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and in ordinary times above four mil-
lions. Of the wholesomeness of the bread
there can be no doubt; of its flavour you
will judge by the fpecimen I have fent
you; and I can add from experience,
that it keeps very well. After my firft
batch had been baked ten days, I put a
loaf which remained of it into my oven
for about 20 minutes, and, being fuffered
to grow cool again, it was cut, and had
every appearance of new bread; nay, we
even thought it better than it was at first.
I am, with true respect,
Your Lordship's dutiful
and obliged Servant,
FRANCIS HAGGITT..

The Lord Bishop of Durham.

The following Experiments, in a Letter from the Rev. Mr. HOOKER, exhibit a further proof of the advantages to be derived from the ufe of Bran-water in making Wheaten Bread :

Ten ounces of bran was boiled in fomewhat more than two quarts of water, from 15 to 20 minutes. The water was then trained off; and when of a proper degree of heat, leven pounds of flour was wet with it in the ufual way, with the common quantity of falt and yeast. The produce was 12 lb. 10 oz. of bread. The fame quantity of flour, made at the fame time by the fame perfon, and baked in the fame oven, as bread is generally made, produced 9 lb. of bread.

The next day, 14 lb. of flour was made up with the Bran water as before, and the produce was 20 lb. 12 oz.

INCREASE OF BREAD BOTH TO THE
PUBLIC AND TO THE BAKER.

On two critical experiments made at the Reform of the Philanthropic Society, St. George's Fields (where the Society bake all their Bread), with respect to the ufe of Bran instead of common water, the refult has been (and is now adopted at the Reform), that for every pound of Bran, one pound of Bread may be procured; and that, of courfe, every pound of Wheat Bran in the kingdom may be made to produce an equal quantity of Bread. As for example-for a fack of flour of five bushels, or 280 lbs. boil 25 lbs. of Bran in 88 quarts of water; this, when trained, will produce 54 quarts of Bran liquor. Ufe this inftead of plain water, to make the dough, with the ufual quantity of salt and yeast. The bread fo made, will weigh 25 lbs. more than in the common way, is full as white, and more moift. The increase is equal to the weight of the Bran, and one 15th more in the Bread, which, if generally adopted, will be a gain upon the prefent fuppofed ftock of Corn in the kingdom, of near one month in the year; and, at the prefent price of Bran, will be an additional profit to the Baker of more than five billings in the fack of flour.The Steward of the Philanthropic Reform, if applied to, will explain and verify the fact.

You will obferve a confiderable dif. ference in the refult of the experiments. The latter was made with flour fresh from the mill, befides that it was the fecond day of heating the oven; and the firft experiment was wetted with more of the Bran-water. On the accuracy of each, as to fact, you may rely; but I fufpect the last experiment to be the more general produce. The fecond flour was ufed, and the bread exceedingly good. Fourteen women, housekeepers, who make their bread at home, law the loaves of the first experiment, agreed in the goodness of it, and that in their opinion it would greatly anfwer. I fhould not have mentioned this, but that, as the Poor are ever much averfe to innovation, I confider their opinion and concurrence in this experiment as of great weight,

VOL. XXXVII. MARCH 1800.

The Committee, by proper regulations to meet the prefent alarming icarcity, have reduced their ufual confumption of Bread in the Reform to nearly one half; and, for two days in the week, afford an ample fubfiftence for 156 objects, at lefs than 2d. per head, compofed of baked Rice pudding, of 32 lbs. of rice, 6 lbs. of fuet, 12 lbs. of treacle or molaffes, and 8 quarts of milk-altogether One Guinea.

A Gentleman, named Millington, has communicated to the Society inftituted at Bath for the benevolent purpose of improving the condition of the lower or ders of the people, a method for preferving Potatoes:-Take three pounds and a half of potatoes, peel and rafp or grind them, then put the pulp into a coarfe cloth, and place it between two boards in a common napkin-preis, till it becomes a dry cake, about the thickness of thin cheefe; then lay it on a fhelf to dry. From fuch a quantity of potatoes about a quart of juice is exprelled, to

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Age after age the patriarch of the wood! Thou, who haft feen a thousand springs unfold

Their ravel'd buds, and dip their flowers in gold;

Ten thousand times yon moon re-light her horn,

And that bright star of evening gild the morn!

Irit, when the Druid bards, with filver hair,

Pour'd round thy trunk the melody of prayer; When cluefs and heroes join'd the kneeling throng,

And choral virgins trill'd the adering fong;
While harps refponfive rung amid the glade,
And holy echoes thrill'd thy vaulted shade,
Say, did fuch dulcet notes arreft thy gales;
AS MUNDY † pours along the listening vales?

