The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-01-15 00:00:00

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1.1. A ili.ereiloaary w.wer t.err peblie-rowers out be
L ap,' moutewlirrer awl with whew se peopelly as wish the

34, Ilioieciinn is due In the licensed ririrperty.
34. 11 the ars& were tetl every boast stupid be w public
house.

That pooblie-hots,es ought to be soliject to strict soil
oo•essations, far Janos. an 'lsar they now ores, and ihsit
Ihe ad test f ►urh rel.:illation. shoot,' he olissuniiirel
to the Magistrate., l'readily grant; hut that the "factitive
assol issipariant trade ref •i, tenoning, and she vast plover!,
coons-reed with it, should! Ise prostrated to the slispowil cif
their,'.•.puler wills !ohWla 14 she plain Foghalo of their ohs.
siosory pouts.), is a iloallossir shoat 1 deny and detest.
The govertsnocut of wills, inst.-as' of Ila s, is alshurrent to Ilia
priesciples of a free Male. If it is nut so lw 'whored in
a h'.•rreigo Nriuee, invested with the auto ihna•s of In. high
•tatiun, sod personslly identified with Ins acts, rough less
is it to be endured sis such mess as the leading Iscrwoiog Jos-
t:yes are seen toile, enessubered wish the isr6rusilies of their
roonditiost, and who are enabled to conceal she ida•rdisy of
their arts, and to disgoise their secret hinge under the
so.ione of • Depth. Of all despotic trslosits-, those of
isog are the must exempt from control, sod, therefore, the
Rood tyrinutival, sud of all tyramuies that of a plurality is
tile coral.

If soy politic good were accomplished by these arbitrary
brensiog tellonials, any colivrith a.e 111111 were onattainahle
toy the ordinary course of justice-, 111131 r might become fell.ll-
- ded le the kiss of chit rights and re:Ow:nil to Il.e govrrii-
went of wile, austvad of laws ; but within% it for oh.
the fact. Fur 11w .Amery porrows of upposiog timely chubs
to droultenivess nml ilims.dee, the licensing Justices wa as
impotent as riotdr. u ; their amnia' day of might ivudeis
only fueinttl3lll.:fi,r purpon v of muutipuly sod uppr,s-
vom. It is therefore vonglit to chew flit stators: of their
from 11w por.,,,mge of the ionic to the ecostrol of its
swvorders ; to shah tile is ions ph of tlwir tr///..cm wog 4.p if*
the Jeer, inlet to give thew :n a thus the po•er ut adept-

aisteliii; eratifory ?ewe twerp Jest in the yrar ; to WeMitell
their Amnia fur the uses of their ono int pswiuus,
and to strengilicti them for the service of the
" Proles tom tis floe to licensed prorrty" is the mat posi-
;l. mcitinot a free trail?. It is said. and truly enough, that
' w rsotos not hreitor had to pay large slims for licenser, house".
mitil:l he able to oinlerrill these who ye. or romps l poem In
restore their profits. or to improve their commodity. The
t power how peseetoseel of preveniiiisr this is deemed a
properly. The hermit., entitling the owner to trade fur
av• ir' c 1111 l Irma to conv...y the right of excluding unreel
• hum hailing for ever. Those who have f.. 1 soil fattened
;to tin.' present imtigisittede upon the etaculjt of list)tog
op halos in hermit-a 111/11.1,1, hale the confidence
to
claim as a right an ex.-option from the compel mini,
to which all rotor specoliiiiirs are liable ; a right Joann
front the alms, of an 11111111011111111 e Art of Parliament, and
Induce alto I, the natural moil inalieasLlr right of the •hule
ilia,' 'mink 111 3 free supply of •ictoala is to vanish! 9.)1/
much mord, I loutishly rithinit, has hero thrust 111 1111! !pis-
: riovis and corrupt lieeming interest. It is high time that
the Mures! the public should be reinstated its the as.

