A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons

part imitation coffee, or what the defendant called vegetable powder,

which is nothing more nor less than burnt pease and beans ground in a mill.

Spencer, the officer of the Excise, corroborated the above evidence, and stated, that the sham-coffee seized at the defendant's house was shown to Mr. Joseph Hubbard, grocer, and tea and coffee dealer, in High-street, in the Bor...