[Jan, 1, 
5iO Substitutes for JVheakn Bread* 
used in the sense, which the author of 
the above-mentioned note athrms “ that 
it will not admit of: ’’ viz. to be made or 
created. 
Thi s instance, sir, may serve to shew, 
bow little dependance is to be placed on 
biblical criticism; when, instead of being 
'sincerely directed to the investigation of 
truth, it is, as in the passage alluded to, 
exerted to forward the designs, or sup¬ 
port the tenets, of any particular sect or 
party in religion. D. 
Bpping, Nov. 10, 1811. 
To the Editor efthe MontTdy Magazine. 
SIR, 
C ONSIDERING you quite an im¬ 
partial man, and that your publica¬ 
tion is a vehicle where every correspon¬ 
dent is at liberty to-unbosom his senti- 
inents, I cannot refrain declaring my 
surprise, that the works of Walter Scott 
obtain so much of the public favor. I, 
for one, declare, that 1 cannot discover 
that hre so requisite in poetry, that sub¬ 
lime touch, which I must acknowledge, be¬ 
cause 1 feel, when reading a Shakespeare 
or a Burns. I think it certainly must be this 
ardour fo? arms, this desire ** to be a 
soldier” that hath turned tiie brain of the 
•present generation, and given to Scott his 
high pre-eminence, I would thank any 
of your correspondents to point out any 
one or more passages, out of-this author, 
which he may admire, and I will peruse 
ihera a second time. Perhaps I may be 
- wrong in my ideas; and certainly I must, 
for the public voice is against me ; and, 
having only received an English educa- 
lioii, and been bred a rusfic, I have but 
the simple leelings and ideas of 
A POOH CoUXTF.YTHA.V. 
Nov. 17, 1811. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE oresent high price of wbeaten 
bread, m Loudon, ouglit to call 
forth all our energies to eounteract it, by 
any substitute we can (even in part) Use 
in its stead. In the last very higii price 
of bread, I had the lionor to dine with 
c-ne of the highest Law-officers of the 
Crown;—he apologised to me for nut 
b-aving bread at his table,” for to each 
persop’s plate there was set a dessert plate 
With a tine roasted potato; he observed, 
its now the duty of every man, be his 
station or fortune what it may, to do ail 
in his power to lessen the consumption: 
we have bread^ and; if you prefer it, you 
shall have it, though perhaps, if you try 
the potato, you may like it as w’ell 
but be free.”— 
1 did so; and it proved quite as agreea¬ 
ble, and I have very often since, when I 
have had fine boiled mealy potatoes-, 
eaten no bread, and like it as well. There 
were several methods tried by various 
persons, to have their bread made of a 
mixture of wheaten flour and potatoes, 
or ground rice, &c. but none of them 
were quite pleasant. I read in your 
Magazine of July lasrt “ that bread made 
of w heaten and .ye liour, was made by a 
baker, on the West side of Fleet Mar¬ 
ket.”—i went there, had a very long in¬ 
vestigation of the business, and was so 
satisfied with his clear account of the 
process, and the goodness of his bread, 
that I have ever since been regularly 
supplied by him. He took'the idea from 
Dr. Buchan, who termed it maslin bread, 
the word denoting wheat and rve flour. 
— ® . * 
lie liad printed papers in his shop win¬ 
dow-, that must catch the notice of every 
person that passes. He, IVIr, Butlel, 
told me lately, “ that, in consequence of 
that letter of Philanthropos, in said July 
Magazine, he had calls from several phy¬ 
sicians and other medical men, who, 
haung examined his meal, and tasted 
it, and his bread, are so satisfied, that 
they have become constant customers, 
and are ready to convince any person of 
their great advantages, especially where 
there are children ; for there can be no 
alum required to make it look white, 
that being needless, as the pleasant light- 
brown colour rt'iuders it more agreeable. 
I truat, sir, that these, with one further 
argument, tiiat it is sold at the price of the 
fiousehold bread, will induce you to give 
tins paper an early admission, for th« 
sake of its widely-extended circulation; 
and do earnestly hope to see it copied in¬ 
to e\ery new’spaper in the kingdom, to 
counteract the rogues in grain. 
Nov. 1811. Pro Plblico Bono. 
P. S. Mr. Butler makes no secret of the 
mode of making this bread, so that every 
baker and private family in the kingdom may 
adopt his plan; though he will have the 
merit of first starting it in London : and it 
has this turcher good effect—it has induced 
the v.'orking people in Lpndon to use it, who, 
it is w'eJl known, would seldom eat the usual 
household, conceiving (I believe with great 
trutli) that it is generally made of bad flour, 
with various mixtures of raspinge, pollard. 
Sec. Jt is worthy the attention of officers of 
regiments, as in general the ammunition 
bread furnished to the soldiers, at l|d, per 
pound, is infinitely inf&iior. 
