The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-05-06 00:00:00

I.ICLhSING SYSTEM.

Mr. PROTHMOIR, in presenting a Petition from .1 T. B.
Beaumont, Erg. complaining of the tioudisct of Licensing
idslitcP, in refusing to graut lieen.cs to pitlibc-hitinies, sap.
parted it■ prayer at some length ; arer which the Petition
was rear, as follow.

" the Huiiiiiseable the Commons of the United Blurlwo
of Great Britain and Ireland w Nriinlblol4 %%StHailed,
the lii nI,Ic Petitam of Juba Thunias Bather Beau.
wont, E.q
" Sit vw

'Dial prior Petitioner is 'mire: inf a leis lual demolition of
his wigwags. against whitii the laws of lids country iiffurd uo
ream's; and has case bring that of ■ multitude of other un-
offending ritizeus hr humbly appeals tot that iiimectiou
which loyal subjects may exptict f • a just Govt a meal.
" That your Klatt .... er is ground landlord of 'timer& of
seventy horse' at Sheplued's Push, a village of sew houses
cbidy raised throne!, your Pettlootter'a sitertions ; that at
41w lift/ISM( debllt Or his truants, and lo supply their 1111.
kuortble mauls, he built a bit pea 'or 11.11111x-honar. Of inn, in
this centre of the vilhicc, o here $551 great ClUsh-10,11111 meet,
and at a do•lancr of two boodretl and fifty yards ota tote
road, and of three 411ISTiet% of a utile 011 Slur other from any
licenses! Imusr. That eeseis amnia! applications have beam
snack 10 the LieenaungJasticritat Hammersmith, fiw a license
So open the house, but on diffcri ut pretences it has always
hero (tithed. 't hat Ilse said Justices, hours. r, liner yenta
since grouted a license for a mean Outlast:El boost., "lauding
almost alone iu the field., some hundred yards distant frum
your Pittstionres buildings, far procuring which liceiise
:SSW was IMO by the owner to thr, Vestry Clerk ; whets the
land about the housr au lit-NINA bccatue eiiveird *Ms houses,
and your Ptlit Mores land king denied list cure. Mimsr of
public.hmist breams thorned. That on the last liernsiug
day the Clisiritinn addressed the tenant to Slur follownic
effect •—' We cannot pant you a !Meuse bemuse your ire.
tifisate i nut sotned by the iti' to and Churchwindesic
'llse Act or Psi lament ri quires tins, and we should out ha
justified its giaotiug a licroat without tlo-J Aud

another Magistrate di clay( tiict thst was the only reason
of their refusal.' Rut the Art of Parliament rendered No
such *ignitor imperative, slur bail the llinisler of Ilasitterr-
smith signs., a pablicati's certifireir for thirty year.. The
Lint:viers have sinee seknowletlzerl tarot oath, that they hail
determined not to license your Pets/ Mori'. house, before any
thing Atoll the 311111Fiel'i s-r,uArule was 00000
fact, within half au hour's lime of their sefositig deliver IS
license for your Petitiiiiier's himse, no the chive groom! of
the want of the concurrent art of the Minister, they grant-
. cif new licenses in favour of a brewer in the maglibiiiirhouil,
and another for two low tiepin's bou►es, which had been
&oppressed by former Mazistrates as anguish ply, each bring
in the same pRI'I4I, and *dusted within a few yards of simi-
lar 111011/C% already licensed, nut only without any coiseurreot
■ct uf the Minister, hut in opposition to his ?al nest entreaty
(contained ill a letter read at the Meeting), that nue of the
{louse• to particular might not tie licensed.
" Your Petitioner, fully aware that ro this ronntry no
relief is procurable fur the sufferer under the 'm.4 corrupt
refusal of a license, still 16ulthht that *mow furtherance
might Ire given to public justice, by bringing the above ease
before a criminal tribenal. Pi tieing therefore the deceit and
illegality of the reams assigned by the Licensers for their
der-siou, mad contrasting the facility of their grants of
licenses for disorderly houses, in dallier'', in rayonr of one
interest, with their seven years refined of a license fur a
very superior house, with such Wittig claims, against an-
other interest, lie obtained a rule to slitia issue why It ere.
mina' information should not be Ii fed against them in tin•
Count of King's Beach. lie t although the Mince Nei* went'
fully proved in the affidavits Of your Petitioner atoll hi■
tenants, and were usicuntrailiricil in the affidavito of the
Defendants, still it was held that as there was no trout
proof of ■ corrupt motive, the rule roust be abandoned :
all wheels your Petitioner is ready to prove by es iiletice.
" In this state of prostration or clad lights to al bitrary
wills, your Petituntet fur himself cud for Is fellow-atilt-
jects, humbly claims such protection in the inoffensive sic.
cupation of his and their estates, as to your Honourable
House shall seem meet, and your Peliti 0000 er, B.e.
" J. T. HARKER BILAU111ONT."
The Petition was then laid on the laid...
COUNTY AN•ESSM ENTS.

Lord G. T. BERTIWORD presented P.tit from Dun-
gamin, and another place in the Couuly of Waterfurd,
complaining of the inequality of County Assesamenta.—
Read and leierred to the Committee on the Irish Grand Jury
Presentment Bill.