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exceedingly revere—so severe, that it would not be be afrurded to hint by that or any .odortteitt pwer.
earth the whits qr. any brewer to ran the et.k..ssf- ir consequence, however, or thislettete:,eonpled
arilteretipu. for 1115...eake Of tlgil profit theg might : trith.the opinion of Sir Vicery Garbs:Mr. fiarrow,
make- b it. If;thee adopted • the system, airy , and Mr. Andrew. (the Counsel employpl by the
must use such a itasienlje.of those itoprotier in.i.: balms), who ristedi that they'te:.iresi
.they
teriale, .as Weald 'render it impossible that they • emits! 'tot draw np each an a/davit et !mold he
could escape übsertatiusi. It must naturally and tie- satisfactory to the Court, the legal proceedings
creamily_ be matter of general publicity—not only against thatindisidual were stopped.—and thir.was
open to their own servants. but to the whole neighs Matinee cif the business. Since ' the ,26th
boorhood.. How could his Him. Friend behind of January I !St, this Petition was 'reeked about
hint (Mr. Burcla'), whose house brewell 3.00,060 (he town. A friend of his saw a neriiim.walkii;l4 no'
barrels of porter .in the course of a year—how and (low*. the Piazza, in Corint-iiiiden," ,roil ili..
could lie introduce on his twerni.es deleterious recline persons to proceed to the Crop% is mat Au-.
articles, to be mixed with so large's§ quiddity of chor Tavern in this Strand, where it lay fur signa-
liquid, without observation ? The thing only re- turns. It lied at length found its way. to a block.
quired.to be stated, in order totneet iminediute ing-drop iii the Strand, which was the most proper
contratli.tion. For dine reasons, lie, for one, place ror Fn dirty us. Petition. He hoped it would
would not call on the Home to enter into a Coin- k he referred to a Committee, that Mr. lierher Beau,
'itre. If the Petitioners wished it, and it was i moot might he exposed in his true coheirs to that
moved for by the Learned Gentlentin, he wits sure Nose told the conntry—as * disappointed alagis-
his Moo. Friends would nut oppose it. trate, who bad got into the conitnissicia ¶o serve his
Mr. P. MOORE said, lie understood, when the own interest. Ile wee disappoiiited in heel:sing
learned Gentlenunisprorented die Petition, that lie houses in the E•lst awl %Vest IHOIS el the town:
had no ulterior object its view—that be did not Had, he succeeded, he would probably have exerted
meats to rail far inquiry. But, be that so or not, himself in the North awl South. Having faded iq
there was one point they ought to look to before that, he now wished to render himself a Initialer.
they received such a Petition. They ought to con. man, and, for that purpose, lie Inn" Made those
bider its what situation the Petitioner would stand, cbarges against the brewers.
if he did not prove his iallegations, and they ought Mr. LOCKHART said, he personally knew nothing
to 'leave something like security, that he should of the iniii.illual of whom the Host Member had
prose them. If he had gone' privately t.o. work, spoken. Tice Petition was certainly put into his
instead of proceeding by -
.iitittlin.,:selt)tieh. be hands by, that gentleman, but he presented it as
would have Mood a chance tlt..4brrirlK ilatior4 .in the Petition of 11.000 persons, and not as his Ne-
ttie pillory, for some of the oilegeeiesse lie had Blinn. Now, though the signatures had been pro..
been pleased to malta--tintl which,- he (Mr. Peter cured in the way the Hoar. Meniber had stated, it
Moore) believed, Woe quite unithibitell--for he could not he supposed, that.the p;rsons who sigiacd
had himself,* some years ago, a
.gatid
.detil of the Petition had no knOwledge un the subject to
practical experience op the aubject,', its saw no which it related. They at lutist knew the lirke
case to go to a Committee. Bet, if eke House of the &nick., and its flavour, although they might
granted osse, he wOold go into it, and weuld• per. tint be 'wale of the details which the Hon. Member
hats expire* swot of the.peints stela in thcPeti- . had entered into. With respect to going about,
li"ns "hick appeared to loot to have us. °thee. ob- , canvassing for 'signatures, it was a system which he
jest than to do injury to li great establishment. greatly reprobated. It was borrowed from the
lire Hoare, he hotted, would 'metre s_stayedtry_ the mode that had been adopted in cities of a !minket
imuiber of nausea of AO the Peahen, because fixture..-mid those Ohio iptreducedit; Were, he cots-
-1101 had been eativeseed for. He hialoelf was coo- ceived, Nide to greet blame. At. Hon. Gent. (Mr.
