The National Register.
London, England, 1818-02-02 00:00:00

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Our ttina, OonOitution anti iLat)A.

MONDAY FEBRUARY 2, 1818.

of shop-lifting, or merely picking a pocket in the street,
is to be visited with transportation, flogging, or severe
imprixnment, those persons whose practices tend to sap
the vigour of the human race, the *cry foundation of
society, in their daily attacks upon mankind's best
blessing—HEALTH.

•• The salt of life, which does to all a relish give,"
ought surely to be arraigned before the bar of public
justice, and visited with the most exemplary punish-
ment.

The law, in its present form, is, perhaps, sufficient
to put a stop to this alarming evil—but it is to be la-
mented that many good and wholesome enactments of
the legislature are ibund to be a mere dead-letter; such
is the remissness of Magistrates and others in regard to
their apylication and inforcement. The exalted station
which some of these delinquents hold in society, from
their great wealth, it is also to be feared, operates tno
powerfully in sheltering them from the heavy visita-
tions to which, there is little doubt, their acts have
often subjected them. The laws bearing upon this
subject, we do not hesitate to say, ought to be put in
force to the most rigorous and see ore extent ; and it is
imperative on every Magistrate and Excise Officer to
attend to this important part of their duty. Parliament
will, ss c have no doubt, furnish them and the public
with stronger powers to bring to condign punishment
such mischievoas offieiders, should the present. laws not
be found sufficient for the purpose. It is of tar less
consequence, that one half of the common Brewers
should he deprived of their trade, by an expsition of
their vile practices, and mulcted in their pockets b,• the
penal inflictions of the law, than that the most useful
part of the King's subjects should be deprived of their
health, driven to Hospitals and Workhouses, and de-
prived of the means of an existence by the slow-work-
ieg and insidious practices of a set of bloated and over-
grown Monopolists and poisoners ef mankind.
The practices of Common Brewer.: are too notorious
to require dwelling upon—the oecasionul detections
which hate! taken pleee among them arc sufficient to
convlnce the most hesitating, the most unbelieving,
were there not a;so :be opportunity of comparing the
wY.-11 they are in the habit of vending, with that
which many persons brew for the use of their own
families.—Such a comperison cannot tail to bring the
strongest conviction to the mind, that it is not the ex-
tract of malt and hops, which can produce the flavour
(to say nothing of the colour) of the Beer manuffictured
by the public Brewers.—The thriller having in its com-
position nothing more than the simple clement charged
with the vinous extract of

Saceli'rine grain, ana the till towering vine
" That wave, head on Canal/nes fertile plains"

will be found grateful to the smell and palate, frit.ndly
to the stomach and possessing the flavour of both the
vegetable essences used in its composition ; while the
other charged with

" Fell Imlicus, flux Vom:ea, and all
" The hateful tribe of lroporific drugs
" That dull the senses and un-nerve the man,"

will not be found to possess cither the flavour of Malt
or flops, but a certain gusto of sweet, sour, or bitter,
arrising from the predominancy of some certain secret
article used in prepairing it, and having withal a most
stupifying, intoxicating and lethargic ell'ect
With some persons, the drinking of a single pint of
Brewer's beer, will produce a greater degree of head-
ache, nausea, ard other unpleasant symptoms, than
would be occasioned by five times the quantity of home
brewed Beer, of %Vine, or an eltinl quantity of Spritu-
Liqu. r.--" Beer well prepared, (is has bt-vii ob-
s,oved by one i%ho has written on the subject) should
" be and char ; possess a due quantity of spirit,
4. eacite no disagreeable sweet taste, and contain uo dis-
" agreeal;l, distinguished from other vinous
1;10m4 by the Inn( grk:ater ovantity of wocilag(!:loos

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" matter which it has received by extraction from the
" malted grain, but which also renders it more nourish-
" ing.'—We need scarcely observe how widely different
is this description of genuine malt liquor, from tie arti.
ele which we in general obtain from the public-house,
and which at different times is found to possass alt
manner of flavours, all manner of consistencies.

The result of the meeting before adverted to,
will, there is no doubt, be a petition to Parliament
on the subject, and we trust that tLa legislato:c
in the enactment of any measure which may he
fund necessary to meet the evil complained of by
the nicetin,7, will not lose sight of a matter of surh
vast importance to society at large, as the one en which
from its peculiarly interesting nature, we huvc been led
to inlu!ge in the foregoing remarks.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FICANuE.

