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Ok-!'/A.,?6,4 a ,_....,,,, ~ r • '',l ' ; • ii 1 r v -.. . ~. . ( .-- - - f .' , Er , PI --- - . ' - i-iirO , • i 1 ~' • -....- ‘... inn ,„.,,.. •, ; , 11 r.Liall" ~ i, ' llliii , ba -- ....,,,. i~~~ No. 12,263. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1831. PRICE 7D. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, DEC. 26, 1831. NOTICE is hereby given, that a SESSION of OYER and TERMINER and GAOL DE LIVERY for the Trial of Offences committed on the HIGH SEAS, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of itzgland, will be held at Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey, London, on THURSDAY, the 2d of February next, at Eight o'clock in the morning. And all Sheriffs, Gaolers, and Keepers of Prisons, in whose custody any Prisoners, charged with Offences com mitted on the High Seas, or within the said Jurisdiction may be, are hereby required to transmit a copy of the Commitment of every such Prisoner to Mr. CHARLES JONES, the Solicitor of the Admiralty, at his office, No. 10, Lancaster-place, Strand, London, i❑ order that th e necessary measures may be taken, for removing all such Prisoners to his Majesty's Gaol of Newgate, for trial at the slid intended Session : and all Mayors, Justices, Coroners, and other Officers, before whom say Inquisi tions, Informations, Examinations, or Recognizances may have been taken touching any such Offences, are required to transmit the same forthwith to Mr. JOHN CLARK, the Clerk of Arraigns of the High Court of Admi ralty of England, at his Office, at the Sessions House in th e Old Bailey, London. GEORGE ELLIOT. EAST INDIA-HOUSE, DEC. 21, 1831. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND, TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice, That a GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY Wnl be held at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WED NESDAY, the Ilth January next, from Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon until Six in the Evening, to ballot on the following Question, viz.:— " That Mr. David Greenhill, late of the Bombay Civil Establishment, be permitted to return to the Service, under the provision of the Act of the 33d Geo. 111. cap. 52, sec. 70, with the Rank which he held when he quitted Bombay, agreeably to the Act of the 53d Geo. III• cap. 155, sec. 85." In order to determine by such Ballot, whether three Parts in four of the Proprietors present at such General Court consent that Mr. David Greenhill be permitted to return with the said rank to India. PETER AUBER, Secretary. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM. THE SUBSCRIBERS are respectfully in formed that the ANNUAL GENERAL MEET ING will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate street, on FRIDAY, the 6th day of January next, at Two for Three o'clock precisely, to ELECT SIX TEEN GO VERNORS, Eight from the present List, and Eight from the General Body of Subscribers (being Licensed Victual lers), to receive the Report of the Governors on the state Ind management of the Institution during the past year, to revise the Rules of the Institution, and on other affairs By order of the Governors, THOMAS JONES, Secretary. 20, King's Arms'-yard, Coleman-street, Dec. 31, 1831. I NCORRODIBLE ARTIFICIAL TEETH FIXED ON THE PARISIAN PRINCIPLE, AND FILLING DECAYED TEETH WITH MINERAL SUCCE MESSRS. J. and J. MALLAN, SUR GEON-DENTISTS, 9, HALF MOON-STREET, P ICCADILLY, grateful for the high and EXTENSIVE P ATRONAGE which has so eminently distinguished their Professional exertions since their arrival in the British Me-- tropolie, beg leave to announce to their Friends and the Public in general, that they still CONTINUE to RE LORE DECAYED TEETH,withtheirCELEBRATED MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM, so universally recom t4ended by the Faculty of London and Paris. The Ope ration is PERFORMED IN A FEW SECONDS, with out the SLIGHTEST PAIN, HEAT, or Pressure, and allay s th e mos t EXCRUCIATING PAIN , an d l ast i ng r many years ; they also FASTEN LOOSE TEETH, WHETHER ARISING from AGE, NEGLECT, or DISEASE in the GUMS. INCORROI)IBLE MI NERAL and NATURAL TEETH, from one to a COM PLETE Set, which are INCAPABLE of DISCO !.OURATION or CORROSION, and fixed without the i ncumbrance of Wires or any other LIGAI URES, and !Eimer every PURPOSE of ARTICULATION and A IASTICATION. Charges bs in Paris. All Operations performed on the Teeth. U.B. One of the above firm may be consulted for a ' 4 ort period at No. 58, Bold-street, Liverpool. CHOLERA MORBUS CURED BY MORISON'S UNIVERSAL MEDICINES ONLY. THE President and the Board of the Bri tish College of Health, New-road, King's Cross, London, on