The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-08-20 00:00:00

THE BEAR REPORT.

Extract from the Minutes taken before the COM.
miller of the House of Commons on the Petition
of several inhabitants of London slid its %loan),
respecting the price and quality of beer.

[Continua from a former Paper.)

Venerts, 8 die Mali, 1818.

./OHN INGRAM LOCKHART, Req. in the Chair.

(b/r. Jinn Walsby'r Acumination continued.)

The Committee ask you simply, du yon,or do you mot know
♦hrlhrfasy mobile's,s are in the habit of haying the Lime
sort arsonr herr which yon say the brewers buy?—Tha rah.
bean lakes Ilse beer as it is sent to him, and mixes it with
his uwo'stste beer. •

Yuu have said that there is a quantity of sour beer pro-
duced by wear brewers or other, which the porter brewers
buy um from the m!-1 swaiderstand so.
Do you know 'whether they do sir twit?-1 believe I mut n-
Cooed that I had wild them some formerly, before I karst
bow to brew @myself.
Du you believe that tltat predict eoutioues !--I do be-
lieve it.

Why do you believe it?—The reason why is, about • year
and a half ago a roan who had formerly lived with me, came
to slay a little while again; he said he was exceedingly tired,
that he had been carrying not beer the whole of the night
from a laige ale brewery to the home where be worked; the
man could he brought firewood if riqinred.
Have you any reason to believe that publicans buy this
Ollllir sort of sour beer "(which you have been .peaking, for
Ile purpose of mixing it in their own houses with the beer
they receive from brewery, or fur any litigious whaler. r ?-1
newer heard of a publican baying our beer; 1 have nai
idea ofsuch a thing.
Yon m ' d something of • ►emeJy, founded upon
your bzlief of adulteration bring wade in vats; what is it?
—What 1 meant was, to do away with the necessity of mix-
ing it at all, or al least to do it away so that they could not
Ms it without iojui y to themselves; what 1 mean is to have
•• open Compel ition.
Tun think the only method of preventing the public being
supplied with beer of bad quality is a more open cetulieta
lieu Haiku the law now admits of ?-1 son clear of that; that
rustling tire can give the public genuine beer; 1 du not
think any thing elm will do it. _ _

You yorraelf are a brewer of beer which is perfectly ge.
ouise?-1 sm.

Are you a brewer of beer ono ,—Not al present.
11 bat wade you leave will—Nut any thing of a public
business.

hat is the reams?—lt is only left off for a time.
Dtd you brew liter that was perfectly gewatse'!—Tl-4414
I seed to make affidavits !while the Lord Mayor to that
fate.

Do you memo to ray that you brewed beer which was
perfectly geuunte, and made only from malt and bops?—.-
I did.

What price did you sell it at per barrel '—scveuty-two
shilliogs sod ninety shillioga.
At *bat price e.at Id it be afforded to Ilse public per quart?
only supplied private and fur u aportatiun.
The 'perilous 'which the Committee put to you 14 at what
price it could he afforded to the public per quart?-1 sold it
at seventy...iv° shillings • barrel ; it would have brad sold at
sixpence& quart, the same as porter is sold at now.
Could you have sold it to the retailer at sixpence a pot ?
—To the Collolll2lfl.

Who do. you call tke cooxtioser?—Private &oldies wbo
drank it.

! After yea had aubi it to the publican. at wbat price could
he bare &Swelled it?—lt was not bu ortide that watt At
tar ■ publican, it wee a awn aft:twat. I bare supplied soars

coffee7housta with it, who Lave sold it iu their coffee-rooms
at Id. • quart.
You mean to say it mold not be sold wilder 84. a pot to
coy body!—No, it could wet.
Is must have beer sold At that price!—Yes; Mr. Wake, at
the Bedford Coffee-house, mod to hare great quantifies of
it, and be used to sell it at Is. per quart ; it is differ's' to
porter.
la how abort a lime after the purcliasingetf malt and bort
caw it be brewed and fisted for consumption, supposing the
brewer avails himself of sour beer, copperas, or vitriol, to
give it the apprarame of sotficieot age !—I do trot think It
is necessary to du soy Hong to the mild beer but to send it
out at a month old to the publican for consumption, as be
has always pleuty of stale beer to mix with it to suit the
palate of his costumers ; bus I should state that I ant hoot
cusepeteut to answer that question, baviug never tied it it
my life,
flare you ass idea in obit time, ',for becianitig to make
the beer, provided throe flatlets are not used, it may be fitted
for consumption!—.l have said n month.
. . .

%Viral pri,portios nfropiial upon whirls your ralculatiou is
crirnpuiert, applies to row plan', and how much Opplits to
wall and hops L. 4 by ihr proportion of wall awl hops W all
that is consumed, but there is nil allowance made in the
Collopulnlitm fur part that in returned within a erriaiu
11, is of tbr )111r. • • •
Your eslculatiop fuuoiled upon the supposition of
100,1000 barrels ?—Yes.

What capital will it require to tar. that quaality?—lt
will be Nand slated in the ealealatinn.

