The National Register. — London, England, 1819-05-09 00:00:00

MAY 9. hcence.. It ass signed by between two and time thousand Li cen.ett Victuallers residing in the metno;Atlis. t'ent.on ' , wt. and ordered to be plated. . - . Mr. Bess LT then. in pu rsu e/ice of Ins notice. rose to move for leave ea acing in a Bill tin the bee ter reenlatioa ofthe granting of Licences to Publicaus. The Committee. which had been appointed to enquire into this subject, had unified the He taint no que.uon could come before tile hones which more deeply affected the morals of tee pi Noe, and more iineeriously de mentia-el the cuneelcriation of tee House.—(Hear !) As tie Reports had foe • b::n before the Hellie. he would nut fmigue teens eviui ti eve?nag tlirosieh the comenG of .iind docuineutt : he world content linen It with inivertitan to the law regarding the prancing of Licences as it now neon Toe principal law Was teat id the vont Geo. 11. ch. 35. That law for the that time gave the power of annually renewin g the Licences. Prior to that re: text Licenses were pot renewed annually ; teirg once ;Tuned they continued till the poatestors of them lonnited their Licences by ban condirt or impro, cc demeanor. It is also reeptire.l that applications should be sported be a certiticate font the ain 'Ll -t:an of the perish, the Parish o.facer s. k» In some counties they woad.; no, laceine witere the "ogneettre of the Clergyman wee wanting. ate' he co del mention instances, where the C•ergy men, from sample art conacteuce. amulet sign no Petition that between ems: two reguletheia soma:Mina no licence; at all conk! be obtateel. the nertenes:lrt the Clergymen renenilly signed ' the Cenatiestes us a mutter of course, rent tying a smell lee ; and time of the Parish tette:ere also as regularly signed the Certid catm. they like•viee 'exciting fees. Titus as far as the really re tort] nendeto enaracter of the cern:late was concerned, tee law was in fact a dead letter. On applying for a new licence, the Act required that the application shoule be steepened by a certi ficate wined by the Clergyman of the Fund' in which the IMAM was awaited. a. Wt.:l 44 to the Claurchweitleas, Overseers. kc. lie proposed is amend this part of the law. he eel:tiring the big nature of the Clergyman, a unijonty of the Overseers, itc. be. sites six parintioners • or 'wetted of the 08 ees, b: twelve pa rishionern And instead of reqiiiiing it from manna in the petals in which the house sew I, the signatures enould come from pewits of the nari.hin which the petitioner Tes , oll. 'lbis would make tine tecomanattatory ceitifieut% teeny enineeuee: for it was in evi dence that p :rem% who head been deprived of their Licences on account ui the bed cnaracter of the house* which Wry might pre viously have oacupied, after removing poseibly to the oeposite side of the street only had been licensed by &limner set of Manes trstio.—The recognizanems next clai n..l !mine. At Cie law etood. the recognizant:es were, the Publican to the amount of tOL and tam sureties in 31. each; but these texognizatiers were in fact a mere dead letter in town, u well as allover the country. The clerk held in his I n stil a teepee. celline over 'loam, tile parties bent( io reality sureties fur another; and besides there was no instance where there reeognizenert had been estreated. lie prrrptiserl to increase the anioult of the reneeniza flees, and to hare the patties reguliney sworn to the amount; in fact, to make tee neognizances real and acetic: is operation. Regardieg %nether part of the mode in whicit Magistrates conducted themselves. he lamented to say that a practice tad .risen of hate years which eas not warranted by any Act of Patnement—namely. that of inking &say Licences and of remain); them, without usigning any rtasen for such torden, or appealing to any Jury or other power, but at the mere will and pleaeureof the magi-oaten Ile did not whe to throw any slur ori the Alagiatentee—lie arty complained of the pittance which in operation produced most fatal conee. alliances. In the nletrepons it was particularly so. F.