referring the British Public to their former "fitment of the undoubted success of the Universal Medi eines in stopping the ravages of the Cholera Morbui in 114 Baltic, as given, verbatim, from Mr. M. Gardner, their general Agent for the County of Durham, (who had !uPplied several Baltic vessels with the Medicine), beg d• oe to lay before the Public a letter, r e ceived this d a y "ma their general Agent of Lancashire, containing a still !lore corroborative proof of their full efficiency on this 4 `4.stating scourge SECOND REPORT MR. W. C. POOLE, (G ENERAL AGENT FO It LANCASHIRE) OF , ON CHOLERA MORBUS. TO MESSRS. MORISON AND MOAT, e G ENTLEMEN,—In addition to the long list of Cures of Cholera M 4, ,L l orbus, in Manchester, under my direction, with the' Universal e dicines,' which have been published in all the Provincial opera, and which you have collected among your fourth series ZCures' that have risen since the public a tion of the Third Edi '4l of Morisoniana,' I now send you a further selection of a ittrt towns least, 130 cures of Cholera, which I have performed in '3 and county, armed only with the powers of your simple ' 4 4 harmless Pills, viz. : ," Mrs. Smith, shopkeeper, No. 6, Mount-street, Manchester, • taken dangerously ill with Cholera, Nov. 4, 1831 :—Cramps, i t ros, and every dangerous symptom attending this disease ; ihd mere so, as she had lain in only a fortnight —A perfect cure B ,four days. The daughter of the above Mrs. Smith was a lso dangerously - `'acked with Cholera, on Nov. 13th. A continual passage of stet thing, as swallowed, would run through the bowels home the fundament, continually down, had become quite raw firth burning heat; cramps and spasms excessive —indeed, so fldwere the sufferings of the poor child (five years old), and iMocking to behold, that its parents thought her bowels were ko truding. 1, however, eased their minds on that head, and ef ftteci a perfect cure in four days. t I , On the 23d, Mr. Smith the father, was also most violently at tflked 'with Cholera, so touch so as to endanger his life.—No- L i .... 44 short of prompt and immediate attention could have saved • His Cholera came on through a fright, from a carriage (ang thrown him down, and nearly killed him—which naps fortunately), produced a severe attack of diarrhea, fr ) lnpanied with most violent cramps and spasms all over him. ti e _ was, however perfectly cured in three days, and in his busi pi`.4 ever since. In this instance we have a clear proof of a e, producing the same symptoms and effects without the aid I.,.. e l)idemic attraction of Cholera, from whence it may be in "ro-11,._•.`eds that the hubbub which the doctors are kicking up on this Ls deficient of a scientific knowledge of its pathology, or % t utted by still less honourable motives. %v .- Mr. R o b er t B e tty, N o . 3, Littl e P e t er-s t ree t , M anc h es t er, . 7 ';l taken ill of the Cholera on the 26th N ovem b er . On th e `",. very ill ; and on the 2Sth, dangerous, a nd p as t a ll hope s . if t Wo, P.M. spasms and delirium ;at times, all but in a state ,i c hsanity : when he began to take the Universal Pills, which Itsihrmediate effbct, bv rcing a quick passage. By ten, p.m. jets himself quite well C o on the 20th, he walked all over the a tsh72Poclarming the glad tidings of his wonderful cure in so s-, ?e , time ; and on the 30th, was at work and in pfrfect health s‘r since. F. R. Patterson, 12, Alport-street, Manchester, was taken t,'..cienly and dangerously ill of the Cholera, attended with ti t `mPs, spasms, and almost bereft of reason. At five, p.m. on to e lit Dec-ember, she was in a truly dangerous state of alarm ✓ a U around her. On the 3d, she declared herself perfectly - ,,e(ls end came to see me. I have cured two of her children in the Small Pox, and ereport ll have to the cure of another child of her's, of the . r .'g . 3 Evil. V% ith ou t en t er i ng fl at h er, a t presen t , on t h e never t i gog efficacy of the Universals,' in every state and grade of Choler a ( w hi ch is so unnecessarily alarming this nation), I ,T 1 produce 100 more references in Manchester, of undoubted p ) l 'lence, of the Vegetable Universal Medicines being all sufficient 'lop the ravages of the Cholera Mortars. " I am, Gentlemen, " Most respectfully, your's, &c. 203, Deanegate, Manchester, \V. C. POOLE. 12th Dec. 1831." The " Vegetable Universal M e di c i nes " are t o b e b a d a t e Coll ege , New-road, King's-cross, London ; at the , trey Branch, 96, Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars; at Ai r 1 1 • Field's, 16, Air-street, Quadrant; Mr. Chappell's, Yal Exchange; Mr. Walker's, Lamb's Conduit passage, Lion-square ; Mr. J. Loft's, 10, Mile-end-road ; sde • Bennett's, Covent-Garden-market ; Mr. flaydon',, `* 4 - de-lis-court, Norton Falgate ; Mr. Hamlett's, 147, S il teliff e Highway; Messrs. Norbury'r, Brentford ; Mrs. all t4 'l)ping Clare-market ; Messrs. S a l mon , Littl e Bell ; Miss Varral's, 24, Lueam-street, Commercial-road ; • Beech's, 5, Upp er Cheyne-row, Ch e l sea ; M r . 