The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-06-10 00:00:00

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clieqeer bad mode certain charges against the brewers,.
and had only done that ; for now, after convents'.
is he Mewl( (teetered, with a Gentleman folly ices
farad en the subject, and on whose sethalty he
professed himself to hive implicit reliance, the Right
lion Gentleman bad not had the fairness or the just-
mess re come forwent end acknowledge his .—
lie (Mr. Billiton) might be allowed In feel warm, be
hoped. on a abject like this; and though, in what
he should say, he wished to observe strictly the re-
spect due to the House, and that which he eater-
tamed personally for the (tight Hon. Geofleman, yet
.he wished to glee to the listening of that Right
Hon Gentleman as positive, clear, and direct a con.
Indiction oath* English tangier, could Varnish him
nith the 'ream of giviog.—((beers end laughter.)l
—The Chancellor of the Etchequer bad s(id,'
then, that although the Malt Tat, spoil being re-
, pealed, bad been lost to the G meet, yet that
icirovmetance had not bewailed the People, and that
the whole advantage of it had been to the brasiers,'
who, haliellff, contineed to chomp lb. Public as Wei
fore.—(Here the lion Ilember woo iaterrupted bit
laud trigs of Order ] —lle repeated his assent's,
that so the Right Hon. Gentians had spoken, or
was, at soy ram, understood to speak.—(nrder !)
The CHAIRMAN was seder the Herarsiry of
-cellist the Hoe. Member to order. It was not ens-
tomery to allow any reference to be made, is this
siege of proceedings, to any thing •hich bad passed
on a firmer occaeson.—r, Hear, hear!)
Mr. R. MART IN spoke to the semi point, and
web otoPioinn tr.st bodies. i tame could re-
snit freer ',Act' a premiere.
Mr. HU x.rom declared then, that if say Geode.
ego en • fete,. occasion ahoold amert, that no ed.
vantage bidet:creed to the Pettit from the labia's,
of ibe War Malt Doty, he (Mr. Beajon) would am*
popaitooly (may sock as essertios —[//ear !]-0a
Lethe. very day that the Right Hon. Gaieties'. took
gtbat deity, which
.was on the btle of July, sod
o:Vis.detjf was ins., the 1•04111011 brewer. v.-darn
I OAP pekoe at the me of 17a. 6d.—,[Hler,lrear]
S , ter, iodised, the right Hon. Gentlest. had him.
itf fairly aekeowledeed. These prices and this
i state of things esslinoed f..r tome months ; bet after
' them thieve came e disastrous harvest—Melt rem to I
50,. a quarter, sod the brewers raised their prices Is 1
the proportion rely el 365. Su they confirmed till
the 11011110. of 1817; whin the smell reduction in the
pia of malt, and she large deti.dency of hops, ran-
dered it 11•TPSSIn for than to raise the price of beer,
and that with the knnwledge and approbation of the
Right Moo. Gentleman himself. They waited open
the alaisceller of the Escheciter, and informed hum
that /key meet as raise Ilse price because of such
:eirlicienci.—[ileer, hear, hear!]—His esinrer to
1 this 're's that the brewers moat protect them.'
r solves, bet that he moo protect the R .
Seer ‘ species et ob..' and calsoney, however, bad in
; einsteqeeens been showered upon that ill.fairil and
'Mated body.—[A leargh.] —lt might be a very ledi.
awns matte to Honourable Gentlemen; but the
swell, of tie brewers wits desesered in haadsbills,
mid I. placards; sod public messing* were called 5•.
sake tho nee denunciations ; and here ho would
mat again that Parliament then saved them. A
Gotwelithet• was appointed, and at ; and the result
sop • Ropecti sot eating on 100 House to punish the
Mieestadect of the brewers an.; 'indicate the public
lelteettef, Just a foil sod honourable arg.iiital
He (Mr- Bunton) would ask whether it we. fait to
make that unpopular body still more so by et 41.toenti
which wore utterly wooer's, and unfounded? He
cnopleined of the coeds. t of the.R.ghl WM. Gent.
the more, bacons* when he said that their plic..l .ere
bat. more than lest (ear, ie might know ifl'Ol•• time
that that escaded the rate by 50...ear1y. He must
saw arisen to the two lest month', es being the most
reasonable period for complaint. From wises
OSOI4I a great redictioo t ad taken re in the price
of malt ; shy then, it might be well hod, was uwill
the price of the beer then lowered?' it was est
I..wertiml through the coalition ef the lt.ght lion
Gent. himself.—(lleorpfl—e Sae the orgy casts
that site redoetion did not 'takst.'plece: for he wee
,pkod masa, by the Hon. Meat for Whit minster.
Irtsg.leee it wee intended to lay y tat spoil malt?
„Art Whirhisesties the Right How. Gentleman simply
replinj so. A•nreeting of the 'brewers was Gaged
tio(2 Per, ire •seasequeoce era peregraph in the
fillirierf-statinv4bat though the Chancellor of the
Rselinmetiild said no, he meant yes—that it was
•Isslesdid to impose each a tat.—[A laugh j —lle
ersetld set waste the time of the lingo any longer,
listsagent himself with repeating, that the Kith.
Hoe. Giregnaisn's assortioas were .entirely einfosiad-
ed, sod eoly calculated to do much mischief. Hay-
&geoid thee nisch, sod as this was the brat time
apes which he had addressed them on any great
political questiom be would now add a. few words
*beet the tsars. it wee his misfortune to diger on

one point with maey of his lion. F.ll.ltds behind his;
en a second, with all the Hon. Gentlemen before
ils; end es a third with the whole House, and he Was
afraid the gnat essjority of thecoontry.—[ Lang/der.)
—He thought it his daty to state the gessoes for
thee differing with w many ilonooratle Gentles's
both ip sad rist of the Hesse. lie thought there
cosld sot be a more proper, more seasonable, and
sore prudent time than the present for the imposi-
tion of t►ese tales. This wis one reales for his
Coodect. A second was, that while we were at war,
every thing went on quiet sad smoothly. Whatever
might have beets the perils! distresses of the coantry,
they were couspensted bobs triumphs which so muc►
pleased the People. There was, besides, a compare.
tire sufficiency of commerce. At length peace Sr.
rived, and with it the day of reckeeieg ; nothing
was then to be beard bet cempleints, and sorrow,
and distress, and 'lamentation.—[l/ear, hear !1—
He was very feedsl that an "doming and mischief-
eas impression had been this produced upon the
minds of the People, that a state of war was sine-
tageoes, and a state of peace d' ouster the teen.
try. Now be, for ono, thought that the Public,
should tee what were the reel distresses of war at the
end of it ; that as they had enjoyed the ativaotages of
peace, it was good that they should seller some of
the evils of war. The ether point, on which be dif-
fered from so many lion. Members, was, that it was
proposed to impose thee. tiers esclesively upon poor
04. n. Such was the tan on tobacco ; the tits on Oft
fell almost eartirsisely on then'. And what was MO
grototl and teal um of the.. uses ? Why, the