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ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, DEC. 26, 1831.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a SESSION
of OYER and TERMINER and GAOL DE-
LIVERY for the Trial of Offences committed on the
HIGH SEAS, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of
itzgland, will be held at Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey,
London, on THURSDAY, the 2d of February next, at
Eight o'clock in the morning.
And all Sheriffs, Gaolers, and Keepers of Prisons, in
whose custody any Prisoners, charged with Offences com-
mitted on the High Seas, or within the said Jurisdiction
may be, are hereby required to transmit a copy of the
Commitment of every such Prisoner to Mr. CHARLES
JONES, the Solicitor of the Admiralty, at his office,
No. 10, Lancaster-place, Strand, London, i❑ order that
the necessary measures may be taken, for removing all
such Prisoners to his Majesty's Gaol of Newgate, for trial
at the slid intended Session : and all Mayors, Justices,
Coroners, and other Officers, before whom say Inquisi-
tions, Informations, Examinations, or Recognizances may
have been taken touching any such Offences, are required
to transmit the same forthwith to Mr. JOHN CLARK,
the Clerk of Arraigns of the High Court of Admi-
ralty of England, at his Office, at the Sessions House in
the Old Bailey, London.

GEORGE ELLIOT.

EAST INDIA-HOUSE, DEC. 21, 1831.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the
UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of
ENGLAND, TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do
hereby give Notice,
That a GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY
Wnl be held at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WED-
NESDAY, the Ilth January next, from Eleven o'clock in
the Forenoon until Six in the Evening, to ballot on the
following Question, viz.:—
" That Mr. David Greenhill, late of the Bombay Civil
Establishment, be permitted to return to the Service,
under the provision of the Act of the 33d Geo. 111. cap.
52, sec. 70, with the Rank which he held when he
quitted Bombay, agreeably to the Act of the 53d Geo.
III• cap. 155, sec. 85."
In order to determine by such Ballot, whether three
Parts in four of the Proprietors present at such General
Court consent that Mr. David Greenhill be permitted to
return with the said rank to India.
PETER AUBER, Secretary.

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VERNORS, Eight from the present List, and Eight from
the General Body of Subscribers (being Licensed Victual-
lers), to receive the Report of the Governors on the state
Ind management of the Institution during the past year,
to revise the Rules of the Institution, and on other affairs

By order of the Governors,
THOMAS JONES, Secretary.
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Dec. 31, 1831.

