The following list exhibits some of the unlawful substances seized at different breweries and at chemical laboratories.
_List of Illegal Ingredients, seized from 1812 to 1818, at various Breweries and Brewers' Druggists._[62]
1812, July. Josiah Nibbs, at Tooting, Surrey.
Multum 84 lbs. Cocculus indicus 12 Colouring 4 galls. Honey about 180 lbs. Hartshorn Shavings 14 Spanish Juice 46 Orange Powder 17 Ginger 56
1813, June 13. Sarah Willis, at West Ham, Essex.
Cocculus indicus 1 lb. Spanish Juice 12 Hartshorn Shavings 6 Orange Powder 1
August 3. Cratcherode Whiffing, Limehouse.
Grains of Paradise 44 lbs. Quassia 10 Liquorice 64 Ginger 80 Caraway Seeds 40 Orange Powder 14 Copperas 4
Cocculus indicus 12 lbs. Multum 26 Grains of Paradise 12 Spanish Juice 30 Orange Powder 3
Dec. 14. John Abbott, at Canterbury, Kent.
1815, Feb. 15. Mantel and Cook, Castle-street, Bloomsbury-square.
Proof of mixing strong with table beer, and using colouring and other things.
1817. From Peter Stevenson, an old Servant to Dunn and Waller, St. John-street, brewers' druggists.
Cocculus Indicus Extract 6 lbs. Multum 560 Capsicum 88 Copperas 310 Quassia 150 Colouring and Drugs 84 Mixed Drugs 240 Spanish Liquorice 420 Hartshorn Shavings 77 Liquorice Powder 175 Orange powder 126 Caraway Seeds 100 Ginger 110 Ginger Root 176
Capsicum 1 lb Liquorice Root Powder 2 Coriander Seed 2 Copperas 1 Orange Powder 8 Spanish Liquorice 1/2 Beer Colouring 24 galls
Multum 4 lbs. Spanish Liquorice 21 Liquorice Root Powder 113 Ginger 116 Honey 11
Penalty, 300_l._, and costs; including mixing strong beer with table, and paying table-beer duty for strong beer, &c.
Numerous other seizures of illegal substances, made at breweries, might be advanced, were it necessary to enlarge this subject to a greater extent.
Mr. James West, from the excise office, being asked in the Committee of the House of Commons, appointed, 1819, to examine and report on the petition of several inhabitants of London, complaining of the high price and inferior quality of beer, produced the following seized articles:--"One bladder of honey, one bladder of extract of cocculus indicus, ground guinea pepper or capsicum, vitriol or copperas, orange powder, quassia, ground beer-heading, hard multum, another kind of multum or beer preparation, liquorice powder, and ground grains of paradise."