APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 



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of the various classes of their fellow- 

 subjects to this most important ob- 

 ject, and may induce them to adopt 

 such detailed regulations respecting 

 the consumption of their families in 

 the different sorts of grain and other 

 articles of provisions as may not 

 merely produce a general resolution 

 to economize as much as possible in 

 those articles, but may aJso ensure 

 the full execution of this laudable 

 disposition, by such particular mea- 

 sures as may be most practicable for 

 thatpurposeinthe different districts 

 of the kingdom. 



With this view the lords' commit- 

 tees think it right here to add, that 

 as the use of pure wheaten bread, 

 and of other articles made of pure 

 wheaten flour, oughtin their judge- 

 ment to be wholly discontinued by 

 all persons whose means and cir- 

 cumstances enable them to have re- 

 course to other articles of subsist- 

 ence it appears to them extremely 

 desirable, that every practicable en- 

 couragement should be given by 

 parliament, if necessarj', and by the 

 magistratesin the different districts 

 of the county, under the now-exist- 

 ing laws, to the grinding wheaten 

 flour (mixed in such proportions as 

 may be found most advantageous) 

 with barley, oats, pease, or rye ; 

 and although it is the intention of 

 the committee to pursue a more de- 

 tailed inquiry into the whole of this 

 partof the subject, they are induced 

 to mention this point more parti- 

 cularly in the present instance, from 

 their havingbeen informed thatmis- 

 apprehension has prevailed in some 

 parts of tlie kingdom respecting the 

 .present state of thelawson this sub- 

 ject, and that it has not been uni- 

 versally understood by the millers 

 and other persons engaged in those 

 concerns that the grinding mixed 

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flour, compounded of any or all the 

 different articles above enumerated, 

 is not only legal, where the article 

 is openly sold as being so mixed, 

 but is highly commendable in those 

 who at the present period endeavour 

 to introduce such mixtures into more 

 general consumption. 



Second Report, hy the Lords' Com- 

 miltees on the present Scarcity of 

 Corn. 



Ordered to report, that the lords* 

 committees have, since their first 

 report to your lordships, proceeded 

 with all the diligence in their 

 power to investigate the several 

 matters referred to them by the 

 house. 



They have thought, in an in- 

 quiry so interesting and important 

 as that which was referred to them, 

 that it became them to endeavour 

 to inform themselves upon the sub- 

 jects connected with it, both exten- 

 sively and in detail ; and, although 

 they have hitherto principally con- 

 fined their inquiries to the actual 

 state of the harvest of this year, the 

 stock of old corn in hand, the pro- 

 bability of importation, and the 

 means of procuring substitutes, as 

 well as of introducing them into 

 more general use, they have also 

 endeavoured to inform themselves 

 upon other matters connected with 

 a still more extensive view of this 

 important subject- 

 Par/ First. — DeJiciencyqfCrop, ^c. 



The lords' committees think it 

 their duty to call the attention of 

 the house, in the first place, to the 

 actual state of the late harvest. 



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