PAR 23, JAN. 23.—Nis Scheffer has brew sentenced by the.
Correctional Poher, for his work, entitled "rice State of
Liberty is France." to three months' imprisonment, a line of
200 francs, a y, .tr of •airveillance under the I ['mice, and
1,0;),) trance' !tail fur hi. good conduct. The wink to ire slip.
pre‘sed. 'lie printer, Gille, u,tt Ms% ing been. proved to have
exam ned the work, was acquitted.
% great number of young men of the departtitent of the
Landes presvnled themselves to their respective Mayors to be
married, as soon as they heard of the recruiting law. The
flavors, astonished at the sudden attluetiev of marrying' mein,
coniil!eil the Piercer, who reminded them, that there es.isted
no exemption but in the case whet e llMlriages had n•tent con-
tracted *hi the ten days that followed the presentatiou of the
project, and that tile Mayo's ought to wain fainitirs that
every precipitate step would deceive the hopes of the future
husbands.

T'‘e Paris jotirnals of the 26th instant, anaonnee the final
ut the w the l'ress. This measure had passed the
tower Chamber with some amendments f...vciirable to the
catt,e of freedom, after a sharp stritet4le, and ity a smail ow.
jui ity. In the IJ:els, a series of contests arose on st.‘,eral
articles and prceisillll3 of the lase, and on amendments or ino-
difirafitias isirb were suetzes.ed ing :he prou.ress of the
tlisetissions; but this pi elin.inarr trimble proved oltogto her
fi ; inasmuch a whet, the 1i,,al tlel in i
and the (pest wis pt:t Thlst the taw (as a whole)shonld be
adopted, or, us v c say in Pug' Intl, a that its bill do pass," it
was decided it, the negative by 102 votes to tit).

The religions ceremonies that tr,ok place at St. Denis,
on the .2 i st, in memory of Louis XVI. are described at
sonic length, in all the French paper. The Bishop
of Soissons Milt:hued, assisted by the Chapter of St.
Denis. Another Bishop rcad the testament of the King.
Madame, the daughter of the unfbrtunate Monarch, at-
tended, and attracted particultir attention by her rel.
gious davoutness and her tears. In reading the testa-
meat, the voice et' the Bishop was sometimes stifled by
his sorrow. The King, accompaaied by the Duchess
of lkrry, anti proceeded by the Ministers, assisted at the
mass of rorieut which was celebrated in the Royal
Chapel. The retbrined church of Paris celebrated in the
two churches the expiatory service of the illst inst.
GIBRALTAR, ,lax. 3 .—.ln ofilcial despatch has been
received front Oran, dated the ‘..q.;th of' last month, by
which it appears that the phlg-tte continues to desolate
Bona anti Constantine, and that it still rages at Algiers,
where the number of deaths amounts to ::;0 a day. Wo
are particularly sorry to add, that this dreadful disease
has spread to the towns of Blida, Media, and Mina, all
of them situated to the westward of Ahoors, torl the
last within .25 leagues only of Oran, no fewer than 10
individuals being daily carried off in each of Close
places. In consequence of this unpleasant intelligence
tncasures of precaution will be enfinTed increLsed
rigour in this port.
l'he expedition to the Arctic regions is to he com-
pletely ready by the Ist of March. The of/leers and
men are to be allowed double pay in the execution of
this service, with every requisite tier encounterino." the
climate of those inhospitable regions. Lieut. Franklin,
and Lieut. Beech', son of Sir vv. Beechy, are among
phi::itiidithu.execn'e'.TNthera:the man:Tees of Covrnt Uarden
written by Mr. Millman, of
those already appointed.
ly (11:141e.‘,15ainifr'd lately brought out .t Bath,
au uatomtwon degree of interest to •
Theatre,
reu:se:l:::sieltioin seen in that theatre we un-
derstand:in:ions to fulfil the it duty to tine are prep .r. ,
Mg the play for r,:pres,utati,,n, it: the beILI that the
interesting part of Ei«;:c2 cwt, t.lone be. i‘alise... by :he
svul-rending rnwers of N:iss 0 Neill.