4 PPIe, Royal Library, P a ll- m all ; M r s. Cl e m e nt, 12, ,!'he -street, Southwark ; Mr. M. Adams, Square, Isle ; Mr. Kirtlan, 4, Bolingbroke-row, Walworth ; • J. T. Tyl er , 96, Princes-sq uare , K enn i ng to n , an d at I sl e Agent's i n ever y principal tow n i n G rea t B r it a i n , t h e 1, of Guernsey, and Malta ; and,througbout the " 0 4 of the United States of An:ledge. Published this day, by R. HEWARD, 113, Strand, THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW, No. XXXI., containing the following articles :-- I. Archbishop of Dublin on Political Economy.—ll. Me moir of Sebastian Cabot.—lll. Weights and Measures.— IV. History of Medicine.—V. Greek Litera►ture in Scot land.—Vl. Moore's Life and Death of Lord Edward Fits gerald.—Vll. Adjustment of the House of Peers.—Vlll. Adventures on the Columbia River.—lX. Caledonians, Picts, and Scots.—X. Cooper's " Bravo."—Xl. Ani mal Ph} Biology. —XII. Romance and Reality. By L. E. L. XIII. Household-ra in Danger.—XlV. Tour of a Ger man Prince.—XV. Portuguese Africa.--X VI. Life of Turgot.—List of Bunks, &c. ''•• No. XXXII. will be published on the 31st of March. The Office of the Westminster Review is removed to No. 113, Strand. On Monday next trill be published, in small Svo. ss. Volume I. of THE first COMPLETE and UNIFORM Edition of the WORKS of LORD BYRON, w i t h his LETTERS and JOURNALS; and his LIFE. By THOMAS MOORE, Esq. " The noblest monument that can be raised to a po e t is a handsome edition of his works : and Mr. Murray will, by this undertaking, do more to enshrine the me !miry of our greatest modern poet in the hearts of posterity, than if he had sculptured his form in the whitest marble, or cast his limbs in some tremendous mould of colossal brass. The copyrights alone have been been purchased by him at a cost of more than twenty-five thousand pounds. We trust that he will find his account in an en terprise which does honour to the literary commerce of the country. The work is to appear in monthly parts, and the price of each volume, tastily clad in green, is fixed at only five shillings. The first volume contains a capital full. length likeness of the noble poet, and a land scape—one of those happy things from the hands of the Findens, which connoisseurs call a perfect gem. The publisher must print thirty thousand copies."—London Spectator. _ _ John Murray, Albemarle-street. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Moniteur of Wednesday.) PARIS, DEC. V.—All the letters from Bourg are eager to contradict the reports circulated by the Precurseur de Lyon, of pretended disturbances said to have broken out in the department of the Ain ; " No fermentation exists," they say ; " the taxes are paid rather slowly perhaps, but without any serious difficulty, and the delays which took place in the collection of them, arose from the distressed circum stances of some of the inhabitants, and by no means from disinclination to pay. The Government of this department, at once firm, intelligent, and mild, would insure the most perfect order, if the good spirit of the inhabitants were not the surest pledge of it. The Prefect, in the tour which he has just made, has had opportunities of convincing himself of the enlightened devotedness of onr fellow-citizens. and of the confidence which he personally enjoys." (From the .Messager des Chambres of Thursday.) PARIS, DEC. 28.—A letter from Marseilles says— " The Sully steam-boat, which sailed from Naples on the 15th of December, arrived in our port yesterday. This vessel touched at Civita Vecchia on the 18th of December. " Its arrival was impatiently expected to confirm or disprove the reports which have been spread re specting the tranquillity of the Papal States. The passengers on board the Sully heard nothing which could lead them to believe the truth of the accounts which we have given. " The Sully steam-boat brought us no news re specting the affairs of Rome, only that it was re ported at Civita Vecchia that the Papal troops were to occupy Bologna; but, however, that they were not to enter that city if they met with any resistance. "At Leghorn it was also said that in Bologna and in the other legations, the Austrians encouraged the Liberals to exclaim against the sovereig►►ty of the Pope."