How miry rewrap, oho.s your ealeolation 'flypast in lbe
year ?—Sapposiog you took stork, and beiges is the be.
itamiug of the par; out of 100,000 burets, I abouki ea*.
roe by the north of August pot way take ratites for et

Icagt 40,1'41 nttt of that u•thiter ; this
40.001 p •s.I C.r as 1 hat 'new.

lYhra ol.wft your ealroil.tri..n siappose ilir Pr.'
ror!---11 acp.•6l4lt 14,601 h,.r it ros off; whJ ,t
mutt ►em..ia. buss IS •ill be wild fur et it goes all o,
nil' atilt try. k% after is it .4.111 ItMi.

Yuur ~ak,u,aliow %apposes si ?-1110, t 1 glues suit o
hr Iw, min mr 1.. r. 111 0 Snell 3 ellte131II:011 0001*11 11144,4,
Thr CAlrulili Made itopputine i 1 was fue a
111" lop lor *hoe • cop oils was I11Omuoll4drrll; bat
,r
.ugh !I 110100! ItS Merril garflAy+. whisk ra,..
brew 340,000 buv, b. soil 111.-y formed oily
cost therm more to lire Ihd 91.646111 y dna a isu4O.,
Pry dial was rah Mairol lo 'brew that4o4olo), as, a.
was the lop of Its Caps. Ily.

. n he renliieseso

II& SYNTAX IN LONDON.

rm.'? ia dwelt is reading the works of wrap i,f ,„w et.
lebr.itril Itrwria, shies, tleiragb it worms lbr
tier' i.norirw lige heart, oinue.t v•vy writ he
• tti• brgin • buoi, rand are Wreck with emit* px.
'rig., wr fret Itarawinirting.arsth day 4oa 0.1111.11/
0 Dinllll.g. aHA n•Atierits of 'i5...km.1,...,1 tier tuatara{ wod:
qnA ii,,.m.,C.•5.," &rightful an iatioriisiva
that we entertain au etarctia l'gr the author j
judgment lead as captive along the wort or :iln~la,e

MM a to lit. tnintriaa ul tat the lit !site.
After haying nitro! in hat natter tale for snow. I inc.,
doing his duty novelist, and attraiiii,tya.n0n~...
fish:mien, he feels Melpomene tiotpirelos 11,111.1 n.
anti or hi. ibotpiraliell is • bellegly. lit +lb the Amp.; ic
future reword, and ensigns ha lumni4 yi .la.
mater glory, he reso"vie to e. t not .for the
exhibit Isis airmiorthle p rhoina,ce.
the design, and with the a tnily Istartual an die
part of her sex, slw perceives her haslitutol
the golden palace of Girlie, and brutli.nt naly pion)
val. that are presuming enough lo hat star KAinitia,t aka wt
her hu•httiel Ilrr iiimemation a ilnuled vnb the spa,
diner of bar his,thin.i's 4.1,144t0n : slot to-ai in mealy; 'h..
crowd% of inferior lawn labouring Moog thr path of c.o,
and her !unbind smiling *pun, or rejecting dos ialtgpriny
their locolostiuna. She tanagows herself intita II Its :hi
houses of the nobility mot gentry, feasting away with law
better hilt, and tart-soil by catnips of fe.hioutahle lathes.
Tlwy mount old G- mew. anal parole their way to Keida:,
In take the coach. Ales. Syntix, all lovely a'. she is, Irish 4,
exception of that eon risesnlwane her tongue, is watt.;
banal, and the two bid a hang wino lig the p4roanage.
Arrived at thr ion where the coach mops, they wait 113 it
sets off. Mrs. Arose, always careful of his ova other.,
secures herself a sting Wattle birth, while the Docto,
more hominy, aseenalg the outside, that ne may hare tle..a.
puraunity of admiring those singular !wanton afar...:;,
that every where attract the eye, and particularly tin rye f
the renowned Syntax.
In this situation, among his other feflovetrinellro.r.
finds the opourthealiste poet of Conitherlanal, who« cliat.t.
ter anal poetic teleran ale admirably poortrayeo by tive.
flair. The picture of this vain, lone.tmardril fins, 131
to the life Full of his own ationiplislimeots, he nits
away shout psychology, philology, sod all the utioo atrarrs
which his pedantic lain.' has rooted wit of the tinek I.rineoh,
and then aria tip for a learned man.
The sportive Muse of the port indittgei in a fine Walls .r
homuruus unwire when they arrive at York.
After interweaving various incident., sod &writing sa
viral little Mishap% and of jects that presented throwing -a
the journa y, they :wrier safely in town.
His interview with the butler in desiring to ate his far.
veer patron, way Lord, it painted in a rtitinitr that doer :e.
finite credit to the taste of the piwt, and else &totem's with
which lie depicts the disappointed vanity of the Doctor, in
being shaken by the hand by owe whom the teener& pit.
nonage deems so far basted, him, ehilleoges oar adash
'alien. _

It is a rest sank is a yaw* ha be able to introdees awns
lag incidents insensibly isoreip peeress ; and in this tlw
author has bees entiwitsdaanimiredist. every whims do.
playing his knowledge el I heman mind and chasmic..
and ridiculing the follies of she iley with the liveliest salios
of wit and fseicy.