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CHOLERA MORBUS CURED BY MORISON'S
UNIVERSAL MEDICINES ONLY.
THE President and the Board of the Bri-
tish College of Health, New-road, King's Cross,
London, on referring the British Public to their former
"fitment of the undoubted success of the Universal Medi-
eines in stopping the ravages of the Cholera Morbui in
114 Baltic, as given, verbatim, from Mr. M. Gardner,
their general Agent for the County of Durham, (who had
!uPplied several Baltic vessels with the Medicine), beg
d•
oe to lay before the Public a letter, received this day
"ma their general Agent of Lancashire, containing a still
!lore corroborative proof of their full efficiency on this
4`4.stating scourge
SECOND REPORT MR. W. C. POOLE,
(GENERAL AGENT FO It LANCASHIRE)OF, ON CHOLERA
MORBUS.
TO MESSRS. MORISON AND MOAT,
eGENTLEMEN,—In addition to the long list of Cures of Cholera
M4,,Llorbus, in Manchester, under my direction, with the' Universal
edicines,' which have been published in all the Provincial
opera, and which you have collected among your fourth series
ZCures' that have risen since the publication of the Third Edi-
'4l of Morisoniana,' I now send you a further selection of a
ittrt towns least, 130 cures of Cholera, which I have performed in
'3 and county, armed only with the powers of your simple
'44 harmless Pills, viz. :
," Mrs. Smith, shopkeeper, No. 6, Mount-street, Manchester,
• taken dangerously ill with Cholera, Nov. 4, 1831 :—Cramps,
itros, and every dangerous symptom attending this disease ;
ihd mere so, as she had lain in only a fortnight —A perfect cure
B,four days.
The daughter of the above Mrs. Smith was also dangerously
-`'acked with Cholera, on Nov. 13th. A continual passage of
stet thing, as swallowed, would run through the bowels home-
the fundament, continually down, had become quite raw
firth burning heat; cramps and spasms excessive—indeed, so
fldwere the sufferings of the poor child (five years old), and
iMocking to behold, that its parents thought her bowels were
kotruding. 1, however, eased their minds on that head, and ef-
ftteci a perfect cure in four days.
t I, On the 23d, Mr. Smith the father, was also most violently at-
tflked 'with Cholera, so touch so as to endanger his life.—No-
Li.... 44 short of prompt and immediate attention could have saved
• His Cholera came on through a fright, from a carriage
(ang thrown him down, and nearly killed him—which
naps fortunately), produced a severe attack of diarrhea,
fr)lnpanied with most violent cramps and spasms all over him.
tie_ was, however perfectly cured in three days, and in his busi-
pi`.4 ever since. In this instance we have a clear proof of a
e, producing the same symptoms and effects without the aid
I.,..el)idemic attraction of Cholera, from whence it may be in-
"ro-11,._•.`eds that the hubbub which the doctors are kicking up on this
Ls deficient of a scientific knowledge of its pathology, or
%tutted by still less honourable motives.
%v.- Mr. Robert Betty, No. 3, Little Peter-street, Manchester,
.7';l taken ill of the Cholera on the 26th November. On the
`",. very ill ; and on the 2Sth, dangerous, and past all hopes.
if tWo, P.M. spasms and delirium ;at times, all but in a state
,ichsanity : when he began to take the Universal Pills, which
Itsihrmediate effbct, bv rcing a quick passage. By ten, p.m.
jets himself quite well Coon the 20th, he walked all over the
atsh72Poclarming the glad tidings of his wonderful cure in so
s-,?e, time ; and on the 30th, was at work and in pfrfect health
s‘r since.
F. R. Patterson, 12, Alport-street, Manchester, was taken
t,'..cienly and dangerously ill of the Cholera, attended with
tit`mPs, spasms, and almost bereft of reason. At five, p.m. on
to e lit Dec-ember, she was in a truly dangerous state of alarm
✓aU around her. On the 3d, she declared herself perfectly
-,,e(ls end came to see me.
I have cured two of her children in the Small Pox, and
ereport ll have to the cure of another child of her's, of the
.r.'g.3 Evil. V% ithout entering flather, at present, on the never
tigog efficacy of the Universals,' in every state and grade of
Cholera (which is so unnecessarily alarming this nation), I
,T 1 produce 100 more references in Manchester, of undoubted
p)l'lence, of the Vegetable Universal Medicines being all sufficient
'lop the ravages of the Cholera Mortars.
" I am, Gentlemen,
" Most respectfully, your's, &c.
203, Deanegate, Manchester, \V. C. POOLE.
12th Dec. 1831."
The " Vegetable Universal Medicines " are to be bad at
e College, New-road, King's-cross, London ; at the
, trey Branch, 96, Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars; at
Air
11 • Field's, 16, Air-street, Quadrant; Mr. Chappell's,
Yal Exchange; Mr. Walker's, Lamb's Conduit passage,
Lion-square ; Mr. J. Loft's, 10, Mile-end-road ;
sde
• Bennett's, Covent-Garden-market ; Mr. flaydon',,
`*4
-de-lis-court, Norton Falgate ; Mr. Hamlett's, 147,
Silteliffe Highway; Messrs. Norbury'r, Brentford ; Mrs.
all t4'l)ping Clare-market ; Messrs. Salmon, Little Bell-
; Miss Varral's, 24, Lueam-street, Commercial-road ;
• Beech's, 5, Upper Cheyne-row, Chelsea ; Mr.
4PPIe, Royal Library, Pall-mall ; Mrs. Clement, 12,
,!'he-street, Southwark ; Mr. M. Adams, Square, Isle-
; Mr. Kirtlan, 4, Bolingbroke-row, Walworth ;
• J. T. Tyler, 96, Princes-square, Kennington, and at
Isle Agent's in every principal town in Great Britain, the
1, of Guernsey, and Malta ; and,througbout the
"04 of the United States of An:ledge.

