The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-15 00:00:00

-oleo, -such 'as cer.'llieiverS, blackstnitift, brick-
makers, iFte:? To enable themselves to go through
'their exertions), they drink six and seven pots of
'beer a day., and many of tneui rekti deal more.
The six or seven-price a day sacrificed to the li-
censing interest was equal to a perpe iial property
tax of 10 per cent, on the bibouring luau's wages,
sufficient to pay for the lodging of the poor man
and his fatuity, tor the whole of their clothing, or
for the bringing tip a ch;ld Inch:pen !rutty ! In the
Pg:!reVate. 0114 penny per quart was equal to
630 000/. s'erling on t;tie inhabitants of the me-
tropolis and its vicinity ! But he argued it avas la-
mentably true, that the esseioial interests of the
country of late years have been sacrificed in the
meßsoreg which have been taken to benefit the
vowel fill at the ex pence of the poor, by raising
the prices tit the necessaries of life artificially.--
Thus to teed the Curporation, the magisterial and
the brewing interests, all of. thent powerful Par-
liamentary interests, we have the Licensing Laws.
These raise the price of beer. To pamper the
landed interest with high rentals, we have the
Corn Laws. These raise the price of bread.
To gratify the coal, micilog, and shippiug in-
terests, tse have certain Acts of Parliament ex-
cluding competition, which raise the price of
coals ; and Gentry quilt this country to reside.
on the Continent ; and urn manufacturrrs h' gin
to follow. In proportion as these withdr3w;
and the burdens of the State are left to be sits-
tained upon diminished means, their pressure
must increase till pa•t bearing. ilf!er. .com-
rnen'ting at great length, and with considerable
ability, on the numerous other et its contiogent un
the licensing system. he particulaily imitated out
'an injury arising from the Magistrates arbitrarily
refusine to renew licences, by tvhich the indivi-
Anal who owned the licence is
.ruined. Specula-
tors in licences were very eager to prevent the
Ithigistrates having the power to refuse a renewal
of a licence once granted ; they would improve
their annual term of licence into a pet petuity, their
speculation into a certainty, their 1 or 20001.
pt ice for a licence into 3 or 40001. ; but they will
not listen to the granting of licences to others who
might compete with them. In furtherance of this
design nearly a. thousand pounds was subscribed
by the to;rit-dealets io the metropolis, two years
s'nce, and a Bill was brought into Parliament for
the regulation of the licensing system, which
would have tendered it quite impossible to put
down any existing licence, however misused, and
almost impossible to have procured any new one.
This wonld have increased ;he price of licences,
and the coostimption of spirits, wonderfully, had
it gone down, and given an excellent finish to the
monopoly system , but it was frustrated by a Pe-
tition %hick he (Mr. IL) had put in. He then
contended that nothing was to be feared from the
trade in beer and spirits being thrown open; but
the licensing system gave a power of imposing bad
beer at a high price, because the property of the
combined brewers was held to he too sacred to be
touched. Nothing, however, short of a free tradi
would render publicans respectable and thriving,
or produce
.beer of a good qoality and at a fair
price. He then satirized Mr. Calvert for express-
trig his hope that he (Mr.. B ), whom lie called a
Aisappointed Magistrate, would be exhibited in
his proper colours. lie teat! the copy of a letter
lie had sent to Mr. Calvert, calling igloo him to
prove the charges he Lad made it, the House of
Commons, and relieving every thing he hail said
or done from the seal of confidence, and con-
cluded with declaring that be never anticipated
any personal advantages beyond the gratification
of reselling the public, and the poor in particular,
from the detestable tyranny of arbitrary licensing.

Dlr. 30NES BURDETT, who had entered the room
towards the close of Mr. Beantuont's vatement,
then rose surd said, that .be attended on the part
of Sir F. Burdett, to state his regret that he could
not attend the meeting to-day. He hoped that
the great fatigue which he had undergone yester-
day would be received as an apology. At the
same time, Sir F. Burdett had desired him to say,
that he should be happy to promote the object of
the meeting ; that, at present, he was not ac-
quainted with the subject, but he should he glad
to receive any information which the Committee
might think proper to send him.
The following Resolution was then read from
the Chair, and carried uttanimously.

