The Sun.
London, England, 1801-05-29 00:00:00

SIXTH REPORT

PROM THE COMMITTEE OF THE
HOUSE OF COMMONS,

411"INTED TO CONSIDER OF THE PRESENT HIGH

PRICE OF PROVISIONS.

THE Committee have received information of an
invention made by Mr. ROBEKT FERRYMAN, for
taking off the outward coat of the Grain of Wheat
Previous to its being ground; by which it appears
that the whole of the Grain may be used in Bread,
llriglout any of the inconveniencies that have hither.
tbeen found in Bread made from the whole of the
eal ; and, as it appears from the evidence (which
is inserted in the Appendix) that this invention
M4Y be attended with advantage to the Public, your
c
time have thought it their duty to lose no
Irrne in laying before the House the information they
have received on the subject.
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APPENDIX.
•
• .•M
gammtrron of Robert FerrjOiritt•
tee ghatt is the object of your attendance before this Commit-
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To explain to the Committee the advantages arising from Taking the outer coat from Wheat previbUs to its being groUnd.
Explain those advantages to the Committee,
Mr. Ferryman delivered in to the Committee, a statement
kaf Experiments made under the direction of Sir Cleorp One-
alpliorus Paul, which was read.
Where, and when were those Experiments made ?
At the Duke of Bedford's at Woburn, about six weeks ago.
Of what does the broad Bran of Wheat consist ~„1)f part of the external, and part of the internal coats. of
Wheat.
there any nourishment in the external coat of the Wheat
which you propose to take away ?
None.
Is
to the n the Brandl conceive it to be the most nutritious part of the Wheat.
Dori blanched Wheat grind sooner than the same kind of
wheat in its perfeat state?
In two-thirds of the time.
Can lca You etfeCtually
n.
In what time?
At the rate of twenty bushels per hour.
Can damaged Wheat be blanched with equal facility with
'",alltage,ci Wheat ?
All Wheat is capable of being blanched although damaged ;
but ?
tthe better the Wheat, with the greater faoility it blanches,
Llaac'ould the state of the damaged Corn be improved when
bed
chit
‘,lStrtainlyd ;
ama but a, great deal depends
upon the mode in
I'is ged

Examivat;on of His Grace the Duke of Bedford.
F. 1113 •Grate delivered in to the Committee, a statement of
tealeninents made from blanched Wheat, &c. (which was
• u and which His Grace is satisfied is correel).
,
ttlis l?0ur Grace of opinion, that Bread, made of the whole
the lie, meal from blanched Wheat, is better or. worse than
made according to the late Alof Parliament ?
Infinitely better.
i
"is Grace having informed the Committee that he had
several Samples of Flour made according to the above
Hreao
Pe menu, which he would send to be baked into
The e""lunittee determined that the said Samples should
anent to the Albion Mills and to Chelsea hospital,
that the result should be communicattxl. to the
....onn •
no _ inittee.
,bO,„ You think the outer skin entirely taken off in the
exPerihtents ?
Are Or entirely so.
so f, )511 of opinion that this method of branching IVheat is
Pra6fivable as likely to be of general utility ?
have no doubt the Machinery Wray be applied to all
Th„,cr Mills, and likewise to every mill on a large scale.
I.,,,l;i,Plachlne does not require quite the power necessary for
the ^lng 4 pair of stones; and Wheat having gone through
eas; Process of blanching and drying, will grind so much
that I apprehend three pair of stones will make more
than four pair of stones employed in grinding Wheat in
11.c`r'4Innlon state. In ereeling a new mill no additional ex..
I,4`,e,would be created, except the building of kiln. I
ecend there may be some difficulty in carrying this
tip into into efliedi, even supposing it to answer the ex peda-
'pe;;; I have formed of it, because I conceive the dislike the
pal ti' Classes have to Brown 13reacl, to be founded in the im
practised by the Millers in the manufaelure of
1114,7. Flour, and, the knowledge they have that from the
e4v.!'ty of rubbish mixed in the Bread made from it, it is
tle,i;;.ritttritious and wholesome as that made front the finer
, and as the Flour made under this process must of
be t. 4 be of a dark colohr, the same dislike will naturally
CounThe only way, therefore, by which the
kanswell,ean be fully benefited by the discovery (if it should
u,lng'jqc expectations I have formed of it) will be, by its
aqui --"uPted in the, Public Mills ; and as 1 conceive great
n~tiiteitg.,‘ would result to the Country front the establish-
ublic Mills in different parts of the Country, for the
riot 04,1t7 of. manutittring Flour for the use of the poor, I am
tic% ki.ut hopes that this discovery may tend to the adop-
-4 sclnic Plan tbr that purpose.

PR /Cl:' 01
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dank Stock 1671 8 7i
"oY 5 per Cent. 9660
Pei ent. 1797, 94i 314
4 pct rI4II-5 per Cent.
ent. Con. 784
b3l)er Cent. Red. 601
eer Cent.
11 Con. Goil 6 r
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D ongAnn.tB i-i 6
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,itt !tto Sitnrt Ann.

