The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-08-21 00:00:00

Juhn Mnrtinenn, Esq. called in, turd examined.

How long hive you hi en a brewer.'—Thirty-six )4,1411
Are you a priori. ita the house of Whitbread and Cora-
palsy ?—I
I* it the practice of your house to itiftiLe nue deleterious
ingredients ht your vats, or in soy pare of the vessels which
holds your hymn ?—lt umber is our ever has born the prac-
tice.

Are any of your servants hound to secrtsy ?-111 nu one
instance whatever.

What °ppm itunitica have the Excise of finding' out any
deleterious articles in brewers vats or ve,.sels, If they make
search?—They have access to every pant of the prcutiays at
all timer, both by day and night.
' .

If deleterious tugredieuh were put in, do you think it
would he in ►heir power to delta it if they did their duly ?
—lt would he impossible to carry i► on in a large concern
without being known by the officers" It must also be known
to many of the servants of the house.
In your judgment, is any of the beer of the metropolis,
as retailed to ►he public, mixed with improper ingredieuts?
—ln retailing beer in some instances it has been.
By whom in your (minim! Ilan that been dune?—ln that
case by the publican who vends it.
Have you auy particular knowledge of what those ingre.
diens* are ?—No, 1 have not.
The Committee understand you are a very experienced
brewer?-1 have ',feu a practical brewer during the time I
am now speaking of.
What is your opinion as to the effect of !Brewers holding
public-beams as their property, or by way of mortgage?-1
t Id state, that it is the opinion of our house, that it
would he decidedly iu our favour was there a greater compe.
lition than now exists upon pub:it:Amuses, that is to say, if
the purchase of public-louses was nut so frequent as it is by
brewers.

%Vital effect do you think that produces as against the
public?—lt is the means of contracting the free trade of
the metropolis, and therefore is injurious to those houses who
would wish that a fair competition dliotild lake place.
Do Ito think it would have the t et at all of enabling
the brewer to impuae an inferior artlr,e ilium the publican,
and compel that piabiicau to retail it to the public?—lt has
a tendency to dramy a tree and fair competition it the
trade.

Do sun make any difference in the supply of those pub.
lic•l:unies which are your own, and those that are free ?
No ; the part of our trade that is immediately within our
own numar,ement couslala of only about our-seventh p:ut of
the whole; we make no ditlei eater ; the same beer is sent
runivalely thiungh the whole of our trade.
Could you, to the course of the ■rrauecment of your trade,
make that difference with any aurl of convenience?—We
could not.

Du you beliere, generally %peaking, the homes hrlur.giug
to brrwe,s its the attarupolia are see veil with a *Mu. quality
than those whit!, are ;,t should state in some in-
st•tices, most &col. tily'; on in g tw ilie iiaele gei.erally
a purchased trade, the lever intended for that. trade is 1101 su
good as whine the trade is free mid open.
flow happeus that to occur in some illsiallftP, and not in
your own brewery ?—Ut cause in some I i.tancts it 11/11114
the largest part of their cioniettions.
You mean to say, that brewers who have the largest por-
tion of their srade attached to their awn houses, do, in
point of fact, serve them with worse him ?—I du conceive
they du.
Du you mean, that those brewers have !we kinds of Lifer
of distsuct qualities?--1 understood the questimi to mi to
houses where the prtucipal part of the trade Is !MI ch .seel
And, in that case, do you CillifeiVr I list the brewers supply
• different quality to the meauray of their costumers, whirls
colonists of purchased house., firm that they supply to the
residue of their customers, which are Tice houses should
conceive there is a difference.
Is it nut the interest of any brewer posse...log public-
houses to supply those Juntas which a.e btu wen, and whirl,
have rest him a runsideesble slim, a., well as he supplies
any free customer in wlinin lie lias a lesser interest ?—i4 the
out !MAY to state this rialAii). 1 und, rstuot: the questiou