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NUMRPK 6044.

Pitici Id.

THEATRIV-HOrAL, DRURY-LAN&
THIS EVENING, THURSDAY. April IS,
his Majesty's Servants will performs the Comedy of
THE ROAD TO RUIN.
01.1 DVIIIOO. Mr. Maude.; Henry Dantean, Mr. Cooper
Milford. Mr. Barnard; Mr. %My. Mr. Gittie; GOOK
Mr. Holey; Silky, Mr. Knight., Widow Warrro. Sim Nat.
; Sophia. Mira Copeland ; ooey, Mo. Omer.
To conclude with the f lie Musical Betrovagosos. called
GIOVANNI IN LONDON.
Doe Giovanais Madame Vestris ; Lepoftllo. Mr. Harley ;
Mr. Florentine Floirkin, Mr. Barnard. Mrs. Leporello.
Ilia Cabin ; Min Commando Ottizotte, Mho Poesy ; Sion*
jog Fan, Mrs. Stand.
To-morrow, Tire Duryea Carlos (Sr.( Hoer), Modorwe
Vestris ; Clara (first time), Mies Fordo—with Almenwes sod
Hemet.
On flotorday, the Cooed, of Stored the Pforogls.
On Monday, Illselord the Third: Dolts of Wester, 11111
Kran•
.0a Tories% 7h. Siege of Bolos& the fierostier, Mr.
Salim (his first eippostains erwolool.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, APRIL 17, 1022.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the
UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG.
LAND, trading to the EAST INDIES, do hereby pies
Itiettag.

protecting duties !tad already been carried a great
deal too far.
The Petition *lli ordered to be„printed.
ALEHtts:JSE LICENSES.
Mr. Thanes. presented! a Pstittou from certain
Landholders in the ;minty of Maidenhead. iti Beth-
complairtimr, of the depression of -the eneykets
in their neighbourhood for hat ley, Irill.Fll VMS thechivf
article of their produce. This trepredsion therattri,
hated in a great degree to the circumstance ef all
the public-houses in their district being its the
hands of three or four brewers, who in consovseasse
of being thus wholly free from competitiow, /sad it
in their power to supply beer of such a quality
they themselves thought ',roper. Indeed the pe-
titicnera deemed to have a strong suspicion that the
'Nee supplies' at present was nut brewed from malt
at all—(laughter)--or at least from is very 'mall
proportion. The Petition was, front the kuoesis mw
spectability of the parties whim! signatures were
galled to it, entitled to the grtifeit
They 'scribed the evils which they.ememereted46
the present system of licensing; complain* ci(
the licenses being limited net to the parties. bat
to the houses for •hich they are grouted; and
praying that the law in that respect may be altered,
so that the licenses' may be given to the parties,
whereby they may be enabled to choose their own
brewers, or to brew titer own beer, which would
have the effect of increasing the consumption of
barley in malt, and of securing to the public •
supply of • more invigorating beverage.
Mr. C. W. WYNN said such a regulation as that
which these petitioners prayed fur, of making the
licenses merely personal. would be attended with
greet int7tirestience. At present the Magistrates
were required to exercise their discretion in the
granting of licenses recording to the Dumber of
houses in any particular neighbourhood, and the
necessity of licensing a house for the convenience of
the inhabitants. Bat if the license were made per.
some, the party obtaining it might remove from
the house in which it wits granted to him, and open
another house in another neighbourhood, even
next door to • public-house already established.
Mr. GILIMFILL said, the object of the Petition-
ers was not to interfere with the discretionary power
of the Magistrates as to the granting of such licenses,
but they merely wished that instead of being made
out in the name of the party, and attached to a
particular house, they should be made out in the
tame of the party only. leaving it to him to carry
on his trade wherever he thought proper.
Mr. C. W. WYNN repeated his former observe-
tient, and added, that it might perhaps be possible
to guard against the inconvenience he had antics.
pitted, by making the license personal, but availa-
ble only within a certain limit of space. •
Mr. U. CILIUM said a few *olds inaudible is
the males,.
Sir N. WILSON suggested, that much of the
evil of monopoly might be prevented, by enacting
that no licenses should be given to houses in the
occupation of brewers.

•
irtat whenever • Petition wax pre-smiled which did
not esscily correspond with tie sentiments eater.
tamed by Honourable Gentlemen on the other side
of the Moose, a remarkable degree of .cuteness woe
displayed, in finding out objections to its prsyer..-
IFlesir, he•r.)—Notice of ■ m-tion of a pari'cular
p•ture had been publicly given, anti if those
boners conceived that it was the object of t.ucto a
Outal to bring about that which tiwy wit!,
alarm; and that it was endeavoured in elf,,ct .nt it
object by indirect euraisa, they bud a right to ex-
press that opinion as long ■s-they did so, as in tine
tuitance, iu teutperate and respectful language.—
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Hulse desired that there war tiny foundation
in the practice of Gentlemen on his side of the
House for the observations of the Right Ron. Gen.
denials. It hardly ei,et occurred that any opposi-
tion was abide Mt that lade to petitions, eve., in the
farm or observatioo ; bat they were frequently fr.
•Il.Mtber by mutious Non the othet side.
He hmild not help thinking that it was exceeding
bad Smote, sad bordering on bigotry and intoler-
ance, for persons enjoying the full benefit of tolera.
Lion, and the free exercise of the privilege's of the
con•titetion themselves, to object to the extension
of the some benefits to others.