Published this day, by R. HEWARD, 113, Strand,

THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW,
No. XXXI., containing the following articles :--
I. Archbishop of Dublin on Political Economy.—ll. Me-
moir of Sebastian Cabot.—lll. Weights and Measures.—
IV. History of Medicine.—V. Greek Litera►ture in Scot-
land.—Vl. Moore's Life and Death of Lord Edward Fits-
gerald.—Vll. Adjustment of the House of Peers.—Vlll.
Adventures on the Columbia River.—lX. Caledonians,
Picts, and Scots.—X. Cooper's " Bravo."—Xl. Ani-
mal Ph} Biology. —XII. Romance and Reality. By L. E. L.
XIII. Household-ra in Danger.—XlV. Tour of a Ger-
man Prince.—XV. Portuguese Africa.--X VI. Life of
Turgot.—List of Bunks, &c.
''•• No. XXXII. will be published on the 31st of
March.

The Office of the Westminster Review is removed to
No. 113, Strand.

On Monday next trill be published, in small Svo. ss.
Volume I. of

THE first COMPLETE and UNIFORM
Edition of the WORKS of LORD BYRON, with
his LETTERS and JOURNALS; and his LIFE.

By THOMAS MOORE, Esq.
" The noblest monument that can be raised to a poet
is a handsome edition of his works : and Mr. Murray
will, by this undertaking, do more to enshrine the me-
!miry of our greatest modern poet in the hearts of posterity,
than if he had sculptured his form in the whitest marble,
or cast his limbs in some tremendous mould of colossal
brass. The copyrights alone have been been purchased
by him at a cost of more than twenty-five thousand
pounds. We trust that he will find his account in an en-
terprise which does honour to the literary commerce of
the country. The work is to appear in monthly parts,
and the price of each volume, tastily clad in green, is
fixed at only five shillings. The first volume contains a
capital full. length likeness of the noble poet, and a land-
scape—one of those happy things from the hands of the
Findens, which connoisseurs call a perfect gem. The
publisher must print thirty thousand copies."—London
Spectator. _ _

John Murray, Albemarle-street.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Moniteur of Wednesday.)
PARIS, DEC. V.—All the letters from Bourg
are eager to contradict the reports circulated by the
Precurseur de Lyon, of pretended disturbances said
to have broken out in the department of the Ain ;
" No fermentation exists," they say ; " the taxes are
paid rather slowly perhaps, but without any serious
difficulty, and the delays which took place in the
collection of them, arose from the distressed circum-
stances of some of the inhabitants, and by no means
from disinclination to pay. The Government of
this department, at once firm, intelligent, and mild,
would insure the most perfect order, if the good
spirit of the inhabitants were not the surest pledge
of it. The Prefect, in the tour which he has just
made, has had opportunities of convincing himself
of the enlightened devotedness of onr fellow-citizens.
and of the confidence which he personally enjoys."
(From the .Messager des Chambres of Thursday.)
PARIS, DEC. 28.—A letter from Marseilles says—
" The Sully steam-boat, which sailed from Naples on
the 15th of December, arrived in our port yesterday.
This vessel touched at Civita Vecchia on the 18th
of December.

" Its arrival was impatiently expected to confirm
or disprove the reports which have been spread re-
specting the tranquillity of the Papal States. The
passengers on board the Sully heard nothing which
could lead them to believe the truth of the accounts
which we have given.
" The Sully steam-boat brought us no news re-
specting the affairs of Rome, only that it was re-
ported at Civita Vecchia that the Papal troops were
to occupy Bologna; but, however, that they were
not to enter that city if they met with any resistance.

