The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-01-27 00:00:00

/ r. ‘"lr'llgT 9 r7 -~~.~ ...: 4 .7111PF7= 7 /ir - - - BREWERS' MEETING Yesterday a numerous and respectable Meeting was held in the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, on the important subject of the present Monopoly existing among the rewers of the Metropolis. Sir HENRY WILSON. • Magistrate of the County of Middlesex, was called to the Chair. After es prepieg his earnest wish that no political topics shotrld be introduced, he proceeded as follows:—• 91 -':+Meet aeon whkh wo-vire siset .is only es. 11,111 - Vwfurbs ..•. - tremely delicate, as well as essential, fur it is to call upon those who ate leading characters amongst the .Brewers of the Metropolis, to accouut for conduct. which lo the community appears to be nothing less than 'riding? ; that °redeeming -the price of the commodity in which they deal, to the great prejudice of the lotror eiders, sad stitholitossigning any cause. for the lactose'. It will appear necessary to discuss . •the subject.in such a wanner as to prevent any pre.. jadice ;• and, on the other hand, the intermits of the community are so concerned an t ed render it obliga-, tory upon all who ate otcquai with the subject, to eater into it with a feeling solely proceeding from t view to the public good. las long enough in the world to know that no greater honour and honesty -;.0XL1011 among any People than among those who ;form the community of this kingdom, and that if sa -tisfactory grounds are shown, I am mire all the or. :viers will sobnitt to deprivation.--(Appleure.). -- B ot that a class of Gentlemen should, without saying a word about the natter, raise the price of a commo dity in which the poor are compelled to deal, is al c i rcums tance not to be endured. There is now a pliblic opportunity of stating the grOunds on which those Gentlemen are acting ; and.if they prove that their increased demand upon the Public in just, there will not be the slightest hesitation in acquiescing in sn'tniportant a regulation.—( firplause )— A half. c pettny increased demand in, a pot of beer does not affect those to whom I address myself at this Meet ing; but to the labourer it is a serious circumstance, *milt is our duty to see that those who are subject -to the imposition, and are sufferers by it, shall not sink under ill treatment. It is true, those Gen. tlelnen have launched into speculations, and depo sited' capital, by which the People are benefited ; they therefore have an indisputable claim to a fair remuneration ; but . this is a time at which it might retitonably be expected beer should nut he raised, for part of the Duty.has been taken off, the price of malt 'has been reduced, and labour is paid in propor tion to the badness of the times. It is ander these circusestatices necessary to exhibit to the Public the causes of this extraordinary demand. If those Ho. nourable Gentlemen wish to grow rich upon the mitala of their fellow-men, I wish them joy of their riches, in which I would not be a participator to the prejudice of millions.—(Applouse.) - 'Ms. DRVRY (a Brewer) would not have tres. passed at all on the Meeting, had he not felt himself in dispensably bound to do so. after what had just been statetrfroon the Chair. The title of the Advertise. went for calling the Meeting was such, ate 110 could not have espected from the lihersl-minded Gentle. .teen who composed the Meeting. But the Brewers are to be condemned by anticipation ; they were to te accused, judged, and punished, without being /beard. He hoped, however, to, be able to vindicate 'the character of that body of men from the impute tiOn so inconsiderately cast upon them, that the rise of porter to sixpence per pot, was the mere result of uonnopoly, or eiaction on their parts, and not ow ling to other causes, by wttiO .they were influenced, bud over which they could have no controul ; and he phould not have stood fbruerd this day for their Vindication if he 'were not prepared to make out statements in proof of his assertions, as should show the_ Brewers were not deserving the blame thus pre• cipitately cast on them. Ile would therefore state, that altliouAti the Brewer's price of porter to the Consumer was sixpence per pot, the price the Brewer received was hut fourpence halfpenny. There was a duty' of ten shiltings per barrel on the beer, which•amootitesl to 13.16ths of a Id. per pot, then the Malt Duty amounted to 7-16th , of a penny per pot. There was a heavy duty on foreign Hops, which amounted to a farthing, or 4.l6ths of a penny, on each pot of beer, all which deducted from the price received by the Brewer from the Publican (the latter receiving a profit of 1.1. d. per pot), left the Brewer but threepeyee per pot for Barley, Ilnps, i expenses of manufacturing the Beer, and the Brew • er's profit, the items above enumerated, making with the 3d. the present price of porter. But besides the taxes on Malt and Il bps, the Brewer had a variety of other taxes to psy, which greatly diminished his profits—as the licences for his brewing-pan, and va• rions Charges under the head of taxes;" and while the profit allowed by the Brewer to the Victualler was twenty-five per cent. on his retail pritee. - yet great as that might seem, he was convinced that Victuallers, who were a most industrious body of • men, coold scarcely make a livelihood from this profit, 'when all fiteir ether heavy elpences were deducted. He weed. also endeavour to set the Chairman right in what he had stated respecting.the reduction said to have taken piece in the article of Malt: Prexious to the first rise. on porter, the Malt was raised from 345.•8d. to 655. the quarter.; and now the- avetage price is from 80s. to 86d. the quarter ; so that solar, from a reductiOn, there was am evident increase on the price. It was observed, also, that Governmetit bed tam! the War Duty olf the 44,11, merely to pat the amount into the pockets of thOlieewers; Where as the fact vas, that. 'though 'the :reduction' of the; War Duty brought Malt shown to 65r. the quarter on she 16th Jewry, when it endedoet theNalt•had since risen to M. per quarter, so thet,the high-pvices of 'leafy/lief, slid heavy taxes, were the true casino,' the rise on beer, and not any fault of the Brewers. The. CHAIRMAN said there was one. point the worthy Gentleinaii had not explained, anal that was. how it happened that porter should be at a much higher price, when malt and hops were lower, then last year,' when they were mach dearer. Mr. Beepitoser said, that as the Gentleman who, bad jtketieldretieedthe. Astitimbly had concluded. with opt a.ixtoirdtt, he should. briine forward onelor their adoptiiin. He had acquainted himself with the his-i tory oiltroviiro*Aoll their:iwicels for YO yeere, but particulotly fur the list:few yeses,;. end: be could tise.D4Ontsg t .as dti! 41a riled sea' OM mouoptili 14 the eicttioithia that cot. .., petition which took place for the , every other article of consumption. that from a fair comparison of the sent pafteid chtnpacett whit thaoll e 3e there Ives a fall of Is. 24. per boa l' of materials; and the cnn,segheihcp,vii instead' of lowering, ificreiSed thr shillinge per barrel. Ile had p . . ainswith•this sobject, but; wit rate as prissible, he had siritiew.t his enquiries ; and he hoped the 11 dcer'him, it he took the libeity if rridieg:Werett. paper which hil had prepared tbi statement aril tisk . subject. .. Mr. Beaumont then read the following statement " I have at various periods heard the Brewers say,' that their trade was not worth follostliog., Now 'I em disposed to attach every reasonable credit WA* declaratiotis of Gentlemen of such entineoce in ,50.7 ciety. I will therefore admit what they say to be true, thus far, that at certain times, when the mar ket hes run high, they (in their humane considera tion for the condition of the poor) forbore to raise the price of beer, as they might justifiably have done.; they made no profit; they even soffered loss; and that their lade atilsose times was not worth follow. ing ; bet wheit.tiiey did determine on the step, at all times so reluctantly taken by them, of , raising the price, they would not themselves fix a losing price—. for the loss of a shilling or two per barrel, continued• for yeais upon their great returns, would be ruinous, would be too great a sacrifice to expect from the public spirit of any men. I request my hearers to consider well the fairness, or 'otherwise, of this con clusion, bectuse much of the subsequent fastening' is built upon it. Referring back, therefore, 4 . 4 . i the prices per barreljust quoted, and which are seen to ke, in one case, a little under the market price, of the no. mina! quantity of the nominal material, and in other cases, a little above ii, we may come loan inferenc that the market price of the nominal quantities, and of i the duty, is suflicieut for the selling price of the manufactured articles, as it has been made -of late years. 