—Semaphore. We hear that Messrs. de Beaumont and de Toc queville, the two magistrates who have been sent by the Government to the United States to examine the penitentiary system, are preparing to return to Europe, their laborious researches being nearly completed. They have most carefully visited all the penitentiary establishments, and were every where received with a polite attention equally honourable to the two nations. The Americans have offered them all the documents and materials connected with the object of their mission, and local information was afforded them by well-informed persons. We may, therefore, expect a complete account of the pe nitentiary system adopted in A mericil. Messrs. de Beaumont and Tocqueville will stop in England oa their return, in order to compare the American sys tem with that adopted in Great Britain, and the comparison of these results with what has been done in France will, we hope, produce wise and useful plans for the impi - ovement of our prisons." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. UNION-HALL. Anne Lumley, a girl whose face presented a mass of bruises, and illary Smith, her compnnion, who also exhibited maks of punishment about the coun tenance, and whose clothes had been nearly all torn from her person, were brought up on the following charge : A — cab-driver, who made the charge, said, " Please your worship, them there two ladies got up into my wehicle last night, and desired me to drive them from Blackfrtars-road, to see Madame Vestris. On the road, they said I must drive them along at a slashing pace, or else they would pay nothing ; so 1 whips the hanimal, and off she went at a gallop. When we got to the theatre, they said they would not go in, so they ordered me to drive to Piccadily ; and on the way they said as how they were two servant maids that had come out for a Christmas spree, and that they was determined to have a re gular night of it. From Piccadilly I drove back up Regent-street into Oxford -street, and one of them expressing a wish to se e t h e h eart of St. Giles's, to have a lark there, I accordingly drove them into Buckeridge-street, and round the back slums in that there quarter. We stopped at five or six gin-shops on the way, and had mulled wine at one place, gin and cloves at another, and brandy and wuter at another, until my two customers began to get queerish. I wanted them to get out of the cab, but they swore they would not ; and shortly afterwards a desperate fight took place between them, one of them accusing the other of ramping' a gemman of 15 sovereignsand claiming her sha re o f t h e ro bb ery ." The one who had the money refused to part with any, and to end the contest the cabman drove them to the station-house, they having refused to pay hi , fare. Eleven sovereigns were found in the posses ,ion of one of the women, and they were both re manded on suspicion of robbing some person of the same. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. MOLASSES. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the ex pediency of admitting the use of Molasses in Breweries and Distilleries of the United Kingdom, subject to such restrictions and modifications of may he necessary for the protection of the several iwerests connected there with : and to whom the several Petitions presented to the House against the use of Molasses in the Breweries and Distilleries were referred ; and also were empowered to report their observations and opinion thereupon, toge ther with the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them, from time to time, to the House ; have, pursuant to the Order of the House, inquired into the matters to them referred, and agreed to the following Report : Your Committee deem it their duty, before they express an opinion, to point out the manner in which they have conducted their inquiries, and to call the attention of the House to the principal heads under which the subject has pre sented itself to their consideration. Your Committee has proceeded, in the first place, to examine into the state of the West India interests, and into the extent of relief which would be afforded to those interests by the proposed measure. Your Committee has, in the second place, heard evidence to ascertain in what manner the introduction of molasses would affect the brewers, distillers, and consumers of beer and spirits in this country, as well as the British agriculturists. And, in the third place, they have directed their attention to the probable effect of such a measure upon the public revenue. Bat as it has become evident, in the course of these inquiries, that the introduction of molasses into breweries and into distilleries are two very distinct propositions, which may be supported or opposed on very different grounds, it is the in tention of your Committee, after adverting to