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

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BREWERS' MEETING

Yesterday a numerous and respectable Meeting
was held in the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand,
on the important subject of the present Monopoly
existing among the rewers of the Metropolis.
Sir HENRY WILSON. • Magistrate of the County
of Middlesex, was called to the Chair. After es-
prepieg his earnest wish that no political topics
shotrld be introduced, he proceeded as follows:—•
91 -':+Meet aeon whkh wo-vire siset .is only es.

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tremely delicate, as well as essential, fur it is to call
upon those who ate leading characters amongst the
.Brewers of the Metropolis, to accouut for conduct.
which lo the community appears to be nothing less
than 'riding? ; that °redeeming -the price of the
commodity in which they deal, to the great prejudice
of the lotror eiders, sad stitholitossigning any cause.
for the lactose'. It will appear necessary to discuss.
•the subject.in such a wanner as to prevent any pre..
jadice ;• and, on the other hand, the intermits of the
community are so concerned anted render it obliga-,
tory upon all who ate otcquai with the subject,
to eater into it with a feeling solely proceeding from
t view to the public good. las long enough in the
world to know that no greater honour and honesty
-;.0XL1011 among any People than among those who
;form the community of this kingdom, and that if sa-
-tisfactory grounds are shown, I am mire all the or.
:viers will sobnitt to deprivation.--(Appleure.).--Bot
that a class of Gentlemen should, without saying a
word about the natter, raise the price of a commo-
dity in which the poor are compelled to deal, is al
circumstance not to be endured. There is now a
pliblic opportunity of stating the grOunds on which
those Gentlemen are acting ; and.if they prove that
their increased demand upon the Public in just, there
will not be the slightest hesitation in acquiescing in
sn'tniportant a regulation.—( firplause )—A half.
cpettny increased demand in, a pot of beer does not
affect those to whom I address myself at this Meet-
ing; but to the labourer it is a serious circumstance,
*milt is our duty to see that those who are subject
-to the imposition, and are sufferers by it, shall not
sink under ill treatment. It is true, those Gen.
tlelnen have launched into speculations, and depo-
sited' capital, by which the People are benefited ;
they therefore have an indisputable claim to a fair
remuneration ; but. this is a time at which it might
retitonably be expected beer should nut he raised,
for part of the Duty.has been taken off, the price of
malt 'has been reduced, and labour is paid in propor-
tion to the badness of the times. It is ander these
circusestatices necessary to exhibit to the Public the
causes of this extraordinary demand. If those Ho.
nourable Gentlemen wish to grow rich upon the
mitala of their fellow-men, I wish them joy of their
riches, in which I would not be a participator to the
prejudice of millions.—(Applouse.)
- 'Ms. DRVRY (a Brewer) would not have tres.
passed at all on the Meeting, had he not felt himself in-
dispensably bound to do so. after what had just been
statetrfroon the Chair. The title of the Advertise.
went for calling the Meeting was such, ate 110 could
not have espected from the lihersl-minded Gentle.
.teen who composed the Meeting. But the Brewers
are to be condemned by anticipation ; they were to
te accused, judged, and punished, without being
/beard. He hoped, however, to, be able to vindicate
'the character of that body of men from the impute-
tiOn so inconsiderately cast upon them, that the rise
of porter to sixpence per pot, was the mere result of
uonnopoly, or eiaction on their parts, and not ow-
ling to other causes, by wttiO .they were influenced,
bud over which they could have no controul ; and he
phould not have stood fbruerd this day for their
Vindication if he 'were not prepared to make out
statements in proof of his assertions, as should show
the_ Brewers were not deserving the blame thus pre•
cipitately cast on them. Ile would therefore state,
that altliouAti the Brewer's price of porter to the
Consumer was sixpence per pot, the price the
Brewer received was hut fourpence halfpenny. There
was a duty' of ten shiltings per barrel on the beer,
which•amootitesl to 13.16ths of a Id. per pot, then
the Malt Duty amounted to 7-16th, of a penny per
pot. There was a heavy duty on foreign Hops,
which amounted to a farthing, or 4.l6ths of a penny,
on each pot of beer, all which deducted from the
price received by the Brewer from the Publican (the
latter receiving a profit of 1.1. d. per pot), left the
Brewer but threepeyee per pot for Barley, Ilnps,i
expenses of manufacturing the Beer, and the Brew •
er's profit, the items above enumerated, making with
the 3d. the present price of porter. But besides the
taxes on Malt and Il bps, the Brewer had a variety
of other taxes to psy, which greatly diminished his
profits—as the licences for his brewing-pan, and va•
rions Charges under the head of taxes;" and while the
profit allowed by the Brewer to the Victualler was
twenty-five per cent. on his retail pritee.- yet great
as that might seem, he was convinced that Victuallers,
who were a most industrious body of • men, coold
scarcely make a livelihood from this profit, 'when all
fiteir ether heavy elpences were deducted. He
weed. also endeavour to set the Chairman right in
what he had stated respecting.the reduction said to
have taken piece in the article of Malt: Prexious to
the first rise. on porter, the Malt was raised from
345.•8d. to 655. the quarter.; and now the- avetage
price is from 80s. to 86d. the quarter ; so that solar,
from a reductiOn, there was am evident increase on
the price. It was observed, also, that Governmetit
bed tam! the War Duty olf the 44,11, merely to pat
the amount into the pockets of thOlieewers; Where-
as the fact vas, that. 'though 'the :reduction' of the;
War Duty brought Malt shown to 65r. the quarter on
she 16th Jewry, when it endedoet theNalt•had
since risen to M. per quarter, so thet,the high-pvices
of 'leafy/lief, slid heavy taxes, were the true casino,'
the rise on beer, and not any fault of the Brewers.