1 think this is fair maiming upon their Gatti data ; but let one, two, or three shillings he added to the market price of the professed materials, as a necessaay surplus of charge per barrel. I have no objection to it. Let them have 3a., and they will then Lave more than they had in several years, viz., in 1799, in 1800, it' 1810, in 1812, and in 1813. — It will then follow that the surplus difference beyond such 3s. will -be an extra profit to the Brewer, un less, indeed, he hai proportionably added to the strength of the beer, but the sarplus difference of the selling price of the beer over that of the material has been in some years immense, 18s. and 20s-. and up wards. If the strengthening of the quality had fol lowed such an increase, we should have had an ex tract of malt so strong that it would have glued our lips together—in which case mine would now be sealed. But there has been nothing of the •kind : beer, generally speaking, for the last fifteen or twen ty years, has run on in a limpid and vapid stream, without any material variation. The excess of sur plus then has been au excess of profit to the Brewer. and when we consider the immense returns in this trade, that 100,000 barrels in a year is by no means equal to the quantity brewed by the principal houses; that in such a trade an advance of only ss; s barrel is equal to 25,0001. and that the advance•itt some years has been as much beyond what, according to their own showing and prices of their own fixing, is a suffi cient profit, we may readily account for the princely fortunes which have heen made in this trade in a short time, and the justice of the complaints of the labour: ing classes, at whose es pence such fortunes are-made. Let us now examine the alterations of the price in al successive order, with a view of discovering the occult I causes of their changes.. For' A year preying, to the first advance, made by the Brewers in 1799, 4s. 6d.1 per barrel was the nominal surplus above the mite vial. Upon its suhseqttent advance in 1804, the sm.. plea appeared sunk to 2s. In another in 1802, the difference was 7d. mines, that iv, the professed mate. rials cost more by 7d. per barrel, then the beer when made was sold for. The materials then became cheaper 25 per cent., npotr which the Brewers in ' 1802 lowered their prise li per cent., and made their .sarplus 7s. 9d.; this was taken so kindly by the . Public, that in less than four months (the materia all this while lowering from 27 5. to 234.) upon the re -1 duction of 4s. in the materials, .the. Brewers raised' their prices five shillings. The materials seek from 275. to 235.; and the beer was raised from 255. to '4os., but a climax was yet wanting. .lisJoly, 1803, - ithere was a rise of Is. in the materials, they still being 3s. under the last price, when the barrel was at 355. and ender the price in 1799, when the barrel was 301.; under these circumstances of cheapness in ~materials, the price to the Public was raised to 455. ' per barrel—in other words, beer was raised to sd. ,per pot, white the malt, hops, and duty collectively (were less than they were in 1799, when- beer war !sold ter 31d. per pot I an excess of three half-pence met pot over former profits; and he it always bore in ?hind, that an advance of a "airsgle hstfpeorry gives: 00,0001. to the Brewers of 200,000 barrels. At -thiso period, the-Brewers were for more insatiable tilinti l p l ow.. They found by experience that they had only t to foe a price, and the. Public most pay it Upon al *mill advance in the materials,•therefore, they saided tbeir price two steps at mice, from 5(1. 'ii OM. per pot, the beer, at the same time, being most 'wretched. — ;Upon •this the Golden-lane -Brewery war projected, wen the Brewers drew in their horrri,•and went back instantly from 6d. to 51. This competition , did the Public great service i it caused the trality-of the beer to be _mended, and the prices to be kept down, *bile the material rose; nor did the Brewers then venture to raise their prices for eight years. — This establiahment Wm* for come time; but, as I am told, (twin* to mismanagement, to -misty disad- I vantages arising from the hostility and power of the Brewer's: to their castomere in low uelghboerhoods leaving them for other breweries where they might expect a • better *protection in theii licences; sitikr, above all, to their beinte obliged . fromithe pane 'ni. tore of• their accounts, ee:"arthertr- to malt and bops only, they have not been prostOrerist - The ni•Xt.iii cretaseites made inllll3.- it vriV left - a-gtrpW dif. foresee of .11.65..0(d. - between the Pike bf the - vitit"* . I.lllale and of beer w.tren snide.' The 4alait' br i be s tint : crisis Increased still higher; aid • the killrChriloutWl illoptimiser,' to: minke a still ftirtheriticreffite in Yu= try, •1814. The price was now reit:et/to Ili Mgheit ......were) bed ennferred, so loWer the psice, but to loci _ _ fore the next sitting of ,Parliamant, however, they thought proper take off a halfpeney per pot, re &win their surplus, whiCh had been ifts. lid. tpthe yet With surplus of 141. 