"At Leghorn it was also said that in Bologna
and in the other legations, the Austrians encouraged
the Liberals to exclaim against the sovereig►►ty of
the Pope."—Semaphore.
We hear that Messrs. de Beaumont and de Toc-
queville, the two magistrates who have been sent by
the Government to the United States to examine
the penitentiary system, are preparing to return to
Europe, their laborious researches being nearly
completed. They have most carefully visited all the
penitentiary establishments, and were every where
received with a polite attention equally honourable
to the two nations. The Americans have offered
them all the documents and materials connected with
the object of their mission, and local information
was afforded them by well-informed persons. We
may, therefore, expect a complete account of the pe-
nitentiary system adopted in A mericil. Messrs. de
Beaumont and Tocqueville will stop in England oa
their return, in order to compare the American sys-
tem with that adopted in Great Britain, and the
comparison of these results with what has been done
in France will, we hope, produce wise and useful
plans for the impi-ovement of our prisons."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

UNION-HALL.

Anne Lumley, a girl whose face presented a mass
of bruises, and illary Smith, her compnnion, who
also exhibited maks of punishment about the coun-
tenance, and whose clothes had been nearly all torn
from her person, were brought up on the following
charge :

A—cab-driver, who made the charge, said, " Please
your worship, them there two ladies got up into my
wehicle last night, and desired me to drive them
from Blackfrtars-road, to see Madame Vestris. On
the road, they said I must drive them along at a
slashing pace, or else they would pay nothing ; so
1 whips the hanimal, and off she went at a gallop.
When we got to the theatre, they said they would
not go in, so they ordered me to drive to Piccadily ;
and on the way they said as how they were two
servant maids that had come out for a Christmas
spree, and that they was determined to have a re-
gular night of it. From Piccadilly I drove back up
Regent-street into Oxford-street, and one of them
expressing a wish to see the heart of St. Giles's, to
have a lark there, I accordingly drove them into
Buckeridge-street, and round the back slums in that
there quarter. We stopped at five or six gin-shops
on the way, and had mulled wine at one place, gin
and cloves at another, and brandy and wuter at
another, until my two customers began to get
queerish. I wanted them to get out of the cab, but
they swore they would not ; and shortly afterwards
a desperate fight took place between them, one of
them accusing the other of ramping' a gemman of
15 sovereignsand claiming her share of the robbery."
The one who had the money refused to part with
any, and to end the contest the cabman drove them
to the station-house, they having refused to pay hi,
fare. Eleven sovereigns were found in the posses-
,ion of one of the women, and they were both re-
manded on suspicion of robbing some person of the
same.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

MOLASSES.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE.

The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the ex
pediency of admitting the use of Molasses in Breweries
and Distilleries of the United Kingdom, subject to such
restrictions and modifications of may he necessary for
the protection of the several iwerests connected there-
with : and to whom the several Petitions presented to
the House against the use of Molasses in the Breweries
and Distilleries were referred ; and also were empowered
to report their observations and opinion thereupon, toge-
ther with the Minutes of the Evidence taken before
them, from time to time, to the House ; have, pursuant
to the Order of the House, inquired into the matters
to them referred, and agreed to the following Report :
Your Committee deem it their duty, before
they express an opinion, to point out the manner
in which they have conducted their inquiries,
and to call the attention of the House to the
principal heads under which the subject has pre-
sented itself to their consideration.

Your Committee has proceeded, in the first
place, to examine into the state of the West
India interests, and into the extent of relief
which would be afforded to those interests by
the proposed measure.

Your Committee has, in the second place,
heard evidence to ascertain in what manner the
introduction of molasses would affect the
brewers, distillers, and consumers of beer and
spirits in this country, as well as the British
agriculturists.

