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Monthly Chronicle.
A subscription is opened at Lloyd ' s Coffee-house for the sole purpose of redeeming working tools , deaths , And other necessaries , pledged by the necessitous poor during the late inclement season . The different encampments about to take place on our coasts , will , it is said , consist of 150 , 000 men . Mr .- Sheriff Earner is elected Alderman of Langbourn Ward , in the room of the late Alderman Sawbridge .
At Winchester , the two Judges , Buller and Lawrence , were so afflicted with the gout , as to be unable to move from their carriages , and remained in them , while the commission was opened in the porch of the hall . FLOODS , & C . —The accounts from different parls of the country since our last relate the most dreadful effects from the late thaw ; bridges , houses , banks , trees , felled timber , & c . & c . are all involved in the common-wreck , in every direction : and to these we may add , the loss of several lives , and of a great
number of cattle . In Lincolnshire , Cambridgeshire , and the Isle of Ely , near 300 , 000 acres have been drowned , according to the provincial phrase , by ihe successive floods ; and the damage , by the destruction of grain of various kinds in barns , & c . is estimated at more than 500 , 000 ! . —Corn , and hay slacks floated through the country . —The towns cf Bedford , Peterborough , Gainsborough , Wisbeach , & c . have suffered dreadfully . Or LOSSES IN THE MERCANTILE LINE . At Gainsboroughdismal to
re-, late , sugar , salt , hops , cheese , and various sorts of" merchandize , to the amount of thousands , are all destroyed . —Three houses by the violence of the water were thrown down in the above town ; and people , old and young , floating on its surface ; large boats plying about the streets , taking the suffering creatures out of their chamber windows , and saving a remnant of their broken furniture ; some hogs and horned cattle got up into chambers , and others were drowned . —The farmers in Derbyshire have lost an immense quantity of cattle .
A most melancholy accident happened at Wellinborongh ; the waters were so much out , that Mr . Woolston , who kept the wharf-house on the river , was under the necessity of removing his family , nearly naked , in a boat , at four o ' clock on Tuesday morning . He had landed his wife and two children on the bridge , and was helping out his other child , a little boy of about five or sixyears of age , T . vhcn part of one ' of the arches fell in , and sunk Ihe boat with the man and his child ; neither of whom have since been heard of " . The poor woman and her two children remained on the bridge till about six o ' clockwhen they were
for-, tunately discovered and rescued from their perilous situation . . Good and cheap Beer , with any tubs or pails , on the smallest scale for every 'poor family . ' —Haifa bushel of mall , five ounces of hops , twelve gallons of water , boiled down to ten at least . Let the fire go out , and when the first heat of the water is off , put in the malt , and let it steep thus for three hours , stirring it rather frequently ; ( hen light the fire again , and put in the hops , tied up , in some thin clothand let the whole boil half an hourstirring it as before then take it out
, , ; , and strain it through an hair cloth or sieve , setting it to work when barely lukewarm with a pint of yeast . Valuing the grains and the increase of yeast , this good beer will be about four-pence per gallon . POTATOE BREAD . —To those ivho-prefer making potatoes into bread , to the common modes of using them , the following receipt is recommended : " Choose ihe most mealy sort of polatoe , boil and skin them . Take izlbs . break and strain well through a coarse sieve of hairor fine one of
very , avery wire , in such a manner as to reduce the roots , as nearly as possible , to a state of Hour . Mix it well wilh 2 olbs . of wheaten flour . Of this mixture make and set the dough exactly in the same manner as if the whole were wheaten flour . This quantity will make nine loaves of about sfbs . each in the dough , and when baked about two hours will produce 421 b . of excellent bread . " The raw potatoe also , skinned and grated down , and mixed with flour in the -above proportion , makes very good bread .
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Monthly Chronicle.
A subscription is opened at Lloyd ' s Coffee-house for the sole purpose of redeeming working tools , deaths , And other necessaries , pledged by the necessitous poor during the late inclement season . The different encampments about to take place on our coasts , will , it is said , consist of 150 , 000 men . Mr .- Sheriff Earner is elected Alderman of Langbourn Ward , in the room of the late Alderman Sawbridge .
At Winchester , the two Judges , Buller and Lawrence , were so afflicted with the gout , as to be unable to move from their carriages , and remained in them , while the commission was opened in the porch of the hall . FLOODS , & C . —The accounts from different parls of the country since our last relate the most dreadful effects from the late thaw ; bridges , houses , banks , trees , felled timber , & c . & c . are all involved in the common-wreck , in every direction : and to these we may add , the loss of several lives , and of a great
number of cattle . In Lincolnshire , Cambridgeshire , and the Isle of Ely , near 300 , 000 acres have been drowned , according to the provincial phrase , by ihe successive floods ; and the damage , by the destruction of grain of various kinds in barns , & c . is estimated at more than 500 , 000 ! . —Corn , and hay slacks floated through the country . —The towns cf Bedford , Peterborough , Gainsborough , Wisbeach , & c . have suffered dreadfully . Or LOSSES IN THE MERCANTILE LINE . At Gainsboroughdismal to
re-, late , sugar , salt , hops , cheese , and various sorts of" merchandize , to the amount of thousands , are all destroyed . —Three houses by the violence of the water were thrown down in the above town ; and people , old and young , floating on its surface ; large boats plying about the streets , taking the suffering creatures out of their chamber windows , and saving a remnant of their broken furniture ; some hogs and horned cattle got up into chambers , and others were drowned . —The farmers in Derbyshire have lost an immense quantity of cattle .
A most melancholy accident happened at Wellinborongh ; the waters were so much out , that Mr . Woolston , who kept the wharf-house on the river , was under the necessity of removing his family , nearly naked , in a boat , at four o ' clock on Tuesday morning . He had landed his wife and two children on the bridge , and was helping out his other child , a little boy of about five or sixyears of age , T . vhcn part of one ' of the arches fell in , and sunk Ihe boat with the man and his child ; neither of whom have since been heard of " . The poor woman and her two children remained on the bridge till about six o ' clockwhen they were
for-, tunately discovered and rescued from their perilous situation . . Good and cheap Beer , with any tubs or pails , on the smallest scale for every 'poor family . ' —Haifa bushel of mall , five ounces of hops , twelve gallons of water , boiled down to ten at least . Let the fire go out , and when the first heat of the water is off , put in the malt , and let it steep thus for three hours , stirring it rather frequently ; ( hen light the fire again , and put in the hops , tied up , in some thin clothand let the whole boil half an hourstirring it as before then take it out
, , ; , and strain it through an hair cloth or sieve , setting it to work when barely lukewarm with a pint of yeast . Valuing the grains and the increase of yeast , this good beer will be about four-pence per gallon . POTATOE BREAD . —To those ivho-prefer making potatoes into bread , to the common modes of using them , the following receipt is recommended : " Choose ihe most mealy sort of polatoe , boil and skin them . Take izlbs . break and strain well through a coarse sieve of hairor fine one of
very , avery wire , in such a manner as to reduce the roots , as nearly as possible , to a state of Hour . Mix it well wilh 2 olbs . of wheaten flour . Of this mixture make and set the dough exactly in the same manner as if the whole were wheaten flour . This quantity will make nine loaves of about sfbs . each in the dough , and when baked about two hours will produce 421 b . of excellent bread . " The raw potatoe also , skinned and grated down , and mixed with flour in the -above proportion , makes very good bread .