Star.
London, England, 1801-11-27 00:00:00

ROUSE OF COMMONS.

A Petition was prefented from the Debtors in Ilehefter
Gaol, praying relief of the Houfe, which was ordered to lie on
tke Table.
The Bill formerly introduced by Mr. Newbolt, for enabling
juttlees to empower Overfeers to grant relief tothc Poor in cer-
tain cafes, without obligleig them to wear the badge required
by the Bth and 9th of Wilitam,was wfthdnven on account of
I' me inaccuracies, and another to the fame efed introduced 'n
its room. This was read a firft and fecond time, and commit-
ted for to-morrow.
The SLCRRTAIT at WAR prcfcnted a variety of eftimates of
(urns riecerary for fuck departments of the military eitablifh-
milt of Ireland as were not already provided for by the votes
of the Houk. The papers were ordered tulle oa the table, and
the Right Honourable Secretary Rated that he fhould on Mon-
day move shat they he referred to the Committee of Supply.
Mr.Cuaav WO prefented eftimates of miließaneous fervices
for Ireland for three months, the confideration of which, he
gave novice, be &Quid move in the fame Committee.
ASSIZE OF BREAD.
Mr. Alderman Corm intimated that he would
on Monday move for leave to bring in a Bill to
repeal two Ads paired in the 37th and 38th of his
prefent Majefty, letting the mode of fixing
.the
Affize of Bread. This fubjed had been taken into
vet), ferious confidcrmion by the Magistrates of
the City, and, after the fullea inveftigation, they
were convinced that the prefent mode of felting'
the Affize was extremely inadequate and objec-
tionable.
Mr. BABINGTON mentioned a radical defed in
the mode of fixing the Mize of Bread, under the
prefent laws. He reminded the Houfe that the
Mize was fet according to the market price of the
bufhel of wheat, and was fair between the Baker
and the Confunter only, when the buthel of corn
weighed about 6o pounds. But as the weight of
that meafure of corn varied from 55 to 65 pounds,
and as the quantity of flour and of bread which
could be procured from the corn depended on its
weight, it was evident that when that weight was
below Go pounds, the Baker would have too little
profit, and when above 6o pounds, he would have
toss high a profit. It was evident that in the one
cafe the Baker, and in the other the public, would
be likely to be difcontented. He mentioned the
difagrecable consequences which had arifen from
this caufe among his Conflituents at Leicefter ;
rand laid that he was at prefent difpofed to think
1 that the evil would be belt remedied by palling a
law that all wheat fhould be fold by weight, and
not by meafure, and by direding that the Affite
Ihould be let according to the market price of a
certain weight of that article. He intended,how-
' ever, to confider the fubjeet further during the ap-
proaching It ecefs, and ha hoped other Gentlemen
would do the fame. lie trolled that the Houle
would attend to the points he had mentioned,
tince the iliteiefts of tl._ poor were fo much con-
cerned—into-efts which the Houle would at all
times watch over with peculiar care, but particu-
larly at the prefent moment, when it had witnetted,
during a very trying fcareity, the exemplary for-
titude and patience of the lower orders of focicty.
The worthy A tutit,tas, in explanationovithed
to have It ur.,:erituoil that his objeft was to bring
the Mize back to the mode fpecified in the 3 t ft of
his prefent Majcity; and though he did not mean
to fry that it would remedy every evil complained
of, it would at least have the effed of placing
things on a mach better footing than they at pre-
fent flood.