The. CHAIRMAN said there was one. point the
worthy Gentleinaii had not explained, anal that was.
how it happened that porter should be at a much
higher price, when malt and hops were lower, then
last year,' when they were mach dearer.
Mr. Beepitoser said, that as the Gentleman who,
bad jtketieldretieedthe. Astitimbly had concluded. with-
opt a.ixtoirdtt, he should. briine forward onelor their
adoptiiin. He had acquainted himself with the his-i
tory oiltroviiro*Aoll their:iwicels for YO yeere, but
particulotly fur the list:few yeses,;. end: be could
tise.D4Ontsgt.as dti! 41a riled
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petition which took place for the ,
every other article of consumption.
that from a fair comparison of the
sent pafteid chtnpacett whit thaolle3e
there Ives a fall of Is. 24. per boa l'
of materials; and the cnn,segheihcp,vii
instead' of lowering, ificreiSed thr
shillinge per barrel. Ile had
p
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ainswith•this sobject, but; wit
rate as prissible, he had siritiew.t
his enquiries ; and he hoped the 11
dcer'him, it he took the libeity if rridieg:Werett.
paper which hil had prepared tbi statement aril tisk.
subject. ..
Mr. Beaumont then read the following statement
" I have at various periods heard the Brewers say,'
that their trade was not worth follostliog., Now 'I
em disposed to attach every reasonable credit WA*
declaratiotis of Gentlemen of such entineoce in ,50.7
ciety. I will therefore admit what they say to be
true, thus far, that at certain times, when the mar-
ket hes run high, they (in their humane considera-
tion for the condition of the poor) forbore to raise
the price of beer, as they might justifiably have done.;
they made no profit; they even soffered loss; and
that their lade atilsose times was not worth follow.
ing ; bet wheit.tiiey did determine on the step, at all
times so reluctantly taken by them, of, raising the
price, they would not themselves fix a losing price—.
for the loss of a shilling or two per barrel, continued•
for yeais upon their great returns, would be ruinous,
would be too great a sacrifice to expect from the
public spirit of any men. I request my hearers to
consider well the fairness, or 'otherwise, of this con-
clusion, bectuse much of the subsequent fastening'
is built upon it. Referring back, therefore, 4.4. i the
prices per barreljust quoted, and which are seen to ke,
in one case, a little under the market price, of the no.
mina! quantity of the nominal material, and in other
cases, a little above ii, we may come loan inferenc
that the market price of the nominal quantities, and of i
the duty, is suflicieut for the selling price of
the manufactured articles, as it has been made -of
late years. 1 think this is fair maiming upon their
Gatti data ; but let one, two, or three shillings he
added to the market price of the professed materials,
as a necessaay surplus of charge per barrel. I have
no objection to it. Let them have 3a., and they will
then Lave more than they had in several years, viz.,
in 1799, in 1800, it' 1810, in 1812, and in 1813.—
It will then follow that the surplus difference beyond
such 3s. will -be an extra profit to the Brewer, un-
less, indeed, he hai proportionably added to the
strength of the beer, but the sarplus difference of the
selling price of the beer over that of the material has
been in some years immense, 18s. and 20s-. and up-
wards. If the strengthening of the quality had fol-
lowed such an increase, we should have had an ex-
tract of malt so strong that it would have glued our
lips together—in which case mine would now be
sealed. But there has been nothing of the •kind :
beer, generally speaking, for the last fifteen or twen-
ty years, has run on in a limpid and vapid stream,
without any material variation. The excess of sur-
plus then has been au excess of profit to the Brewer.