Gigantic Oax!thy hoary head fublime Ere while mutt perish in the wrecks of time; Should round thy brow innocuous lightnings fhoot,

And to fierce whirlwinds thake thy stedfaft

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RURAL CORONATION. Infcribed to MR. MUNDY, on reading his Poem on Needwood Foreft.

BY MISS SEWARD.

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Nymphs, Naiads, Satyrs, Fays, and Fawns, Hafte hither bring your flowers and boughs, And weave a wreath for MUNDY's brows!.

Firft twigs of Oak from SWILCAr rend, And 10und luis auburn temples bend; Then tye the ends, that twisting meet, With tendrils from the woodbine sweet: With laurel bloffoms next befpread Pale ivy crosswife o'er his head; Thefe holly sprigs infert between,

The berries blush amid the greenWhile hare-bells blue, and lilies fair, Mix'd with the wild rofe, deck his hair.

Now with fantastic step advance, And hand in hand around him dance ; To oaten pipe attune his lays, And hail the bard who fings your praise. "While the gay choirings of the grove "Give breath to harmony and love,

And golden furze and purple ling "Around their mix'd embroidering Aling, "And, all irregularly joinid, "The according outline waves behind."

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In Needwood foreft. This tall tree, which stands fingly upon a beautiful smáll lawn, furrounded with extensive woods, measures thirteen yards round at its bafe, and Eleven yards round at our feet from the ground. It is beheved to be fix hundred years

old.

See a Poem, entitled Needwood Forest, by F. N. C. Mundy, Efq. in the hands of a dewo, the author's felect friends.

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grown,

Where first my breast love's Autt'ring transport knew,.

Yet will I think-tho' every bope is flown, Fann'd by her file how foft the raptures grew!

Genius of Pity! fympathetic Maid!

Who feeft me thus the path of anguish tread,

Wilt thou ne'er footh these forrows that in. vade,

Nor raife from mifery affliction's head ?

Van -vain the figh that from my bolom steals,

In vain my knee I bend to Pity'; shrine, For ah! too plain my cheerless bofɔm feels, It heaves for blifs that-NEVER can be mine!

Hope! hope! to thee a love-lorn fuppliant ftoops

From mis'ry's pang, oh! where's the bourne to five?

Hope, with my head, in filent sadness droops, And points her trembling finger-to the grave !!!

W. F.

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III.

"But muft it then be faid, my boys,
"That we-for whom they toil'd ;
"For whom they left their sweetest joys-
"Shall by an Atheist band be foil'd?
"Ah! no! I fee your zeal increase,
"Each breaft with honour beat;
"The Gallic foldier's fury ceafe-
"He falls beneath your feet.
IV.

"The day is won-the charge renew;
"Yon fainting Frenchmen fly:
"Conqueft is ours :-pursue-pursue !
"In mangled heaps they die.
«Huzza! huzza! Heav'n's vengeance falls,
"And aids us in the fight;
“Huzza! huzza! my warlike souls,
"The foe now fleeps-in eternal night !''
March 5, 1800.
S. W.

VERSES,

On feeing Hoar-Froft on the Ringlets of a
beautiful and charitable young Lady.
By DR. TROTTER.

(Written in 1795-)

ASK rot why on fair Lucy's cheek

The pinching feason, cold and bleak,
Has ftrew'd thefe locks with froft:
Why o'er that bofom, white as snow,
The shivering ringlets fem to flow,

As if its warmth was lost?

That breaft may feem to lofe its heat,
O'er which the winds fo rudely beat,

That heart is lifeless fure:
Ah no! 'tis only gone to roam,
Awhile it leaves its acid home,

To warm the neighbouring poor.
Devonfbire.

SPECIMEN OF A POETICAL VERSION
OF THE DEATH OF ABEL.

BY W. HOLLOWAY.

INTRODUCTION.

Rehearfe the deeds of thefe, to whom we

owe

The feeds of fuff'ring, and the scenes of

woe

Would celebrate the youth, whofe form divine

Bled, by a Brother's hand, at Envy's fhrine!

Ye noble ardors that infpire the foul,
And thro' the Poet's raptur'd bofom roll,
When at night's filent, folitary hour,
He feeks the thick grove, or the gloomy
bow'r,

Or marks the Moon's pale lamp, its filver
gleam

Caft on fome lonely, undulating stream➡
When bold Imagination wings her flight
To worlds unknown and realms of endless
light,

Where thousand wonders in fucceffion rife,
And nameless beauties charm her ravish'd

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While the proud Conqueror's trophies all fhall fade,

Where human feet no vent'rous track have
made,

And the mausoleum, crumbling from its base,
Forgets its glories, and refigns its grace!

