no affize loaves of the price of 3d. and prized loaves called half quartern loaves; nor aflize loaves at 6d. and prized quartern loaves; nor affize loaves at izd.' and prized half peck loaves; nor affize loaves at 18d. and prized peck loaves) shall at the fame time, in any place be made for fale, or be offered or exposed for or to fale, or allowed to be fold; that unwary perfons may not be prejudiced by buying affize loaves for prized loaves, or prized loaves for aflize loaves, on pain of forfeiting not exceeding 40s. nor lefs than 10s.

Juftices, at any general, quarter, or petty feffion, may appoint which of the forts of affize or prized loaves, and what other forts of bread, and of what grain, fhall be made for fale; caufing an entry to be made of fuch orders; which fhall be free for inspection; and a copy thereof fhall be fet up in fome market or other public place; or published in the country news-papers.

Juftices fhall not allow the making for fale, or felling, any affize bread made of the flour or meal of wheat, other than wheaten and houfhold bread, and loaves of white bread of the price of 2d. or under.

A like proportion, as to weight, fhall be kept between the white and wheaten bread, and the wheaten and houshold affize bread; that is to fay, every white loaf of the price of zd. or under, shall always weigh three parts in four of the weight of the wheaten loaf of the like price, as near as may be; and every wheaten aflize loaf of whatsoever price, fhall weigh three parts in four of the weight of every houfhold affize loaf of the like price; and every houfhold affize loaf fhall

weigh one third part more than every wheaten affize loaf of the like price: Every person who fhall make for fale, fell, or offer for fale, or have in cuftody for fale, any loaf in which the faid proportions cr regulations fhall not be obferved, as near as may be, fhall, on conviction, for every fuch offence, forfeit a fum not exceeding 40s.

A proportion in the price fhall be kept in the peck loaf and half peck, and its other fubdivifions, both in the wheaten and in houshold bread; and the houshold shall be one fourth cheaper than the wheaten; on penalty of forfeiting, not exceeding 40s. nor less than 10s.

Every peck loaf fhall weigh, in Averdupois-weight, 17 lb, 6 cz. every half peck loaf, 8 lb. 11 oz. every quarter of a peck loaf, 4 lb. 5

oz. and every half quarter of a peck loaf, 2 lb. 21 oz. on pain of forfeiting not exceeding 5s. nor less than 1s. for every ounce wanting in the weight; nor exceeding 2s. 6d. nor lefs than 6d. for all under I oz. the fame to be weighed before a juftice, within 24 hours after being baked, fold, or expofed to fale, &c. if within any city, town-corporate, &c. or within the bills of mortality; and in other places, within three days; unless fuch deficiency fhall be fatisfactorily accounted for.

Bread of an inferior quality to wheaten, fhall not be fold at a higher price than the houfhold; on pain of forfeiting not exceeding 20s.

A large Roman (W) fhall be imprinted on all wheaten bread made for fale; and a large Roman (H) on all houshold bread; on pain of forfeiting not exceeding 40s. nor

lefs

lefs than 10s. unless fuch omiffion fhall be fatisfactorily accounted for. Bread made of any other grain than wheat, shall be impreffed with fuch letters as the juftices fhall order; they caufing an entry to be made of fuch order, in a book kept for that purpose; which fhall be free for infpection; and a copy thereof shall be fet up in fome market, or other public place, or published in the country news papers. Where the juftices neglect to make fuch order, the maker fhall mark every fuch loaf with any two diftinct capital letters; on pain of forfeiting not exceeding 40s. nor lefs than 5s. for every fuch unmarked loaf. Juftices and peace officers (authorised by warrant of a justice) may enter the houfes of bakers, and fearch for, examine, and weigh all bread made for, or expofed to fale, &c. and bread found defective in the weight, or not duly marked, or wanting in due baking, or goodness, or being fraudulently mixt, &c. may be feized and given to the poor, unless fuch default fhall be fatisfactorily accounted for; and the maker and feller fhall alfo forfeit not exceed ing 51. nor less than 20s. for every fuch offence, unless the default fhall be fatisfactorily accounted for.