and when we consider the immense returns in this
trade, that 100,000 barrels in a year is by no means
equal to the quantity brewed by the principal houses;
that in such a trade an advance of only ss; s barrel is
equal to 25,0001. and that the advance•itt some years
has been as much beyond what, according to their
own showing and prices of their own fixing, is a suffi-
cient profit, we may readily account for the princely
fortunes which have heen made in this trade in a short
time, and the justice of the complaints of the labour:
ing classes, at whose es pence such fortunes are-made.
Let us now examine the alterations of the price in al
successive order, with a view of discovering the occult I
causes of their changes.. For' A year preying, to the
first advance, made by the Brewers in 1799, 4s. 6d.1
per barrel was the nominal surplus above the mite-
vial. Upon its suhseqttent advance in 1804, the sm..
plea appeared sunk to 2s. In another in 1802, the
difference was 7d. mines, that iv, the professed mate.
rials cost more by 7d. per barrel, then the beer when
made was sold for. The materials then became
cheaper 25 per cent., npotr which the Brewers in
' 1802 lowered their prise li per cent., and made their
.sarplus 7s. 9d.; this was taken so kindly by the
. Public, that in less than four months (the materia
all this while lowering from 275. to 234.) upon the re-
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duction of 4s. in the materials, .the. Brewers raised'
their prices five shillings. The materials seek from
275. to 235.; and the beer was raised from 255. to
'4os., but a climax was yet wanting. .lisJoly, 1803,-
ithere was a rise of Is. in the materials, they still
being 3s. under the last price, when the barrel was
at 355. and ender the price in 1799, when the barrel
was 301.; under these circumstances of cheapness in
~materials, the price to the Public was raised to 455.
' per barrel—in other words, beer was raised to sd.
,per pot, white the malt, hops, and duty collectively
(were less than they were in 1799, when- beer war
!sold ter 31d. per pot I an excess of three half-pence
met pot over former profits; and he it always bore in
?hind, that an advance of a "airsgle hstfpeorry gives:
00,0001. to the Brewers of 200,000 barrels. At -thiso
period, the-Brewers were for more insatiable tilintil
plow.. They found by experience that they had only t
to foe a price, and the. Public most pay it Upon al
*mill advance in the materials,•therefore, they saided-
tbeir price two steps at mice, from 5(1. 'ii OM. per pot,
the beer, at the same time, being most 'wretched.—
;Upon •this the Golden-lane -Brewery war projected,
wen the Brewers drew in their horrri,•and went
back instantly from 6d. to 51. This competition
, did the Public great service i it caused the trality-of
the beer to be _mended, and the prices to be kept
down, *bile the material rose; nor did the Brewers
then venture to raise their prices for eight years.—
This establiahment Wm* for come time; but, as I
am told, (twin* to mismanagement, to -misty disad-
I vantages arising from the hostility and power of the
Brewer's: to their castomere in low uelghboerhoods
leaving them for other breweries where they might
expect a • better *protection in theii licences; sitikr,
above all, to their beinte obliged. fromithe pane 'ni.
tore of• their accounts, ee:"arthertr- to malt and bops
only, they have not been prostOrerist- The ni•Xt.iii-
cretaseites made inllll3.- it vriV left -a-gtrpW dif.
foresee of .11.65..0(d.-between the Pike bf the- vitit"*.
I.lllale and of beer w.tren snide.' The 4alait' bribe stint:
crisis Increased still higher; aid • the killrChriloutWl
illoptimiser,' to: minke a still ftirtheriticreffite in Yu=
try, •1814. The price was now reit:et/to Ili Mgheit

......were) bed ennferred,
so loWer the psice, but to loci _ _
fore the next sitting of
,Parliamant, however, they
thought proper take off a halfpeney per pot, re-
&win their surplus, whiCh had been ifts. lid. tpthe
yet With surplus of 141. 544. The nem: yearthey
took off another halfpenny. In the succedding year,
1816, the peke of the material's rose, and Upon this,
strange to say, they seduced their beer another far-
thing. The reason that could induce these Gentlemen,
after continuing their price at 45s.for a year and a half,'
epos the rise of their materials, to lower their price.
