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than standard wheaten; but no such order shall take place til one calendar month, at least, after the making thereof.
Copy of such order to be put up in some market-town, or inferred in some public news-paper. 
Company of bakers of London, &c. may offer objections against such prohibi-tion. 
Wheaten loaves of the price of rd. or ad. may be made and sold according to act 31 Geo. II.
No aslize to be set on coarser bread, if sold at a lower price, as directed by act 31 Geo. II.
Where any baker of bread shall fell coarser bread at the assized household bread price, he shall be liable to the penalties inflicted by law.
This act not to extend to prejudice the right or custom of the city of London, or Lords of Leet:
Nor shall it prejudice the ancient right or custom of the Dean of St.Peter, West-minster, &c.
Nor shall any thing contained prejudice the ancient right of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
All the laws no in being for regulating the price of bread, &c. to remain in full force.
Where the chief magistracy of a corpo-ration is vested in two Bailiffs, one of them may set an assize on bread.
As Mr. Pownall, in explaining this law observes, that there was no possibility of assaying flour, so as to define, and then ascertain the degree of its proportionable fineness, the only remedy that remained was to introduce again that Standard Wheaten Bread which is made of the whole produce of the wheat, without any division of the flour. defining the flour to be the whole produce of the grain, the bran or hull only excepted, and to weigh three-fourth parts of the weight of the wheat whereof it is made. This definition, he says, will, in the ordinary course of practice, answer very well: because, as there is no reason, on one hand, to expect that the miller will make the flour finer than the law requires, so, on the other, any man can fee whether he hath left the haul or bran in it - this remedy had the merit in it, that it contains no novelty, hazards no experiment, offers nothing but what the experience of ages hath justified. 
This being the birth day of her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte Augusta Matilda, their Majesties eldest daughter, who entered in the eight-year of her age, their Majesties received the complements of the Nobility, &c. on occasion. 
This day the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Alder[[?]] Recorder, she-riffs, and other City Officers, met Guild-hall, from when[[?]]ey went in procession to hear divine[[?]] at St. Laurence's church.  After service was over, the She-riffs, &c. ascended the huftings at Guild-hall, when Mr. Serjeant Glynn, the Re-dorder, opened the business of the day, by acquainting the Livery of the great im-portance of the business on which they were to enter.  After him, Mr. Sawbridge ac-quainted the Livery, that, if he should be chosen, he would exert himself to the ut-most of his abilities.  The late Sheriff Lewes made a speech, in which he excul-pated himself to the ut-most of his abilities.  The late Sheriff Lewes made a speech, in which he excul-pated himself from late reflections cast on him.  Mr. Wilkes then made a long speech, in which he gave the history of the late dispute relative to some para-graphs inserted in the papers concerning the Lord Mayor.  The several Aldermen, who had served the office of Sheriff, were then put up, for the Livery to return two to the Court of Aldermen, for their choice of one of them to be Lord Mayor for the ensuing year.  The majority appearing for Messrs. Wilkes and Bull, they were ac-cordingly returned; but a poll was in-stantly demanded in favour of Messrs. Sawbridge and Oliver.

Thursday 30.

The last accounts from Baffora and Bagdad are very afflicting, as they men-tion that the Plague has carried off 100,000 people in the former of those two places, and more than twice that number in the latter.  The French Consul at Bagdad, and the Agent of the same nation at Baffora, and all the Catholic Priests, are among the dead.  The English Agent would most probably have died likewise, had he not gone into the country with many of his countrymen, several of whom, however, had the misfortune to fall into the hands of Kerim Kan, their enemy.
On the 18th past, the German and Hungarian College, at Rome, which was formed under the direction of the Jesuits, took fire; by which a number of manuscripts and printed books were burnt.  The next day Father Stefanucci, Ex-Jesuit, and his nephew, were arrested, and sent to the Castle of St Angelo.  The former of which two persons is well known to have enjoyed the confidence of Cardinal York, but lost it a short time ago.
There has lately happened, at Tobago, a dreadful storm, by which almost all the houses of the inhabitants have been blown down, together with their Plaintain trees.  Hardly a family has sustained con-siderable loss.
The ceremony of the intended Grand Duchess's prosession of the Greek faith was performed, on the 26th past, in the chapel of the winter palace at Petersburg.  After abjuring her former religion, and making a short speech to the Archbishop of Petersburgh, she was anointed by him according to the rites of the Greek church, and baptized in that faith by the name of Natalia Alexiowna.