" That, from what has occurred in the late House of Com-
mons, respectin4 the arbitrary system of licensins;
puhlic-
houses, this Meeting feel tbein•elves justified it) persevering
in their exertions to obtain a permanent remrdv to counter-
act the numerous grievances which result from that system."
The next resoled ion wns—

" That it is the opinion of this Meeting, that a due regard
fur the health and property of his Majesty's subject, requiry
that a full disclo,nre he male of all convictions of brewers,
who have been detected in having in their pocsession dele-
terious or unlawful i•igredients for the tua%itu.; of beer; and
that th. Reprdientatives in Parliatnent fur Westminster be
respectfully solicited to move for the printio< of the same,
together with the evidence lately taken by the CoLomatee on
the publi; breweries."

Mr. 13 kaRY seconded these Resohitions, and dis-
caated on the inignity of the system of mixing deleterious
drngs with beer, which, he contended, still prevailed to an
cncrunius estent. It had been his fatality to see human Ila-
Lore in its worst shapes for twenty-five years, but he never
Witnessed such disgraceful conduct as that of some of the
Brewers.—He Lad lately been before the Board of
Lxeise, the vigilance f whose officers deserved the thanks
cif the pulilic, as did the conduct of the Commissioners.
lie saw a large table ciArrel with no less than thirteen
different ingredients for adulteratio4 beer, all taken from
on brewery. Time owt4er ..•as fined 300/. ; but he was only
one. out of a dozen (sr Eifteen who had been convicted within
th:se few weeks. Chemists had proved that these articles
were to be used as sibstituies for malt and hops, as well
as for colouring, sweeteninv,., bittering, and for guying a
false he. to the beer ; and be a.•:i.de for this last purpose
was actually white copperas. One of these men, after lie teas
convicted, on the clearest evidence, rushed to the table, and
seizing a bible, tool: his oath that 4c had never used noxious
ingredients in his life !—No; fur dirty worli we were all able
to piocure dirty servants. The oppression of the Brewers
towards the poorer .:ho of publicans was infamous, as was
proved at every meeting of the Insolvent Debtors' Court,
where ten or twelve vvere dis,har,:ed every fortnight. The
llrewer took a warrant of attornty on letting a man unto his
Louse, and if lie did not prove successful, he entered up judg-
ment, and swept away all that he had, to the exclusion of all
other creditors. He then defended sir. Beaumont, and hoped
that if there was any oblogny or blame to result, the Meeting
and the Committee would share it; but whatever merit might
appear, it ought to be all his own.
D!;EWRY, a brewer, who opposed the com-
parative statements of Nlr. Ileatimont at the fernier Meeting,
declared himself in favour of a free trade in beer, and inimi-
cal to the arbitrary system of licensing. He was proceeding
to read extracts from a pamphlet, to -sbew that Mr. L.'s
ttoternents of the !.rice's of malt and hops were incorrect,
when he was called to order, as the ',atter he introduced
Was completely to reign ta the object of the present meeting,
the sulmject of prices having been combatted in time 11 Oil Se. Of
CWIIIIIOIIS. After much controversial argumeut ott the %It cc-

%Ire received this morning the Paris Papers of
Sunday last. The following are Extracts

" PARIS, JULY 12.—The Duke of Wellington
gate a grand dinner on Friday.
" The Count Portalis had the honour of beitig
presented to the Pope on the 24th ult, by the
Dench Ambassador at Rowe, the Count de Blacas.

" 1 the wife of a grocer, Rue de
flunovre, and her mother, agreed to take poison
in their food. The mother, impatient at what
she thought its slo‘s operation, ti.r,w Crum
a window on the sixth story. She was taken up
alive, and carried back into the house. The
daughter died at seven in the evening, the mo-
ther, notwithstanding her fall, lived two hours
longer. The motives of this double suicide are not
known.

" We learn from Marseilles that travellers from
Leghorn state, that they left in that port
three American ships of the line and two ft igates ;
a fourth shit► of the line set sail a few days pre-
viously. At the departure of these travellers the
determination of the ToscanGovernment, as to the
3 uthorit y demanded by the American Commodore
to cast anchor at Porto Ferrajo, was nut
known.

We learn from the Upper Rhine, that the
Emperor of Austria, on his join my to Aix-ln-
Chapelle, will proceed to the head-tiunrters of
General Friniont, iu Alsace, in order to inspect
the corps of Austrian troops under his orders.