The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-15 00:00:00

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with the Magistrates
1, 'ld. Protection is due to the licentted property.
:id. If the trade were free every berme would be a
public-house. •
That public-houses night to be subjeet to strict sod
elfieient regulations, far mace sw then thee sow are.
end two the rtintinist ruin', of such regelations should
be committed to tbe Magiatraier, I readily gram ;
but that the 'steerage and important trade of eic•
tsalliwg, and the vast property connected with it,
shoold be prostrated to the disposal of their despotic
wills (*bleb is the plain Killifish of thou diecretioesey
powers), is a doctrine which I dray sad detest. The
government of wills, instead of laws,ir abhorrent to
the principles of a free State. If If I. not to be en-
dured to a Sovereign Prince, invested with the attri-
butes of his high station, sod personally iraientified
with hi% acts, much lose is it to be endured in such
um es the 'radius Licensing Jastices ere seen to he,
eitestuabered with the infirmities of their condition,
sail who are enabled to conceal the identity of their
acts end to disguise their 'octet workings ender the
seine of s [lynch. Of all despotic tribunals, those
of licensitte are the most asempt fres centres!, and
therefore the sett tyrauttical, sad of slityraneiee
Wt of a plurality is the worst.
If any pebltc good were aseemplished by these
arbitrary licensing tribunals, any coneenience that
were essattainahle by the °Phony course of Police,
wee might become secnaciled to the Motet alai right,
sad 'tailgated to the government of wills, instead of
laws, but uothing is fist ther from the fact. For the
Military purposes of opposing timely checks to
drunkenness and disrader, the Licensing Justices
ere es impoteat as children ; their anneal day of
Might readers them only formideble fur purposes of
mostopely end opprtsaion. It k therefore soeght to
change the nature of their power, from the Wean-
ego of the trade to the swiftest of its disorders ; to
abate the triumph of their adts on one dog in the
year, mud to Ole them in return the power of ad.
Ministering salutary laws every day in the year ; to
weaken their hands for the uses of their own in.
terests and pollees, sag D them for the
service of the Pu
r. Protection is ffllla licessed property" is the
t Weppegthe
west position against * trade. It is said, and
trely etintegh, that pesiadia not having bad to pry
• torso moot frt- ficensed houses, would be able to en.
dem,' them who have, or compel them to reduce
their profits, or to improve their commodity. The
power now reopened of preventing this, is deemed
a property. The licence 'withal; the °weer to trade
fora 'ear, is construed to y she right of es-
cluillog others from trading for ever. Those who
have fed and fattened to their present winked,
spots the spolculation of buying up terms in licensed
bosses, kale the confidence to claire as a right, se
esemption from the competition to which all other
speculators are liable;_ a right drawn from the abuse
of an inconsiderate Act of Parliament, and before
which the natural andlealiewable right of the whole
DeWitt Public to a free 'apply of victuals is to va.
Irish : Too such reseed, I lastly submit, has
bora shown to this spapiteuesool worrept licessing ie-
./rest. It is high time that the iblerdel el the Public
4hould be 'Misstated is *a asemeimet.
• The west repreematatioe, that " If the trade were
free, every house would he • poblie-hoese," auswers
the porpoise of alarming mast ; bet spun examine.
