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London, England, 1829-05-13 00:00:00

any lager. He bad merely risen to 9%1144101e 11%
Chairman to move, at the first Meeting of the bald at
Directors, to grant I liceeoseto thelietnioners to import
tea from the continent.
After an Anervation from Sir Coolant Panuma dm redden 1,11
ordered to be treed.
Ale: SON presented a similar pethion trons•Chata-
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MALT AIM TRADire
Mr. SLANEY ruse to move that a Select Committee
shnold Ise appoints.( foe the purpose. of inquitiaA,isto
the spilt and bee& ttivles. ' 13e. had ventured to beim,
'tilts motion before tber‘ 1(3.1/,e, PG Ise• tease**it a
most important suhj-st. and one wit.b, which hnhatt
taken considerable pains. It was, he *pain, of the
utmost consequence to the puor.the landed interest, ant
the Government •of the county. To the working
clarets it was oe‘ineporiance because it trier, ed to saint
:wit, the second necessmy of life to them. The ,nbject
might be divided into three heads.; the first to atlas
ietir doe meteor she mak and beer trade, with relnigwa
to us increase or cleclin.-; and second to inqtine nut
waithe cause of that decline; and the third ill '44.111
arising from 414 dTcliOot rq she Omer cusses. The
whole
,cif the. sriateasent 'thigh lee should make reseed**
' on his own Noisome, boss on enures which it would be
impossible to eunteneert. He would, however, 'Rake
those stwerseents.in rhind numbers. The quantity of
inak manufactOred might be considered as the favors
of the comforts of thelseople, iiraimucl as it fleeted ih
second necebstr yof life tu. them. It was also the weed
description 4 folio, nod was one way of ateestvieing
the prtoperitruf she agricultural interest. By the es.
tunas of malt istaunfaconed hoot the year 1707 to the
yell! 1828, it..aptieited that.in the year 1707 these. had
bee? three obits its brur- bandied thousand quartet
otiesele manufactured, whereas in the year lb/8- them
Ares cooly- three milli, nr. one hundred thousand, beihg
the course of forty years a diminution of 6.u:hundred
thousand cinniteis of malt. He knew there "Were many
who Worilsk mak why he tied not take the year isoo,
as these 'hid been as partial increase to three millions
eight hawked. tbottsatlT, .(lut he kaki the sothority.rd
the first loalitgess in the .country fur saying. tkai tM
twenty peen hach these had not- been such an arroadant
growth of barley as hest year. Bat, even isting toe
average of the two years. it would appear that there
was a considerable diminution doting the lan 40 ?ears-
in this important necessary of life. If the averageque-
lily was taken of• any. three years during that time it
• would be found to be the same. Was it not surpritiag
ihatsMittle I he contuniptioo.of almost every other saute
was iticreaung, ibis atoms was diehinishing ? flat the
compaiatiee dinsioution *as . .s'ch greater than that
which he had stated. He vrotild beg to call the Enmities
of the House to the increase of populattun during that
time. In the year 1707 the populatiois of England mad
Wales had mitOunted to on? 7400.006; in the year
1821/Jae the lett, oar ppearisf roc. reined
,tolS,500.000; so that, v.. ith !am Mete use of more that
6000,000 et copulation, Om Chid' been a real diaries-
tioa in the national beverage, eXid bi, eta time when,
as Ached said before, ev,. y other necessary of life bad
increased. Its the year 1787 each Porian•vongu!Ned
three bushels and seven pints of malt; au that,ro the
year 1828, there ought to have been an' inme. tre ao
less than nineteen millions. It. produced twenty-arms
millions of strikes its the year .1787, and ought: on that
.calculatioa, to produce fort psi* millions in 1828, whines
it 'produced but twenty fur ntilltOns and. o. ba(4
which was a didsinution of neaely oneihalf; hilt they
bugbt to expect it to increase only fo .peopesnioa
'the population. In making this calculation he wit
'understating it. It ought also to bc- caltosto
i ill xi-
ference to the increase of cultivation; end.