The penalty of oppofing any legal fearch, view, weighing, trying, or feizing of bread, fhall not

exceed 40s. nor be less than zos. No miller, mealman, or baker, fhall act as a juftice in the execution of this act, on penalty of 50l. A baker making it appear, that any offence, for which he fhall have paid the penalty, was occafioned by the neglect or default of his fervant, the juftice fhall iffue his warrant for bringing the offender before him; and on conviction, fhall order a fum to be paid by way of fatisfaction; and on non-payment thereof, fhall commit fuch fervant to hard labour, for any time not exceeding one month, unless payment shall be made fooner.

The other claufes of this act direct how penalties are to be recovered before juftices, and give perfons, who deem themselves aggrieved by the determination of any juftice, a power of appealing to the quarter-feflion; and all profecutions must be commenced within three days after the offence committed; and one moiety of all money forfeited, given to the perfon who fhall inform againft, and profecute to conviction the offender; and the other moiety thereof is to be applied as the justice before whom any offender against the act shall be convicted, fhall order, to carry into execution the purpofes of the act, and to defray the charges attending the carrying the fame into execution.

An account of the Proceedings in the Honourable Houfe of Commons with regard to private Mad-boufes.

THE committee appointed by

that

the house of commons to enquire into the ftate of private madhoufes, made their report on the 22d of Feb.1763, with refpect to the manner of admitting patients, and the treatment of them after admiffion. It appears, that at a mad-house kept by one Turlington, at Chelsea, all perfons, who were brought, were admitted without enquiry; fome perfons were admitted, and forcibly confined in that houfe who were not even pretended to be mad, under the denomination of lodgers; that one Mrs. Smith was received into the house, and confined merely at the defire of her husband, who did not pretend fhe was a lunatic, but only that the neighbours were afraid he would fet the house on fire, and that fix guineas a quarter were paid for her maintenance. That others were admitted for drunkenness, and other reafons of the fame kind, alledged by thofe who brought them.

It appears alfo, that the perfons confined in this house were denied the use of pen, ink, and paper, and fecluded from all commerce with the world, being conftantly denied, if any enquiry was made after them at the house. In this houfe not one perfon had been admitted as a lunatic during fix years paft; and King, who was deputed by Turlington, declared, upon his examination, that if two perfons had come to the house, one calling herfelf the mother of the other, and charging the fuppofed daughter with drunkennefs, he fhould have admitted and confined the perfon fo

charged, without farther enquiry. Dr. Battie declared, upon examination, that private mad-houses require farther regulation; that frequent vifitation is neceffary; that he has frequently feen perfons confined who were not, nor pretended to be lunatics; that upon expoftulating with the husband of one fuch perfon brought to a house under the doctor's direction, he frankly declared, that he confidered the house as a kind of bridewell, or house of correction.

Dr. Battie alfo related the cafe of a person whom he visited in a madhoufe kept by one Macdonald, where he had been fome years confined without any medical affistance, and where, without any medical affiftance, he died of a fever some time afterwards, when a fum of money devolved upon a person who had the care of him.

Dr. Monroe concurred in Dr. Battie's opinion, that private madhoufes ought to be under proper infpection, and that many perfons, not mad, nor pretending to be mad, are, and have long been, confined in them.

The committee alfo declare, that the enormities committed at Turlington's are not fingular, his house not being a felect cafe, but only offering in the course of enquiry, with many others, that it was not thought neceffary to go into the exmination of, as the facts already afcertained are fufficient to ground their opinion upon, viz. that the prefent ftate of private mad-houfes requires the interpofition of the legislature.

In pursuance of this report, a bill was ordered to be brought into the houfe for that purpofe.

For many extraordinary particulars relating to perfons confined

by

by Turlington at Chelfea, and Miles at Hoxton, the reader is referred to the report itself.

An account of the Mutiny at Quebec on the 18th of September 1763, by an officer of that garrison.

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N the 18th of Sept. in confefequence of orders received from the commander in chief in America, general Murray gave out orders to top four-pence fterling for each ration of provifions to be iffued to the troops under his command, the 15th, 27th and 2d battalion of the 60th regiment.

This order being made known to the foldiers, that very evening, immediately after roll calling, they affembled to a man, but without arms, and paraded before the governor's houfe. Before they faw him, fome of the English merchants having the boldness to reproach them for this behaviour, they began to pelt them with ftones; fome officers interfered and drew their fwords, on which the foldiers ran in a tumultuous manner to their barracks, took their arms, and marched in good order, with drums beating, towards St. John's Gate.