vessel' for his 'lordlier., but, ',viten:he read •the P. hjoore) heal biker& a considerable latitude in his
Petition, knowing
.ttsi statements cenjeisierl in it observotimis. ke supposed that some iittwk sees
to be false, hr, of retiree. relwrd to seaetiou it. . intended upon an establishment. (Joon what esta-
Mr. CALVCRTfeII it to be his•duty.melso Geu- blishment.? here were It or li Il i 666 sea-Lend, if
denials had moved for n Committee. to:sitanree the it were felt that a public grievance wits pertre-
illegaticais contained' in tile. Petition:"..nitelsed triter, by them, what was to prevent individuals
passed by the- mations where the 'Peektlisii 'lei for from presenting a Petition againot it ? Why should
signatures, 'land he there observed tetys,sesid persons security he given that the Petitioners shotild prove
and description% rug seed ineigning 1t..,. 13y this their allegation,' ? If such a 'prieciple were mice
memos it wits, that. so West a 4totithar;ot nettles admitted, itip:iiglit of petition Would he complete-
were affixed to it. The thaegas it continawd'ilgtritist ly dolt roved. Two Ilion. Gentlemen lied denied
the brewer's were thetre—inneepoly.
Foii s re the
l
.joilti., '.llyltlt4 the statements contisiiird in the Petitions—atid he
rims articles with the • herr -final Wt)
of
was very happy to hear their declination. But
lame, without coy rule or jusitfiehli Ikallie•ot tiii crinlil they aitawer for the preetices ,of ethers ?
time it was done. With regard netkeeberge of The, were pecap,i, of large fortunes and h„,1„;„.,
useunputy,. he would-my very littler.. The parties tildes, null conattitieutly above such arts—but,
were stated to be dreg's, hot they were•cuusideruhly surely. it did not follow that less hoirouruble men
nerd numerous. Ili stifersice tiillih'iviiGii.ce of miglit•nnt have recourse to the pr.ictices complete-
the persons exaniitied before, the Nice Coin:Mum, ed oil''' With respect to that part of the Petition,
it would be found, that one of the witnesses slated, which re. taierr-to the present system of lieen.iite
that one-eighth of the houses in the trade Inherited paldw...holiarc it eels evident, from the Pelmet of
to one firm (Barclay anal Co.) ,--a.ttl one-seventh-to the'Countiittest, that some alteration ought to be
another (Whitbread and Co.) This certainly. die- I made—and it would •be recollected that is- Bill had
preyed the chirgeof piosiopoly. Oa the nitutation f biro 1,,,,,,eti to haat scs.i 111 l , for the purpose.
of ad valicingibis price of Lear, without 1 niailicstion, I though it was nut .caulied. The hart. Getalmnati
the circumstances allittled to by Mr. Barber Bean. laid
drusninated Mr. Beaumont u dmiimntatell.
mom, in his spat+, were, first, whet had taker. place Magistrate, who had draw') up thin Petition from
in 1802. lit that year, lie eard.the mice was advanced persolial motives. Thimilcclarmion was riot ciirrect.
without any region whiitsver.• Now, if ever there It slititilil tie returnhered, that he had given evidence
were good giound for.yiesing the price, it. existed, bef„ie the l'obce:CouuMitee—Atid that eliminat-
e that iierioil. The Right Hon. the Chancellor tee had cww..;.,ci,ied its the propriety „j• his canoe_
of the Exchequer had, at that: time, summoned *ions. Ha ought not, therefore, •to he spoken of.
the brewers as meet him, and Is stated to Own.% * merely as a disappointed titan, when a Committte
that he ""'""t to I,'"P"e ou sficliti°"6l duty 111 of that House had thought his evidence worthy of
3s. 441. per barrel on beer, Bs. per quarter as malt, being,. acted on,- lulorrler to give the. brewers an:
anal lid. und 8-2001 of a penny pee poot.ttl op hops., opportunity of justifying themselves, he should'The same sort of frivolous ekarge was insidesigthost • move, as an eintiehuttit to the motion, "That this;
the brewers for the rise that took place in 1503.1 Petition do lie on the tittle"—'t That this Petition;
But what was the cause of it ? wily, iiiii*PlY ti.j.—. be referred's° a Select Committee." After a short)
the war dirty on malt, of Ws. per quarter was dit•ii: pante. Mr. LtkicitAstr observed, that be could not:
imposed. Mr. Barber Beaumont amnestied. 14 Fut-, move an anietaltaent to his ONO motion—but be
prise, that, in 1816, the brewers had lowered the hop othered
.„,,„, . (2esit. I
tatu ...es would wove for a
eri.r. The reason of thee reductiori was, that the, Committee. .
war fluty was theft take, ok: Wled, he wondered,. Mi. Btact.ee ens about to Move ilie amend-
would that Gentlemen here said, if.the brewers : meat—vii
had sot. untie SO? In 176 d, the price of beer was 1
Tiot SPEAKER suggested that the Learned Gen-
ru
fixed at 3341,•prr pot. At *that Oefitidrim, 1i.....":. ", . ileum. (Mr. Lockhart) would probably he allowed
19p. Gd. per' quarter, ending)* tiu. o!'el.f. ' -1-4 t:
to will
his motion, and it wield then be corn-
price was COlitinned, 1111411 moil 'acilionced .io i uatent to !Mato • ye that die k'titiori be referred
his. ell., awl. hnps to 14, goineas per cot. After: 'la a (...
aitice;
•.- •
that, a loss was sustained by the brewers for he
The original motitin was then withdrawn—and
se-
veral 'yearn. 'Flieie was no- brewer in die me- , .
