The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-01-16 00:00:00

BRITISH SPIRITS-ENGLISH lifißrit.

[From the Gl:sgine Coterier.l
We are able to lay before our readers a correct decotint
of the demur that has arisen to prevent the free intros
duction of British spirits into the English market. it
proceeds from the distillers putting one construction nptin
the Act, and we think the right one, and the General
Board of Excise another. The object is to guard against
the chance of the Scotch distiller, who gets a drawback of
2s. per gallon on malt spirits in Scotland, from mixing
these with grain spirits, and then sending the mixed spirits •
to England, where the distiller obtains no drawback on
malt spirits. It is satisfactory, however, to state, that the
objection was not suffered to extend to, or to interfere with,
the grain and malt spirits sent to England, and Waded
during the last quarter ; but the construction put upon the -
Act, and the order issued by the Board of Excise, in con-
sequence, has paralyzed the trade and prevented the distil-
lers, for the moment, from forwarding any more spirits to
England till the difficulty is cleared up and removed,
which it is expected wit soon be. The distiller conceives
that, by the Act, he may clear out spirits, for the English
market, from his warehouse, proeided he has only the
kind of spirits, malt or grain, which he clears out at the
time, on his hands. The Excise think differently. The fol-
lowing is the clause of the Act on which the difference of
opinion rests, and to it we annex the substance of the in-
structions issued by the Excise on the subject :
XCIX. Provide:l always, and be it further enacted, doe pet
spirits which shall be or shell hare been made or distilled to
:Scotland or Ireland respectively from unmalted corn cc ride,
mixed or unmixed with malt, shall be taken out of any warsbeinle.
store, or place, for removal to England, unless suck spirits mite
made and warehoused by some distiller, having, at the darn when
such spirits were so made and warehoused, no spirits mwleftdar
malt only, or on which any allowancoshall be or shall hare hate
made in respect of the duty on such malt in his or her stock be
possession, or in rich warchouts, and which shall be sir certified_ by
the proper officer at the time of warehousing, and also at the beh"•
very thereof."
SUBSTANCE OF A GENERAL ORDER.
•
" it appearing that, in some cases, the (19th section of the ith
Geo. IV, cap. FO, has been construed to authorize spirits mode Rata
unmalted corn and grain, either to be deposited in duty-free webs
houses, or to be sent to Engladd at a time when the distiller to
whom they belonged had spirits made from malt only, on width
the allowance of the malt drawback had been allowed in some
other tlntysfree warehouse,
" The Commissioners direct yen td take notice, and appals:
the several supervisors and officers in your collection, for the home.
slate information and guidance of themselves and the dittales
therein, that such construction is considered contrary to the siselp.
ing salt tittention of said clause, and therefore care is to be tbleis
that po spirits made from unmalted corn be taken out of say
warehouse, or removed to England, unless it can be certified by
the officer that neither at, the time when suck spirits wets ea*
-and warehoused, nor at the time of appliestiest foe delivery thessf. •
the distiller had any spirits mode from malt only, or en whist% way
' allowance may he, or may have been made, in respect of suds melt
in bin stock or possession, whether in any siaty-free warshesse 'Sr
otherwise."

A case has been mentioned to us, With!) we report for
the example's sake. A master manufacturer in Braslford
has recently tet to work about 150 work-prep !e, at the`
usual rate of wages, taking care to select lirs.lq of families,
to whom he gives employment, restricting each of them to
earn ten shillings a week till the trade improves. 41 Pre-
sent he h..s no vent for his goods, and he has therefore int •
motive to lock up his capital but a wish to relieve tholi!.
wised.. He thinks, and we are of his opinion, that he is •
in this way rendering more real service to the work-people,.
than it be were to pauperize them, by giving ten-Ail/lows •
a week to each of their families without repthinc and
, .
labour in return.-Leed.;

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