The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-09-15 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL REPORT, Semitic& 11, 1819:

Our Cotton market has continued is the same dell state
as soticed in our last, sisal with the exceptios of Bengali
and Surat; which have supported their former prices, the
market is generally id. per lb. lower. The inspect is 6,162
bags, lied the sales 5,400 begs ; coopisting of 1110 Sea Islamic,
at 9.. 60. a a. lid. 50 staieed at 19d. • 2s. ; 1,200 Bowed*
at 130. • 15d.; 70 Tesoseeses at 12td. • 13}d.; 400 Or.
least* et 141 • 161 d.; 160 Pernambuccus at 19d. a 20d.;
160 Bahia* at 184. a 19d.; 1,000 Maranhao's@ at 1746. a
184 ; 20 Mimes at 160.; 30 Demerara, at 16d. a 1634.;
60 Barbadoes at 14id.; 30 comma West Indies at 1336.‘;
50 Carthorses, at 12d.; 600 Serats et 74d. a 12d.; 1,660
Bengal, at 'lf& • 9d. per lb. The imports are, East laths
2,222 toes, Aew Orleans 1,779 begs, East India from United
States 695 bags, Brazils 3,466 bags : total 8,162 bags.
The Sower market has bees extremely list this week, par-
ticularly for low qualities, which have declined 2s. and
of 1,608 casks offered at public sale, only 1,200 were di..
posed of, tasking the sales, including what have bee, takee
by private treaty, 1,400 casks • dry and very brews het
strung Jamaica have sold at 655. a 565. for shipment and
+my good brows, at 581. a 565. 6d. In Foreign de:crip.
lions there have been only a few inferior Brazils takes
at 275. for brooms, and Us. a 355. fur soft yellow. Orr
Coffee market Isar bees very dull, and the business done is
very inconsiderable; on Monday 700 bags of fair ordinary
1)1/Mingo were petsp to public sale, but withdraws' for
want of buyers, and fto bags have piece bete sold at 108 s.
Per cat ; 300 bags of pale ordioary Dutch, have also bees
well ai 1004. Pepper has brought 6}d. per IQ., but the de-
mand is very limited. Is, Pimento and Ginger nothing do-
ing. Carolina Rice is offered More freely, bat there lave
been only • few parcela of fair to good quality disposed of
At 100. • 20s. Rums cooties' dell, and 900 peecheoes of
inmates's, of fair quality, have hems sold at 3s. 44. per gal-
lon, 16 O.P. In Dyewueds but little has bees dome, with
the exception of 200 toes of Jamaica Lestweed at If. a Of. M.
Moutreal Put Ashes have been is tkmsad at 34.. and holders
are 110* caking 36.. ; Pearls also meet with mute isiquirn
mud Muoireele hare brought 375. The only sale is Hides Is
of • few salted !admires at sd. per lb. lallerie is without
aloes at ion.
lie Tobateo market heti bete dell this week, lad pekes
rasher dewier's, though we caesium vests soy 'cleat &climb
demand for Wheel silica owe Kist hos reaseleed weedy,

PRICE 7d.

and tbs prices generally Aare bees usaintaint.l. 1i.11..ng
Ester is American Fleur. About 300 bags S.eily Shumme
hive been dirissaril of at 41s. fur fair to gt.. p.e co 1.1;* finis
quality. Oiler Oil goes off slowly to the ctignalne:s.
Woe small pees& hare been taken at 711 to 7W. per tun
far Gallipoli.
lIOUTH ADICRICAN inonecr.
Tbs emend for Last India COTTbN, noticed in wig 1311,
big nearly subsided. snit the transacting's of the •esk arr is
.1101111101111111111011.mitogl, but prieei continue writheut aNcratioa.

