The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-14 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

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Other& iris performed again last night, to ?silo)
a full and genteel audience. if there be any part of
this Opera more charming than another, it is that
Atelto between 'Grin.lda and Lisdta. It was given
in a most exqtliSite style list night, and was encored.
Madame rc•Don was in the full possession •of her
doicet tonep, anctit is but justice to say, that she
was very well'supported by Miss, Moat. CntveLLl
seemed labouring under a cold—his tenor was
not.aa clear as usual, and when he attempted to
rise, his notes were broken. Bet this was evidently
the effect of indisposiiion. In general his perform-
ance of the Marquis is agreeable and effective, and
It derives additional lustre from the gentleness with
which he fulfils the honours of his rank. .NALDI,
as the father of Griselda, is just in his element.—
His appearance its this character may be said to have
something of the picturesque about it. The duetto
.which he and his daughter sing before his cottage-400r
is extremely beautiful.
The new Divertisement, Le Depart de Sancho
Panto, was received with the most flattering marks
of approbation. Mademoiselle Mammas-Tx, one of
the graceful trio by whom it is danced, is an artiste
of great ability. Her attitudes are excellent, and
there is a playful lightness in her step, and an un.
affected assist her action, that rivet the attention to
her performance.
.The new Ballet of Atilt, et Fulrie followed the,
Opera, and gave the new Dancers, Mademoiselles
Como end lasettoss, and Monsieur, 1114,1.1• and
' T •DyiSAINT, a second opportessity forth. display of
their powers; They performed with greater spirit
than on Saturday evening, and were much applauded.
• On this occasion, Mr. O•CAR !Wane made his first
appearance, this season, in a Pat de Deus with Ma-
demoiselle VoLrr. On his entre he was loudly
greeted by the applause of the audience. Ile danced
with uncommon energy. Ili. pit ottete was, in par-
ticular, admired by the cognoscenti. It was rapid
and viprous, with„out extravagance or confusion:
This plant of native growth, may, we think, vie with
the best productio.os of a foreign soil.

LAS GASAS AND NAPOLEON. •

We have received tome curious pertirel•rs respect.
ing the Papers brought by Count Lap Cases, which
are said to 11,Te devolved into the hands of the agents
of the Alien•OAlce. Among the documents referred
to are several letters, one of which is addressed to
the Empress Maria Louisa, which gives a description
of the afflictions Napoleon bas suffered, and of the
constancy with which he has endured them. It con.
tains a plan of Long.wood, which the younger lits
Cases had drawn durllitphis residence in the Island,
and which he intendeeetwe present to his mother.—
The. Count announces to the Archduchess the present
ofa lock of hair of Bonaparte, and which he says he
would not surrender to any one but hi August Con.
sort, who is alone capable of appreciating its value.
A second letter is directed to the Gould Duchess
of Baden, and its principal purpose is to obtain en
asylum for M. Las Casas within the territories of the
Grand Duke, should he be refused admission into
Great Britain.
A third is for Prince Joseph, in America, and it
presents only what is called a faithful picture of the
" torments" of the exile at St. Helena.
A fourth is without any address, escepting to a
Hake, in Wank, for whom Las Cases is said to have
formed an affectionate regard on board the Bellero-
phon, and it is believed the Nobleman alluded to is
the Doke of Rovign.
A fifth is for l'rince Loden, and a sixth for Car.
dins! Pesch. Rome. After repeating the details to
the Archduchess Maria Louisa and Prince Joseph,
M. Las Casas informs the Cardinal, that there is no
Minister, of Religion at St. Helena, that the French
Inhabitants feel severely this privation, and that he is
assured if Napoleon were allowed to do so, he would
request his uncle to look out for a Clergyman, who,
in addition to his other duties of • sacred nature,
would copy correctly from dictation. Las Cases en.
quires of Prince Lucien, if lie could procure from him
a place of refuge at Rome.
The letter in which these particulars were con-
tained adds the following remarks :
" This anxiety to obtain an asylum, expressed in
all the letters from the Count, shows that he did not
expect to reside long in England. But the language
to the Archduchess Maria Louisa sufficiently proves,
that he should have preferred to remain in London, if
leave should have beet► given. He acknowledges that
his first object, on reaching Europe, would have been
to have placed at the foot of the Archduchess, his
most respectful homage, but that the object to which
his whole life had been devoted would have induced
him to have remained in England, to invoke the laws
and Ministers of that country in favour of the illus•
trious Prisoner, in order to obtain some alleviation
of his miseries. The British Ministry,' he says,
• could not have been deaf to my entreaties, because
I cannot believe that they would have been guilty of
any personal revenge: and I am persuaded that they
would content themselves with measures that, at the
same time that they rendered sure his confinement,
would not add persecution and cruelty to the re-
straints imposed."- Who,' says the Count, 'Could
better fulfil this important duty than I, who have wit-
nessed all the wretchedness to which this august .pri-
goner has been exposed ? That duly I will fulfil
With the most ardent zeal, and most faithful
loyalty,' " &c.

The Anniversary of Mr. Fox's birth is announced
to be celebrated at Edinburgh on the Rith, GEOUGE
SKENE, of ;4ket►e, Esq. one of the old and steady
friends of the illustrious Statesman, in the Chair. A
Meeting is to be held at Glasgow on the same occa-
sion, which is expected lobe numerouslyattended.
Captain BAILEY, who unfortunately lost his life
in a duel on Monday, was to have sailed in the In-
dian, for South America, but mined his passage.—
It will be recollected that the Indian foundered at
sea, and all ou board perished.
William Wolstenbolme, the last of the State Pri-
soners conked in Winchester county jail, was last
week liberated, on his own recognizance, to appear
in the Court of King's Beach the first day of next
Term.

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,EFFERS.• -.

The folloWing ptopnsition s regreeting the asnnopaly
of Public.binses by Brewers. and the evil of the
present Licensing !loom, will. we understand, be
shortly discussed at a Public Meeting :
• 1. That high legal authorities have declared all
Monopolies, to he against the ancient and funds.
mental Laws of the Realm, and injurious to the
Public—first, by raising the price of commodities ;
secondly, by diminishing their quality ; thirdly by
impoverishing poor manufacturers.

2. That the Legislature bas passed numerous Sta.
totes .to punish sec) as are guilty of creating Mo.
nopolies—partiCularly Monopolies of the neer..
satin of life: and so early as the 24 and 341 of Ed.
ward IV. very heavy penalties were imposed on
;Victuallers, who combine. together to raise the price
of victuals, extending, upon a second repetition of
the offence to ibeiltiory, the loss of an ear, and per.
petoal infamy.
3. That, notwithstanding the illegality of such
conduct, and its injury to the Public, a Monopoly in
the supply of Beer, haa.of late years been raised in Teri•
ous parts of Englatid,eod particularly in the Metropo.
insornechtliat the whole custom of its population is
engrossed by about a dozen great Breweries, whose
principals act in combination—meeting together like
the partners of one concern,, and fining the price at
which Beer shall be sold.
4. That.when the reduced price of Malt and hem
of horses' provender and labour, the lessening the,
Tan on 'Malt, lard, the soblevent abolition of the
IcrVitirty'retiersabled the Brewers to musks great
teductions in their accustomed charges, they did
net mike such reductions, but kept up their prices,
until after their conduct had elated animadversions
in the Rome of Commons, alleging aa a reason for
their doing so, that their stock in hand most be firm
disposed of..
5. That so seats es the failure of the harvest in
1816 caused the price of malt to look up, and while
their stock was wholly unaffected by the rise in the
materials, they revived the high prices of Beer to the
consumer, which prices they bare lately still further

adveneell.

6. That much"( the Beer now made is so yohl of
the nourishing and invigorating qoalities which it for-
merly possessed, and is oftentimes so ungrateful, and
even injurious to the stomach, owing to the delete-
rious ingredients of which it is composed, that con.
sumers are frequently driven to use a mixture of gin
with it, to give it the semblance of strength sod
spirit, or still more prejudicially to the drinking of
gin instead of beer.
7. That these, and numerous other evils, are
justly attributable to the Monopoly which the great
Brewers have established.
S. That this Monopoly is produced and upheld by
the unconstitutional power given to Justices of

the Peace in their respective localities toprevent any
persons from vending Beer, excepting such pergons,
and in such houses as they please ; a power. which
being subject to no human controul. and being es.
ercised in many instances by nerdy or avaricious men,
is naturally applied by them in preventing compe.
tition in trades, in which they or their friends or pa.
Iron are interested.

9. That a desire to prevent an unnecessary number
of houses, the reason generally assigned for refusing
permission to open houses, built for public-house.,
where the reasonable wants of the Public require
thorn, is inklenrty -insincere; because the same.
licensers grant licences to public-houses in cloisters
where the interests of their friend+ is thereby upheld,
although such houses can only be supported by al-
rowing end encouraging bad practices.
10. That the similar pretence, that competition is
prevented in order that the landlords of the favoured
houses may flourish, and not be induced through
necessity to suffer disorderly condect on their pre.
miles, is equally fallacious; because the eirnora of
the favoured houses, who are generally Brewers or
Spirit-dealers, always require premiums of their
tenants, equal to the value of the Monopoly to them,
or an additional rent,tbus keeping the tenants' profits
down, however valuable the Monopoly may be to the

principal.
11. That the supposition of correcting the Heel).
tiousuess encouraged at some Peblic.hnuses by deny.
ing licences for others, is only calculated to benefit
the Monopoly S)stem : it being evident, in principle.
that Men will not drink less, or be less disorderly
when drawn together in one house than they would
be if divided among two or three ; and notorious in
practice, that some of the most profitable houses are
among those which are most injurious to the public
health and /morals.
12. That such is the value. however, of the pro-
hibition of competition, that thousands of pound., are
frequently given for the consideration of a licence to
a house, iu other words for permission to trade,
which expellee, together with the extra profits secured
by the Monopoly, fall upon the consumers, and be-
come a grieroes burthen to the lower classes of the
community.
13. That it is unreasonable to invest Justices of the
Peace with the right of issuing exclusive powers for
trading in 'victuals, when the issuing of such powers
by the Sovereign himself is declared to be votd in law.
:_ 14. That it is equally unreasonable to aothotise
the said Justices to disseixe men of their liberties andl
free customs, at their own will and pleasure, with.
'nut being accountable to any human being, while the
King, un his Thritne, is interdicted from " hurting
or injuring" she meanest 'object. unless by die
course of law. and is answerable for his acts is ffin
persons of his Ministers.
15. That these extraordinary and unconstitutional
powers, even in the purest hands, are inefficient for
the object of keeping victualling-houses in good or-
der; because they are only in action on one day in
the year, when punishment, as' regards the past, is
easily got rid of by shifting the tenant. and as
re-
girds the tsture; it is as impossible for the licensers
to know that such houses as they patronise will be
well conducled, as it is that those which they refuse,
to Hanle would be disorderly.
16. 'That it is therefore equally in vain to expect
an effectual centres! over Public-hoe:es, or • termi-
nation of the. wrongs inflicted on the owners of
houses, ea Victuallers. sad on the Public at large*
under the present Licensing System—a syiktonn which
4 proved to be equally inefficient for good purposes,