to 405., is quite inexplicable; unless, Indeed, the in--
vestigations of the Police Committee, then becoming
public, hastened the decision. Since then there has.
been two steps of increase of pricer, both in tau:-.
terials and in beer; but, since the' rise in January
last year, the price of materials has lessened ; the•
amount of malt, hops, and duty is 11.2 d. per barrel:
less than it was last year. Now, what is done epos
this decrease of expence? The barrel of beer is
raised 55., the quart is 'raised from 5-id. to 6d. The
materials now amount to no more than 454. s.ld.sper
barrel, and the price to the consumer is .raised equal
to the highest price charged during the war, when
the War Malt Tax was on, and the price of the
materials was 525. 61, is. snore than ht present : but
fat us view the effect of this rise in the aggregate, not
that the profit now exacted is half so excessive as
/niters in formeryears, in 1803, tsl3, end 1814, for
instance. First, I think we may fairly assume, that
the Brewers last year did not fix a price to carry on a
losing trade, end theesperyceshave since been lessen,
ing. I know that large sums were given by the
Brewers during that year forternss in licen,ed houses,
that is, for the privilege of selling beer-8001; for
one station, 1,0001. for another; 1,5001. for a third,
and so on—pretty strong symptoms that brewing
(lieu commanded a profit worth having. • The
6s. 2d. per barrel surplus above last year's prices
of materials given by the lest rise may therefore be
considered as an extra profit. We will first examine
the effect of-this on the trade of a single house. One
house, deservedly popular, brewed 330,1201 barrels
in 1816. The extra profits to that house upon one
year's t rade, therefore, will give a sum of 101,8141.195.
But the whole amount brewed by the It breweries,
in the same year, was 1,446,038 barrels, upon which
the extra profit gives 445,8611. Is. 4d., by far the
greater part of which is extracted from the pockets
of labouriog poor of the metropolis. A fine harvest
truly ! Without any particular exertion of intellect,
without any risk, a few Gentlemen, the heads of the
eleven breweries, meet together, combine, and give
, the word for nearly half a million sterlieg to be
transferred from the pockets of the poor." Mr. B.
then proceeded to read abtracts from the different
Acts of Parliament whirls had been passed in rliffei eta
periods of our history on the subject of Brewing;
and it would be seen that all these Acts were first in
itt favour of the liberty of the People ; but thst the
Acts passed in modern times were directly of a eon.
trary tendency. An Act of Henry 111. fired the
price of beer according to the price of barley. An
Act of the 23d of Edward 111. fixed the assize of I
beer. lii the reign of F.iward IV. en Art was passed
' for granting Letters Patent in favour of Brewers,.
who then acquired a monopoly so otiro,ise to the
subjects, apd by which the eztortioes-of the Brewers
became an great, that it was necessery tot abolish the
Patents that granted these monnnolies. In the reign
of Henry VIII. and Edward VI. Acts were passed
against Brewers foood conspiring to raise the price
of beer; and for such offences they were to he
punished by standing in the pillory, having one ear
cot off, and to be subject to perpetual Warne. In
the reign of Edward VI. an Act was passed to em-
power Magistrates to grant licences to Publicans;
but that wile done only for the ',depose of preventing
the had and disorderly behaviour which prevailed in
Public•houses. James L afterwards granted Letters
Patent to Brewers; his son Charles did the same, and
made them pay large sums of money for the licendik
but his object in doing this was only to put the
money into his own Exchequer. In those Letters it
.was stated, as one of the reasons for issuing them,
that the beer was too strong,and heady, and Caused
intoxication.--( Laughter.)—lt seemed that this King,
in his paternal solicitude fur the heads of his stibjet*
.—a solicitude which they did not afterwards shotil
for his head—(Applausc)—thought proper to assign
this as the reason for issuing his Patents. After 4 his,
in 1661, the trade became completely free and open ;
because the oppressions of former times could uo
longer be endured ; and it was not until the Reign of
George 11. that the present system of licensing was
adopted. The intention and avowed object was to
check the disorderly practices that prevailed in Pub.
lic•houses„ atid it was enacted that licences should be
granted only for owe year, at the expiration of which
time the licences were to be renewed. It was this
Act which laid the foundation of that monopoly
which now existed, and rendered the fabric of it com-
plete. It gave Justices the power of deciding, with.
out appeal, what persons should obtain Brewers;
and constiteted little parcels of Justices jo every dis-
trict, the absolute misters of thelicensing trade. A
free trade exisird at that time ; the Brewers were
very numerous; vast capitals were not accumulated
by individuals, and the growing evils of monopoly
were not perceived. But during the list 30 years,
there being a vast increase of new houses in the Me-
tropolis, the Brewers wereable to get possession of
almost all the Pattlic.bouses : and then the present'
'monopoly begets to, be tompleted; so that, at the.