And, in the third place, they have directed
their attention to the probable effect of such a
measure upon the public revenue.
Bat as it has become evident, in the course of
these inquiries, that the introduction of molasses
into breweries and into distilleries are two very
distinct propositions, which may be supported or
opposed on very different grounds, it is the in-
tention of your Committee, after adverting to
the condition of the West Indian intereAs, and
to the supply of molasses, to sum up the evi-
dence which they have received under the two
separate heads, of the introduction of molasses,
first, into the breweries, and secondly, into the
distilleries of this country, and to report their
opinion separately upon the fiscal expediency as
well as general propriety of each of these measures.
It appeals from the evidence given before your
Committee, that the West India interests are at
this moment in a state of unparalleled depres-
sion ; whilst it has been stated by persons con•
nected with those Colonies that the use of mo-
lasses in the breweries and distilleries would
afford great relief to the West Indian cultivation,
by opening a new market for the consumption
of an important article of their produce.
The measure which the West Indians contem-
plate for effecting this object is, that when the
average price of barley is not less than 345. per
quarter, the brewers should be permitted to use
molasses in brewing ; and that at the same rate
of price of barley the distiller should be allowed
a drawback on the quantity of spirits produced,
equivalent to the Customs duty of 9s. per cwt.
on the molasses used in distillation.

The benefit which is anticipated by the West
Indians from this measure is an additional
demand, and consequently an advanced price,
for molasses, as well as a corresponding increase
of price in rum and sugar; a benefit which must
obviously depend on the extent of the supply of
molasses, and upon the relative duties and prices
at which equivalent quantities of malt and mo-
lasses in the case of the breweries, and of corn
and molasses in the case of the distilleries, can
be procured by the consumer.
It is stated in evidence before your Committee
that the total quantity of molasses produced in
the West Indies amounts to 16,000,000 gallons,
or about 1,454,000 cwts. ; of which it is calcu-
lated that about 1,000,000 cwts. come to Great
Britain in the shape of rum and molasses. The
proportion of rum to molasses being as seven
to four.

It is also stated, that the extreme quantity which
would be supplied for the use of the breweries
and distilleries would be about 500,000 cwts.

It is now necessary to advert to the propor-
tioned value of grain and molasses in the pro-
duction of beer and spirits.
The quantity of molasses equivalent to the
quarter of malt, i. e. which will yield in solution
an equal quantity of saccharine matter, or pro-
duce a wort of the same density with a quarter
of malt, is variously stated by different witnesses.
By Mr. Green, 2241b5. of molasses are reckoned
equal to one quarter of malt ; by Mr. Heathorn,
2521b5. are stated to be equal to one quarter of malt.
Dr. Ure, from very elaborate experiments,
states that 2951b5. of molasses are equal to one
quarter of malt weighing 3221b5. ; that 2751b5.
are equal to one quarter of malt weighing 3021b5.;
and that the average equivalent of one quarter of
malt would be about 2851b5.

On these last data Mr. Colville calculates, that
the 500,000 cwts. of molasses would be equal
to 200,000 or 220,000 quarters of barley.
The present price of molasses is about
11. 3s. Gd. per cwt., whereof the prime cost is
14s. Gd per cwt., and the duty 9s. But it is
stated that if permission weregiven to the brewers
and distillers to make use of this article in their
several processes, they could afford to pay the
planter an advanced price of about ss. per cwt.
It is however obvious that this presumed increase
of price on molasses (which will, it is said, also
raise the value of other colonial produce) must
depend, first, on the demand being nearly equal
to the supposed supply of 500,000 cwts. ; and
secondly, upon the truth of the statement that
the above-mentioned 500,000 cwts. is the maxi-
mum quantity ofmolasses which could be brought
into the market.

