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TOBACCO.
Particulars of Six Samples of Tobacco, preparedas above, in the presence of Sir CharlesDouglas. M. P., and Mr. Ewart, M. P. , Mem-bers of the Committee.
No. I., marked X.
9 lbs. 8 oz. of tobacco, with 1 lib. 8 oz. of gardenrhubarb-leaves, about 16 per cent., or 12£ percent, in 100 parts.
Report of the Analysis of the first Series of SixSamples by Messrs. Richard Phillips , Graham,and George Phillips, 7th June, 1844.
No. I., marked X.
Adulterated with the leaves of garden rhubarb :the amount of the adulteration is estimated at3.3 per cent.
No. II., marked K.
9 lbs. 6 oz. of tobacco, with l lib. foxglove leaves.About 10 per cent, added, or 9-52 in 100 parts.
No. 11., marked K.
Adulterated by a green leaf, not tobacco, whichappears to belong to a plant of the same naturalfamily, probably the potato; the amount of theadulteration estimated at 3 9 per cent.
No. III., marked N.
11 lbs. 11 oz. tobacco, mixed with 8 oz. brownpaper, soaked in decoction of sarsaparilla. JOJoz. syrup of sugar, combining solid sugar, 7 or
8 dwts.; 1 oz. of saltpetre, and £ oz. of alum ;in all, 18J oz. About 8 per cent, added, or 7'54in 100 parts.
No. III., marked N.
Adulterated with brown paper or millboard, andalso with sugar; the amount of the first adul-teration is estimated at 6 per cent., of the second1| or two per cent.
No. IV\, marked F.
11 lbs. 14 oz. of tobacco, mixed with chickoryroot, dried and powdered, Irish moss gluten-ized, carbonate of potash, sulphate of potash,carbonate of magnesia, and carbonate of lime,about 9 oz , or about 5* per cent., or 4 in 100parts.
No. IV., marked F.
Adulterated with a vegetable matter, not tobacco,the nature of which we are not agreed upon-The amount of this adulteration is estimated at
1 '2 per cent. There is reason to suspect the ad-dition to this tobacco of both sand and sugar, insmall quantity.
No. V., marked O.
13 lbs. 9 oz. of tobacco, mixed with 12 ox. ofground tobacco stalks.
No. V., marked O.
Adulterated with sand and sugar; the amount ofthe first adulteration is estimated at 2 per cent.;of the second at 3 per cent.
No. VI. marked R.
11 libs. 4 oz. No adulteration.
No. VI., marked R.
Genuine, but with a proportion of sand usuallyhigh.
Particulars of Six Samples of Tobacco, mixedand sealed up at Mr. Rogers’s, 392 Oxfordstreet, in the presence of Sir Charles Douglasand Mr. Ewart, by Edward Solly , Jun., Esq.
Second Series of Six Samples, signed Rogers andSon, marked as under, analyzed by Messrs-Richard and George Phillips, and ThomasGraham.
No. I., marked C.
Adulterated with sugar of milk - - - 5
Terra japonica.1
Nitrate of potash.1
Alum -------- 1
Total per cent. - - - 8
No. I., marked C.
Adulterated with sugar, the adulteration estimated at 1 per cent.
No. 11., marked L.
Adulterated with refined sugar - . - - 3
Terra japonica ------ 1
Carbonate of potash.1
Common salt.1
Total per cent. 6
No. II., marked L.
Adulterated with sugar, the adulteration estima-ted at 3 per cent.
No. III., marked Q.
Adulterated with refined sugar - - - 2
Crude nitrate of ammonia - - - - 4
Common salt. - 1
Muriate of potash.0-5
Nitrate of potash - - - - - 0 5
Alum -------- i.o
Total per cent. - - - 9
No. III., marked Q.
Adulterated with sugar, the adulteration estim 8 'ted at 2 per cent.
No. IV,, marked P.
Adulterated with sugar of milk 5
Refined sugar - - - - - . 3
Common salt 1
Carbonate of potash - - - - - l
Total per cent. 10
No. IV., marked P.
Adulterated with sugar, the adulteration es 1ted at 4 per cent.
No. V., marked B.
Not adulterated at all.
No. V., marked B. d m
Genuine ; grains of sugar were, 1 1?"'all, thatit and picked out, but the quantity iden tal.
we allow their introduction to be accioe___-
No. VI., marked M'
Not adulterated at all.
No. VI., marked M. t „p
Adulterated with loaf-bread, which has been
in the same manner as the ' a “d, but is
of this adulteration was not; cstimare > gar .
small; the sample contains also a little sue