% idence tad been adduced, which chewed that licences were taken away by Magistrates on most vague and indefiente grounds; indeed. it was shown, that the had been recommended never to ash ;n any tea ens for taking away licences. It had theretcre happened, that there were many cases of pewits, who, after having kept houses fir years, with the approbation of Maginrates, auu the recommendation of Clergymen, Pareh Officers. etc. had betas arbitrarily and suddenly deprival of their Licences on some ua specified renown poesioly founded in error or misrepresentation. But no reasons for such cleerivetices, could be enamel ; and he had many well authenticate. cases where these refusal, had taken ▪ where the parties had the requisite certiticater, sic reru- Lasals that were frequently followed by distress sad ruin. There v as anomer evil resulting nein Leis p racdce which particularly shelved itself in Borough Towns. It was carried en us a greater extent than even he Had imagined, forward as lee was to suspect Magistrates, &e. where electionwring matters came in their way. la those Borough Towns this practice arbivanly caking away lacences, where the possessors may here ' , Wended during contested election., was corruptly exercised to an amazing extent; and he had the countenance of :tome very high Lew authorities for de claring that this pr settee was not founded in the kw of the land, certainly nut in the Act previously mentioned. The Act requiring the annual renewing of licences did not give the Magistrates any additional power mer the licences when they were can granted —their power was only ministerial after the Ineecces bad been (ranted; they were never judicial except where new Licences were to be granted. The end' Geo. 11. he intended should be repealed; and to substitute a gradual scale ot penalties. The first and sewed cemplainuthcuid be before the A:nein:rates, but the thirJ should be sent to a Jury ; and they should be en, powered to fine to the *amount of nein or to uecLare the Lit er.ce forfeited. According to the present practice, Licences were withdrawn on the ino. vogue and fanciful grounds • at tan amen pies antlenutivel tl.at 'could be ceetemptible, hut for the nits. ceietai whien ensued. His object was to give some little protection to the Publicans; to rescue them from b oi.iing the victims of raltry and petty cetirice; to secure than against the repetition of such misfortune, he proposed unit there should be an appeal against the deeisioneof tie Liceassng Manistrates. It was las opinion that such appeal should be to a Jury—but as this had Len heretofore objected to, on the ground that it would cast a slur on the Manistrates, he more proposed that the appeal should be teem the Licensing Magistrates to the Magistrates ansetneled ire Quart se Sessions. To de: he thought there could be no oh Section ; this could be casting no stain on the Magistracy ; and it would be giving preteetioa where protection ens wanting. the should also propel e, that where it was intended to apply for new Licences, throe months notice of such intention should be given ; and this would prevent panne front simegeling a licence. Ile also proposed no introduce a clause, the objet of which should be to chick the .system by which .hewers gut I owes into their own Linde. and ea/edified them in then own trade, and he p In accannpli.h this clad by rindeneg all connects, made by Brewers with Put beans, binding them to mite the articles soli train certain tinns, void, atter a curtain peeled. That the B ee. tea lied immune nuenLers of hatene, which they kept in 'Mir own trade, WU& notorious face. In his (Mr. Ons) own nngil heurhood there was not one public house that dal riot belong to Brewers. At one place in the country there were sixty-st Yen public houses, umd nearly all of thesis were in the same condition. At Warrington there were 17 or 114 public houses ; about la of them were in the hands of Brewers. In Maidstone there %etre about 4.10 public housea. neatly all of them were in the bands of Brewers and Distillers. By this &yawn' an artificial value was given to the bonen, and t h e verding of particular people's go ds was secured. whatever might be their quality.