#106) ANNUAL REGISTER, i795: 
The finer bread is used in the poorer 
parts of the town, such as Spital- 
fields, &c. On the borders of Es- 
sex, the magistrates enforced the 
use of the standard wheaten bread; 
but the poor did not like it, and 
thought it did not go so far, and the 
mnagistrates now suffer the finer 
wheaten to be made. He agrees 
with the poor in opinion, that 
standard wheaten bread does not go 
so far as the fine wheaten bread. If 
an inferior sort of bread is to be 
made, it should bé universal ;_ but, 
if this bread was made wholly of 
English wheat, without any mixture 
of torcign, which is generally bad, 
it might be wholesome.» 
Another stated the quantities of 
wheat sold in the London market 
for the month of September, and 
first three weeks of October, in the 
last four years, as follows: 
1792 1793 
Weeks Qrs Weeks Qrs 
Sept. 5 21,204 4 12,987 
Octe')) BiKP1 F823) gis 23/827 
1794 1795 
Weeks Qrs Weeks Qrs 
Sept. 4 10,171 4. 7,081 
Oct. 3 8,887 38 9,989 
and that the price would be enor- 
mously high through the year, unless 
some substitute could be found for 
wheat, of whieh there is not enough 
to make bread till next harvest. 
Thinks bread of other grain would 
be liked, as it was by the poor at 
rip ivaniay santana when given 
to them. 
All the respectable mealmen and 
corn-factors concurred in opinion as 
to the crops; price, and supply: 
The crops in America 1793 and 
1794 not good; and the price high 
on account of the quantities ex- 
ported to France and the West In- 
dies,particularly the Hayannabs and 
Ll 
the advantageous speculation it afe 
fords in Europe: ‘The French mis — 
nister purcliased it in the two last 
and present years, and paid forit in 
gold coin, or by bullion, or by wine 
and brandy; the present Contractis 
by certificates issued by the Ameri- 
can government for part of the debts 
owing to France from the United 
States, which certificates amount to 
800,000 dollars; but; as some of 
them do not bear sohigh an interest 
as 6 per cent. American stock; there 
will probably be a loss on them of 
20 per cents The whole of the sum 
paid by France in this mode may 
amount, including all deductions, 
to 160,0001. Most of the ships car- 
rying wheat and flour to France 
cleared outprincipally for Falmouth, 
and a market sometimes to Ham- 
burg and sometimes to Spain and 
Portugal. The French government 
have sustained great losses in this 
trade by captures of corn and mo- 
ney, amounting to near 200,000I. ; 
and the American merchants made 
immense profits by the high price 
required for their flour exported on 
their own risk: Even in the cons 
tracts now carried on the Josses are 
supposed, by well-informed persons 
in America, to be about 60l. per 
cent. A number of merchants in 
America, who considered the Ame- 
rican debt owing to France as a col 
lateral security, finding the debt is 
applied in the manner here statedy 
are discouraged from shipping pro- 
Visions on their own atcount; and 
the payments will not be so exten 
sive this yeat as the last; and some 
merchants at New York, who had 
made an agreement with M. Faus 
chet, the French minister, to send 
flour to France, and; in consequence, 
had drawn bills to a large amount 
in England, on a supposition 93 
the 