With regard to the extent of the demand, this
will very much depend upon the admission of
molasses being limited to breweries, or extended
both to brewers and distilleries ; and your Com-
mittee will have occasion to revert to this part of
the subject in discussing the question of the use
of molasses in breweries. But your Committee
are of opinion that there are cogcut reasons for
supposing that the supply of molasses could be
increased beyond 500,000 cwts. to an almost
unlimited extent ; for it is stated by competent
witnesses that a much larger proportion of cane
juice might be converted into molasses in the
West Indies than at this moment so converted,
were it for the interest of the planter so to do ;
and that such a procedure may become the in-
terest of the colonist is proved by the fact, that
whilst the quantity of molasses imported into
this oountry since the allowance of a drawback

on the exportation of refined sugar has very
rapidly increased, the quality of the article has
become gradually richer, and it has contained a
larger proportion of sugar.
It appears from the Parliamentary returns,
that the quantity of molasses imported in the
three years ending 1822 was only 166,833 cwts. ,
whereas, in the three succeeding years ending
1826, it rose to 764,067 cwts., and in the three
succeeding years ending 1829 it reached
1,182,029 cwts. ; and your Committee, advert-
ing to this great increase in► nine years, mainly
arising from the sugar drawback, see no reason
to doubt that the supply would be further ex-
tended in a similar ratio, if stimulated by the ad-
ditional demand which would be created by the
admission of molasses into the breweries and dis-
tilleries.

It ought in conclusion to be stated, that your
Committee have reason for believing that over
and above the produce of the West Indies an
immense quantity of molasses might be procured
from the Mauritius.
If, therefore, there be any weight in the pre-
ceding observations, it would seem more than
doubtful whether the proposed measure would
produce that increase in the price of molasses
which is contemplated by the West India pro-
prietors.

Your Committee now proceed to consider the
first of those two measures which might be
adopted in consequence of this inquiry, namely,
the admission of molasses into the breweries ;
and they will in the first place advert to the
evidence which they have received, showing the
extent to which molasses are likely to be used,
if permitted in this branch of manufacture.
It appears from the statements of Messrs-
Calvert and Martineau (the latter a partner of
Messrs. Whitbread), that the houses who brew
the best and purest quality of porter would be
very unwilling to adopt the use of molasses, un-
less, indeed, in trifling quantities as colouring
matter, in place of burnt malt. Mr. Calvert
states, that :no beer could be so good as that
brewed from malt and hops ; he adds, that in
1800, when, owing to scarcity, the use of sugar
was permitted in the breweries, he ceased to
employ that article when malt fell to 755. or 80s.
per quarter.

Mr. Martineau is further of opinion, that the
admission of any other ingredient besides malt
and hops would be injurious to the reputation
of the brewers of pure porter, because it would
afford a great facility for the admixture of in-,
ferior beer made from molasses by the retail
dealer ; and he is very apprehensive lest the
natural and necessary distrust created in the
public mind as to the purity of the beer, i. e. to
its being really made of malt and hops alone,.
should tend to diminish consumption, and so'
seriously to injure the honest trader. Both those
gentlemen entertain doubts whether beer made
of molasses would answer for keeping. In pale,
ales molasses would be inadmissible on account
of its colour ; but it does appear that it might
be used to a very considerable extent in table
beer for immediate drinking, and that it will
make a palatable beverage.
In making beer, however, from molasses it
does not seem that the process could be carried
on without a proportion of malt ; and it is
stated by Messrs. Green and Heathorn that they
would use, according to the kind of beer they
wished to make, from one-tenth to one-fourth
parts of molasses, mixed with from nine-tenths
to three-fourths of malt.

From an attentive consideration of the evi-
dence of this branch of the subject, from which
the above facts are extracted, your Committee
have come to the conclusion, that molasses
would not be used to any great extent in a large
portion of the breweries of this country, whilst
in the brewing of table beer the opinions of the
witnesses as to the proper portion of molasses
are so various (opinions which must be modified
by experience of the taste of the consumKr), that
our Committee have great difficulty in estimat-
ing the quantity of molasses likely to be used in
this branch of the trade.