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Grand Duke, in the chapel of the summer palace.  This ceremony consisted in the exchanging of rings:  these, having first had the benediction pronounced on them  by the Archbishop of Petersburg, were delivered to the Grand Duke and Priness, and by them to the Empress, who, taking the Grand Duke's, presented it to the Princess, giving the Princess's to the Grand Duke in exchange:  they then both kissed the Empress's hand.  After mass was over, (which was celebrated with great and solemnity [[?]], on account of its being the festival of the Holy Handkerchief, a great one in the church), the foreign ministers had the honour of kissing her Imperial Majesty's hand, and making their compli-ments to her:  soon after which her Ma-jesty, attended by the whole Court, pro-ceeded to the great saloon, where she dined upon the throne with the Grand Duke and Duchess, and was served on this occasion by the great officers of the household.  The four first classes of the nobility dined at different tables in the same room, and the foreign ministers with the Vice Chancellor at his house.  In the evening there was a ball at Cour[[?]] and the gardens of the summer palace were finely illuminated, as was the whole town, and the ships in the river.  It is scarcely possible to exceed the spledor and magni-ficence which appeared on this occasion.
The fate of the Jesuits is at length de-cided.  The Pope has published a bull his Holiness reproaches them with not only having given cause for discontent to the Court of Rome, and to other Or-ders, Colleges, Universities, Bishops, and Priests, but also that they have irritated the Kings of France, Spain, Portugal, and, and the Two Sicilies, to such a degree as to cause those Princes to drive them out of their respective dominions.
The Grand Duke of Tuscany has also declared, that the Empress Queen, his august mother, having consented to the suppression of the society, he was resolved to follow that example; therefore he ad-vised those religious to suffer quietly their suppression, and take the habits of secular Ecclesiastics, as it was his intention to employ them every where, and in every thing they could be useful to him.
While the King of Prussia was at Breslau[[?]], his Majesty received from the Pope his bull of suppression of the Jesuits, and im-mediately sent for the Father Rector [[?]] of the Convent of Breslau [[?]], and told him, that the Jesuits in his dominions need not be alarmed at this bull, as long as they be-haved themselves with decency and tran-quility.  His Majesty added, that he would take them under his Royal pro-tection, in consequence of which they might appoint a Superior-General, to the re-present to him whatever might be useful for their society.
A friend to the poor, in an address to the farmers of Norfolk, advises them to plant wheat in the same manner as they plant beans; by which a saving of two bushels of feed upon an acre may be ap-plied in aid of the poor.  He says, that an acre would produce more in this than in the ordinary way, as has been proved by experiment, and that the expence of the planting (chiefly by women and children) would be less than the price of the feed saved.
There seems nothing to be against this improvement but the impracticability of it.  If the writer will take the pains to investigate his own proposal, he will find a million and a half of women and children necessary to carry it generally into execu-tion, (particularly it would have but little effect), and a million and a half of work-ing women and children is more than the whole kingdom can supply.  
Orders are given from the War-Office for a general muster and return of the Militia in every country of this kingdom, and for all vacancies in them to be imme-diately filled up.
The Mermaid, the oldest collier that traded to Dublin, with [[strikethrough]] Wheeler, Efq; of the county of Kilkenny, and his family, on board, foundered lately near Whitehaven, and every foul on board perished, except the cabbin-boy.
It appears, from an account calculated lately with great exactness, that no more than 1514 sailors and mariners were killed last war in their different and glorious en-gagements against the enemy; and that the amazing number of those dead of diseases amounts to 133,708; half, at least, with-out exaggeration, died of the scurvy, by living on sale provisions; a most alarming circumstance, that 65,640 more should die by the scurvy, than the united efforts of our enemies could destroy during a long war; and certainly it merits the most ferious attention of those in power, to think of home expedient to preserve the lives of our brave sailors.
Three gentlemen, of the name of Mac-donell, with their families, and 400 High-landers from the counties of Glengary, Glenmorison, Urquhart, and Strathglass, lately embarked for America, having ob-tained a great of lands in Albany. [[Strikethrough]] Such has been the emigration from Ireland, that in the course of the last year there have been landed at Philadelphia, from only two ports, no less than 12000 fa-milies.
These emigrations from the North of Ireland have at last rouzed the nobility and gentry of that country to enter into an association to discourage all monopolizers of land, to portion out their estates in smaller parcels, and to lett those parcels at such moderate rents as will establish an interest to the tenant in the leases, and enable them to live something like the
nde.