1, preseut moment, the whole- trade of brewing welt
concentrated in the hands of eleven great Brewere.,
It was not his object noye.to go lute a detail of ails
the oppressions whicfi had arisen of late years tautly*,
the prerient system ; bees prse,vtliese were to be fouled]
in the ?oboe/Lepers', sadist, tenests of proceetlitt.
in Carreto eiJostiee, tit 'aeltkit, were already before Aft
Pub,ll4:ftlePpeered, tiimp.istieirling, in a Gerrit .4,
liw,-theinileence had been. tirlrewaway from a Pub.'
lican, becattse hi bad vita Ter a pnitictrtar tibdt-

Iraq power as. pas now ettereis. ed in England exiles&
Any man mit*, had a sulSeient capital-and a good
clearsortei:shaletht brew and sell beer. Such' wee
sh. ipitielnerat this moment in Vraoce, Holland, stud
Gefillalfy.‘' * had conversed with several Member.
of Parliimedt at to the mode of getting rid of this
system of licensing; but the whole appeared to be
bad, thit it could not be mended, for etwaauld be nor
cessary to change the whole system in priaciple. • List
cences indeed were granted for many innocent pops
proms, such. as a licence to flour one's hair, a keno
.lobe married, dec.:sad all these were easily obtained i
but the licences for selling beer were trot to he bads
racer at the arbitrary' will of a set of Magistrates,
Alive as they all. must be to the injuriousness of shit
keyitein, they must not patiently sit 'down under it',
particularly so, si hen, if they know what he had seem
that numbers of reen.had been reined, and driven to
-werlf,houses in consequence of it. Was it to he en;
dured, that a power should ezist at this day wltkl
had been forbidden lit the reigns of Etiward,•ei
James, and Charles? Brit he would rather submit tt
the tyranny of one King, than to the arbitrary tee
pother of some hundreds of petty tyrants. 'The cull
use he tool ever known in the present system of ti
ceasing *set .thatit exhibited a disgusting picture a
arbitrary -priwer.• On a proposition for Lakin
away the discretionary power, they were celled two
to consider the property which was at stake; wit
this property, he submitted, they had nothing to di
Every farthing of the capital which was laid out we
to expended, solely with a view to commanding trad
right or wrong.—(Hear!)-1f the Brewer laid out
bemired thousand 'pounds in houses, and anothl
huikdrid thousaud in trade, his object was to gal
prefit by both ; and thus the Public paid not aloe
for a decoction of malt and hops, but for an Jamie
of licences.--(cheers).—It was oat orally ask el
how a redress of these abuses was to be obtained?.
He admitted that the task would be an arduous oni
but at the same time he was satisfied that it was n
a hopeless one. It was true that there was a gre
phalanx of power and interest against them, but 1
power of the Public was great also. They had al
a free Press in their favour ; and it was but just
remark, that all the Newspapers, of whatever pe
tics! principles, advocated zealously and ably I
cause of the Public on this subject, and joined in e
precating the system of the Brewers.—( Loud and
pealed cheers).—Under all the circumstances, he
peated,t hit be thought their case far from hopeless, o
trusted that by one common zeal, and by determii
perseverance, they would have old beer and
prices.--(Cheers.)— In conclusion, the Homier*
Gentleman declared his intention to move tke stri
of Resolutions which he hail already published
some of the Public Papers, in order that it might
be supposed his intention was of an underhand
, cask description. He then moved the first Rem
lion :
.o 'That high legal authorities have declared all Monopoli
be 4gaitif,t the ancient had fundamental Laws of too Realm
hijorions 10 lil e Public ; tirst, bs ra:sing the price of coma
i ties; second, hr diminishing their quality ; third, by import
i tog poor manufacturers."
Mr. TlLLotit rose. to second this Resolution.
was a truism upon which no difierence of opii
• could arise. He bad listened with attention to
that had Callen as well known the Gentleman who
lost spolkeu, as from the Gentleman at the other
of .the table (Mr. Drury): Oce or two obvious I
soitutally presented themselves to his mind. '1
had been told, that the Brewers were a respect
and honourable set of men; he believed they w
• tiot dense who knew human nature would agree '
him in thinking, thet all men who acted in a ii
.would •oppress their fellow enten.--(Hear:)—
would not say that Brewers were more liable to
(disposition than others ; but such was the niter
Istiostaii society. ift was the evident object of all I
:Wiser, oiling collectively or individually, to toal
•much profit as they could, From. what he kid he
;ha collected that the profita to the Publican as
per:ceut., and to the Brewers 30 per cent.
