Star.
London, England, 1801-12-15 00:00:00

tante fortrawnildtaelireetitiont to detente the
n evil, util.thet begat feel its levoqa 11% fad'
, _dm longer time under preterit circilmthowes,
linciumeratdt petitions would have come tbvsestaski
from all pens of the cooiltry.- But if the Houle
was adjourned, id the long reeds over the firft of 1
January, without adopting no* foist meafirre 'of
tirevattiort to the evil, all the mift/aiefs apprehend-1
ea would have been fuftained before Parliaistent
could have time and oppottunity to afford redrefs.
The nest argument agitintl his purpcte was, that
'the reitenue of the country would be Materially in-
jiv ed. But the• Right Hon. Gentleman, in forming
loch a coneittfion,didure Rein tohavaevetted his
ritual deliberation, onto have confuiered that What-
ever dtpreffion the revenue. might fullaiti &on)
the temporary fulpention of the dittilledes, would
be nearly compenfated by the increafed ctinfump-
don of the breweries, and the deficiency on this
head more than amply made up by the import
ditties on foreign fpirits. 'Having fo,fitr anfWereci
as he conceived, the principal orguinents againft
his object, lie obfervtd the petitions on the table
were not the querulous ebullitions of an unthink-
ing multitude, but o 1 refpedahlet difereet; and fo-
ber-minded communities. who were fully aware
of any lots the revenue might &Rain width beads
and prepared to coptribum. by taxes in any other
Rape, to make up for use deficiency, tuitions Only
to obtain a meafure which they concelfe of fo
much importance to the community. Another
argument objetted tb the meafure was, that it
would teal to prombte clandeftine dillillery, both
in Ireland and Scotland, and the fmuggling of
(vitas from both into England, and conlequently
that the diffilleay eolild not be fufacaded in one
without being-fb m all. He kne4ir no arrangement,
however, Co defirable, as by this means the price
of barley is thole countries Would be lowered,
which would tonfeqacatly facilitate their impor-
tation in this, and thus efeatioally countered the
very mifchief he complained of. As to clandettine
diffillery and fmOgglieg, *hat had Government
more to do for their prevention than employing
more revenue officers and more cruisers? but in
vain would it be to pals laws prohibiting the dil-
dilation from wheat, fo Much more productive to
the diftiller than any other fpeeits of corn, if the
cordial:it opporumities of eluding fuels laws were
afforded to the diaftkr in the working of every
other kind of grain.- In the prohibitiop be wifhed
for a time to be impofed for the diffillety from
grain—the diftillers were not without an alterna-
tive in the ufe of molafes' Which, however, he was
willing to admit, did not produce a fpirit fo palat-
able or popular as corn ; but the asifehief would
be the loft to the multitude. But the eadyfpecies
of limitation which he conceived competent to
remedy the diftreffes of the public, was to prohibit
the diaillory from grain fo often as it fitould ex-
ceed a certain reaffinable price. The Honourable
Member utterly difclaimed every thing like en-
mity to -the diftillen. He believed them to be a
menterous. opulent, refpedetble, and honourable
body of men, and he gave them the higiteft credit
for one circumllance of their couch" which me-
rited the hqrheit applaufe front their country—it
was that ortpootaneostly flopping their own dif-
tilleries at a those of public didiefs, when they con-
ceived loth a proceeding Amid be advantageous
to the community. He bad no views to advan-
tage any let if men by initati3kg the &hiders.
He had no connexion with Weft India.or other
merchafits whole interelts might 'be inimical to
thole of the diftillers. His fide objed was firft to
do away the pretence which the diftilleries would
afford for enhancing immediately the price of
grain ; and fecondly, for preventing, at luch a crifis
as the pit-fent, the znifapplication of eboooo quar-
ters of corn from the food of the multitude, to the
manufacture of a poifon to their health and mo-
rals, whizb within the 141 two years had contri-
buted
in the molt alarming degree to the deftruc-
tion of one, and the depravity of the other. The
I inordinate tie .of fpirittions liquors amorigh the
lower orders, had become a gigantic evil. Gin
became the general fubfinute for malt liquors
among& them—one-third of the untimely deaths of
that race of people, as well as °fib& erimcc, were
atttibuted to their excelfes in-that pernicious liquor.'
This was his firm perfuafion, ;cod the relish of ia.
years experience and observation. Botany Bay
was crowded with criminals, whoaraced the caufes
lot their banifhment to this evil. and a total exemp.
1 /ion from the ufe of fpirits afford al the chief.
Means of their refortn. He concluded by expraf-
ling his hope that the mature of prohibition to
'the corn 'Dalliers, which had already proved fo
faletary, would be further continued; and by
moving for leave to bring in a BUJ for that purpole.
Mr. Per rea feconded the Motion, agreeing at
the fame time that the prefent high price of corn,
as conneeted with the Diallieries, did not arife from
the quantity they confunic, but from the expede-
don of the farmers that they would be opened.
Mr. Dear obferved, that what the Right Hon.
Chancellor of the Exchequer had thrown out with
regard to the relative fituations of England and
Ireland on a ((ono nialn certaialy called for-ma-
ture del, !Aeration. He agreed with the Hon. Mesa.
her who fpokt lath, that the diftillers had an alter-
native in the Me of toolaffes, and he agreed that
if mollifies produced. s lets palatable (Phil than
darn, the ronfumption mull he Ids of courfe, and
the riaanrie contequently fall off. But this was
not in his mind a confideration to warrant the Xsf-
eontintumee of a p-ohibition,the neceffity of which
1...ar5e.1 tiibe corroborated by the Order of Coun-
cil on S nut Jay lati, Itrietly prohibiting the expor-
tation to every teems of cm-Naiad threw open the
I ernaftion to impost prorifinns of every fort. The
table of the Houle was befales covered with peti-
tions for continuing the pmhasition. while not one
' had been offered on the other fide. The Right Hon.
the Chancellor of the Exchequer. whole candour
on this qne II ion redounded to highly to his honour,
gave an adelidotal inQance of that candour this
tight in his notice of adjoining only till Mon:
day mat, in order to give fair time for the deli-
berate dircuffion of this butinefs, and it was highly
probable a number of othcrpetitions would again%
that time be ready to come forward. and the ko-
timents of the country be thereby mom generally
eaiLe dun the f ihj.aft. The whole revenue Rate