VIM OIL Is very dull except Sperm. which lies adeacced
to 7W. Greenland maybe bought (or prese.it delivery at 40/.
per tea.
Fnuts..—Anotber public auk of Turkey Raisias, rather •
considerable one, was atietbpted on Tourwlsy, at •Ittels
there were an buyers at the presets. pries., Calaboose, Vb.
Red Smyrna, bAs. to Ms. Beilergeck ISa.
BRITISH STAPLE ARTICLES.
SlG6lllll.—Lute lumps were to x 094 datruenti
last week fur abspnient to the Baltic at the (.rarer co/repel;
but the demount hos now pertly •uheitled,. and priori are L.
to Is. lower; other pods are without altcration.

•
Popeseripf. neoglay, Srysisadw)4, 1610. Four ecibek.
The CAPIIVZS image' *Sill remain% very Wear. thew* Vie.
ea* bees switch &me eitept the sale to- ii, the wqroll•
whit\ via &dist/red of at meets die Basic prices as reeve peal
leas sweet. _ _

SUGAR -.lllltotieniine of the buyers was thief) it.recie4
to Itte public sale of 410 cask• of Demrraro 10-Joy, whl.•Y
west Is. pet cwt. lower; Ike pivots soles were in rouser
queobe very limited.
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ANTI-MONOPOLY COMMITTEL.

Crown au/ Anchor Tairern, !kept. 4, 1811
ft EPoRT

OF THE ANTI-MONOPoLT COMMITTEE to THE V.
TITIONERS TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS FOR
THE RESTORATION OF THE RIGHT OF ♦ FY.LE
TRADE IN east.

