The National Register.
London, England, 1819-05-09 00:00:00

MAY 9.

hcence.. It ass signed by between two and time thousand Li-
cen.ett Victuallers residing in the metno;Atlis.
t'ent.on ',wt. and ordered to be plated.

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Mr. Bess LT then. in pursue/ice of Ins notice. rose to move
for leave ea acing in a Bill tin the bee ter reenlatioa ofthe granting
of Licences to Publicaus. The Committee. which had been
appointed to enquire into this subject, had unified the He
taint no que.uon could come before tile hones which more deeply
affected the morals of tee pi Noe, and more iineeriously de-
mentia-el the cuneelcriation of tee House.—(Hear !) As tie
Reports had foe • b::n before the Hellie. he would nut fmigue
teens eviui ti eve?nag tlirosieh the comenG of .iind docuineutt :
he world content linen It with inivertitan to the law regarding the
prancing of Licences as it now neon Toe principal law Was
teat id the vont Geo. 11. ch. 35. That law for the that time gave
the power of annually renewing the Licences. Prior to that
re: text Licenses were pot renewed annually ; teirg once ;Tuned
they continued till the poatestors of them lonnited their Licences
by ban condirt or impro, cc demeanor. It is also reeptire.l that
applications should be sported be a certiticate font the ain-
'Ll -t:an of the perish, the Parish o.facer s. k» In some counties
they woad.; no, laceine witere the "ogneettre of the Clergyman
wee wanting. ate' he co del mention instances, where the C•ergy-
men, from sample art conacteuce. amulet sign no Petition that
between ems: two reguletheia soma:Mina no licence; at all conk!
be obtateel. the nertenes:lrt the Clergymen renenilly signed '
the Cenatiestes us a mutter of course, rent tying a smell lee ; and
time of the Parish tette:ere also as regularly signed the Certid-
catm. they like•viee 'exciting fees. Titus as far as the really re-
tort] nendeto enaracter of the cern:late was concerned, tee law
was in fact a dead letter. On applying for a new licence, the
Act required that the application shoule be steepened by a certi-
ficate wined by the Clergyman of the Fund' in which the IMAM
was awaited. a. Wt.:l 44 to the Claurchweitleas, Overseers. kc.
lie proposed is amend this part of the law. he eel:tiring the big
nature of the Clergyman, a unijonty of the Overseers, itc. be.
sites six parintioners • or 'wetted of the 08 ees, b: twelve pa-
rishionern And instead of reqiiiiing it from manna in the petals
in which the house sew I, the signatures enould come from pewits
of the nari.hin which the petitioner Tes,oll. 'lbis would make tine
tecomanattatory ceitifieut% teeny enineeuee: for it was in evi-
dence that p :rem% who head been deprived of their Licences on
account ui the bed cnaracter of the house* which Wry might pre-
viously have oacupied, after removing poseibly to the oeposite
side of the street only had been licensed by &limner set of Manes-
trstio.—The recognizanems next clai n..l !mine. At Cie law
etood. the recognizant:es were, the Publican to the amount of tOL
and tam sureties in 31. each; but these texognizatiers were in fact
a mere dead letter in town, u well as allover the country. The
clerk held in his Instil a teepee. celline over 'loam, tile parties
bent( io reality sureties fur another; and besides there was no
instance where there reeognizenert had been estreated. lie
prrrptiserl to increase the anioult of the reneeniza flees, and to hare
the patties reguliney sworn to the amount; in fact, to make tee
neognizances real and acetic: is operation. Regardieg %nether
part of the mode in whicit Magistrates conducted themselves. he
lamented to say that a practice tad .risen of hate years which eas
not warranted by any Act of Patnement—namely. that of inking
&say Licences and of remain); them, without usigning any
rtasen for such torden, or appealing to any Jury or other power,
but at the mere will and pleaeureof the magi-oaten Ile did not
whe to throw any slur ori the Alagiatentee—lie arty complained
of the pittance which in operation produced most fatal conee.
alliances. In the nletrepons it was particularly so. F.% idence
tad been adduced, which chewed that licences were taken away
by Magistrates on most vague and indefiente grounds; indeed. it
was shown, that the had been recommended never to ash ;n any
tea ens for taking away licences. It had theretcre happened,
