The National Register.
London, England, 1818-02-01 00:00:00

SUNDAY FEBItUAP' 1. 1818.

of shop-lifting, or merely picking a pock.:l in the street,.
is to be visited with transportation, %pit*, or sever
imprisonment, those persona whose practices tend to ssi
the vigour of the human race, the very foundation of
society, in their daily attacks upon raankind'e• best'

" The salt of lifc, ivhich does to all a relis'.) give,"
ought surely to be arraigned bcf,i:e t , • bar cilipaibliti+,
justice, and visited with the most :a..r.n.p ary puniSh-
men t
The law, in its present form, its,,titcrliaps, sufficient
to put a stop to this alarming evil-`but it is to be la-
mented that many good and whole! .r.l enactments of
the legislature arc found to be a nte: ; such
is the remissness of Magistrates andrirlrers in regard to
their application and inforeemear. Tivr exalted station
which some of these delinquents het. in society, from
their great wealth, it is also to bs Vre‘i, operates too •
powerfully in sheltering them from the heavy visita-
tions to which, there is little dot:1-1, their acts have
often subjected them. The laws bearing upon this
subject, we do not hesitate to my, t-r.blit to be put in
force to the most rigorous and severe so.teut ; and it is
imperative on every .lagiutrate and -Excise Officer to
attend to this important part of their Parliament
will, ne have no doubt, furnish tl .;rid the public
with stronger powers to bring tra.,epc.r- n puniehtnent
such mischievous °fenders, shoulttav
•tert laves not
be found sufficient fur the puriv of far less
con.sequence, that cne half of if Brewers
should he deprived of their trade, 1).,' es.position of
their vile practices, and mulcted in t n •reekets by the
penal inflictions of the law, titan• ert....,e,ite most useful
part of the King's subjects should le eq"..Tived of their
health, driven to Hospitals and Nve,iifi.; .ses, and de-
prived of the means ofin existeneo by the slow-worli-
ing and insidious practices of a set of 'Pleated and over-
grown Monopolists and poisoners ofsirtrthind.
The practices of Common Iqt-we:Ware too notorious
to require dwelling upon—the oeer,,ionat detections
which have taken place among them ate sufficient to
convince the most hesitating, the se,ait unbelieving„
were there not also the opportunity Y#' tssmpexin,g the
article which they are in the habit of v: riding, with that
which many persons brow for tits use of their own
familivs.—Such a comparison canuoefanto bring, the
strongest conviction to the mind, that itik,siot the ex-
tract •
of emit and hops, which car r:r li,rce the flavour
(to say nothing of the colour) of Be-r mannfactureti
by the public brewers.--The in its com-
position nothing more than the sit:title ,•leriter4 charged
•Nititthe vinous extract of

6. Sarelerine grain, and the tell towecntsiow
A"l'llat waves its !lead on ("....!it ;Xs fet,Pidaitts"
will be found grateful to the smell aa4pglate, friendly
to the stomach and possessing the Itai'uniof both the
vegetable essences used in its compos!iica ; while the
other charged with
" full Indieus, Nux Vomica, and 4,.k,
" The baleful tribe of boporifie druifit
" That dull the senses and tin-mane ...batman,"

will not be found to possess dither the !lawn= of Malt
or Hops, but a certain gusto of sweet, flour, or bitter,
arrising from the predominancy of for:1;J certain secret
article used in prepairing• it, and having withal a most
stupifying, intoxicating and lethargic ettect.
With some persoos, the drinking of r single pint of
Brewer's beer, will produce a greater degree of head-
ache, nausea, and other unploasont symptoms, than
wonld be omitioned by five times the quantity of home
brewed Boer, of Wine, or an equal quantity of Spritu-
otts Beer well prepared, (as has been ob-
served by one who hes written on the •übjet.t) should
" be limpid and clear ; postiess as due traotity of spirit,
" excite no .disagreeable sweet taste, and con taiu no die •
" agreeable aeid.---it is distinguished f:-c.n other vinous
tapers by the such greater fitututity ~,:mucilagenous