[320] ] Ibid. April 7, 1711.
[321] ] Letter to Mr. Congreve, April 7, 1715.
[322] ] Mrs. Centlivre’s A Bold Stroke for a Wife, act i. sc. 1, 1718.
[323] ] Fielding’s The Miser, 1732.
[324] ] The Rake’s Progress, or the Humours of Drury Lane: a poem published in 1735, to accompany a set of prints pirated from Hogarth’s.
[325] ] Blunt’s Geneva: a poem dedicated to Sir R. Walpole, 1729.
[326] ] Hoadley’s Suspicious Husband, act iv. sc. 1, 1747.
[327] ] This wine, though sometimes sent by way of Dunkirk, was usually forwarded viâ Calais, by the intermediary of a Sieur Labertauche, a commission-agent at that port, the cost of transport from Epernay to Calais being from 70 to 75 livres per queue. A bobillon of wine was sent with each lot of casks for filling up. Moreover, from 1731 Bertin annually despatches a certain quantity of cream of tartar, destined to cure the ropiness to which all white wines were especially subject before the discovery that tannin destroys the principle engendering this disease.
[328] ] Chabane appears to have been fully cognisant of the method of collage and soutirage (fining and racking) practised in the Champagne; and Bertin, in one of his letters dated July 1752, mentions the enclosure of a receipt for a kind of collage, by following which all necessity to dépoter the bottles is obviated. This enclosure is unfortunately lost.
[329] ] Ms. correspondence of Bertin du Rocheret, quoted by M. Louis Perrier in his Mémoire sur le Vin de Champagne. M. Perrier states that the prohibition was removed by an act of the 1st Nov. 1745; and a letter of Bertin to Chabane, the following year, bears this out. It is therefore singular to find the following entry in Bubb Doddington’s Diary, under the date of Feb. 1, 1753: ‘Went to the House to vote for liberty to import Champaign in bottles. Lord Hillsborough moved it; Mr. Fox seconded it. We lost the Motion. Ayes, 74; Noes, 141.’