The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-06-26 00:00:00

Mr. CA tvEnT said, be would not press die clause,
because the Chancellor of the Exchequer load given
him relivoll to hope that malt of the description he
had stated, would, on proper representation, be
exempted, not only from the additional duty of
94, 43. per quarter, but that the old duty might
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be remitted also; he should, therefore. satisfied
with this intimatiou, refrain from pressing the
clause.
The CHANCELLOR of the ENCHEQUIR said, be
bad merely remarked, that it was possible such a
ease might be made out as would justify granting
a certain degree of relief.
Mr. Cesi.vvire said, he would now propose •
clause to protect the interests of certain persons
which would be affected by the regulation respect.
jug the drawback on beer for exportation. It was
not intended to grant the drawback on any beer
which was produced from less than two bushels of
molt per barrel. Nitwit beer wits, however, export-
id to the East Indies, principally, if not altogether,
by one house, which was brewed iii the proportion
of kss than two bushels of mall to each burred. It
paid the strong-beer duty, and yet, by the clause
to which lie had :Moiled, it would lint, on exporta-
tion, he entitled to any drembAck. lie should
tlier•rOre 1110Ve
"Thit all ale and beer, not twine porter, on which the fall
atilt, tot strung het r, •Ilsll lie Old, 111111 w lIICII shall have bees
lort-tv,4l hon. any tistootsty of too li, It,, thous Iwo bushels the
birrel, soul susiesokul for essturiatton to the Emit loth's, shall
lie allowed the full drawback alluwt-J tot beer fur expor-
tation."
The Cif,taccEt.tott of the EXCHEQUER, as we
mler.tood, expresstil a doubt whether heer, pro-
duced from Its: than two bushels of malt per bar-
rel, could he intended for exportation to the Last
Indies. Such beer would not have body sufficient
to keep during so long a voyage : it would be little
else than small beer.—( A Magi.)
Mr. CALVERT sunl, Gentlemen seemed to laugh
at his expense, but lie would turn it against the
Right Non. Gent lelll4ll. slid prove that be was a
better brewer than the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
—(A langh.)—li was not the milt that prtscrved
the beer; on the contrary, it was the oleaginous
and saccharine qualities of the malt that decayed
The bitter spirit of the hop, and that atoll-, pre-
i the beer. The preservation of the Minor by
on me ins depended on the quantity of Mull usril
J 111 des fornuation.
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the
argument of the lion. Gentleman went to this,
that snail beer was stronger than strong beer.—
(Much langhter.)
Mr. CALVERT said, small beer would keep quite
as long as strong beer. It depeaded on the pro.
portion of hops used, with reference to the quan-
tity of malt. and not on the quantity of malt alone.
The clause was then negatived without a diet-
Sion. . .

Mr. CALVERT then moved. " That in the clause
imposing s duly on the stock in twill, the slim of
Gd. be inserted instead of Is. 2tl. per bushel."
On this amendment the Ilouse divided. The
numbers were—

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Por the original clause 134
Fur the amendment

filejorit! ..... 90
NEW IPOsT.OFFICE.
On our re-aditsisanni to the ~.Mery wo found Mr.
BANK LS On his legh, whether %trios sere
taken to induced a coitipetiitoo uniOutg-t persons
capable of executing that v,i-t work. the New Poot-
office, ru as to have it built at thr tea,t
expense ? ()r, whether it WWI Ill'OpflSCli to deliver
the work into the hands or the weliitect, who was
suplaiseti to be now connected with the eitabliali-
uncut ?

Air. LUSHINOTON >< ids that the Postnisvter-Ge-
neiul had towel: an opportunity for competition.
An advertisement had been petite:heft offering it
premium of ecom. for the best plan, and lOU/. for
the second best. Whether the erection of the
building should be given to the architect who made
the hest &rasing, was it matter still under consi.
tieratmi•

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
Sr. F. IltutoETT Kuve 'littler, that he would, on
Thursday next, submit to the motiou on
the sohject of Parliamentary Reform—and, on
Frio'..:y. he woultl bring forward Mr. Malliostin's
claim fw retntmeratioli, on Hecouut of his inven.
tiuo of a Life Preserver.