Star.
London, England, 1830-05-04 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENTNO, MAY 4, 15.30. PRICE 7D.

CORN DISTILLERY.

REMARKS on a LETTER addressed by JOIN INNES, Esq.
to the Right Hon. the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
on the CLAIMS of the WEST INDIA DISTILLERS, &e.

John Ines, Esq. The distillers, in England. Scotland. and
who has been set Ireland, making spirits fcr the consumption of
forward as thecham. England, object to this question being sonar.
pion of the West rowed—for it is not only the expense of me.
India interest on the nufaduring, and bringing corn spirits and
question of Duties rum to market, but likewise the valise and ac.
between Rum and hurl cost of the raw materials,from which both
British Malt Spirits corn spirits and rum are distilled, that must
consumed in Erg. be considered—there being, in the one case,
land, has opposed the inferior molasses, or refuse of sugar, sp.
the statements of plicable to no other profitable purpose—
the corn distillers, whilst, on the othiv Enna, corn spirits soust<ia
upon the following produced from malt and Frain heavily taxed;
grounds:— dir.:ctly and indirectly.
Mr. Zones as. het the IVest India distiller, or Mr. Inncs
mimes that—" the on his behalf, show the vrlue or cost of the
simple object now materials from which rum is made.
is fairly to estimate, Upon an average of seasons, barley laid in
in money, thevcxa. at the different distilleries has not cost less,
lions regulations, and cannot now be purchased under 325. per
unequal imposts, imperial quarter, which, with the duty upon
and impediments, a proportion of malt, necessarily used in the
of which the British making of raw corn spirits, for the use of the
distiller complains, rectifier, entails a first expense, for the raw
and to ascertain how material alone, of per imperial proof gallon
much such disad. 2s. Oil.
vantages exceed the Aod for the manufacturing and mar.
charges to which ketting the raw corn spirits there
the West India dis. must be allowed.. ls. Od.
tiller is liable, but
_ _

from which the Bri. Cost of a gallon proof of raw corn
tish distiller is es. spirits 3s. pd,
exempt."
And upon the accuracy of this statement the
distillers of the United Kingdom rest their

Cale.
Mr. Inns states, It is true that the quantity of spirits made
p. eight and nine, exclusively from milt, and consumed in Eng.
that the distillers land, is small compared with rate corn spirits
have set forth crro. —but such spirits are now used to a limited
neous statements extent at an extra duty of la. 2d. over raw
and assertions—and corn spirits—and they are, like rum, a fi.
he misrepresents the nisked article ready In go into consumption
duty payable on spi. without the expensive process of rectification.
ma made from malt If therefore the finished article of such malt
only, made er spirit be used in England, the cost of material
brought Into Eng. and manufacturing will be as stated 3s. 0.1.
land for consump. The proposed Spirit Duty lls. Od.
tion ; he estimates The Duty for Malt Is. 2d.
the effect of the ------• 9s. 2d.
Corn Laws as rah-

ing barley 20s. to Making the cost with Duty ... 12s. 2d.
245. which he calls The Duty upon rum is
" the price the dis-
tiller now pays for Leaving, to cover the cost of material
the quality he uses," and manufacture of the finished sr-
and satisfies himself 2 tide sum, under the proposed re-
with the accuracy of gulations
his conclusions by a If, again, to supply the rectifier, raw corn
reference to the re- spirits. the principal article of consumption
cent sales of cern in England, be used—and to which the dis-
spirits in the Lon- tillers never applied the whole Malt Tax of
don market. la. 24.—such spirits, besides the shear
stated cost 0f......
Must be rectified at an expense of Os. Bd.

Making:

Thus Without taking into account
various " unequal imposts," &c.
which Mr. Inns admits to the
aorta extent of 2d. per gallon,
but which the distillers know ex-
ceed greatly that small sum, on
the gallon of such raw spirits so
prepared, and without the addi-
tional charges admitted and stated,
must come into competition with
the finished article of rum-- which
has long been selling under.... 2s. Od.