— Ct.c rail consequences of such a system were known and felt. To the principle of his proposed Bill he tlieught no one would tattier'. Ile had endeavoured to meet were of those (stein now annelained sf t and if the principle of the Bill were not objected ts, he nutted lie should not want then - beeper:salon of the Donee. (Ileser, bear r kit cuecluden setth tr.oring for Last to bring in e THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Bill for the better regulation of the &taming Licences to Publican,. _ _ Mr. BARN TT (of Rochester) and Mr. G. Liam—both rose to second the Motioo. which was afzerwards put and xgrted to; no 41 leave scrortlingly given to bring In such x remaining busta.ats being gone through. the House adjourned 71111DaY, MA V 6. A Iler some routine butinea Mr PaLi. preset.ted the Report of the Select Committee relating to the BAN K A 1-4 t lRy, nn.l the prop , iety ri`s1.1111114( Cash P.lt Illt ; wul.ll ens tem by ims Clerk, 414C1141111t coaxer...stem as In the omisr,i.,4l 'H uns 14 it essential so the pi. trot outlet of the maim mints. It was of insioeme female, stud occupied trrally as Maur mad a • iu the tratii gof •t. The Report essiumeneed with Mathis:, that the first &jets, of the Cm ~,,,, Rase Wis 4 to !! t une ohm si 1111 l mit of louti• the Bank hal out, ntid abet ncaus st pa) tag' 111:01 a err piss -e,,'d: the •111011111 of iiiites were Nand to tie ; to meet mica mumet, including Guveroarem sc,ueitim., I hi• llosit produced mean. to the ex tem of 39,0 0.00 d and upwards. This left a tuns of upwards of 5,000,1001. its 'masa. of the Batik, cactus seat matt waiald b.. p,,yahte (14,000,00)1. we (Mutt) in the event of orsomingthe t halt. r. It then adves teal Ili the price of Bullion since 1;97, mad to the partial resamptioo aif p a) meat in specie in !did, tom set cert min small mt. 4. HMI' MIIII4IOI load a half in sold specie was thus aimed het o rim 1817 110tI 1019, mad further Stnse is re.iri.teel I for it oHs timid Thor the gold wits ex priest, ;laid melted down by foreign commies. It next namationed ahc debts din• to the Itaak—the Acts net the subject—addax:, that the resinx mem% of the sans, broths. ed by Oorrennsiels were necessary 1 reparnimy to the renimpaitoi of rase pay at mi.. The amount of Ili e.e advanices ass one of the main Impediments to (lie retilillp Ma of rash pay trews, NMI the Colousittee, taelefinc. i,;msisimendeil sepaxineot us some of the mealw to eatable t think to Ise prepared in renew cools payments. know ling the espedieucy resuming cash ' I meets, th, Repoli pent into tengiheued delude referral to sloe mile ia xis appendix. and aiding, that the issue of Bank Not bad toren reduced anise ruin After a full cemoderation of Ili • eircumatance—the deb*, due to the Bana—the price of Bullion, dtc. the Committee ome deci dedly of %splints:l, that it aass espedieat to continue the rests Sefton, beyond .Isily 5. —The nest point was, shell cash paymegAs he renamed amount of specie in vireol before the war was romiuded to be 30,000,0 01. hot all that ammoit had been exported.— lit wits cousiderrd by lir. Komi, one. that forty.tive million loom& iu specie woull lie requinie to supply a utetallie that sues would not lie wasted at once After noticing the Wet/exclaim:cm. that had Leen experienced i i the Country by plymenfs mid recei,iis in Cash, onir Banker, Mr. Stuckey, steams that notes had hem pre feared, and it had cost much to remit the specie to LonJua ; and after suratiouing the effarts erotism. Con Aries to restore metallic fur wiper cur ✓ency which adviinces the prier of Bullion. it expressed the opinion that the Idiom:lac C ;siege resanyi o: Cash Pay ments float rrratly depend on the date of the E scheme. — Nis *apply met the Batik could have wou!d suffice, if they were ofilieed to pay OA at the rote of •11. I.F. lA4d. per ounce, lam( ms Winn. could tam sor 0 per cent. by ex porting it. The exchanges were now unfavourable, in cOll. bellilesieV nom foreisis init, however, itufavottushbq the eschanzes might be, the Committee saw nu teams, tatty payments should slot be made at rates rialto-taxies:sting to the deed prices of gold. The Committee therefore proposed that there 5h0i. 0 .3 be a gee:dual IT64111111• of paymeirs cording ta tfw fo!loo reale: —Atter Petite:try, 1420, till the 6.1 oaiug October, the Bank should pay humid out less wei:ht than 60 oz. at the rate of 4f. Is. per ounce; from October 18 0. till Nay 1821, at the sate of3 l . 