In persissure of the instructioes at Pie Getters! Martinet
of the Petitioners, the Committee have applies! 1., arr..,
leading Members of the late and present House of CIS.-
mous, and earnestly besought them to advocate the restitu-
tion of the people's right to a free trade in lease. They
have by reference to the evidence before. 0...1 the Remold
from, the Committees of the House of COntrltilleS. tin "
Police" sad oa " the Price and Gentili of Beer," and sitlu.
official documents, proved that the system, peculiar to Rile.
land, of eminent( the retail sale of hear to houses optional'
licensed by local Magistrates has led to the grossest abuses @
that many millions sterling are gives by the Brewers for
the occupation of those licensed arouses; that (tll the 1a...
guage of a Report of a Committee of the Hoie.e if Com.
moss on the Anti. Monopoly Petition), a a b.ewery Summer.
ed by purchased licensed houses moat deteriorate their bees ;"
that this" practice is ibereasine; ;" tad that" the poor might
be contest with such liquor as is retailed at the liees.rd
houses, whatever may be the Ogollity, the price, or the mea-
sure ;" that tbo:e extenstie classes of trail. sines, brewers
sad victuallers, as independeut men, are crushed lintirr the
present system; and bust in their places a taw greet caps.
taints arise, who acquire immense wealth and iiiHnence to
the State, sod who retain the victuallers as arrests fur the
sale of the beer of their particular breweries exclusively ,
That is some shelties the cobra means of supplying the
pnbliewith UMW ere ammepolised by one man ; awl that its
criers, too extensive and populous to have yet fallen tinder
sae% literal enolopuly, it is still in effect petitioned by the
brewers combining to:ether awl Asiag the price which the
public shall pay them for their beer; that by these nie.i..a,
in the present beanies of extraordinary 'vintner, beer his
been kept up to as high a price as ever it reached in times
of scarcity, viz. to ;sixpence per pot. That mall nod bops
have been considerably cheaper in 1819 then they wear.
is 1801, when beer was sold at funr.periee lealfpronv per
pot; that the di ffereuee of three halfperice per potamoin li t
an income ax of nearly 10 per fest. N the ear • gs of labo-
rious meir—to a. suns sufficient to support • child bedevil-
deafly, to pay for the clothing or lodging of a Nettie sad
its the aggregate, to betwee• sews and eight millions ate..
ling igloo a year's coosemplina, • SOU grew/i# erereiling
the whole revenue of Goverment ow longer since than in the
'vigil of George the First—a remargeble slid almost lucre.
dilate fact, which, however, will appear lent On when it ill
considered that the insusupolisie tax on beer is a poll- sae,
extruding to almost every sumo, womani and child, tail ii
not collected mice it two or three reieur, es poll-taxes were
formerly, or rotor en twice in a year, as the King's taxes are
now,bultiailyaud konrig, with every pot of tree that is drunk
—That, in short, by the arbitrary, inserittnble, hilennetitiv-
bona!, and irratiostal system of lieeasine inetuallene hoomesi
peculiar to England, individuals aredeprived of the fair toot
inoffensive enjoyms at of their estates—the people at large
are impoverished, drmikenisess is encouraged, the Magis-
trates are corrupted, their office rendered oil' and the
eosideuee of the subject in the justice of the (Menton. ..1
destroyeff—Tbese points per Committee Lave strottely
urged, particularly to those Members who profess an coil -
seal solicitude for the rights sad liberties of the people ; toot
although all admit the errors of oar perntiar !wearing .1 cs.
tem, sad the expedieary of an ameadested, codling Las bet is
done in the House of Cuennotte lo produce it,
That Geolleuseu who speak so often, so veberneolles and
so justly agonise sioecures mud pension., as ilraw.ez unne-
cessarily from the pockets of a stifferiug people, should re-
main silent on the far more severe extortions pearlised sn-
der the licensing moisopuly, without any pretence of owning
the state, but merely to make the rich Will richer *WI, has
surprised your Committee. The sinecures sad pessaions of
the English Government asainriar to oust hundred thousand
pounds annually : this bunko is distrihnted thrutigli all
classes. The extra price .f beer; in cotta qtreree of she
tensing system, exceeds several millions weaselly ; and this
is levied DO the labouring poor almost whose r the mute
tense their toil the more beer they nerd, and the peeler pr •
portion are they made to contrilrate to the II WV of the nit,
imprints.. Bust, in fact, it ie from revered of tie,* profe.seil
champions of popular right. cud privileges that the ie.
filatures have It craved tl.e most tieterionwel uppoatt.o.. .11
o the Rouse of Commons ; it is autoog these and Owl,• con-
settings that are to be found those who (nitro most cm the
unholy gains of beer mohopoly, and Innen( these a,-e
visible the most ardent levers of the arbitrary power
given to theta as Justices by the Lit:CO.lllg I.4*—a
power, howeter, which is abhorrent to the Constitn•
1104, sad wind, 110 COROCiVOIDADO OHM, your CODOODAtOrf

think, would ehowle to exterior. Disco ;ragtag as have
been the mocedings in tier Haase of Cinstrossus open the
appeal for a free trade in beer, the Cussositice advise the
Petitiooers nut to relax is their subjert ; that obj.rt is tow
deeply connected with the rights sod interests of the work..
iog classes of .suriety to be abandoard. The causer of she
distresses of the labouring poor dessaad the attention acres,
jail NMI. But these causes have been so di:teased by po-
liticsl subtleties sail tampering remedies, that it is Loera.
miry to advert to some origiaal principles of political eco-
nomy in ostler to dbcover the truth, and to thew how large
a potties of the people's distress arises frost mooopoly.
There N litttlmig of necessaries or luxuries that we con-
sume that is nut produced by labour; eves the spontaneous
fruitiest the earth require the Mew of collecting SP,' rot -
veyirst. On a moderate cossmitatims, it has appeared, chit
every working man sal assess (mersierd) produce twice CO
nisch as hr UV she 11111,0116019. depilate' "ma ly
awed Is abstracted by Ikea abs ate are preiartert hr.
beams; awry 44 takes, bewever, is the doe earrewe et
Arlo peewee, are jessaly erelsl $ 1061111, a raPisii."l
Wet., or detradcre ethers are sat sail esehae. bat W.'.

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