The difference in cost and general
market price is
' The average prices for regulating the duty
upon foreign barley, and consequently the
market.price of barley, in England, is 30s.
per quarter, the duty being thus 10s. 10d.—
tbe fact of the marlcet-price of barley being
30s. per quarter to the grower or oorn mer-
chant, whilst Mr. lanes states the distiller tol
•
be paying only 245. furnishes a criterion of
his accuracy. And the landed interest, and
the Right Honourable the Chancellor of the
Exch -uer, may judge if 20e. per grinner
will eord rent to the proprietors, provisions'
for the poor, or revenue So Government
from its produotion.
Some recent sales of corn spirits have un-
doubtedly been made at ruinous prices; but
a reference to the prices of grain and spirits,
even during the few past years of competition,
will show that the prices have not been very
unequal to the cost of production ; and the
distillers attribute these present low prices for
corn spirit in part to the obvious effect of sub..
stituting ruin for corn spirit in England, by in.
creasing the duty thereon, without adding a
corresponding duty upon rums
Mr. Inns states, The distillers know, and Mr. Junes knows.
page 12, that the that this puncheon is used as a peckage-aum
" unequal imposts" for goods outwards—that the cask itself can
to which the West be bought for 20s.—and that, like a bottle
Indian distiller is with wine, it is valued and paid for by the
subject are as under: purchaser of tum, so that the cask bringing
A pun. of 90 rum ken the West Indies to this country is
imp. gallons fully paid for to the West India distiller.
30s. on per The distillers are ready to go into a coin.
gal. in spirits 4d periecto of the freights, insurances, leakages,
Freight from and other charges and dhadventagest in the
West Indies 5d bringing of spirits from Scotland and Ireland,
Insurance, leak. contrasted with rum to England; and to show
age, Etc. 54 that the West Indian Is In a more favoured

situation in this respect than the Irish Cr
Tot. charges is 2d Scotch distiller, making spirits for England.
The expenses of The distillers ask what has been their 'li-
the West Indians tuation ? What the amount of extra th-
an brought forward penes to w!sich they have been subjected by
in page 13, upon the changes in the revenue regulations ? And
lutensils, &c. It is they desite the landed interest and his Ma-
objected that no. jaty's Government to look to the unbounded
lasses are nqt pa- claims and sdll half.concealed views of the
mined to be distilled West India distiller.
In England free of Molasses are imported into this country at
duty, or even at a 10s. per cwt. duty. The value of this article
duty equivalent to is so improved that they are extensively made
Canada barley. into sugar, an article paying 2716 Per owl*
duty; and the distillers not Ally caution Go-
vernment and the agricultunetskTinnet allow-
ing the use of molasses in distil , but also
to prevent their substitution for malt under
the new regulations in the making of the lower
qualities of beer.
The distillers also object to Canadian *rite
being introduced into England at the rum
duty, because such spirits may be made from
barley or nusk, upon neither of which articles
is any English tax payable.
The west - The distillers moot eee any tosseds to the
diens deny that the production of rum; the Importadenanatieses
production of non is to isause, and the stocks at the pelacipal
unbounded. They porde, swim are linger then wen II
state the They- tondo sereidistanding the
doh of corn spirits sod if the abases now