Mr..Ltttkle, 17. prOposed, '., That the Petition
Wiled's, utter the Ardmore of • 1799, to irdiom, ,
it 'made istie.orixpetice. rI i r a .ct Committer, to igni-
ter in the '
the, wee 1. should. ~ . ,„to sere t.-,

.itErrence. . two
ceetlitig ..ii years.- the einitrefy, , brewer,
in that period, our half of his capital. Tik:'
next advance .ivas in January.. 1801, whets the
price of malt was raised from tits; to 841. per cUsr-,
tar, which certaisily affOrdedsuilieient ground for
the rise that then took • pliti-e. Ilrfure-he quittedi
this point, he begged to Obierve, that the tables on
which NU Beeuidout• founded his stateMent, and,
which he had published. were incorrect: With
respect to the third point, he ofity felt it necesvury
to say, that the brewer' were out in the lutbit afi•
producing a p.iisoirous beverage from year to. year.
If large brewers had recourse to snob articles, their
discovery would-ise inevitable, fur they would-be
obliged to have them in cart-loads, which could not
be dune secretly. It was stateil in the 'Pgtilion,
that it appeared, from legal proceedium that the
brewers did use materials, other than matrund hope.
Ile should now 'Laurin the flonso what those legal,
proceedings were, Some peers heck. theF.dil'or of
a Sunday Journal- publiabed a libellous paragraph
in his Paper, ligtrini!t the brewers of. London, in' '
'Which he accosted them with Miiiig.opipar,filesidijr.
Night-shade.' eat-hews . Wiens, wax maraca, mall
fobateo, in the mailufacture of their beer.—(4
laugh.) —The brewers thowght ',raper to apply to
the Court of King's Bench to 'file a criminal 'afar-
motion against the Editor.:.-brit. in consequence of
Maina technical informality in the tilfidevits (which..
totally denied the use of soy thing but malt end,"
hops by the brewers of I.mtdoti), the Court refused I
to grant the rule. This was on the last day of Term •
.--and, previous to the commencement of the en-.
atfing Term, the Editor wrote a letter to him (Mr.
Calved), Muting that the paragraph was copied from
'mother Paper, end regarding him not to pursue
any further legal steps' lit crinotlerution of !TWO' his
Papr ishould be trevoted tole: service of the brewers.
Ile, however, disdatued soy prutectiou Allot could
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mute the mutter theme'', and report the tame, with
their observations thereon, to the Honor."
Tltitl was agreed to, and the Committee was un-;
ruedietely appointed.
CASE OF RQBEIZT WIN DA LE- '
Sir S. RostiLLY rove to present a Petition from
person of the name of Hobert Swindell, who hail
been imprisoned in Chester Castle, complaining of
the Iswritilsips lie hail undergone. and praying for
.redress from the House. This Petition had origin-
ally beets taunted to his Hon. Friend the Mem-
ber for Shrewsbury (Mr. Bennett), in whose absence
he was called on to present it. 'life case"disel'pred
in it "Pei not twee's:rely the same as that which had
been published in the newspapers—but it was•sub-
istantially so. He knew not .how the House would,
'dee! with this Petit '• Perhaps the logs of thief,
poor mates wife. and the death of
!be,. made topics of merriment, and serve to etihrap'
some.future debate. Be that as it might, he would
do his duty its presenting.it. •
. The Petition was then. read. it stet forth the
Nets, which are already, before the public, relative
;to Swindell's:arrest and imprisonment—the death
of his wife, its consequence of the fright which that
arrest occasioned, and which caused premature
labour—the death also of the infect of which she
had beets delivereclitpd the necessity which was
occasioned.. by the decease of the mother, nod the
imprisonment •of the . father. to send the Peti-
honer's remaining child to the work-horse. It also
set forth, that the Petitinner had nerved for eleven
years in the navy. and for nine years in the army.
The Petition was laid on the table, and ordered
to be printed.
Sir S. R011.1141' presented a Petition from Rani.
dull Somerville, of Glasgow. weaver, complaining
that he bad beets confined five months, as a state 1