mustang.
Th. next reureaentation, that " if the trade were free,
ere .r 1,,,,, snood he a public I e," answers the impure
, „e swiping many ; hat topsou examination, it woold be found
as hulks* as the rest. I will grant, that if the means of re-
pressiiog sliestreerly houses continent as impotent as those
adunltal In ISse pound licensing system, there wools! be WO
loony pub lie looters sin the toenails% of the trade; but with
the projected guard of requiring the victualler to pay 2601.
to Government upon the opeoing of a new house, and inure
expert:lllv wills means at hand fur 'hotting up an al-
-1 couilnileil Wilk house immediately, it is probable there
would Ire so many, and fur the following reasons:—The
large s.itis civets for a net M is a liCi null house, and which
i• fresste'Ll IS one "r 2.1`031. ter (vim more. is of course to
he repaid out at' the trade. The price of hes r therefore is
ra Pied sufficient ah .ve the natural price, to i epay the mom y
so asseassesal ter the license; the price of commod:ties being
thus art a Cagily raised, such profit is au Indent to keep houses
open, whetn the costion is very smalls provided the premium
Gtr the liters, lie foregone, ur but of small amount. Hut
if the trade were free, such extra profit minkl not obtain;
tradesmen with capital would thru enter the market, and,
buying the heat consiumlities list she most advantageous
terms, they would melt largely at a moderate profit, and many
small pishl.r.honace, now kept open on the artificial mires
would Ise nimble in keep urn Oil fair prices. la this way
massy would he given tip, while a great number of others,
now kept open as disorderly husssee, under the protection
of lb.• licestaing system, would be soon put down solder the
niter'llimll •nlillnq pawn, capable of easy and Matsui
; the sombre in this way got rid of would most
likely exceed those which world be opened in ;dicta where
politic convenience required new houses, and where exist.
injoriotts monopolies remained uncorrected. In fact,
she propl•cy, sliAt a free trade would cause as indondstion
of poldie-houses, and that our beat streets and squares would
Isr infr.ied b• is a bugbear, rinsed to reconcile
the ptibllr lib the Isis Mince of a free trade. It is tel likely
that tiadesmen, who depend on the favour of those liv-
ing mound them, would wish to fax themselves where they
would be regarded as a Nuisance, rather than as ass accom-
modation. If they Iliad such a wish, they might be ca,sly
iestrainerl by proper frgislaliollB ; Nit every ground land-
lord, by his bases, sakes care to prevent the intru-
sion of ull'eusive trades in improper places. We do not
find that every Mollie is a butcher's, although that trade is
free, yet if the blessings of the lifflaille system were 'Measl-
ed its meat as sell as to drink, we should nut fail to be as-
purest, that if the trade were free, every street would be filled
with butcher.' shops—that Oxford-market would be extend-
ed to Portland place—Si. Jatiou's-tuarket to St.Jameit's Pa-
lace-Ind 16 it it woold he much better to swallow the meat
11 little Wood, and to pay Iht. or Id. a pound extra, than to
have stud butchers shops continually nudes'
our noses.

My belief is, that under a regulated free float, there would
mil he au inne.sseis. the total number of public I acs;
150 ht. Ibis ItS it might, the srelhregalating of public houses
thus not consist su lessening their number. If only one
voltaic home were suffered where there are now two,
1 by nn menus fellows that the frequenters of the ton
houses would drink fess or be less disorderly by bring rot.
hided looft. one; the imas► is enure likely to happen, while
it is certain that the suppression of the one house would in-
convenieoce the neielibourbood around it, by comsritiog
them to go farther for their beer, and by home • g the chance
u competition. The only effectual means of rendering
public loutes well conducted, 1 am well couvinesd, ars those
thick arc necessary to restore to the public the benefit of a
free trade, viz. the repeal of that part of the Aet of Geo. 11.
which rind:nes tiw granting of licenses to local meetings,
and In one day in this year, the parent a the arbitrary in.
fhetions wider whirls the public has su lung groaned ; to
which omit he added, rules prohibiting viettuillers from
sopplying hgoor on their premises to ecnin ninsly profli-
gate characters, to persons visibly drunk or disortkrly, or to
suikin; 1161:41 opoo credit exceeding in amount one dry's
ones.

A MAGSTRATE FOR MIDDLESEX.

Apprehrtisiosis, we sre sorry to hear, begin to he
enterthowil with respret to the duration ot our good
old Kt NW* hie, euincquence of an altrration in
bla dirt mod rrgimen.
It is now some time since the KING met with GO

accident from ►tumbling over a chair in Ilia daily
peramhulalions tliinugli the five apartments. His
sla4str7 es kit leg was much hurt, and he was
enntined fur some tame before hr recovered the use
or it. The only exerci►e the kirso_nnw takes is

that of bring alieeleil about till nue of Merlio'r chairs.
Vl'v toms lime ago that the suite of rooms
I oreopetal Lv the litNa were iii a very dilapidated
I Plate, owing to the want of repairaisi blue time. We

stated tll41j
111rre epsouseuto Weft Atured up; teri-
fultbng poles halve .suee betros iutrurtured,and every

miter necessary wet:mutton lies been takess.—( Evers.
nag Paper
A..slawavery. involving in itself the most impnr.
taut constquesicr.. has been made in a great fa-
mily within there few days. The son of a Noble
Lord. of great wealth and consequence. has entered
into a matrimonial union wills a teunde against ilium
strong °kitchens have been urged by the Noble
Family. Thr parties concerned are thrown into
the greatest affliction, as great expectations were
entertamed thut theyouth would have been an or-
nament to the Senate. Several consultations have
been lurid, and by legal adviser* a determination is
Lake., to cut off the ent‘til.—(Avessing Paper./
Toe.day night. about It o'clock, as alarming fire
Ibroke nut in the house of Mews. flacuuosta. su-
lor-inurcliants, in George-street. IVlittectnipel ; it
was discovered by :route men passing, who saw a
'hinge body of flames guithing froth the windows. Au
alarm was woo Navin], mid in a short time the
Pireenitt and stereo-al other engines arrived on the
slot, but the supply of water being very scanty !or
about an hour, the II tines burned with great ra-
pidity; thr whole of the premise*, together with the
property, were destroyed. The tire. tt is supposed,
origineted hunt one of the stoves an the back part of
thr premises.

SIMQUI.AIL Discoveay.—()u Thursday week,
lib toter buy* were aniariinsi thrumelves with making
betwerii Vl'ortley utid the Wellington
anal, rustle ignited wood fell lulu I draw.well.
winch had been iniperfrcily closed, turd jo which
bimir hydrogen grub had litell generated, which eat-
lauded with great violence. blowiwg the done*
winch covered the well a eunriderablit height; the
tiuee bra)* were all hurt, but woad of shoos dais-
geruusly.—(Aeseeastk Paper.,