the condition of the West Indian intereAs, and to the supply of molasses, to sum up the evi dence which they have received under the two separate heads, of the introduction of molasses, first, into the breweries, and secondly, into the distilleries of this country, and to report their opinion separately upon the fiscal expediency as well as general propriety of each of these measures. It appeals from the evidence given before your Committee, that the West India interests are at this moment in a state of unparalleled depres sion ; whilst it has been stated by persons con• nected with those Colonies that the use of mo lasses in the breweries and distilleries would afford great relief to the West Indian cultivation, by opening a new market for the consumption of an important article of their produce. The measure which the West Indians contem plate for effecting this object is, that when the average price of barley is not less than 345. per quarter, the brewers should be permitted to use molasses in brewing ; and that at the same rate of price of barley the distiller should be allowed a drawback on the quantity of spirits produced, equivalent to the Customs duty of 9s. per cwt. on the molasses used in distillation. The benefit which is anticipated by the West Indians from this measure is an additional demand, and consequently an advanced price, for molasses, as well as a corresponding increase of price in rum and sugar; a benefit which must obviously depend on the extent of the supply of molasses, and upon the relative duties and prices at which equivalent quantities of malt and mo lasses in the case of the breweries, and of corn and molasses in the case of the distilleries, can be procured by the consumer. It is stated in evidence before your Committee that the total quantity of molasses produced in the West Indies amounts to 16,000,000 gallons, or about 1,454,000 cwts. ; of which it is calcu lated that about 1,000,000 cwts. come to Great Britain in the shape of rum and molasses. The proportion of rum to m o l asses b e i ng as seven to four. It is also stated, that the extreme quantity which would be supplied for the use of the breweries and distilleries would be about 500,000 cwts. It is now necessary to advert to the propor tioned value of grain and molasses in the pro duction of beer and spirits. The quantity of molasses equivalent to the quarter of malt, i. e. which will yield in solution an equal quantity of saccharine matter, or pro duce a wort of the same density with a quarter of malt, is variously stated by different witnesses. By Mr. Green, 2241b5. of molasses are reckoned equal to one quarter of malt ; by Mr. Heathorn, 2521b5. are stated to be equal to one quarter of malt. Dr. Ure, from very elaborate experiments, states that 2951b5. of molasses are equal to one quarter of malt weighing 3221b5. ; that 2751b5. are equal to one quarter of malt weighing 3021b5.; and that the average equivalent of one quarter of malt would be about 2851b5. On these last data Mr. Colville calculates, that the 500,000 cwts. of molasses would be equal to 200,000 or 220,000 quarters of barley. The present price of molasses is about 11. 3s. Gd. per cwt., whereof the prime cost is 14s. Gd per cwt., and the duty 9s. But it is stated that if permission weregiven to the brewers and distillers to make use of this article in their several processes, they could afford to pay the planter an advanced price of about ss. per cwt. It is however obvious that this presumed increase of price on molasses (which will, it is said, also raise the value of other colonial produce) must depend, first, on the demand being nearly equal to the supposed supply of 500,000 cwts. ; and secondly, upon the truth o f th e s tatement th a t the above-mentioned 500,000 cwts. is the maxi mum quantity ofmolasses which could be brought into the market. With regard to the extent of the demand, this will very much depend upon the admission of molasses being limited to breweries, or extended both to brewers and distilleries ; and your Com mittee will have occasion to revert to this part of the subject in discussing the question of the use of molasses in breweries. But your Committee are of opinion that there are cogcut reasons for supposing that the supply of molasses could be increased beyond 500,000 cwts. to an almost unlimited extent ; for it is stated by competent witnesses that a much larger proportion of cane juice might be converted into molasses in the West Indies than at this moment so converted, were it for the interest of the planter so to do ; and that such a procedure may become the in terest of the colonist is proved by the fact, that whilst the quantity of molasses imported into this oountry since