19s. 64. per ounce ; mid after May 1821 fsr too or not Exceeding three yeam, at the old rate of 31. 17s. Ibid. By this plan, the sending builiois out so* the essuatry would be mode ed un prefliable ; mid the pa.ments sit C..sh reiriere.d gradual, which would prevent mildest diaine and mintsentient alarm.— TM, they thought would rescue order mid harmony; mud velitoolly a mandated would be established less merhsble than what had recently beets known. Oa the subjeel of lei gel its. the Cuoiniitiee did out conclude that the temp tation to forge woe Id he dituinnils d so lone as Its' Notes were in 101 l ;boot they could emumenicate that the syneni whirls hail been for seine time in cootemplation would be ready to be acted upon in oboist three month.. That sysieut ullordeel hopes fur being extensively los, lid, as it would especially give to the public • punter facility in delecliog forgeries.—The CoensuAtee afterwards Ir• contineueled the tepee' of the law ahich pcobibilest the expatiation of cons, and made it a tranaportaliie offeoce, because it promuied perjury. and placer Ilse violater of tke law in a sitoa.ton hr iter tildll time rail order coin gamily. The Repent nest ailses fed in the is•iiea of Comilry Bassi. 11;1,14.4, the aVer.me Agkivie.tte 29.1)00,0001. lint, in einichoilm. iht y to!mitted that it was diffiAlli to ascertain the emoithi. Mr. Prot. moved, that the Report du re upon the table, and be piloted. Mr..elElt IV asked what projecit the Chancellor of Ihr Exchequer had to hr la•J f 411 , to rub nut to Ilie 11€ ,•11 •111.1 or not resort ? CHAP,Ckt.LO,II .of tar EXtittst,ttLa begged to de cline waking u.u, rvy!ic• tiow ; he must abstam from pre mature disrlosuie%. Mr. Ttanstalt hOl $llOl was tit* case, he now gave notice, that o t Tuesday, the 18•11 instant, I e should move that the House 411) I emote stae:f mho a Cu.stinithre " on the State or the Notion.' —( Mitch rheet Inc.) Item t ordered to be pruned, Mr- Neel observing, that it iA ouRI be ready in xis or aeren vaelot. I.ord A. HAMILTON'S motion reverting the Scotch Rot glut, being disposed or, toe House atijoutnsti at a late hour. TAIDAT. NAY 7. llama ArrAurts.sll. PEEL gave notice, that on Mon day, May 17, he should mime that the lion.. tewl•e itself into a Committee to take into cotonaleiation the Report ieweetung the Bank Restrictions, die. 'l•lte Hou•e, on the ointion or land Castlcreach, was ordered to adjoui in Miltnhy brat At 110 11,1$ , ; • .illtt it ••a• slab tit drred tio.ot Cto iiiiiii Mg.". •hut.lJ sit uul••ttlbtutJ ie•c 311 y _ . lAA-E. nos 0. refs.—Dlr. W. WILLIAMS 'noted the t•e enttel of the 1.11/•eri”tv o..th.' Bull, the obje c t of %halt weJ to prcreta ths,at er4tltcce *tall the Ilcu;e -147 had Already derlarett to he liLe t, That of splitting vote', and of ~along Yol. 4t net the Cl, ..fan r,t e;i Mr. W. CM:I4I'O.A y was n,al iMI the BILI altogether, and itintid, titt All amentlation, that it he 11.411 • Aet:uni lime this day At% m e n.M., Mr. seijeant Oattt.tow warmly ttirtitroded the Rill, after whole the H•io.r 111 , 1. 1 .. d. 1!..1 Were--For the 27—Agitiit•r, 16— Niajoi it v Agsiutt it, t4l. The Hothe having res..l% ea itself tutu A Coballitite Of Supply, Lord PALMERsTON Imanglit rmArti the Artily Fit:- 11141ga. In the plogtt , ..st his (IEI4II, 111‘Lord.litp that in the Artily at H do re w as aIL lion of 10,0 0 men, but that the diminution in the N bole lucre Ma* upwards 0'24 0 0 Men ; the re.thelinel in the ettpette Itowert.r, roll otd he .".1 41C41 MAIM 1,16i4111 pill In find it, as it would he r. tnenitturril that a large i.nutiois of our force had heretofore been paid out of the French ronirlbotiona. As to the 0: duanee 1/crurtinent,, Ills ledise1;011 111. le was CuliThi , wijie; the Fitsainre 1a.141 etattilas .1 it li.i jot :or 11111n,;111 td vn to 2.4o.oJoL—its &outwit tra , 15 ',COG/. toleinJed with moving a eerie. of ,:r f.i u e s•srvice se. ..ottiltctc. Arks' an eatrii.ird ronver,i,lo,l they mese atereed le; Awl the taw./ disioaa.l uf, ILr 11 0115 r ailjouructi tit Altinda). AGRICULTURAL REPORT. In ennsequener of the grit:n.4l of the wea ther. the crops are every where 1..0k ma well ; a tiu , season for