They were met by the governor, who, in the beginning of the tumult, had in vain endeavoured to affemble the piquets. He came then from vifiting the guards, and was attended only by a few officers and ferjeants, with whofe afiftance he oppofed their going any further. Enraged at this stop, fome of the mutineers fired their pieces, but happily no mifchief was done. Notwithflanding the repeated inftances of the governor, they would not hear him, but loudly declared their refolution to march to New York, with two

pieces of cannon, and lay their arms at general Amherft's feet; profeing at the fame time they had no pique at him or their officers, whom they loved and esteemed, but that it was impoflible for them to live without their provisions.

All the officers of the garrifon had now joined the governor, and the town major, lieutenant Mills of the 49th regiment, had prudently, with the few men that ftaid with him, fhut the gates. Though the foldiers appeared mad with rage, not one man being drunk, and had already ftruck feveral officers, yet the governor fucceeded fo far as to keep them together, and by that means, in all probability, prevented the town from being plundered, to which the darknefs of the night was at that hour but too favourable.

By the urgent follicitations of the officers, who exerted themfelves to the utmoft on this occafion, the foldiers were at last prevailed on to march to the grand parade, where the governor addreffed them file by file, and did all he could to appeafe them, but in vain. They obftinately perfifted, that they would not fubmit to the ftoppage of provifions, but ftill made proteftations of loyalty, and of perfonal regard to their officers; and when the governor ordered them to march to their barracks, and behave as foldiers ought, till their grievances were laid before the commander in chief, they obeyed, repeating their declaration, that they would not ferve without provifions. The remainder of the night all remained quiet.

Next day the guards mounted in good order, as ufual. General Murray called together the commiffioned and non-commiffioned officers, to whom he repieknied the

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neceffity of reducing the foldiers to obedience, or perifhing in the attempt. This garrifon being the ftrongest in America, fhould thefe mutineers obtain their defire, their example would be followed by all the troops throughout America, and an univerfal revolt from order would be the confequence. Their fituation therefore required their utmost exertion, and the most vigorous measures were neceffary for the fervice of their country.

It was agreed that mild methods fhould be taken; and that day and the next were spent by the officers, in ufing all manner of perfuafions, to induce the foldiers to fubmit to the order, but with fmall fuccefs. On the afternoon of the 20th, the

governor harangued each battalion in the ftrongest and most affecting manner, which feemed to have fome effect. He then ordered the garrifon to be under arms next day at ten o'clock, on the grand parade.

When they were affembled, the governor himself read the articles of war, and after painting to them in the strongest terms the enormity of their crime, he declared his fixed refolution, with the affiftance of the officers, to oblige them to fubmit, or to perish in the attempt.

He then went to the head of Amherft's grenadiers, determined to put to death the firft man that refufed to obey. He commanded them, in fign of compliance of orders, to march betwixt two royal colours, planted for that purpose. They did fo, and returned with chearfulness to their duty, expreffing forrow for their paft behaviour; and all the rest followed their example. The general then declared they had recovered their character

as good foldiers, and reftored the battalions to their colours.

Their behaviour fince has been fuch as it was ever before this affair, deferving of the highest praife, and fuch as gives reafon to all who know them, to wish that no indulgence (if fo neceffary an article as provifions to foldiers in America must be called fo) may be taken away from troops, who have deferved fo well as they have done of their country.

Account of the Sums granted this Year by the Irish Houfe of Commons, for promoting the Manufactures, Trade, and Commerce of Ireland.

TO John Wetherell, for

preparing and framing £ the new intended book of rates,

For carrying on the inland na-
vigation from Limerick to
Killaloe,

For ditto, from Inifhanon to
Dunmanway,

400

2500

2000.

4000

For ditto, from the tide water at St. Mullins, to the town of Monasterevan, For ditto, from Kilkenny to Inifteague, 1500 For improving Cork harbour, 1500 For the pier of Balbriggan, 1500 For carrying on the inland navigation by making the river Lagan navigable, and for opening a paffage from Loughneagh to Belfaft, For ditto, for compleating a navigation for fhips of 100 tons burthen, from Fathom Point near Newry, to Drumglafs Colliery, in the county of Tyrone,

2000

4000

To