544. The nem: yearthey took off another halfpenny. In the succedding year, 1816, the peke of the material's rose, and Upon this, strange to say, they seduced their beer another far thing. The reason that could induce these Gentlemen, after continuing their price at 45s.for a year and a half,' epos the rise of their materials, to lower their price. to 405., is quite inexplicable; unless, Indeed, the in- - vestigations of the Police Committee, then becoming public, hastened the decision. Since then there has. been two steps of increase of pricer, both in tau:- . terials and in beer; but, since the' rise in January last year, the price of materials has lessened ; the• amount of malt, hops, and duty is 11.2 d. per barrel: less than it was last year. Now, what is done epos this decrease of expence? The barrel of beer is raised 55., the quart is 'raised from 5-id. to 6d. The materials now amount to no more than 454. s.ld.sper barrel, and the price to the consumer is . raised equal to the highest price charged during the war, when the War Malt Tax was on, and the price of the materials was 525. 61, is. snore than ht present : but fat us view the effect of this rise in the aggregate, not that the profit now exacted is half so excessive as /niters in formeryears, in 1803, tsl3, end 1814, for instance. First, I think we may fairly assume, that the Brewers last year did not fix a price to carry on a losing trade, end theesperyceshave since been lessen , ing. I know that large sums were given by the Brewers during that year forternss in licen,ed houses, that is, for the privilege of selling beer-8001; for one station, 1,0001. for another; 1,5001. for a third, and so on—pretty strong symptoms that brewing (lieu commanded a profit worth having. • The 6s. 2d. per barrel surplus above last year's prices of materials given by the lest rise may therefore be considered as an extra profit. We will first examine the effect of-this on the trade of a single house. One house, deservedly popular, brewed 330, 1 201 barrels in 1816. The extra profits to that house upon one year's t rade, therefore, will give a sum of 101,8141.195. But the whole amount brewed by the It breweries, in the same year, was 1,446,038 barrels, upon which the extra profit gives 445,8611. Is. 4d., by far the greater part of which is extracted from the pockets of labouriog poor of the metropolis. A fine harvest truly ! Without any particular exertion of intellect, without any risk, a few Gentlemen, the heads of the eleven breweries, meet together, combine, and give , the word for nearly half a million sterlieg to be transferred from the pockets of the poor." Mr. B. then proceeded to read abtracts from the different Acts of Parliament whirls had been passed in rliffei eta periods of our history on the subject of Brewing; and it would be seen that all these Acts were first in itt favour of the liberty of the People ; but thst the Acts passed in modern times were directly of a eon. trary tendency. An Act of Henry 111. fired the price of beer according to the price of barley. An Act of the 23d of Edward 111. fixed the assize of I beer. lii the reign of F.iward IV. en Art was passed ' for granting Letters Patent in favour of Brewers,. who then acquired a monopoly s o o tiro , ise t o th e subjects, apd by which the eztortioes - of the Brewers became an great, that it was necessery tot abolish the Patents that granted these monnnolies. In the reign of Henry VIII. and Edward VI. Acts were passed against Brewers foood conspiring to raise the price of beer; and for such offences they were to he punished by standing in the pillory, having one ear cot off, and to be subject to perpetual Warne. In the reign of Edward VI. an Act was pass e d to em power Magistrates to grant licences to Publicans; but that wile done only for the ' , depose of preventing the had and disorderly behaviour which prevailed in Public•houses. James L afterwards granted Letters Patent to Brewers; his son Charles did the same, and made them pay large sums of money for the licendik but his object in doing this was only to put the money into his own Exchequer. In those Letters it .was stated, as one of the reasons for issuing them, that the beer was too strong,and heady, and Caused intoxication.--( Laughter.)—lt seemed that this King, in his paternal solicitude fur the heads of his stibjet* .—a solicitude which they did not afterwards shotil for his head—(Applausc)—thought proper to assign this as the reason for issuing his Patents. After 4 his, in 1661, the trade became completely free and open ; because the oppressions of former times could uo longer be endured ; and it was not until the Reign of George 11. that the present system of licensing was adopted. The intention and avowed object was to check the disorderly practices that prevailed in Pub. lic•houses„ atid it was enacted that licences should be granted only for owe year, at the expiration of which time the licences were to be renewed. It was this Act which laid the foundation of that monopoly which now existed, and rendered the fabric of it com plete. It gave Justices the power of deciding, with. out appeal, what persons should obtain Brewers; and constiteted little parcels of Justices jo every dis