Amidst the tuneful train, how few afpire,

HENCEFORTH in filence thou, foft Pipe, With skill transcendent, to awake the lyre

Vocal no longer with inferior woes:
No more I chaunt, in unaffuming ftrain,
The fimple manners of the ruftic swain:
Fain my bold fong to nobler flights I'd raife,
Glow with my theme, and in harmonious
Jays,

On themes divine, with rapt'rous notes to
dwell,

And claim the envied praise of finging well?
To this I confecrate my nobleft pow'rs,
My folitary walks, and all my lonely hours!
E. India Houfe, Jan. 1, 1799.

WASHINGTON'S WILL,

GENERAL In the name of GEORGE WASHINGGod, Amen. TON, of Mount Vernon, a Citizen of the United States, and lately Prefident of the fame, do make, ordain, and declare this inftrument,

which is written with my own hand, and every page thereof fubfcribed with my name, to be my last Will and Tefta. ment, revoking all others.

Imprimis-All my debts, of which

there

there are but few, and none of magnitude, are to be punctually and speedily paid; and the legacies hereafter be queathed are to be discharged as foon as circumftances will permit, and in the manner directed.

Lem. To my dearly beloved wife, Martha Washington, I give and be queath the ufe, profit, and benefit of my whole eftate, real and perfonal, for the term of her natural life, except fuch parts thereof as are fpecially difpofed of hereafter. My improved lot in the town of Alexandria, fruated in Pitt and Cameron ftreets, I give to her and her heirs for ever, as alfo I do my household and kitchen furniture of every fort and kind, with the liquors and groceries which may be on hand at the time of my decease, to be used and difpofed of as the may think proper.

Item.-Upon the decease of my wife, it is my will and defire that all the flaves which I hold in my own right fhall receive their freedom. To emancipate them during her life would, though earneftly wished by me, be attended with fuch infuperable difficulties, on account of their intermixture by marriages with the dower negroes, as to excite the moft painful fenfations, if not disagreeable confequences, from the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the fame proprietor; it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them. And whereas among thofe who will receive freedom according to this demife, there may be fome who from old age or bodily infirmities, and others who, on account of their infancy, will be unable to fupport themselves, it is my will and defire that all who come under the first and fecond defcription, shall be comfortably clothed and fed by my heirs while they live; and that fuch of the latter defcription as have no parents living, or if living are unable or unwilling to provide for them, fhall be bound by the Court till they shall arrive at the age of twenty-five years; and in cafes where no record can be produced whereby their ages can be ascertained, the judgment of the Court, upon its own view of the fubjeft, fhall be adequate and final. The negroes thus bound are (by their mafters or miftreffes) to be taught to read and write, and to be brought up to fome ufeful occupation, agreeably to the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the fupport of orphan and

other poor children. And I do hereby exprefsly forbid the fale or transportation out of the faid Commonwealth, of any flave I may die poffeffed of, under any pretence whatfoever. And I do more over moft folemnly and most pointedly enjoin it upon my executors hereafter named, or the furvivor of them, to fee that this claufe refpe&ting flaves, and every part thereof, be religiously fulfilled at the epoch at which it is directed to take place, without evafion, neglect, or delay, after the crops, which may then be in the ground, are harvested, particularly as it respects the aged and infirm; feeing that a regular and per manent fund be established for their fupport as long as there are fabjects requiring it, not trufting to the uncertain provifion to be made by individuals.

Liem. To the Trustees (Governors, or by whatfoever name they may be de fignated) of the Academy in the town of Alexandria, I give and bequeath (in truft) four thousand dollars, or, in other words, twenty of the fhares which I hold in the Bank of Alexandria, towards the fupport of a free-fchool, established at and annexed to the faid Academy, for the purpose of educating fuch orphan children, or the children of fuch other poor and indigent perfons as are unable to accomplish it with their own means; and who, in the judgment of the Truf tees of the faid feminary, are best entitled to the benefit of this donation. The aforefaid twenty fhares I give and bequeath in perpetuity: the dividends only of which are to be drawn for, and applied by, the faid Trustees for the time being, for the ufes above mentioned: the flock to remain entire and untouched, unless indications of failure of the faid Bank fhould be fo apparent, or a difcontinuance thereof should render the removal of this fund neceffary. In either of thefe cafes, the amount of the ftock here devifed is to be vested in fome other Bank, or public inftitution, whereby the intereft may with regu larity and certainty be drawn and ap plied as above. And, to prevent mifconception, my meaning is, and is hereby declared to be, that these twenty shares are in lieu of, and not in addition to, the twenty thousand pounds given by a miffive letter fome years ago; in confe quence whereof an annuity of fifty pounds has fince been paid towards the fupport of this inftitution.

Item. Whereas, by a law of the

come

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