the allowance of a drawback on the exportation of refined sugar has very rapidly increased, the quality of the article has become gradually richer, and it has contained a larger proportion of sugar. It appears from the Parliamentary returns, that the quantity of molasses imported in the three years ending 1822 was only 166,833 cwts. , whereas, in the three succeeding years ending 1826, it rose to 764,067 cwts., and in the three succeeding years ending 1829 it reached 1,182,029 cwts. ; and your Committee, advert ing to this great increase in► nine years, mainly arising from the sugar drawback, see no reason to doubt that the supply would be further ex tended in a similar ratio, if stimulated by the ad ditional demand which would be created by the admission of molasses into the breweries and dis tilleries. It ought in conclusion to be stated, that your Committee have reason for believing that over and above the produce of the West Indies an immense quantity of molasses might be procured from the Mauritius. If, therefore, there be any weight in the pre ceding observations, it would seem more than doubtful whether the proposed measure would produce that increase in the price of molasses which is contemplated by the West India pro prietors. Your Committee now proceed to consider the first of those two measures which might be adopted in consequence of this inquiry, namely, the admission of molasses into the breweries ; and they will in the first place advert to the evidence which they have received, showing the extent to which molasses are likely to be used, if permitted in this branch of manufacture. It appears from the statements of Messrs- Calvert and Martineau (the latter a partner of Messrs. Whitbread), that the houses who brew the best and purest quality of porter would be very unwilling to adopt the use of molasses, un less, indeed, in trifling quantities as colouring matter, in place of burnt malt. Mr. Calvert states, that :no beer could be so good as that brewed from malt and hops ; he adds, that in 1800, when, owing to scarcity, the use of sugar was permitted in the breweries, he ceased to employ that article when malt fell to 755. or 80s. per quarter. Mr. Martineau is further of opinion, that the admission of any other ingredient besides malt and hops would be injurious to the reputation of the brewers of pure porter, because it would afford a great facility for the admixture of in-, ferior beer made from molasses by th e r e t a il dealer ; and he is very apprehensive lest the natural and necessary distrust created in the public mind as to the purity of the beer, i. e. to its being really made of malt and hops alone,. should tend to diminish consumption, and so' seriously to injure the honest trader. Both those gentlemen entertain doubts whether beer made of molasses would answer for keeping. In pale, ales molasses would be inadmissible on account of its colour ; but it does appear that it might be used to a very considerable extent in table beer for immediate drinking, and that it will make a palatable beverage. In making beer, however, from molasses it does not seem that the process could be carried on without a proportion of malt ; and it is stated by Messrs. Green and Heathorn that they would use, according to the kind of beer they wished to make, from one-tenth to one-fourth parts of molasses, mixed with from nine-tenths to three-fourths of malt. From an attentive consideration of the evi dence of this branch of the subject, from which the above facts are extracted, your Committee have come to the conclusion, that molasses would not be used to any great extent in a large portion of the breweries of this country, whilst in the brewing of table beer the opinions of the witnesses as to the proper portion of molasses are so various (opinions which must be modified by experience of the taste of the consumKr), that our Committee have great difficulty in estimat ing the quantity of molasses likely to be used in this branch of the trade. But it is quite clear that whatever quantity of molasses is introduced into the breweries of this . country must displace an equivalent quantity of malt ; and the evidence taken before the Com mittee goes to prove that the malt so displaced would be almost entirely made from British barley. It is undoubtedly true that a small por tion of foreign barley is converted into malt in this country, but the general imports of barley are either unfit for malting, or produce malt very inferior to that made from British barley—an inferiority which arises both from want of care in separating the good and bad samples abroad, and from the heat produced in the vessel, which checks the germination. Those portions, chiefly, Bohemian and