August, 1828, who came by her death, under singular circumstances, in
the madhouse, otherwise yclep’d the White House at Bethnal Green,
kept by one Warburton, cannot have slipped the recollection of all my
readers. The case of an unfortunate man of the name of Parker confined
in that place for alleged insanity, is also too remarkable to be passed
over in silence. My man-servant importuned me to see the poor fellow.
I accordingly went to him, and must acknowledge, that after a long
interview in which I closely cross-examined him, he gave a statement of
his life and transactions, distinguished for its accuracy, minuteness,
and consistency. I wish the parties concerned in that affair to
recollect, though I have been refused admittance to the unhappy man
by one of the understrappers of that place, that I will not let this
affair pass unheeded, as I have very little doubt but that I shall be
able to bring to justice the knaves who have stripped the poor fellow
and his injured family of their property, and who, to screen their
villany, have consigned him to a madhouse.
THE END.
LONDON:
MARCHANT, PRINTER, INGRAM-COURT.
_September 1, 1832._
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By the Author of “British Field-Sports.”
It would be difficult to imagine any selection from the great
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excite general interest, than the one to which we now invite Public
Notice. Of all the animals in Creation, (with the exception of those
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are not always to be found in the human and more talkative friend?
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_Horses._
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9.—HACKNEY, _Roan Billy_.
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12.—PONIES, _Shetland_, _Forester_, and _Welsh_, the Property of Jacob
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13.—A MULE, the Property of Lord Holland—and an ASS.
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15. Southern Hound.
16. Beagles.
17. Harrier.
18. Terriers.
19. Lurcher.
20. Water Dog.
21. Bull Dog.
22. Mastiff.
23. Dalmatian.
24. Pugs.
25. Bloodhound’s Head.
26. Portraits of Five Stag Hounds, of the Hatfield Hunt.
27. Alpine Mastiff.
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Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations
in hyphenation have been standardised but all other spelling and
punctuation remains unchanged.
The repetition of the "Author's Address to the Reader" has been removed.
The sequence of section numbers in Part II of the original is I-VI,
VII, VII, VIII, XI. This has been corrected. The final entry in the TOC
has also been corrected to page 187.
Italics are represented thus _italic_.