to be more than porting into thlc country were distilled into
doubled, pages 16 rum, its production *mild at once be doubled.
and 17, and it is in. The distillers refer to and confirm their for.
felled diet rum has met statements and calculations, taken from
supplanted smug. official docutnents--theae taken from an ave.
g6rl brandy after rage of years, and not selected partially, as
the reauction of has been done by Mr. limes, who takes the
duty ir, 1825 ; and year 1825, when it was known the duty on
Mr. Innes, for die British spirits was to be reduced, and duty
West Indiana, in p. was only paid upon 3,443,7,7•3 gallons, to con-
-20, craves that trait with the consumption of last year, being
60,000 quarters of 75700,768 gallons. The distillers have shown,
barley be given up and are ready to pone, that, with the differ-
annually la the con. once of Is. 6d. of duty in favour of corn spirits
sumption of the dirt- consumed in England, the consumption of
tillerieri, to allow an corn spirits and of rum has increased nearly
additional market in the same proportion since 1825 ; and, for
for rum, the last year, that the consumption of rum has
materially risen above that proportion,
whil;t the use of British spirits has diminished.
From what public document Mr. Inns has
taken this information the distillers cannot
imagine—but by returns printed 20th March
last, No. 211, the rum consumed in England,
during 1825, was 1,980,807, and in the year
1829 the ruin consumed likewise in England
was 3,302,143 gallons, which affords another
instance of the misrepresentations set forward
by Mr. Innes, and a further evidence of the
accuracy of the statemtnts of the distillers.
The distillers cannot discover by what
means Mr. Innes has ascertained that rum has
supplied the place of smuggled spirits in Eng-
land, since the duty was reduced in 1825.
Certainly it has not done so in Ireland and
Scotland. They would further again warn
the landed interest of the United Kingdom
against any interference with a principle so
wisely and solemnly established, and which
has been working with so much equality, and
which, if broken down, must inevitably lead
to the destruction of the corn distillers, and,
consequently, prove most injurious to the
home grower of corn.
The distillers do not find one word express-
ed, or one figure set forward, by Mr. Drum.
mond which can be, or which is attempted to
be controverted. Mr. Drummond spoke only
of England, and referred to calculations and
statements to make out his case. Should the
question be agitated with regard to Ireland and
Scotland, the distillers, and it is not doubted
Government and Parliament, will meet it in a
fair and open manner, with a view to the pro-
sperity of the revenue and a just regard to in-
dividual interests, and likewise to the public
welfare.
General claims.

11r. Trines states,
that the consump-
tion of rum in Eng-
land. in the year
1825. was 2,832,833
gallons, and in 1829
the same consump-
tion was 3,702,143.

Mr. Tones quotes
Mr. H. H. Drum-
mond a statements,
and adds to then:

the proportionate
consumption of rum
in Ireland and Scot-
land.

The distiller do not go into any new or la.
boured view of their case. They refer with
confidence to those members of his Majesty's
Government, whB were parties to the arrange-
ment of 1825—t0 the waking of the measure
itself--and hey ask from Government that
this arrangement should remain undisturbed ;
or that some sufficient reason be given for de.
parting from so deliberate and just an act, so-
lemnly ratified by Parliament; and they ask
for inquiry before legislation upon a question
involving so many important interests.
Distillers' Co.nmittee Room, 16, Parliament-street,
30th Xpril, 1830.
THE SITUATION OF PUBLIC CREDIT IN SPAIN.

