degree, excluded the English from the West
India market, their porter getting the preference there, as well as in
Bristol and Liverpool, to which places large quantities are annually
sent by that company. How much stronger inducements have we to form
similar establishments in this country, where our excise on brewery
produce bears no sort of proportion with that paid in England, and does
not here exceed five per cent. on brewery sales. This being a war tax,
it may be presumed it will not continue long. Our capacity to raise
barley and hops, in as high perfection as in any part of Europe, is
acknowledged; all then that is wanting is encouragement; afford this to
our farmers, and they will soon convince you that no assertion is
better founded. If so, the sooner a company of this description is
formed the better for those who may be concerned; and for this plain
reason, that notwithstanding the enormous excise chargeable on the raw
materials and produce of the brewery in England, large fortunes have
been, and are daily accumulating in that country by the judicious
exercise of the brewing trade, as will appear by the following
statement of the quantity of porter alone (beside other malt liquors)
brewed by the twelve first breweries in London, in one year, ending 5th
of July, 1810.

_Barrels of Porter._
Barclay, Perkins & Co. 235,053
Read, Mecar & Co. 211,009
Trueman & Hanbury. 144,990
Felix, Calvert & Co. 133,493
Whitebread & Co. 110,939
Amery, Meux & Co. 93,660
Combe & Co. 85,150
Brown & Perry. 84,475
Godwin, Skinner & Co. 74,223
Elliot & Co. 57,851
Taylor. 54,510
Cloyer & Co. 41,590
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Total quantity of Barrels of Porter, 1,326,943

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NOTICE.

The author informs those persons who may feel disposed to engage in
the brewing and malting trades, that he can furnish them with ground
plans, and sections of elevation, both of breweries and malt houses,
on different scales, whether intended to be erected together, or
separately, as will b