F STOCKS,

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India Stock
Ditto Bonds s.
Exchequer Bilk s.
New ditto s. dis.
Lottery Tickets
(Thulium 9i 9
Inver. 3 per Cent. Oa
Ditto Ann. tt s-164
Bank for Account
India for May
Cons, for op.

Nom 'No is better calculated to shew how much
eulogium, gratitude, and support, we owe to our
brave Army in Egypt, than the different efforts
made by the Chief Consul to preserve the conquest
of that country, the darling objeet of his personal
ambition, and so highly important with respea to
the interests of the Country which he governs.—
We see that the Squadron of GANTWEAUME has a
third time put to sea, for it must be that of
which the Leghorn Letter in the last Haw_
burgh Mail, announces the arrival in that Port
on the Ist instant. Lord KEITH had already
more than three weeks before that period, been
fully informed of the appearance of that hostile
Fleet in the Mediterranean. Sir JOHN BORLASE
WARREN was also upon the look-out for it, and this
co-operation of our Forces left little chance of escape
to GANTHEAUME, or whoever may have been ap-
pointed his Successor. But should he even have the
good fortune to elude, for some short period, the vi-
gilance of our Naval Forces, he will not have been
able to have disembarked any of'the devoted vielims
he may carry, on the Coasts of Africa, in the neigh-
bourhood of Egypt, until towards the middle of the
present month, and we may.suppose that the fate
of that Country must have been by that time in a
great measure decided. Nor will the attempt of
BONAPARI E be less vain to send from the Ports
pf the Kingdom of Naples some Ships into that of
Alexandria, amid all the risks to which the vigi-
lance of our Fleets exposes them. This desperate
resource must arrive too late ; it might have been
efficacious three months ago ; it may now probably
serve only to augment the number of viaim; whom
the momentary possession of that Military Colony
must have cost France.

There seems reason to suppose, that the French
Goiernment does nor dissemble that it can entertain
little hopes on this head, as we see it seeking for
fresh pledges, or again seizing those which it bad
sacrificed to the desire pf conciliating the favour of
the late EMPEROR PAUL. It is thus that Piedmont
has been united to the Republic, that the Kingdom
of Naples has been again taken possession of, and
that the so long-threatened conquest of Portugal is
at length to be attempted. The two latter opera-
tions evidently prove, that, notwithstanding the af-
feCted eulogiums which the French bestow on the
EMPEROR. ALEXANDER, they entertain no hopes
of any thing from him, as, if it had been otherwise,
they would never have ventured to dethrone two
Sovereigns, in whom the Court of Peieerbilegb must
feel an interest. It cannot be doubted, that this
Monarch means to pursue as much of the political
conduit of his Predecessor, as is honourable in a
Sovereign, and favourable to the interests of social
order. BONAPARTE, in the loss of the EMPEROR
PAUL, has lost every thing : he was the only Prince
who adcd oftener from passion and feeling, than
from reason or the interests of his Country. All other
Sovereigns will, there is room to believe, an accord-
ing to the one or other of these two motives, and in
either case BONAPARTE must find in them either open
or concealed enemies. The solution of the daily more
complicated affairs of Europe, appears finally to de-
pend upon two things—the issue of the Expedition
to Egypt, and that of Lord ST. HE Negotia-
tip at Petersburgh. Our interests are in both
qUarters in such good hands, that we expeCt the
future with confidence and tranquillity.

Government yesterday received Letters from
iiambwsh, to the same purport with the intelli-
gence we yesterday stated, of the Evacuation of
that City by the Danes on the 23d instant.
Mr. DUNDAS gave a grand entertainment yeiter-
day at Wimbledon, in compliment to Mr. Pm,
who completed the .44. th year of his age.
Lord BORINGDON gave a grand dinner yester_
day, at his house in Hill-street, Berkeley-square,
at which were present Their Royal Highnesses the
PRINCE of WALES and Dus.s of Yoax, and the
Earl of CHATHANt.

Earl CLARE was yesterday considerably recover.
ed from his indisposition.
Neutral vessels that have lately arrived state,
that Admiral V 1 LLARET JOYIUSE, who was so
completely beaten by the late Earl How a, on the
Ist of June, 1794, is again appointed to the com-
mand of the combined fleets in Brest.

It is again said, that dispatches received by Go-
vernment from Llrd ELGIN, state the arrival in
the Red Sea of the Troops from the East Indies, de.
stirred to co-operate against the French in Egypt.
They are reported to consist of 1200 men from the
Cape of Good Hope, 2ocio from the Presidency of
Bombay, and 800 from Ceylon. The naval force
was commanded by Sir H. Portimet, and the mili-
tary by General BAIRD.

Sir HARRY VANE TEMP ST has sold his famous
horse Cockfighter, and ako Lis Rolla, together for
4000 guineas.