trict, the absolute misters of thelicensing trade. A free trade exisird at that time ; the Brewers were very numerous; vast capitals were not accumulated by individuals, and the growing evils of monopoly were not perceived. But during the list 30 years, there being a vast increase of new houses in the Me tropolis, the Brewers wereable to get possession of almost all the Pattlic.bouses : and then the present ' 'monopoly begets to, be tompleted; so that, at the. 1 , preseut moment, the whole- trade of brewing welt concentrated in the hands of eleven great Brewere., It was not his object noye . to go lute a detail of ails the oppressions whicfi had arisen of late years tautly*, the prerient system ; bees prse, v tliese were to be fouled] in the ?oboe/Lepers', sadist, tenests of proceetlitt. in Carreto eiJostiee, tit 'aeltkit, were already before Aft Pub,ll4:ftlePpeered, tiimp . isti e irling, in a Gerrit .4, liw,-theinileence had been. tirlrewaway from a Pub.' lican, becattse hi bad vita Ter a pnitictrtar tibdt- Iraq power as. pas now ettereis . ed in England exi l e s & Any man mit* , had a sulSeient capital - and a good clearsortei:shaletht brew and sell beer. Such' wee sh. ipitielnerat this moment in Vraoce, Holland, stud Gefillalfy.‘' * had conversed with several M em b er . of Parliimedt at to the mode of getting rid of this system of licensing; but the whole appeared to be bad, thit it could not be mended, for etwaauld be nor cessary to change the whole system in priaciple. • Li s t cences indeed were granted for many innocent pops proms, such. as a licence to flour one's hair, a keno .lobe married, dec.:sad all these were easily obtained i but the licences for selling beer were trot to he bad s racer at the arbitrary' will of a set of Magistrates, Alive as they all. must be to the injuriousness of shit keyitein, they must not patiently sit 'down under it', particularly so, si hen, if they know what he had seem that numbers of reen.had been reined, and driven to -werlf,houses in consequence of it. Was it to he e n; dured, that a power should ezist at this day wltkl had been forbidden lit the reigns of Etiward,• ei James, and Charles? Brit he would rather submit tt the tyranny of one King, than to the arbitrary tee pother of some hundreds of petty tyrants. 'The cull use he tool ever known in the present system of ti ceasing *set .thatit exhibited a disgusting picture a arbitrary - priwer.• On a proposition for Lakin away the discretionary power, they were celled two to consider the property which was at stake; wit this property, he submitted, they had nothing to di Every farthing of the capital which was laid out we to expended, solely with a view to commanding trad right or wrong.—(Hear!)-1f the Brewer laid out bemired thousand 'pounds in houses, and anothl huikdrid thousaud in trade, his object was to gal prefit by both ; and thus the Public paid not aloe for a decoction of malt and hops, but for an Jamie of licences.--(cheers).— It was oat orally ask el how a redress of these abuses was to be obtained?. He admitted that the task would be an arduous oni but at the same time he was satisfied that it was n a hopeless one. It was true that there was a gre phalanx of power and interest against them, but 1 power of the Public was great also. They had al a free Press in their favour ; and it was but just remark, that all the Newspapers, of whatever pe tics! principles, advocated zealously and ably I cause of the Public on this subject, and joined in e precating the system of the Brewers.—( Loud and pealed cheers).—Under all the circumstances, he peated,t hit be thought their case far from hopeless, o trusted that by one common zeal, and by determii perseverance, they would have old beer and prices.--(Cheers.)— In conclusion, the Homier* Gentleman declared his intention to move tke stri of Resolutions which he hail already published some of the Public Papers, in order that it might be supposed his intention was of an underhand , cask description. He then moved the first Rem lion : .o 'That high legal authorities have declared all Monopoli be 4gaitif , t the ancient had fundamental Laws of too Realm hijorions 10 lil e Public ; tirst, bs ra:sing the price of coma i ties; second, hr diminishing their quality ; t h ird, by import i tog poor manufacturers." Mr. TlLLotit rose. to second this Resolution. was a truism upon which no difierence of opii • could arise. He bad listened with attention to that had Callen as well known the Gentleman who lost spolkeu, as from the Gentleman at the other of .the table (Mr. Drury): Oce or two obvious I soitutally presented themselves to his mind. '1 had been told, that the Brewers were a respect and honourable set of men; he believed they w • tiot dense who knew human nature would agree ' him in thinking, thet all men who acted in a ii .would •oppress their fellow enten.