Sitting of 4 July 1817

ALEHOUSES LICENCES BILL.
Mr. Bennethaving moved the farther consideration of the report of this bill, Mr. S. Wortley proposed that it should be postponed till next session, as there was no possible chance that it could meet with a fair discussion this year.
Mr. Bennetsaid, that from the sort of interested opposition which had been raised against this measure by many persons in the House, as well as by brewers and others out of doors, he had not the smallest hope of being able to carry through the measure this session, but he anxiously wished, before the recess, that this subject should have been fully discussed, that the country might have seen what sort of arguments could be urged against it. For his own part, he should put in his protest, in the name of the morals of the people

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of England, against the opposition which had been made to any attempt to ameliorate a system which contained more seeds of corruption and was more fatal to the good habits of the people than any which had yet prevailed in any civilized country.
The report was ordered to be taken into consideration that day three months.