The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-17 00:00:00

other room. Mr:Dell afterwards had his licence res-
tored. He had scarcely any tap room at all. He had
two doors to his house when his Beene, was renewed.
The Queen's Head is about ten or twelve yards from my,
house. That has got two doors, said their licence has
never bees taken away. Their brewers are Mess, Reid,
and Company. There are two doors st the Coach end
Horses public house, and the Jerusalem Colfee-bonse.
Ten butts of beer is considered as a large quantity of
beer to sell in a month. Twenty pounds for spirits is
a small secount for a public house to sell in the month.
Cotterell lives within bye hundred yards of my house.
The Petitions made by the witness were now.pur in,
and read by Mr. Assorr. • They were signed by all the
inhabitants in the street. The substance of them was •
statement of the regularity and propriety with which the
prosecutor conducted his house. .
Cron-examined by the SOLICITOR GINRIAL.-1 settieei
my account with Mesa and Company in 1815. I can't
swear that 1 had any beer after July from them. The'
first dealing that 1 had with M . Barclay and Co.
was in IBM. A man named Stallis served in the tap.'
room before Lawless came. There was a passage sepa-1
rating the tap room from the gin shop. There war al
counter in the gin shop. There was • door communi-
cating with the passage and the street. There was a
door on the right leading to the gin shop, and es the
left ludiag to the tap room. The whole proileon a butt
of beer is somewhere about W. At the time that I spoke-
to Sir Nathaniel Coolant, at the Premium,' Tatum, be
was busy licensing public bosses 0 another district.,
The Magistrates said they were perfectly satisfied with
my character. La 1817, 1 believe that neither Doctor.
Owen nor Mr. Wicks was present at the meeting. Dr.
Owen was there is 1818. Messrs Williams and God.
dard are now my solicitors. fever knew of any such
body u 'the Society of Publicans. There was a Com-
mittee appointed by the Publicans since the last trial ;
nod Messrs. Ileoderson and. Smith are their, solicitors.
I keep the Coach and Homes public Wise its Holborn;
I also kept the Queen's Head public beam is Cliandos.
street fur 14 months. Lbavo meeieed a estbseription
eione the hot trial. on whist of my expellees. to she
amenst of 4or 1.001:; hawed,* prosecution was cow
mewed I received 601. The subscription is now going
pp. I don't reeolleerthilt I said I had received the 501.
belies I was ezamised staie last trial.
I Re-examined by Mr. Solnearr.—There is a similar
kise• shop in every public how; persons might have
*lair gin or beer thee& This summer of 1816 weenie
last time 1 had any bon from Mesa, Reid and Co. Os
sl3thof September I bad a final settlement with tWs,
oia
fb for the beer account and money horrowed. -Mks
I had borrowed was 400 f. I borrowed lOW
alga Barclay and Co. to pey Meet and Co, '"
!hawse 11111.—I was high constable of the rielstity
illy Bins is 1816 i It was put.of my duty to salaam's&
Phil/M*loo the public houses in tket divans, sod
Neork pie to the Magistrates, if !ma sly tbitig lets
=' Mr. Mask's house was ',trays °abducted With
stoat propriety. I remember'thelogleuriet
514cyears. Mr. Meek was there about • two . A'
keticjk Ito se as a public house these th rtF,Plttirs,
dog' sow any house more calculated r lb*
mpswesienee.of its customers. I reported tbl ' filling
ea to the Magistrates is 1816. bat I made go sow
Malt. 1 attended the Magistrates of the 3d *
ember, William' Clark. the coastable, timaliefotl
Magistrates, ohil said it was fitted up lai a Spirit:
~ 1 mid I had sa complaint against Um blast. lilld
was afterwards suspended. I acdsispattlW Mr:
flerom
a sad Mr. Guerin to Mr. Moab% Wale, 'sod
they oppressed theme}... perfectly estjsied with it—
'id not desire ii to stop sip
the d
meeting of the megistrates,lrsPear'se Mr r
liiilliti Conant miter* Mr. IVA .was or
to withdraw. When be entered's:ha asked 1f the.
limps of the Gress Mao bad bees pastisd, sad lilt bad
met he had soinethieg te ray about it. Mr. Rleharde,
was desired than to lay ;helicons' aside. Theis ase gilt
tcussion coacerning the license before Sir Walhalla
• sant clime in. Sir Nathaaiel Conant, Dr. Chair:
'sad Mr. Mills voted against, and Mr. Cotterell and Mr..
Flinn for the license. • - .
_'.. Crosaexamised by Mr. Climax r.-1 had seeasielink
;harrowed money from the pablieass. Thera \lips
iilsoot twenty publiabouses in the spear of
i hundred and fifty vitas lir that might's.
Whenever any objection is raised against a licease,•4Blo
forty referred to the adjourned day in 18111. • Beelilig
Mr. Dell's house, there were two other houses wheat&
Misses were suspended until the adjournment day: ilise
/Ingel publlc.bosse In Goevrell-street was deprived grits
Manse in 1817. That hone was supplied by Messrs.
Mess, Reid, and Co.
Re-examined.-1 have complained of several pliblic-
houses to the Magistrates, bet their licenses have not
always keen taken away.
Thomas Robins—l was chosen hea4borough of Clerk.
unwell io 1816, and afterwards churchwarden ;, 1 visited
Mr. Meek's house Oh different, occasions, and ales,.
found it conducted with great regularity. and decency.
I lived close to the house. Ills taproom is a great deal
larger than many others. There was no boom in the
parish conducted with greater propriety. When Mr.
Meek's license was taken away, 1 was eburehwardeo.—
Mr. Mills, Mr. Collins, the Chairman, and other Magis-
trates, were present on that occasion. I west to the
Sessions-House with Mr. :ilea.. Mr. Collins told me if
1 had any thing disrespectful to say of Meek, he would
hear me.
George Dell examined by the Coleslaw Seacisept
1 kept the Hat and Feathers, public-house. in Wd
neas.row. in 1816; I used to deal with aleux Reid,
Co. till near the month of September. 1 said ael_, _
time before the 3d. that 1 **aid set take any sieve
beer, and demanded ir settlesaent. When 1 paid the ac-
. count, 1 ordered six btitts at bier. This was never sent
me. The next year I got my license. When I saw
Mr. Collins on the 24th Sept. be said that Mr. Reid veil
a particular friend of his, and heaves very sorrr.he could‘
not give 'no my license in that year; 1816.. I used MI
sell about two or three butts of beer a mutat.. and soon,
than 1001. worth it epiritnous liquors at the lasi.' Bei
fore the year NIB,: there had been several coiliflitlitei
made of my herr. I told Lucas 1 must cease Is deal
with II . Aleux. Reid, and Co. Between September,
4816, and September, 1817, 1 bad no comet unicatioel
with Lucas, or Willis, except at the Sessions-house;
there was no promise roade to me in 1816 about renewing
my license in 1817. 1 did not make any cement
with Lucas about taking my beer from Messrs Mena
and Co. if 1 obtained a now license.
Cross-examined by Mr. Guar. Er —Several drivtialif
carts bought !ignore at my shop to carry into the
country.
The SOLICI TOR-G CN IRA L now add d time Jory for
the defendant. Mr. Collins. tie contended, that in .I
case like this, it was nu , yto prove that the dbfend.
ants had prevented time prosecutor from obtaining Ida
licence, through mnalicious and corrupt motives.—The
resmipp was, not as to his being deprived of his
licence merely, but whether the defendants- bid deprived
him of that licence without legitimate cause? With
regard to the lager, there was an Act of Parliament
'passed in time reign of George the Second. by which it
was enacted, that shy gin shop keeper having two doors
w tils house. the one beetling toe shop for the sale of
'pi/kliegs liquo.s. and the other.for the nle of beer,
ought be deprived of his licence; When the Jury came
to consider all the circumstances of the case, and had
. laud the nide-nee that he should adduce of the re-
. apeotability of his client, Mr. Collins, it, would he

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