lion, it would be found as hollow as the rest. I will
smut, that if the mesas of repressing disorderly
houses continued as Impotent es those afforded by
the present Licensing System, there would be too
many peblic-boisses oft th'e opening of the trade;
bat with the projected guard of requiting the
tualler to pay 20131. to Government upon the open-
ire of • new hews*, and mere especially with means
et heed for shooing up an ill-conducted poblic.house
beremillately, it F. probable there would not be so
pans, and for the following reasons :—The !tree
sum given for a tram in a licensed house, and which
Is freqemoly 1 or 20001. or even more, is of course
to he repaid oat of the trade. The price of beer,
therefore, is ridged sufficiettily above the natural
price, to ropey the money so edvanced for the licence;
the price of commodities being thus artificially raised,
soch profit is sofficieot to keep houses open,where the
custom is very small, provided the premium for the
licence be foregone, or bet of small anteuut. list if
the trade were free, such ettra profit would not ob-
tain ; tridramen with capital would then enter the
market, and, baying the best commodities, on the
most advantageous terms, they would sell largely of
a moderate profit, and many small public-houses,
cow kept open on the artificial price', would he un-
able to keep open on fair prices. In this way many
would be given up, while a great nentber of others
now kept open_, as disorderly houses, ender the pro. Manta ADD SERV Alef.—'fhe JusliCel of the Peace
tittles of the Licensieg System, would be soon pot of she county of Banff, is a Court held by them on
down fader the operation of salutary law", capable the 24th Decembereod last,
of thst on the
plate, compleiDriest his man.
ot of • fakeer
of easy and instant ezec•tion • the number in this way in the eeighbourh
get rid of would most likely rimed those which servant. for desertion of his service without reason-
would be opened in place, where public convenience able craw servants eadesvouring to induce and bribe
required iiew hoeset,and where 'strains injuries+ mo. his fellow to desert also sad throw their
nopolks remained uncorrected: In fact, the pro. erosive. agenegsbeg Erin, before Is* code; found
pbecy, that a fret/trade weeld nose an inendation of that said servant forfeited his half-yeer's wages;
weals be
gad that mor brat streets and tquates and to respect of these/nested nature nf the offence,
weal(' be infested by them, is • bigbeir_, raised to re- foend him liable to 71. 12a. sterling of damages and
conceit. the Public to iheferfeltere tirla frottesde espenceis ; had greeted warrant for his imprisonment
It is not likely that toadstool., whb depend on the if the saute were mot Initially paid.—(lncerners
- foveae of those living around theta, would wish to loursot)
Is themseists where they would be !girded as a Cottoo Tacos of Gcassow.—We are happy to
esisence, rather than stew ofensubadlitlM. If they fiod, that trade has not only net gone back, hot eves
Ned sash a wtsh, they flight hi Oaf iestraliiird by Made considerable forth,/ prestos.. lit 1816, the
proper omelettes's; but every Amid Isisifflsid, by tarsal number of packages of COllOll wool imported
kis leap., takes care to prevent the leieeithies of of. inte that port was 41,918 : in 1817. it was 50,170
ferrite trades In iniproper places. ir hdo dolled and ISIS, it appears to have beets en less thee
that every house is a blotchier's, althoegt Mil trade I .I• 145. There is of COOISP • large mock of the ar-
il free ; yet if the blessings of tier perissinstiven title is hand, bet the comemption boo is the mean-
were exteeded to meat as well as to arinit,'lse shoeld Philo Increarad. In 1817, by the gnat start which
not fail to be sleeted, that If the trrale oer* free, was given to manufacteriug iedestry, the consomp.
every street would be Alleriwith butchers' shivs— ! din amounted to the large goantity of 46,507 pack-
that Olf..rd-onarket would he estended to Portland- I ages. In 181841 hos even gone beyond that amount,
place—St. James's-motket re St. James's Palact-1, raid teethes le 47,2311—• etthiumPtiosts we mount,
that it were meth better to swallow theorist a! heed, perfectly unparalleled ! Among the imports
Gale tainted, and to pay 2d. or :d. a pound estra than one (less particularly d eeeee es remark : we mean
to hares slseghter-horses sod butchers' shops en,. those from the Past Indies. Tn 1818 theta were
flimsily sutler our noses. 1 orate ; in 1817 there were 33fil. pekoes. ; and in
?Ay belief is, that under a revilsted free trade, , ISlSittre were 6121, so rapidly has this new trade
tiers would mot be an lemon in the total number advanced-
of public-houses; but be this as it might, the well 1 A terser of lostain died soddenly the 2d instant,
regulating of public-bevies does not eon.ist in Irons. Wife 107th year of his ege. Dia eenstantly enjoyed
it g th.ir '.l uwiter. If only one radio-house were good heelt!..