pealed from recants which be held in his band.ffiat .
these were at pse,ent• three millions of neditioul
acem cultivated sines the period to which had
refeired ;* so • that if =-014- half e.stltliiewiligskladst
tindifilsnellY; ifiere—woulti be Ars saeliy;oa: q(, twelve
millions of beads. 'Hp ropested,.. then, that with a
millions additional population, and three 'millions sd-
dit;onal acres, it must.bnovripg to some kosher mese
ibat there was a diminution of malt. This dimieetion
did not arise froth the poverty r f the people, (or there
had been an Increase of every other necessary. ;What,
then, were the causes of it ?
.The fits; was, the med-
dling in every process .of the manufacturer. The
nest, the. heavy duties which were imposed; and the
third, the numerous restriction; which were applai
to retailing malt liquors—(Hear, bear). Tae precast,
enithieg was very short, and yet until the other dry
there were no less than forty Acts of Parliament foto&
them how it should be done! Those were now reduced.
or he should rather'sae expanded, to one. Before the
.141012. of the.Att villich.be was then bringing awder
thAcon.idevatibn.e f the. House these we. e seventy Acts
of Parliament all applying ice • the caseof the bre wps.
arid to whigh.they -were troind to .pay attention; rhea
the Att inAherioisiVas itassed:• which he might:Veil
call an espahiaoh OT the other seventy; arid was perbeps,
upon tlm whole, worse. trinn- all the otheis put:toge-
ther. Every step the mal;.ter took •be Ira, .nbligt4 to
take accntding to a prescribed foins.;• He bond
to steep nos lima than forty hours: nor more than Sur
five. On every the most trifling occasion he ms
bound tb give a written
_n0:40.4 the slightest sag
he took. 11e.Was to frail stated hours too for tale
ink out hisUsalt ; he, was to deposit it on couches:sc.
cording to seniority and be was to take case shit Ake
eifsecsirere,nOt ragged ; and . with all those .vegatioirs
reigulakihnsiter*l? co Comply' under a penalty
.of *AIL
The Hon. Member then detail'ed at mach length a ma.
miety Of- otbAr..mioute rules -which hart been enacted*
the; goidaisedikf Ifirmaltster. Aroimgist 'other obligsricart
imposed updnllirti beWls btiutpd ao keepi book in Which
he was to resiitet.theasitkos of ell men who sold bar-
ley.to hins,•andrif all•tawlions he sold malt, giving NI
each certificate's- In fact,' it was .'impossible to loot
through that: famous expansion statute without seeds`
every fold of it-heavy with the penalties under whit*
the unfortunate :roakster was doomed to suffer. Mr.
Hallam's wink,-" The Constitutional Hittury of (ilea'
Britain," Contained, he obeserved, a passage which
with the permissioa of the House he would then read.
(Which he did accordingly; it orkteluded by saying that
the people of this country were surrounded with legal
difficulties; they walked continually amidst the Wanes
and pitfalls of the law.) If that, he continued, were
true di men in general, bow much more true was it
those who stood in the unhappy situation* of the milt'
stets? Nut only was the duty on malt exceediagly eissenter
in it* amount, being no, less than 5.800,0004 hub the
raode...of the collection was most distressing. He the&
proceeded to the comparison of several years, from 1797
to.lBos, for the purpose of showing that theincrealC.
Jitietled to diminished consumption. No man arhosag
not tur*his attention to the subjectcould conceive*,
evils to -sibieb the country was subjected in cps*.
rioenee'if the
.laws.nffecting the brewing trade;, thef4..
Operated ntemit isnegyelly in the amount of the bertlivlo
Yeppoted upop ;he different pans of the country. TIM
egl
*ise
-rip* bore three times as much as Devonshire, thrP..
it was e-filth liirger; Suffolk three times as rusca
Devonshire t. Hampshire three times as much as _
ford ; Bedford three tinsel as much as Chester, shove