Star.
London, England, 1801-11-28 00:00:00

6ilN.

of Common Council wii held
fiber, to confider the following
.RATT, refpedling Wheat and
apprehending that Wheat and other
front the reguLer Markets, ar.d that
unreafonably advanced.-IDo tefolve
the price .
pc iOn PailanCnt, praying, that a Survey of the Grain
I.,,i,gbich Bread Is made, be taken from time to time ; and
pox the proprietor of Potfeffor theseof, be compelled to make
a ileum, upon oath, of the Qllantieles in his poet:Mon, fpecify.
kvarate (4.antities of Wheat, Wheat Flour, Barley,
gney, door, Oats, and Oatmeal, Rye and Rye Flour ; alto a
Fowl of the probable produce of the different forts of Grain,
ohm Waked."
Alto, the following Motion of Mr. Dixow:—
a That an humble Petition be prcfctocd to Parliament,
arog,that the prohibition to ellitil from Grain may continue
jai ha months from the tit of January next, and until the next
Stain: of Parliament after the expiration of that period."
A very long difctiffion took placen the above
quellions, but they p were at length tarried by a
confiderable majority.
The Court of Aldermen have refolved to confi-
der the As 3y Geo. 111. for fettling the Price of
Brat+) and the Law Officers are to give opinions
thereon, to try to enforce the means to reduce
;14 price of that moll neceffiary article.
SreTHwARC MlllTlNO.—.Yeiterday a Meeting
of the inhabitants tf the Town and Borough of
Southwark Was held in the Spiritual Court, at
SaintSaiibutrs Church, purfuant to public notice,
PITER tILOADLEY, Efq. the Chairtnan, opened
Me bufinefs of the Meeting, by dating,. ;hat they
*ere called together for the purpofe of confider-
ing the propriety of petitioning the Houfe of Com-
mons againfi the expeEted meafitre of allowing the
Diffillenes to recommence diflillation from Corn,
from the IR of January next. Having Aid thus
much, he hoped Tome Gentlemen would deliver
their lintiments on the tontines.
Mr. Correa faid, that opinions of the nature
tley were it prefent called on to give, would ope.
!ate fo as to induce a belief that there was a fear-
eity,,or a reafon for railing the pi-ice of any of the
neeenaries of life. He intlanced the Duke of Port-
lanci's letter, and argued on its mifehievous ten-
dency. The prefent caufc and confequence of the
Meeting, he took to be this :—A number of weals
thy Weft-India Merchants had fpcculated in fugar
and molaffes to a very great amount; they wifhed
to keep up the pticts for their own benefit, and
fearing that the diflillers of ikirits might be allow-
ad to ufe corn, in place of tieing obliged to ufe
mo-
Ja'les, which would bring down the price of their
articles, they contrive to oppofe it. The dealers
in corn Would of courfe do every thing in their
poWer to get the allowance : then how Rands the
bufinefs wit b refped to the Public ? Why, which
ever party has the advantage, they Will not reap
ant benefit; for whether the ditlillers make ufe of
Ora or Molallbs, the Public will not get the
quartern loaf one farthing cheaper. He was
therefore of opinion, that the meeting could not
do better than refrain from any interference in
the buil:lea. _

Mr. STONI3TREIT, a Magi (irate, and late Sheriff
of the county of Surrey, replied to Mr. Coffee, and
pointed out the diffimilarity, As it (truck him, be'
tween this bufinels and the Duke of Portland's let.
ter : that, as he premed, was fent by his Grace,
then in the confidenee of Goveinment, Rating an
expelled fcarcity, and recommending a aria econo-
Thy in the the ufe of the neceilaries of life, to avert
the evils with which it was then thought we were
threatened : that period, thank GOD, was now
over, and it was not neteffary for him to fay at
this time whether his Grace was right or not.—
Gob be praifed, we have a plentiful harveß, a
great impoitation of bread corn ; and what has it
as yet availed us? Have we leen that fair profpeft
we were led to expert ? Can we get a quartern
loaf for M. or gd. ? No : what is it owing to ?
Why, to the monopoly of certain interefted Indi-
viduals, who avail themfelves of every means in
their power to get up the price ; among other
means, this of the dilblleries was one ; and there-
fore he could not but fay, that if the meeting did
not agree to fuch a Petition as was intended, they
would not do themfelves juftice.
Mr. ORME, as a Dißiller, did not confider him-
felf entitled to vote; yet he thought he might, with
propriety, lay before the meeting the information
had received. He then adverted to the Rate-
anent ef the Committee of the Houle of Commons,
(for which fee the STAR of Thurfday)—Could it
be fhppofed that diftilling 250,000 quartet-sof bars
ley out of stooo,ooo, could difirefs the country ?
Did not the Dißillers, when in full work, feed
60,e500 bacon hogs, of forty lone each, annually ?
—Put this in addition to the duties they pay, full
400,0001. a year, to the articles of food they fur-
nifh, in addition to the frefh meat brought to mar-
ket, and, on the whole, fay, can any ferioas in-
jury arife to the Public from granting perrnigion
to the dillilleries to woi k on malt ; for he denied
that any wheat capable of being made into flour
was ever aced in that line. Major GAITSKILL,
alfo a Diailler, followed on the fame fide.
MT.STON IST R a sT faid a few words in reply,when
Mr. Oasts mentioned a circumftance that, he
faid, occurred lull Monday week at Mark-Lane.--
A great man came into the market,and went round
to all the Failors, and faid--" Put by all your ben
wheats for me, and I will give you (even fhillings
per quarter advance on lea Monday's prices."—
Ht fucceeded with them all but one, who would
not let him have any more than ha1f....-He tried
the market lea Monday in the fame way, but could
not fucceed from the quantity in the market.--
What was all this for ? to get rid of the large quail-
*Lai foreign corn he had in hand.
Mr. jolty Aacoca now mend that an adjourn-
ment Mould take place, for the purpofe of having
a general Meeting called in form by the High
Bailie. This was agreed to, and a requifition figned
ty all the principal inhabitants pent. To meet
on Thurfday next at the Town Hall.

Wlaik we are on the fuhjea of Corn we mall
take the opportunity of mentioning one faa out of
*any timilar ones that might be brought forward.
At a meeting of creditors which took place at
•_, 414 kit Summer, (before the late abundant
:l 41
among oil= isms of lOU. Mai 20t00°L

' for damage of Corn In granaries, which Corn had
coil 40,0001.-one of the Corn had been fold.—
If fo much corn was hoarded up, and waited in the
hands of one individual only, how large a quan-
tity mutt have been in the whole country, rotting
in the granaries of the Monopolifers, at the time
when the poor were ltarving ! After the bare Rate-
went of fuch a fa& who can believe that the pub-
lic would have fufgered, as they have done, had the
meafure we recommended,ofhaving a return upon
oath of all the corn in the country, been adopted.
We are happy to fee fuch a meafure now recom-
mended by fuck refpeflable Bodies as have taken
up the fubje&—But we hope, if reforteil to, it
will be done in an dreamt, manner ; for if half
meafures only are reforted to, as was the cafe in
obtaining the voluntary returns; fre(h in every
one's recolleftion—we than have • ficond artificial
!earthy, while imrnenfe quantifier of every Enid of corn
will continue to rot in the granaries l