"The recommendation of the Privy Council, to adopt the use of Household Bread, will be of little avail, unless their request is converted into an order, that no bread, above that standard, shall hereafter be baked: and every idea of expediency, and common policy, demands that some measure of this tendency should immediately be enforced."—(Times, July 17, 1795.)
"There is no economy more laudable at this moment, than that of lessening the consumption of bread, in private families. This has been practised with such success, by Mr. Parish, on Ludgate Hill, that he now consumes but four Brown loaves per week, in lieu of twelve, or thirteen, White ones, as formerly. This is a most notable example, and, we trust, will be imitated by many, though perhaps with somewhat less rigour. Mr. P.'s substitute for bread, are, principally, potatoes, and rice."—(Times, July 18, 1795.)
"In Sussex, the Gentry have adopted the most rational mode of diminishing the price of Corn. Instead of supplying the poor with bread, at a low price, which can only tend to increase the consumption, they give pickled pork, &c., to an equal amount, which, with the use of cabbage, beans, &c., may banish, without much suffering, the loaf, at least, from their dinner tables."—(Times, July 20, 1795.)
"After the humane example of the City, in leaving off their annual feasts, we are happy to find it is intended to be universally adopted by the surrounding parishes, and opulent families; particularly by some of the principal inhabitants of Whitechapel, who, at one of their Greenwich meetings, on Monday, wisely determined to eat venison, and white-bait, no longer than the season will produce them."—(Times, July 22, 1795.)
Some of the following set of moral rules might be followed with advantage at the present day:—
"THE WAY TO PEACE AND PLENTY.
Rules for the rich.
1. Abolish gravy soups, and second courses.
2. Buy no starch when wheat is dear.
3. Destroy all useless dogs.