--(Hear:)— would not say that Brewers were more liable to ( disposition than others ; but such was the niter Istiostaii society. ift was the evident object of all I :Wiser, oiling collectively or individually, to toal •much profit as they could, From. what he k i d he ;ha collected that the profita to the Publican as per:ceut., and to the Brewers 30 per cent. • T - Itis, question being called for, it was recomme that the Resolutions might be read all together, lit.ilistinct view might be.given of their object. ~,•"l . :Clier CHAIRMAN wished to know whet her I t er ;, iewny other person disposed to address the "tr ling. previous to the reading of the Resolutions. itMr. Beaumont then rose, sod read the Re loos, which are as follow :,-- 2. That the tregislot nre has payed numerous Statntes ish such as .tfe guilty of creating mu no p olics— p artie onopolies of the necessaries of life; and so early i airrcnnd and third of E4ward IV very heavy penaltin ImposedVictuallers who combined together to ra ice a victuals. naletaliog . upon a second repetition e to the pillory, the loss of an ear , and p er p en Y. ' N. That, ontwititstandiog the illegality of such candei la istury to the Vohlic. a asise . topoly - in the supply of hi 10 1 late Yeats been rai sed if vations4larts of England, at tiC,ularly in the htetroyinlis insomuels that the, whole cm Its parslation is enema by about a dozen great bre pLhpsivincipals act itt combinat ion÷-inecing together . l miners of.one caacern, tied ng the .prment whit MA he sold. - /, 4, 'Filet when the reduced price of malt and hops. Of pravender, and labour, the lessening the Tax iia Mak. I sob Orptent abolition of the Property Tax. emits Flllrewers to make great reductions in their accustomed, i 1 they, did not ina,k,e - guch reductions, but kept np their "ill nfter Wei, conduct had cached an t madverm . oas House of Colton'. alleging as &ream' for their doing their stock in hand must be first disp , ised of. 5. That so soon a , the failure of the harm/ in 1811 the price of mail to look up., aok While their steck.ww onatrected.cy the rise in dye mAtetials.. they.tettscsi ' riceut . beer ttstba curnamer,.whichpriges,they have la 'further advanced. 4 That the beer as saw made is so void of the nourisi invigorating qualities sililth .it formerly _possessed. anti tiaw-s so iingratefof,turl,Cien itijuriim to Me stomach, t :this deleterotts,iincederoti of which it •fs Compo.est, tl turner ere frirptentlyfiriygo, to, use.a mixture of g i n WI ive it toe semblan c e or strength add spirit, or still mor dleially to the drinking of gin ilititcad ofticer. I 0 t 7 llmlM . Tiia rn i t 4l o o pli l ly:to il owirat i la u y in tll e e i lg a r roi ll i n tre ced fr a t e n i r r i .i h n i a r r e s iw •e i ' l i t i lti b a c hattl y .t- i hr si .stittitional power gistp to Jostler. of. 14e Police in pier Ave localities to prevent any persons vending herr. r e .eck Persons metro sorb larasesses.strey pleat... ; a e li c " , e l _,, s ir helix z:4,l;r ie c t ,_ l: .) , e;t fi t t o v e 4 l:l o 3lt r m aiTttlreitcrilotruTtml, men, is Lie i n f.,: ; rulty 71-.1: ' .. • • . .. , s . • - ~- :-. 5. ; .J: . 4 •Ai :t . ' . • ~ . • i THE STATESMAN. • .. • .... . _ ~ .. public advantage in pitch, iLis. to the price we are now called ainspit , .. date at in election, in opposition to' the will of the tn. He contended, pay, brit , 'Pined price only left. Che t B If : * licensing Magistrate. And itorould appear Owl that be prices-oft Akpre.-_. soy I Vs. ~, above the marketßriete or -i l h map. outrheewrserhia,dainodstaontihheeiarrtshtfohouirssemsesolomliniebilntilt:;r:rcsohanatisgaminnig:htnthttebeirr (tr e. ;e Avie ( vtti; - -tert , • owever s th e inatiebri :drop al ‘• is OM mom* 'Wks,. reilOo Al,4trice . of,bettet.•, lihe lirew . price ß . Such circ d umstances were tl4tailetl in the Po. ep, was, 44 nifinkee, pe t . fi l effsiees or disturbing Alms settled' order of lice. eports ; iite coMmodaY fife things. Tteir surplus rose to nearly 20s. per bairettnutid, in prisons and in workhouses, who were ro. takt-11,q9P,)04:11)le- Plic--Y1k."1"549-1-ibia"luarl•"P±Pg."'ltrreses.llo. • s ...Hied and obliged to take shelter there, in conseque nc e lifting tribe tea - ctn.; bi the Hamm orCemmons of the unreasonable prices of of having been unjustly deprived of the* licenigh, doer& tbet reseitof •the-Breweeit,-41benIMr: Whitbread replied, that they He had himself been in foreign count Victnalterries;and con. Meeting would par- (the Brewers) kadocrferred, and bad deterroleedltqt -versed. with sevuzal btagiatsatas end tis --r ...,:m.,,, t m „,,,V to tower the pike, put to increase the quality. Be- those CoUntriel; where he found that no such arlii.. .. .____ ----. MIL Ma a nMa **Peek eel in England etiovii_ '4 -~- - . wirr. ~---- I ! :- ~~: