The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-27 00:00:00

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friends or patrous are intere:teth
e. That a/Settee to pretest an aitheeesuiryoumber of houses,
the reason generally assigned for refusng permission to open
homes, built for Public-bourses, where the. reasonable wants of
the Politic tequice ahem. is evidently' linitteere-1 because eke
same licensers grant licences to PoMie:homes in clusterswkere,
the interest of their frieuds is thereby apitelck, i suet
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houses can only be supported by allowing and encouraging bad
10. That' the sitailar Pretence, that ernipetitioa is preemie& In'
00er that the Issontords of the favoured homes may floorisli,and •
not he iv-doers!, t'irtsugh eceessity,' to sulfdr disorderly coodnet
on their premises, is equally fallacitios ; because the (inners of
the favoured hirnito, whWaregesterally Brewerror Spirit deal •
ern. always require premiums of their tenants, equal to the:salute
Ge the inoissipois; to them, or an additional rent; thus keeping
the tenants' profits down, however valuable the monopoly mAy
be to the
11. "'snit the t ipposilion of correcting the licentionstiessca•
Coinage() at wine Poi:lse-houses. by denying bermes for °them
only calculated to benefit the Monopoly Stift. it heir
evident. in run sple, will nut drink -lee, or be less
.#11..441001( st n together in one house, ihawthey would
he if divided among tan tsr Hire*: and it 1.1 notorious in prase
tics. that saute ut the most profitable houses are among those
*hid( are owe iiijusissus to the public !width and morals.
1.. Th,il such tr the value, however, of the prohibition of
Voispetition, that thousands of pounds ore frequently given for
'the consider:oml of a licence to a home, in usher Words, fnr per-
%lmhof, to trate, which expenre, tog..torr with the extra pro-
fits secured tat nu.yuindy, foil si,nuts the consuiners, and be-
tome a cries Rs toirdeu to the lower- che se, of the community.
13. That it i• unreasonable to invest Justices of the Peace
With the tie] of is•oing exclosive power( for trading in victual., .
aloof tile issuing of *sloth powers by the S orereign himself is de-
Oared tore void in L.a. •
That r(III;lity unreasonable to authorise the said.
Justices to disseize men of their liberties and fretseustoms, at,
their oo Is Kin and Lleaaure, w ithout-iiring arcounialsk ht shy
hicn;,n being. while toe Thrmie, is interdicted from
s• bonnie ue i,j urine' she meanest subject, wafts by due COMM
40 tan. aiuA i. answerable for hi( acts in the persous of his
mina..sets -
15. Tim after all, these extraordinary powers, even in the
purest hands,-are in.- fficient fur .he ii4ject of keeping Victual..
Ilne-hooses in stad order; to Ca (lie they are only in action on
one day .io the year, when piiiiishineui, as regards the pas!. is
easily gatvid of, b. shiftily.: sae tenant. add as regards the fattier,
it is as inthossitile for the lickarers.to know that such houses as
they patronize will be well conduced, us it is that those'whisb
they refuse is °old he disto sleety. tit
IS. That it is. therefore, equally in vain to eXpect an Ogre:
seal contrast! over Public Reuses, us a termination of the wriows
in'keted on the owpers of houses, ow Victuallers, and ou the
Public at large, under th.• I resent Licensing Systeen—a syststiii
which is pr:wred to he equally IsiciAcient for good purposes, and
all powerful for bad ones—errcibg a power over the Comforts,
the property, and the rights of the subject, which is atitunaltius
in :he Constitutional tioverinnent of this country, and which
Ii believed br he unknown in-any other.
1;. That to produce a mestietlV, it is necessary for the 31A•
gi.t rates' power to he removed from the patronage of the trade
..4sictitallitie,to the coffees ion of the d 'sunders which so mellows,
at ise out of it —from the exercise of t..eir ow n uncoutruliable
Si ills, to the administration of Legislative rules equally ap-
plit thle led extending to all, and its which the penalties are
proporlitined W the ,fen. e•, and attach to them immediately.
le. Ma- in as far ;es it is deemed espedieut to restrict the num-
ber of Public-houses, that cod will be most fairly and beneficial-
ly accompli•bed by impming a beim' ditty on the Weiser to
open any pro- amuse. thus diverting the value of the restriction
from the pockets of the licence jobbers to the uses of the State. .
19. That with a large dusty imputed on leave 10 open a new
!maw, and doe means provided f r immediately stopping a trade
conducted in a disorderly manner, sin good reason can be ad-
vanced against restoring to the Public the benefit of a free cutn-
petit inn,- and to V irttiallers the common right. of their coontry-
men—namely, tine liberty to tarry on their • rade in such places
as they fin I most eligible (not being locally solfonsive), and to
purchase their goods of such manufacturers as offer to supply
them on the best terms.

Mr. GALE Jane-B.—However unwilling he should
feel to interrupt for a moment the passing or such
Resolutions as had been just read, still he thought no
apology was necessary for an Englishman in rising to
looms his sentiments upon a subject of such vast im-
portance as the present. This be did with the less
reluctance, in ebosequence of an apparent orersrAht,
by the Gentleman who had already spoken, of one
point connected with this matter, and which referred
to the quality of the beverage used by the Public.—
Ile stated himself to be a member of the medical pro.
fession, And as such most unreservedly declared that
the health and lives of his Majesty's subjects were
alarmingly endangered by the deleterious substances
used in the companion of porter.—(Lond cheers.)
—The Corporation of Brewer; consisted, as the
Aleetiii4. had been told, of honourable men ; perhaps
the information was correct in the general acceptation
of the word. But honour. was of two kinds:—one
was applied by the courtesy of society to almost
every-individual who filled a certain rank, and had
the port and bearing of a gentleman; hot the other
was lees general in its application. lie could not
conceive men honourable who sought to grasp the
rights and immunities of the People, who extracted
their property to pamper pride and gratify avarice, or
who would take advantage of-the season of misery
and distress, to convert the necessities- of the poor
to the means of their own indoleore.--(Applause.)
—lt had been oln.ei red by one Gentleman that, 'at
an earlier period of our history, the Minister-of the
day hesitated to impose a• duty on melt that ss unto
have increased the beer by o a halfpenny a quart, lest
rebellion should be the conaegsencei' 4' 'This obsera
tuition," said Mr. JOllec Sincited Mytmind'aitrvirt
of reflections whleh I'Skinlylilaiaiourert to repress. .
.1 Could not avoid Ostensibly intepariog the charac.
ter of the People in theplesent day with what it must
bore been at. the prfod alluded to, and I. found •
contrast by iio_meens flattering to ourselves. Bot,t,
Sir, although' the conduct of Brewers in modern I
!Jays may not excite a rebellion, I can assure you,
that their productions, if I may be a little facetious,
have not unfrequently been attended by intestine
commotions.—(Much laughter and applause.)—.The
frequency of bowel complaints has been within the
few last years a matter of much astonishment to my
learned hrethreu; but in thoie cases where I have
been professionally consulted, I bare no hesitation
in saying that the disease has been caused by the use
of beer or porter, and could be cured solely by ab-
staining from that beverage."—Mr. Jones then pro-
()eked to remark upon the cruel effects of the system
of licensing, end•ef He influence exercised bier the
licensing Magistrates by the Brewers. as they wire
exemplified in the Priblicans. This dab. of persons
were in **state of more deplorable servitude thin
were .the reds under the feudal Barons. The Pebli.
Min stand' In awe of hie Landlord, of his Brewer;
and should he fail in the obsequiousness of his he;
ttrility to Ahem, he was at their mercy, for the Go-
vernment had deprived him of his constitutional pro-
tection—a Trial by Jury. He had expected that the
Brewers would have had some persons to defend
them at the Meeting that day, bat he was disappoint.
ed. He thought that their influence and their de.
pendants were so widely extended, that like the
Forty l'hirres, they would have sprung oat of their
barrels to defend themselves.—(Laughter.)—He
concluded by strongly ecforcing the necessity of their
relinquishing the use. of porter, if the Bowers were
found perseveringly hostile to a fair rice (Optic*
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manufacture.
hit. kin:LT= said, It was a dervrideb humaDir,
inculcated, that every one should endeavour to pro.

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