The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-13 00:00:00

double returns, and the markets for any quanti-
-1 ties close at hand.—Morning Advertiser.
Our attention was yesterday called, by a
letter which appeared in our Paper, to an article
) which appeared a few days ago in the columns of
t a Morning cotemporary,-on the subject of Hotel
F Licenses ; and certainly a more extraordinary in-
! stance of false reasoning and gross ignorance of
• the real state of the- case has not come to our
knowledge. The windings, and turnings, and
• inconsistencies of a certain Chief Magistrate—
, the determination one day to protect only the in-
terests of the Licensed Victuallers, and, on the
next, the expression of an ardent wish that their
whole trade should be thrown open—are not a
whit more remarkable than those of the article in
question. The writer of it, after giving a sort
of history of the origin of the Hotel-keepers'
Act, proceeds to lay it down as the understood
and recognised object of the Act to be " fur the
relief of Hotel-keepers" from informations—an
Act, in fact, for the " protection of Hotels."
To this explanation of its meaning we readily
assent: The Act was intended to be au
" Act protective" of " Hotels ;" but not
of gambling- houses, of coffee-houses, or of
mere wine-rooms, where there is not only no ac-
commodation for sleeping comfortably (which
appears to be the uppermost idea in the writer's
mind) but where residence, in the understood
meaning of the term, was never contemplated—
where the sole object in fact is to dispose of ex-
ciseable liquors, and not to furnish that accom-
modation in the important matters of eating and
sleeping, in which a traveller stands in need. Yet
after having given the above definition of hotels,
the article in question finds fault with City autho-
rities, because, under the sanction of the Hotel-
keepers' Act, they refused in their wisdom to
license houses which exhibited no one feature of
an Hotel, and could only be characterised as
places for the accommodation of Gentlemen,
while sipping their wine ! Nor is this all.
In the abundance of his zeal for the much-
injured Hotel-keepers, he invokes all the
powers of monopoly, and exclaims—" This
is your golden age ! The Hotel-keepers
and their families are nothing !" Truly,
indeed, this is the golden age of free trade—the
Licensed Victuallers and their families are no-

thing ! Throw open the trade—ruin the Li-
censed Victuallers—strip them of their pro-
perty—turn them and their families out of doors
—and enrich, at their expellee, thoe who have
been breaking the law for years, and who now,
on the sole ground of their having violated it,
make application for protection, and a share in
the profits of those, who, with heavy penalties
and many disagreeable burdens upon them, have
yielded to it a willing and implicit obedience.
This is the language of the Times (for it is the
limes of which we arc speaking) and the free
trade which it advocates ! Its gibes, respecting
the publican and his master, the vat-man, as
well as their plunder anti poison," we leave to
the judgment of our readers. To-morrow we
shall direct their attention to an equally violent.
and unfounded article which has appeared in the
columns of an evening cotemporary.—Eid.