Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal 26 January 1819.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH. CRIMINAL INFORMATION.

Mr. Gurney applied for a criminal information against the gentleman who filled the office of Mayor of Queensborough, last year, for having refused to grant a Victualling License to a Mr. Marshall, the proprietor of an Inn in that town. It appeared from the affidavit, that the house in question had been licensed to the present complainant and his father for 26 years past, and the Magistrate in question had been a frequenter of it; and in 1817, there being a complaint made that the beer furnished by the brewer was not good quality, several of the complainant's customers, and among them the Magistrate in question, advised him to purchase the house. This he accordingly did at a very considerable price, and his whole support now depended on it. Yet without any notice given, or reason assigned, the Magistrate, at the last licensing day, refused to renew the complainant's license.

He had since, however, assigned as a reason, that the complainant had not applied for his license in terms sufficiently respectful; for whilst the proprietor of the other public-house, their being two in the town, on applying to have his license renewed addressed the Magistrate as follows:- "I hope, Sir, you will be pleased to renew my license," and the complainant said, "I suppose, Sir, you have no objection to renew my license."

Since that time applications had been made on the complainant's behalf, but without effect, by all the most respectable inhabitants of the town; and the affidavit further stated that the complainant believed the said Magistrate had refused to renew his license because he, the complainant, had offended him by making an affidavit in some law proceedings, contrary to the said Magistrates opinion.

The Court granted the rule to shew cause.

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