Silesian barley, which are of equal goodness with British, are, in conse quence of the expense and carriage and transit duties, seldom able to compete with it in the market. It now remains for your Committee to show what are the effects likely to be produced by the introduction of molasses into the breweries upon the public revenue, and upon the interests of the consumer. With regard to the revenue, there is one con sideration which would alone appear to your Committee to be decisive. By the present law 245. per cwt. is allowed the refiner on the exportation of sugar obtained from molasses ; and it has been stated by Mr, Brown, a sugar refiner, that from 301bs. to 381bs. of sugar are procured from one cwt. of' molasses. Hence the drawback on the sugar obtained will be equal, or nearly equal, to the import duty paid on molasses ; and the proportion of saccharine ►natter contained in one cwt. molasses being about 701b5., the refiner's treacle, with 30 or 40 per cent, of saccharine matter, will c ome into the market duty free, whilst the high im post of 1/. Os. Bd. per quarter is levied on malt. But your Committee have further received the testimony of several excise officers (particularly of Mr. Golding Bird, a person of great expe rience), who are all of opinion that the pertnis- . sion to brewers and publicans to keep molasses on their premises would afford very great addi • tional facilities to the introduction of illegal and deleterious substances, both during the process of brewing and after the beer is sent to the re taller. Indeed these gentlemen are of opinion that if the proposed measure became a law the `safety of the revenue would respire as increased establishment of officers. In touching in the last place on the interests of the consumers, it is unnecessary to dwell on the obvious evils to which they are exposed by any measure which facilitates the adulteration of beer. But it may be proper to advert again to a point suggested by the evidence of Mr. Mar tineau, that if molasses be permitted to be used in breweries the consumer can have no security, and consequently no confidence that the beer supplied to him is, as it professes to be, a pure beverage composed of malt and hops without any other ingredient. From a general consideration of all these cir cumstances, your Committee, in the first place, entertain great doubts as to the extent of relief which would be afforded to the West Indians by the introduction of molasses into the breweries. In the second place, your Committee are of opinion that whatever relief could be so afforded would be at the expense of the landed interest of this country ; and in the last place they have come to the conclusion that whilst the measure in contemplation would be productive of little be nefit to the West Indian interest, it would se riously affect the British agriculturist, and at the same time prove injurious to the consumer and dangerous to the public revenue. The objections which have been stated to your Committee against the use of molasses in the distilleries appear to them to be even stronger than those which they have already stated with respect to the breweries. As the amount of revenue derived from Bri tish spirits amounted in the last year to the sum of 5,209,5991., your Committee felt it to be their duty to devote a very considerable portion of their time to the inquiry how far so important a branch of the public revenue was likely to be affected by the introduction of molasses into the distilleries; and from the result of their inquiries it appears that in the opinion of all the revenue officers whom they examined there would be great danger in the adoption of such a measure. These gentlemen consider that under the present system of the distillery laws it would be ex tremely difficult, if not impossible, to prevent fraud, if the use of molasses was permitted ; and they were unanimously of opinion that in case the use of molasses was permitted it would be necessary to recur to the mode of charging the duty which existed in England prior to the in troduction of the present system. If th a t opi nion be well founded, a nd your Committee have Ito reason to doubt its accuracy, they can have no hesitation in declaring their opinion that a re currence to the old law would be extremely injurious to the revenue and to the distiller, as the greatest advantages have accru e d t o b ot h since the change o f the law in 1820. Prior to that period a different system of distillery laws was in force in force in England, Scotland, and Ireland, each of them liable to great objections, on account of the injurilus and vexatious regu lations under which the distiller was obliged to work ; and as the principle on which the