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1800. } 
renewed with-redoubled violence in: the 
ipring. 
In the mean time the parliament has 
again met, an inquiry has been intimated 
as likely to take place, relative to the 
late failure in Holland, and if the offers 
of peace be not finally litened to, new 
taxes muft be devifed for carrying on the 
war 
Our ally, 
THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY, 
Has lately obtained poffeffion of Man- 
hein, and gained feveral advantages on 
the banks of the Rhine. This prince, 
who at the beginning of the conteft, {eemed 
likely to be ftript of a large portion of his 
dominions, and reduced to a power.of the 
fecond order, has acquired extenfive domi- 
nions in Italy; ahd is enabled in confe- 
quence of a feries of lucky occurrences, 
either to conclude an advantageous peace 
‘arriages and Deaths in and near London. 
Sr 
with France, or once more try the hazard* 
ous game of war, with a far better pre’ 
{pect of fuecels than before. In the mean 
time, 
RUSSIA, 
Which has hitherto acquired nothing by 
the conteft, but the ttular dignity of grand 
matter of Malta for its fovereign, feems 
more anxious however to open the cam- 
paign, having adjufted the recent differences 
with the houfe of Auftria, relative to the 
treatment of Suwarrow in Switzerland. 
The emigrants are accordingly completing 
their batialions, in confequence' of orders 
from the cabinet of Peterfburgh; and the 
allied courts after: fuch a feries of difap- 
pelatments, and fo many years of unde. 
cifive warfare, do not yet defpair to be 
able to make an impreflion, on the rox 
Frontier ot France ! 


INCIDENTS, anpD MARRIAGES anp DEATHS 1n anv ngaR LONDON. 
—— ' 
THE direGtors of the Weft-India Dock 
Company have given notice, that they are 
st to receive Tenders for excavating the 
Weft-India Docks in the Ife of Dogs. The 
quantity to be excavated in the firft inftance, 
amounts to upwards of forty acres. 
At an efpecial court of aldermen, held 
January Sth, on the fubjeCt of the prefent 
high price of bread, the Lord Mayor ftated, 
that he had cbifulted the Recorder upon this 
urgent oceafion; and it was his decided opi- 
ion, that the a& of the 13th of the King, 
cap. 62:-is in full force. The Recorder hav- 
ing confirmed this, it was then moved and 
carried unanimoufly, ‘¢ 1. That to economife 
-the expenditure of wheaten flour, it is ne- 
Ceflary to enforce the provifions of the aét of 
13 George Li]. c. 62. ankfecondly, that the 
Lord Mayor. be dire&ted to’give the neceflary 
orders for an application to the quarter fei- 
fions for that purpofe.” The farft of thefe 
_ xefolutions has been fince oppofed by counfel, 
on the part of the bakers of the metropolis; 
but it appears to be the intention of the city 
magiftrates, to carry it into execution, and 
in this they have been followed by the ma-_ 
gittrates of the county of Middlefex. 
We are induced to give place to the fol- 
lowing receipt for raking Soup, as praéticed 
at the foup eftablifiment “in Spital-fields ; in 
the hope, thar it may be ufeful to many fo- 
_sieties and individuals, who are about to form 
fimilar eftablifhments. 
* Receipt for making one hundred gallons 
of Soup, at the expence of about 13d per quart. 
>-3 ftones of beef, or 641b.; 16 ftones of thins; 
46lb. of peafe; 3olb. of Scotch barley j 
Montuiy Mac. No. 55- 
24lb. of onions; 8lb. of falt; 31@ oz. of 
black pepper. Potatoes may be added, and 
the quantity of peafe and barley reduced, 
The boiler in which the foup is made, 
muft be nearly filled with water before the 
other ingredients are put in; and it muft bz 
filled up with boiling water in the morning, 
to make up for evaporation in the night, 
during the whole of which the foup is eve 
fimmering ; the fire being damped the laf 
thing in the evening, to prevent its going out. 
The Pott-Horfe Duty was lately fold by 
auction, at the Crown and Anchor, for the 
three years enfuing at 14,0001. per annum, 
-more than the amount of the la& ‘three 
years ! 
A new road is projected to Windfor, which 
is to turn off at the 16 mile ftone, pafs through 
‘Horton, and terminate oppofite the Park Gate 
at Frogmore. The faving will be nearly 
two miles between London and Windfor, 
Government on December 23d, through - 
the Duke of Portland, addreffed' a circular 
letter to the Lords Licurenants of counties, 
reminding them, that Juftices in Quarter 
feflions are empowered to direét, that no finer 
bread fhall be made than Standard Wheaten, 
to be compofed of flour without any mixture 
or divifion,. but containing three-fourths of 
the weight of the wheat, the bran or hull 
only being omitted; whereas, in the fpecies 
of fine white bread now ufually confumed, 
not more than 36lbs. of bread is produced 
from 6clbs. of flour, being nearly one-fourth 
lefs than the required quantity ; and requeft- 
ing their Lord thips co recommend the enforce 
ing she Eeerinans of the Ad, 
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