Credit is a fine thing ; but it cannot be made use of without con-
' tracting fresh obligations, which, in their turn, require a further
extension and strengthening of credit. Each sum borrowed brings
along with it the necessity of providing for a fresh expense. It is
requisite, therefore, that the sum borrowed should, of itself, produce
the means of paying the additional expense it occasions, or that the
possibility of a new loan should result from a progressive state of
improvement, promising, at some future period, the power of sup-
porting the charges attending such loan, and of ultimately reim-
buning the sum borrowed itself.
Without this the factitious means of credit are soon exhausted,
and things having come to this pass, we must resign ourselves to
lose the moat powerful means of existence and of strength, which
human intelligence can make use of, and to fall at the same time
into a state of debility and degradation which must necessarily be
the terror of a Government as well as of the head of a firm, whose
only object is an honourable existence.
We believe Spain to have attained the highest degree of credit
which she could obtain by fictitious means. She would have been
lest already had she made use of real means. She has taken one step
in the right road.
Her real means of credit are of a two-fold nature. They are in.
complete as yet, and would lead to nothing, unless completed sad
producing their natural effects. They would even render her catas-
trophe more terrible and more imminent.
They depend on the publicity of her transactions and fidelity to
her engagements.
The general situation of the Treasury has been published. There
appears to be an annual deficit, to which we have adverted in answer
to the alleged surplus hitherto insisted on.
The clandestine issue of New Rentes has been put a stop to. The
public has been informed of the quantity issued. The Sinking
Fund agreed upon is effected openly, according to the announce-
ments posted up in the Exchange before the opening of the trans-
action. The public is equally apprised of the quantity and 'rumbas
of inscriptions reduced every month. In this respect, the Spanish
administration is farther advanced than the Neapolitan.
On the other hand an old debt, the interest of which is no longer
paid these many year, and the legality itself of which is disputed,
however monarchical its origin was, has been liquidated, both ca-
pital and interest, in Holland, and converted Into Rents Perpetuelle,
bearing five per cent. interest. For this purpose it has been pub-
lished at Madrid. and in all European stock markets, that a deta.
mined quantity of inscriptions, in every respect similar to those of
the same nature, the interests of which are payable at Paris, of
such or such number, without the number being in any ease liable
to be exceeded, should be applied to such liquidation, or might be
negotiated. Thus the Spanish Government announced, that in
proportion to the conversion of the Dutch bonds and their sales, It
would augment the quantity of tenets perpetuelln already in circu-
lation by a tel of n millions of Spanish dollars.
At home the Spanish Government has likewise taken measures
for its consblidated and non-consolidated debt, which are of the
description of those depending on the fidelity to subsisting engage.
meats.

We do not admit that the continued rise of the Spanish Seen.
rids defies our efforts and our reasonings. We believe, on the
oontrary, that if an incipient respect for the necessary conditions
of a real and durable credit had not been manifested in the ad.
minimalism of the Spanish finances, the Treasury of Madrid
woad dandy be in a desperate condition, and the credit of Spain
weal& be es the point of going to pieces.
The continued rise of the Spanish Funds is rather the expression
of a hope inspired by known measures, than the sole effect of those
measures themselves. But we would attend this credit if the work
that has been began were to remain incomplete ; despatch even will
be requisite. Every thing binges on the point of a needle ; the
Attest breath will make the whole structure to tumble down.; the
?;kibisisit raised, the more terrible will the fall be. It ought to be
y supported by counter efforts, founded upon a broad and
a the mean while all the effects that have been made ; all the
good dispcsidons that are already known, Red the premised and
expected futurity, have raised the Spanish Five per Cents. in Bente,
Perpetual's, WO and 84, and reimburashle Emprunt Royal Instil
90 to 91. The credit of the kingdom of Naples stands yet Bet 0,
per ant.higher.
w! !bin !Ample that the efforts of ettadroces"d of speeulayo

may brimg the tends of tit;;;;l"—e=:e a level; 6t weight
a real milk result boat tble to 1 soh a at& u a mere.
mat 'ask *hawk am that is to the political a.
het wee er the egallay—eaoh a milk se would secure the Serra= of
toe treasury filf unseal year* me posits fur she argent Waal. of a
greet empeaittovet—Ne ; OW *mg be obtained bat by the
potable tweyeratiest et A the. isorated Nampa he
a WS Sleets by paillk AO 111 & lasi Mad d

c:zwt; La.'.: t 0,...:: that may be obtained will be nothing but
negotiations by essnrat..im, and in detail, which s, cure end gua-
,
raatee no important results to the public treasury, though imposing
enormous *uscritims.

ilissin cannot acquire a real aedit u long as an old ilt.ht of the
Spanish Government exists, and as long as that G0vcr0t.,......
to touch ita real taverna and its internal and 'nth- it, usable
measures of liovernment, for a good ristein of fir.aare vmAins
complete.—Joursird du Gornmeree.

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