• T-Itis, question being called for, it was recomme
that the Resolutions might be read all together,
lit.ilistinct view might be.given of their object.
~,•"l.:Clier CHAIRMAN wished to know whether I
ter;,iewny other person disposed to address the "tr
ling. previous to the reading of the Resolutions.
itMr. Beaumont then rose, sod read the Re
loos, which are as follow :,--
2. That the tregislotnre has payed numerous Statntes
ish such as .tfe guilty of creating munopolics—partie
onopolies of the necessaries of life; and so early i
airrcnnd and third of E4ward IV very heavy penaltin
ImposedVictuallers who combined together to ra
ice a victuals. naletaliog . upon a second repetition
e to the pillory, the loss of an ear, and perpen
Y.
' N. That, ontwititstandiog the illegality of such candei
la istury to the Vohlic. a asise.topoly-in the supply of hi
101 late Yeats been raised if vations4larts of England, at
tiC,ularly in the htetroyinlis insomuels that the, whole cm
Its parslation is enema by about a dozen great bre
pLhpsivincipals act itt combinat ion÷-inecing together.l
miners of.one caacern, tied ng the .prment whit
MA he sold. -
/, 4, 'Filet when the reduced price of malt and hops. Of
pravender, and labour, the lessening the Tax iia Mak. I
sob Orptent abolition of the Property Tax. emits
Flllrewers to make great reductions in their accustomed, i
1 they, did not ina,k,e-guch reductions, but kept np their
"ill nfter Wei, conduct had cached antmadverm.oas
House of Colton'. alleging as &ream' for their doing
their stock in hand must be first disp,ised of.
5. That so soon a, the failure of the harm/ in 1811
the price of mail to look up., aok While their steck.ww
onatrected.cy the rise in dye mAtetials.. they.tettscsi '
riceut. beer ttstba curnamer,.whichpriges,they have la
'further advanced.
4 That the beer as saw made is so void of the nourisi
invigorating qualities sililth .it formerly _possessed. anti
tiaw-s so iingratefof,turl,Cien itijuriim to Me stomach, t
:this deleterotts,iincederoti of which it •fs Compo.est, tl
turner ere frirptentlyfiriygo, to, use.a mixture of gin WI
ive it toe semblance or strength add spirit, or still mor
dleially to the drinking of gin ilititcad ofticer.
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.stittitional power gistp to Jostler. of. 14e Police in pier
Ave localities to prevent any persons vending herr. re
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public advantage in pitch, iLis. to the price we are now called ainspit,.. date at in election, in opposition to' the will of the
tn. He contended, pay, brit , 'Pined price only left. Chet B If:* licensing Magistrate. And itorould appear
Owlthat
be prices-oft Akpre.-_. soy I Vs.
~, above the marketßriete or -ilh map. outrheewrserhia,dainodstaontihheeiarrtshtfohouirssemsesolomliniebilntilt:;r:rcsohanatisgaminnig:htnthttebeirr
(tre.;e Avie(vtti;- -tert , • owevers the inatiebri :drop
al ‘• is OM mom* 'Wks,. reilOo Al,4trice.of,bettet.•, lihe lirew . priceß. Such circdumstances were tl4tailetl in the Po.
ep, was, 44 nifinkee, pet. fileffsiees or disturbing Alms settled' order of lice. eports ;
iite coMmodaY fife things. Tteir surplus rose to nearly 20s. per bairettnutid, in prisons and in workhouses, who were ro.
takt-11,q9P,)04:11)le- Plic--Y1k."1"549-1-ibia"luarl•"P±Pg."'ltrreses.llo. • s
...Hied and obliged to take shelter there, in consequence
lifting tribe tea-ctn.; bi the Hamm orCemmons of the unreasonable prices of of having been unjustly deprived of the* licenigh,
doer& tbet reseitof •the-Breweeit,-41benIMr: Whitbread replied, that they He had himself been in foreign count
Victnalterries;and con.
Meeting would par- (the Brewers) kadocrferred, and bad deterroleedltqt -versed. with sevuzal btagiatsatas end tis
--r ...,:m.,,, tm„,,,V to tower the pike, put to increase the quality. Be- those CoUntriel; where he found that no such arlii..
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