But it is quite clear that whatever quantity of
molasses is introduced into the breweries of this.
country must displace an equivalent quantity of
malt ; and the evidence taken before the Com-
mittee goes to prove that the malt so displaced
would be almost entirely made from British
barley. It is undoubtedly true that a small por-
tion of foreign barley is converted into malt in
this country, but the general imports of barley
are either unfit for malting, or produce malt very
inferior to that made from British barley—an
inferiority which arises both from want of care
in separating the good and bad samples abroad,
and from the heat produced in the vessel, which
checks the germination. Those portions, chiefly,
Bohemian and Silesian barley, which are of
equal goodness with British, are, in conse-
quence of the expense and carriage and transit
duties, seldom able to compete with it in the
market.

It now remains for your Committee to show
what are the effects likely to be produced by the
introduction of molasses into the breweries upon
the public revenue, and upon the interests of
the consumer.

With regard to the revenue, there is one con-
sideration which would alone appear to your
Committee to be decisive.

By the present law 245. per cwt. is allowed
the refiner on the exportation of sugar obtained
from molasses ; and it has been stated by Mr,
Brown, a sugar refiner, that from 301bs. to
381bs. of sugar are procured from one cwt. of'
molasses.

Hence the drawback on the sugar obtained
will be equal, or nearly equal, to the import
duty paid on molasses ; and the proportion of
saccharine ►natter contained in one cwt. molasses
being about 701b5., the refiner's treacle, with 30
or 40 per cent, of saccharine matter, will come
into the market duty free, whilst the high im
post of 1/. Os. Bd. per quarter is levied on malt.
But your Committee have further received the
testimony of several excise officers (particularly
of Mr. Golding Bird, a person of great expe-
rience), who are all of opinion that the pertnis-.
sion to brewers and publicans to keep molasses
on their premises would afford very great addi •
tional facilities to the introduction of illegal and
deleterious substances, both during the process
of brewing and after the beer is sent to the re
taller. Indeed these gentlemen are of opinion
that if the proposed measure became a law the

`safety of the revenue would respire as increased
establishment of officers.
In touching in the last place on the interests
of the consumers, it is unnecessary to dwell on
the obvious evils to which they are exposed by
any measure which facilitates the adulteration of
beer. But it may be proper to advert again to
a point suggested by the evidence of Mr. Mar-
tineau, that if molasses be permitted to be used
in breweries the consumer can have no security,
and consequently no confidence that the beer
supplied to him is, as it professes to be, a pure
beverage composed of malt and hops without
any other ingredient.
From a general consideration of all these cir-
cumstances, your Committee, in the first place,
entertain great doubts as to the extent of relief
which would be afforded to the West Indians by
the introduction of molasses into the breweries.
In the second place, your Committee are of
opinion that whatever relief could be so afforded
would be at the expense of the landed interest
of this country ; and in the last place they have
come to the conclusion that whilst the measure in
contemplation would be productive of little be-
nefit to the West Indian interest, it would se-
riously affect the British agriculturist, and at the
same time prove injurious to the consumer and
dangerous to the public revenue.
The objections which have been stated to your
Committee against the use of molasses in the
distilleries appear to them to be even stronger
than those which they have already stated with
respect to the breweries.
As the amount of revenue derived from Bri-
tish spirits amounted in the last year to the sum
of 5,209,5991., your Committee felt it to be
their duty to devote a very considerable portion
of their time to the inquiry how far so important
a branch of the public revenue was likely to be
affected by the introduction of molasses into the
distilleries; and from the result of their inquiries
it appears that in the opinion of all the revenue
officers whom they examined there would be
great danger in the adoption of such a measure.
These gentlemen consider that under the present
system of the distillery laws it would be ex-
tremely difficult, if not impossible, to prevent
fraud, if the use of molasses was permitted ; and
they were unanimously of opinion that in case
the use of molasses was permitted it would be
necessary to recur to the mode of charging the
duty which existed in England prior to the in-
troduction of the present system. If that opi-
nion be well founded, and your Committee have
Ito reason to doubt its accuracy, they can have no
hesitation in declaring their opinion that a re-
currence to the old law would be extremely
injurious to the revenue and to the distiller, as
the greatest advantages have accrued to both
since the change of the law in 1820. Prior to
that period a different system of distillery laws
was in force in force in England, Scotland, and
Ireland, each of them liable to great objections,
on account of the injurilus and vexatious regu-
lations under which the distiller was obliged to
work ; and as the principle on which the duty
was charged was different, the trade in spirits
between England, Scotland, and Ireland was ne-
cessarily subjected to very impolitic restrictions.
To remedy these evils the Commissioners ap-
pointed under the Acts 1 and 2 Geo. IV., c.
90, and 3 Geo. IV., c. 37, " for inquiring into
the Collection and Management of the Public
Revenue arising in Ireland, and into certain De-
partments of the Public Revenue arising in
Great Britain," instituted a most minute and
careful investigation with respect to the system
of the laws for regulating the distilleries both in
Great Britain and Ireland ; and after detailing
the systems which prevailed in each part of the
empire, and the objections to which each was
liable, they, in their sixth report, recommended
one uniform system, which was subsequently
adopted, and which has been found, after the
experience of fire years, to work well, and to
have succeeded in greatly checking, if not en-
tirely putting an end to; illicit distillation, which
under the old law prevailed to a frightful extent
both in Scotland and Ireland.