duty was charged was different, the trade in spirits between England, Scotland, and Ireland was ne cessarily subjected to very impolitic restrictions. To remedy these evils the Commissioners ap pointed under the Acts 1 and 2 Geo. IV., c. 90, and 3 Geo. IV., c. 37, " for inquiring into the Collection and Management of the Public Revenue arising in Ireland, and into certain De partments of the Public Revenue arising in Great Britain," instituted a most minute and careful investigation with respect to the system of the laws for regulating the distilleries both in Great Britain and Ireland ; and after detailing the systems which prevailed in each part of the empire, and the objections to which each was liable, they, in their sixth report, recommended one uniform system, which was subsequently adopted, and which has been found, after the experience of fire years, to work well, and to have succeeded in greatly checking, if not en tirely putting an end to; illicit distillation, which under the old law prevailed to a frightful extent both in Scotland and Ireland. Under the old law iu England, which, if molasses are to be used, the revenue officers say must be substituted for the present system, the duty was charged on the wash, and it therefore became the interest of the distiller to use wash of the greatest fermentable gravity in order to obtain the greatest possible quantity of spirits. from the wash on which the duty was charged. The spirits obtained from wash of suc h iigh gravity were of a very inferior quality, and be fore they could be sent out for consumption re quired to be rectified. This mode of charging the duty is therefore quite inapplicable to Scot. land and Ireland, where the spirits are univer sally consumed in the state of whiskey, without having been rectified. The Commissioners in their Report above referred to state, " That the mode of charging the duty under all the previous systems had made it so much the interest of the distiller to seek to augment the quantity of spirits, by the use of as strong a wash as could well be fermented, that the quality of the spirits was comparatively disregarded. In framing the present law an at tempt has been made for the first time to avoid any i►►terference with the distiller which mipba prove injurious to the freedom of his opKations . on the production of spirits of a palatable qua, lity. There seems to be no doubt that palat, able quality depends in a great degree on the strength or gravity of the worts from which the spirits are distilled ; and it is known that within certain limits the excellence of the spirits is i►► an inverse ratio to the density of the wash." By the present law the duty is charged on the quantity of spirits produced, and the distiller is allowed, within certain limits, to make his wash of whatever gravity he prefers. For the purpose of preventing frauds by the Abstraction or concealment of any portion of the spirits produced, an account is taken of the quantity of the wash, and of its specific gravity, at various times during the process of fermen tation, and an estimate is made, according to the degree of attenuation which the wash may reach, of the quantity of spirits which can be produced from it. An account of the quantity of the low wines, or the spirits produced by the first distillation, is also taken, and the distiller is charged F rith the highest amount of duty which would result from p any of those checks. There is also anoth er very i mpo rt an t c h ec k on the distiller by the resent 111%, which is deserv ing of particular attention in considering the present question, viz. that the two operations of brewing and distilling cannot be carried on at the Same time by the distiller. Now as the operation of m ashing occupies a cot4ide- qtr [ength of time, and cannot be carried o,lt3litt 14 I VI; %„, .he knowledge of the excise officer su .o ing t h e diptillery, it is impossible for/ to add fresh worts, for the purpose ,he strength of the wash, without 7ticteriliori;;,:_. --- .; ; :.4.,i , whereas, if he were allowed to have nolasses on his premises, he might eaelly,Aißr, 4117‘ ow-cou''; and 1J )risoner: j a agi tat bad doll ier tote lIUL e e prison e • oil of tht taken t ° , sling from Aaimed t forw3it. 2ribed be leer, n° l from tb lice, 01 prodUC e 'i the woo l ° eviden t mmit be t ,risked peak, 191) tears, $ l l, refra i n' that sn' er trial of who bay n lro no rer an officer' Many• e• would re' n defer d no vio I were ' iscerte oved a / ' nd it 4 been shift' :umstarice° be p e rson qifirmato r ? preliens i l they we r R. Crouar° of Capt. tei Esq. y° Willi JyAl CrenC eVi' agul 'l°4 IT )1 t g e; to r svan DUTY OFF CANDLES. 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