That they will pnt up to Sale, at their House in Leaden-
ball street, on TUESDAY, the ?lit May sex,. at Tea
o'Clock is the Forename precisely, prompt the Vl4l
November nest.

TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO PIPES OF
THE COMPANY'S MADEIRA WINE,
Ike whole of obit+ was same years in the East Indies; and
that the MOP way be tuned previously to the Sale, and
eatatetses had epos applieeti.m to Mfr. Wm. Evans, at his
Offiert la the Compsay'y Warehouses, New-street. Bishops.
e between the hone Jane and three daily (Sea-
y= ra
excepted).
)
JOSEPH DART, Secretary.

MBA TR AO rA L. COI 11117.01184
THIS EVENING, THURSDAY.
will be Med tbe Opera of

ROB ROY MACGREGOR.
Mr Primal Verson, Mr. 1110,000: Ku calk
gone, Mr. *nand; Fowls Oakialdlatemar, Mr. Damage;
threw, Mr. Blanchard; Capt. Tbortmoo, Mr. Comer; ago
Re) Macgregor Campbell, Mr. ; Drogol, Mr.
Emmy; Raabe Nicol Jerrie, Mr. Liston. Diana Temoo,
sorpheas; Hein Macgregor, Mrs. Fawn.
To which will be added, Mb lime. a Dew Growl Asiatic
Melo-draniatie Romance, caUrd
CHERRY AND FAIR STAR;
Or, THE CHILDREN OP CYPRUS.

Sir T. B. LITRIBIUDON said he was glad that
this petition had been presented against the measure
which a Right Hon. Gentleman had given notice
of his intention to propose. He was astonished to
find, after the public avowal which had been made
of the intention of that Right Hon. Gentleman,
that there were not more petitions against it. He
was sure th■t if the proposed measure were carried
in that House, and in the other House of Parks..
meet, that it would turn out to be a aide-wind by
which the whole question of Catholic Emancipa-
tion would be carried, and he, for one, was of opi.
union that the frame of our constitution would there.
by be in logo changed.

Cherry. Mrs. Visias; Sassusinett, Mr Farley; Topaek,,
Mr. Grimaldi; lisesaisbad, Mr. Blaarbard ; Geier, Mr.
Chapman; Nuurrddia, Mr. Harrah'''. Fair Saar, Miss
Foote; Aviary's', Min Diarasout ; Rpllb, Mw E. Dos.
ant.
Cherry sad Fair Star will be repeated 'vary mans.
Toaseraw, t►e Comedy of The Schaal for illeaadal.
Oa &hinny, the Musical Desna of Nowt Hann.
Oa Mostlay, Sbilispeare's Tragedy of Julies Caw.
to Tuesday, Sitakapeares Comedy of Errors.

Mr. H. O. Bamitrr requested gentlemen GAM
to run away with an idea that this was a subject
which could he very easily disposed of. If they
came to consider it fully, they would find it a mai-
-1 ter of extreme difficulty and of the greatest ins.
portance. and one in which property to the amount
of a million sterling was engaged. The Hon. Meta-
' brr then adverted to a Bill which he had formerly
'brought in on the subject of the regulation of li-
censes, and which had passed through that Howse,
but had been lost in another place, and intimated bia
intention of again bringing it forward, if a cosier-
. nient opportunity offered.
Mr. BROUGHAM could not help rejoicing exceed-
ingly at the intention of his Hon. Friend the Meinw
ber for Shrewsbury to bring forward that measure
again, which had been lost on a former occasion in
another place. He fully agreed with him in think-
ing that the law of licensing public-houses in this
country required revision. He knew that the Ma-
gistrates themselves were of that opinion, and that
they were anxious it should be revised. It could
nut be denied that in many instances the power of
licensing had been shooed PAr patty purposes and
other considerations; Lot he thought there was
more reason to complain of the many mistakes of
judgment that were made by Magistrates in this
mistier. He believed that from a natural wish to
preserve order and sobriety in their districts, Magis-
trates were too prone to confine the number of ale-
bowies too much, and that the na►rowing of the
number of licensed houses had facilitated the ope-
ration of throwing them into the hands of a fey
persons, who, by being enabled to compel the pub.
beaus to purchase beer from them, lost all check
upon the quality of the article which they supplied.
In this manner the beer sold in these houses be-
came g,enersilly bad in quality, and a worse species
of drulikenness was thus produced than that which
the Magistrates. by confining the number of licenses,
sought to repress, from the encouragement to the
use of spirituous liquors.
The petition was ordered to be printed.
CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION.
_ _

Mr. Plat. presented a Petition from the Synod
of Glasgow and Ayr, in full meeting, ►tating that
they had heard with alarm of the notice which had
been giveu to the House of a motion, having for
its object to enable Catholic Peers to sit sod vote
111 the Howe, of Lords, and praying that no 801 l
might be allowed to pass into is law whereby Ro-
wan Catholics would be introduced into the Lev.
latore of this 'military. The Right Hon. Gentle-
man said hr wools! take that opportunity of giviug
notice, that the sense of the House would certainly
be taken oil the first proposition !elating to that
measure, whether for a Committee, or fur leave to
bring in a Bill.--(Hear.)
The Petition having been rod—
Mr. Tunisia said he thought it was rather
pertinent 111 these Petitioners to read lectures to
that House on the course which it might be proper
to pursue respecting a Bill which had not yet beets
brought in.—(Hear.)
Alf. Put. said, lie could not help remarking,