that there were many cases of pewits, who, after having kept
houses fir years, with the approbation of Maginrates, auu the
recommendation of Clergymen, Pareh Officers. etc. had betas
arbitrarily and suddenly deprival of their Licences on some ua-
specified renown poesioly founded in error or misrepresentation.
But no reasons for such cleerivetices, could be enamel ; and he
had many well authenticate. cases where these refusal, had taken
▪ where the parties had the requisite certiticater, sic reru-
Lasals that were frequently followed by distress sad ruin. There
v as anomer evil resulting nein Leis p racdce which particularly
shelved itself in Borough Towns. It was carried en us a greater
extent than even he Had imagined, forward as lee was to suspect
Magistrates, &e. where electionwring matters came in their way.
la those Borough Towns this practice arbivanly caking away
lacences, where the possessors may here ',Wended during contested
election., was corruptly exercised to an amazing extent; and
he had the countenance of :tome very high Lew authorities for de-
claring that this pr settee was not founded in the kw of the land,
certainly nut in the Act previously mentioned. The Act requiring
the annual renewing of licences did not give the Magistrates any
additional power mer the licences when they were can granted
—their power was only ministerial after the Ineecces bad been
(ranted; they were never judicial except where new Licences
were to be granted. The end' Geo. 11. he intended should be
repealed; and to substitute a gradual scale ot penalties. The
first and sewed cemplainuthcuid be before the A:nein:rates, but
the thirJ should be sent to a Jury ; and they should be en,
powered to fine to the *amount of nein or to uecLare the Lit er.ce
forfeited. According to the present practice, Licences were
withdrawn on the ino. vogue and fanciful grounds • attan amen
pies antlenutivel tl.at 'could be ceetemptible, hut for the nits.
ceietai whien ensued. His object was to give some little protection
to the Publicans; to rescue them from b oi.iing the victims of
raltry and petty cetirice; to secure than against the repetition of
such misfortune, he proposed unit there should be an appeal
against the deeisioneof tie Liceassng Manistrates. It was las
opinion that such appeal should be to a Jury—but as this had
Len heretofore objected to, on the ground that it would cast a
slur on the Manistrates, he more proposed that the appeal should
be teem the Licensing Magistrates to the Magistrates ansetneled
ire Quart se Sessions. To de: he thought there could be no oh
Section ; this could be casting no stain on the Magistracy ; and it
would be giving preteetioa where protection ens wanting. the
should also propel e, that where it was intended to apply for new
Licences, throe months notice of such intention should be given ;
and this would prevent panne front simegeling a licence. Ile
also proposed no introduce a clause, the objet of which should be
to chick the .system by which .hewers gut I owes into their own
Linde. and ea/edified them in then own trade, and he p
In accannpli.h this clad by rindeneg all connects, made by
Brewers with Put beans, binding them to mite the articles soli
train certain tinns, void, atter a curtain peeled. That the B ee.
tea lied immune nuenLers of hatene, which they kept in 'Mir
own trade, WU& notorious face. In his (Mr. Ons) own nngil-
heurhood there was not one public house that dal riot belong to
Brewers. At one place in the country there were sixty-st Yen
public houses, umd nearly all of thesis were in the same condition.
At Warrington there were 17 or 114 public houses ; about la of
them were in the hands of Brewers. In Maidstone there %etre
about 4.10 public housea. neatly all of them were in the bands of
Brewers and Distillers. By this &yawn' an artificial value was
given to the bonen, and the verding of particular people's
go ds was secured. whatever might be their quality.—
Ct.c rail consequences of such a system were known and felt.
To the principle of his proposed Bill he tlieught no one would
tattier'. Ile had endeavoured to meet were of those (stein now
annelained sf t and if the principle of the Bill were not objected
ts, he nutted lie should not want then-beeper:salon of the Donee.
(Ileser, bear r kit cuecluden setth tr.oring for Last to bring in e