Barley and other Suring Coin <owing " •4 scarcely ever remembered. The mummy of NM lit. t fell duriii,t the h, bong too h I toe Cons, 11Gia Lean e1111,4(1/ to ii..!Cp (11C 1•16(11 in grs,i order. aid materially to ba..t.fd the pas:tires, which :...e remarkably full of lied. A great proohrtiiiii of Met mud be saved for fluorin:4 the I iyeri falling very far short• of the usual breadth for hay; a sort of fatal:l seems to attend diem. for or those which survived the earreine drought of last year, many do not appear lc, grow, ate ;nit. of plant, sod full of rubbish. There is a prodigious snow of blossom oat fruitdreesef all kind:, particularly items, which .vrre %Tr y tiearte I.rt year, but promise, oleo!' destroyed by cold rim winds, us make up for the deficiency this. Our nights have hero frosty (fibrin; the last week, hot we hove on mate rial injury has been occasioned. Toe Wheats ceriaiivy have beet. beiirtitied by such a check. fur they were get nog iiiii ch. too forward it. titnnch that tiumbers of farmers hate bee.. obli„ied to mow off t h e lops, to revei , t their being laid by the first min that meal.% fall; io which case it is clear they could come to nothing ; and whether clotting them will ultimately do any goad. re inalos to be proved. Store Bullocks are selling vet . , high ; not so Sheep, which come to market its are a hers, but do not find buyers,: they are luiver by many shillings a head. The Artists' Gestem. rand Soe;e7 held its fifth anniversary at the Freetll43olll . Tavern Monday last. The Dole, of Slim% presided over t company ac respectable as it could possibly he, aud . IP.* 111 Mg but the importance of the debate in th. Flouse of Commons could have prevented its being more nume rous. Tim collection after tliourreolottritril to near 10oul. Among the names we observed, the Lai • : Bridgewater. 10 guineas; the liirquis of Lansdovio• g ear; the Earl of Aberdeen, 10 guineaa; net la fret, ail.; the lord Advocate of Scotlantl. 10 gui neas ; and some others. I'Ve stop not to notice the con viviality, the toads. or the proceedings of the evening. but hasten to advert to a much more important fact ; we mean the existence of ;mother Society rewitialiog this closely inn:1111C. but essentially dithering hum it in liberality—we mesa the Arti.ta' Btodevolott Fut* and we shall conclude by simply pointing out the dillerend_ between the two. The toof!s of the latter are devoted erclusircly to the relief of its owl members, at tht widows and orphans; while the funds of the Societ, whose fetal anniversary we have novv the pleasure to record, are open to the demands of any artist in distryst, or in case of his death, are willingly made applicable hi the relief of his widow or orphans. The dalerence it; point of liberality needs not a sins,le observationautd we cannot do better than quote a few senteoces ruin the declaration of the The GYMERAL Fond Soeirty. —" The Artisis' Beqemlette fetd, catahiilliell in 1810, is exclusively applied to the seller of the soil oi pilaus of a bent fit club, composed of a society ofartistt, umlcr the tome of lie 14.1 Stock Fand Manyy pa trons of art, and artists, were iiidoced io st.baCt: this fund, tinder an int pressioo, from its title. that they emanatedl to a n institution 'or the relief or nuts gertrrelly.—:le drtiet‘' GBNLRAL Petterolent founded or 1814, hut ha such limit:Mott ; no exclusise privileges belong to any individuals; its useinhers con sist only of benevolent subscribers. whose ohjoct is, by sit appeal to public liberality, to extend relict to a:I rhs. tressed artists, whose works are known and rsternied by the public, u well as to their widows and orphans.—. Merit end distress form the Licit and only claim to its ben,•%olettee. Lord Lauderdale has, we understand, strentiotudy urged an alteration of t' •e reg-thiCons, Lit what has been done we do nut know. It the rela tive prices of gold and silver were propoonleAl :n the abstract, a man would certainly inter, that tke silver would drive the gold oat of circulation : hut . wo have the assertion of individuals possessing the ad vantage of personal experieneu, with .aglieity mild exactness of observation, that the Mutt rvgalatiutts have tict and do nut preducc this erect.