Under the old law iu England, which, if
molasses are to be used, the revenue officers say
must be substituted for the present system, the
duty was charged on the wash, and it therefore
became the interest of the distiller to use wash
of the greatest fermentable gravity in order to
obtain the greatest possible quantity of spirits.
from the wash on which the duty was charged.
The spirits obtained from wash of such iigh
gravity were of a very inferior quality, and be-
fore they could be sent out for consumption re-
quired to be rectified. This mode of charging
the duty is therefore quite inapplicable to Scot.
land and Ireland, where the spirits are univer-
sally consumed in the state of whiskey, without
having been rectified.

The Commissioners in their Report above
referred to state, " That the mode of charging
the duty under all the previous systems had made
it so much the interest of the distiller to seek
to augment the quantity of spirits, by the use of
as strong a wash as could well be fermented,
that the quality of the spirits was comparatively
disregarded. In framing the present law an at-
tempt has been made for the first time to avoid
any i►►terference with the distiller which mipba
prove injurious to the freedom of his opKations.
on the production of spirits of a palatable qua,
lity. There seems to be no doubt that palat,
able quality depends in a great degree on the
strength or gravity of the worts from which the
spirits are distilled ; and it is known that within
certain limits the excellence of the spirits is i►►
an inverse ratio to the density of the wash."
By the present law the duty is charged on the
quantity of spirits produced, and the distiller is
allowed, within certain limits, to make his wash
of whatever gravity he prefers.
For the purpose of preventing frauds by the
Abstraction or concealment of any portion of the
spirits produced, an account is taken of the
quantity of the wash, and of its specific gravity,
at various times during the process of fermen-
tation, and an estimate is made, according to the
degree of attenuation which the wash may reach,
of the quantity of spirits which can be produced
from it.

An account of the quantity of the low wines,
or the spirits produced by the first distillation, is
also taken, and the distiller is charged Frith the
highest amount of duty which would result from
p
any of those checks.
There is also another very important check on
the distiller by the resent 111%, which is deserv-
ing of particular attention in considering the
present question, viz. that the two operations of
brewing and distilling cannot be carried on at
the Same time by the distiller. Now as the
operation of mashing occupies a cot4ide- qtr
[ength of time, and cannot be carried o,lt3litt 14 I VI; %„,
.he knowledge of the excise officer su .o
ing the diptillery, it is impossible for/
to add fresh worts, for the purpose
,he strength of the wash, without 7ticteriliori;;,:_.---.;;:.4.,i,
whereas, if he were allowed to have
nolasses on his premises, he might eaelly,Aißr,
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