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

Bill for the better regulation of the &taming Licences to
Publican,. _ _

Mr. BARN TT (of Rochester) and Mr. G. Liam—both rose
to second the Motioo. which was afzerwards put and xgrted to;
no 41 leave scrortlingly given to bring In such x
remaining busta.ats being gone through. the House
adjourned

71111DaY, MA V 6.

A Iler some routine butinea

Mr PaLi. preset.ted the Report of the Select Committee
relating to the BAN K A 1-4 t lRy, nn.l the prop, iety
ri`s1.1111114( Cash P.lt Illt ; wul.ll ens tem by ims Clerk,
414C1141111t coaxer...stem as In the omisr,i.,4l 'Huns 14 it
essential so the pi. trot outlet of the maim mints. It
was of insioeme female, stud occupied trrally as Maur mad a
• iu the tratii gof •t.
The Report essiumeneed with Mathis:, that the first &jets,
of the Cm ~,,,, Rase Wis 4 to !!tune ohm si 1111 l mit of louti• the
Bank hal out, ntid abet ncaus st pa) tag' 111:01 a err piss
-e,,'d: the •111011111 of iiiites were Nand to tie ;
to meet mica mumet, including Guveroarem sc,ueitim., I hi•
llosit produced mean. to the ex tem of 39,0 0.00 d and
upwards. This left a tuns of upwards of 5,000,1001. its
'masa. of the Batik, cactus seat matt waiald b.. p,,yahte
(14,000,00)1. we (Mutt) in the event of orsomingthe t halt. r.
It then adves teal Ili the price of Bullion since 1;97, mad to
the partial resamptioo aif p a) meat in specie in !did, tom set
cert min small mt. 4. HMI' MIIII4IOI load a half in sold specie
was thus aimed het o rim 1817 110tI 1019, mad further Stnse is
re.iri.teel I for it oHs timid Thor the gold wits ex priest, ;laid
melted down by foreign commies. It next namationed ahc
debts din• to the Itaak—the Acts net the subject—addax:,
that the resinx mem% of the sans, broths. ed by Oorrennsiels
were necessary 1 reparnimy to the renimpaitoi of rase pay-
at mi.. The amount of Ili e.e advanices ass one of the main
Impediments to (lie retilillp Ma of rash pay trews, NMI the
Colousittee, taelefinc. i,;msisimendeil sepaxineot us some of
the mealw to eatable t think to Ise prepared in renew cools
payments. know ling the espedieucy resuming cash '
I meets, th, Repoli pent into tengiheued delude referral
to sloe mile ia xis appendix. and aiding, that the issue of
Bank Not bad toren reduced anise ruin After a full
cemoderation of Ili • eircumatance—the deb*, due to the
Bana—the price of Bullion, dtc. the Committee ome deci-
dedly of %splints:l, that it aass espedieat to continue the
rests Sefton, beyond .Isily 5. —The nest point was, shell
cash paymegAs he renamed amount of specie in
vireol before the war was romiuded to be 30,000,0 01.
hot all that ammoit had been exported.— lit wits cousiderrd
by lir. Komi, one. that forty.tive million loom& iu specie
woull lie requinie to supply a utetallie
that sues would not lie wasted at once After noticing the
Wet/exclaim:cm. that had Leen experienced i i the Country by
plymenfs mid recei,iis in Cash, onir Banker, Mr. Stuckey,
steams that notes had hem pre feared, and it had cost much
to remit the specie to LonJua ; and after suratiouing the
effarts erotism. Con Aries to restore metallic fur wiper cur-
✓ency which adviinces the prier of Bullion. it expressed the
opinion that the Idiom:lac C ;siege resanyi o: Cash Pay-
ments float rrratly depend on the date of the E scheme.—
Nis *apply met the Batik could have wou!d suffice, if they
were ofilieed to pay OA at the rote of •11. I.F. lA4d. per
ounce, lam( ms Winn. could tam sor 0 per cent. by ex-
porting it. The exchanges were now unfavourable, in cOll.
bellilesieV nom foreisis init, however, itufavottushbq
the eschanzes might be, the Committee saw nu teams, tatty
payments should slot be made at rates rialto-taxies:sting to the
deed prices of gold. The Committee therefore proposed
that there 5h0i.0.3 be a gee:dual IT64111111• of paymeirs
cording ta tfw fo!loo reale: —Atter Petite:try, 1420, till
the 6.1 oaiug October, the Bank should pay humid out less
wei:ht than 60 oz. at the rate of 4f. Is. per ounce; from
October 18 0. till Nay 1821, at the sate of3l. 19s. 64. per
ounce ; mid after May 1821 fsr too or not Exceeding three
yeam, at the old rate of 31. 17s. Ibid. By this plan, the
sending builiois out so* the essuatry would be mode ed un-
prefliable ; mid the pa.ments sit C..sh reiriere.d gradual,
which would prevent mildest diaine and mintsentient alarm.—
TM, they thought would rescue order mid harmony; mud
velitoolly a mandated would be established less merhsble
than what had recently beets known. Oa the subjeel of
lei gel its. the Cuoiniitiee did out conclude that the temp-
tation to forge woe Id he dituinnils d so lone as Its' Notes
were in 101 l ;boot they could emumenicate that
the syneni whirls hail been for seine time in cootemplation
would be ready to be acted upon in oboist three month..
That sysieut ullordeel hopes fur being extensively los, lid,
as it would especially give to the public • punter facility
in delecliog forgeries.—The CoensuAtee afterwards Ir•
contineueled the tepee' of the law ahich pcobibilest the
expatiation of cons, and made it a tranaportaliie offeoce,
because it promuied perjury. and placer Ilse violater of
tke law in a sitoa.ton hr iter tildll time rail order coin gamily.
The Repent nest ailses fed in the is•iiea of Comilry Bassi.
11;1,14.4, the aVer.me Agkivie.tte
29.1)00,0001. lint, in einichoilm. iht y to!mitted that it was
diffiAlli to ascertain the emoithi.

Mr. Prot. moved, that the Report du re upon the table,
and be piloted.

Mr..elElt IV asked what projecit the Chancellor of Ihr
Exchequer had to hr la•J f 411, to rub-
nut to Ilie 11€ ,•11 •111.1 or not resort ?

CHAP,Ckt.LO,II .of tar EXtittst,ttLa begged to de-
cline waking u.u, rvy!ic• tiow ; he must abstam from pre-
mature disrlosuie%.

Mr. Ttanstalt hOl $llOl was tit* case, he now gave
notice, that o t Tuesday, the 18•11 instant, I e should move
that the House 411) I emote stae:f mho a Cu.stinithre " on
the State or the Notion.' —( Mitch rheet Inc.)
Item t ordered to be pruned, Mr- Neel observing, that
it iA ouRI be ready in xis or aeren vaelot.
I.ord A. HAMILTON'S motion reverting the Scotch
Rot glut, being disposed or, toe House atijoutnsti at a late
hour.