This surplus is commonly employed in purchasing beer, brandy, tobacco, &c. Beer in Bavaria costs two creutzers a pint, brandy, or rather malt-spirits, from fifteen to eighteen creutzers; and tobacco is very cheap.

To enable the English reader to form, without the trouble of computation, a complete and satisfactory idea of the manner in which these Bavarian soldiers are fed, I have added the following Analysis of their fare; in which the quantity of each article is expressed in Avoirdupois weight, and its cost in English money.

Analysis.

Each person belonging to the mess
received in the course of the day, Cost in English
June
11th, 1795. money.
lb. oz. s. d.
Dry ammunition bread 1 8 76/100 0 0 10/11
Ammunition bread cooked
in the soup ... ... ... 0 2 4/10 0 0 23/264
Fine wheaten (semel)
bread in the dumplins ... 0 2 3/10 0 0
10/33
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Total bread 1 13 46/100
Fine flour in the dumplins 0 1 65/100 0 0 18/33
Boiled beef ...
... ... 0 3 1/10 0 0 72/198
In seasoning; fine herbs,
salt and pepper ... ... 0 0 13/100 0 0 2/33
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Total solids 2 2 34/100
Water prepared by cooking.
In the soup ... ... ... 0 14 52/209
In the dumplins ...
... 0 4 32/100
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Total prepared water 1 2 84/100
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Total solids and fluids 3 5 18/100

But as the Bavarian soldiers have not the same fare every day, the expences of their tables cannot be ascertained from one single experiment. I shall therefore return to Serjeant Wickenhof's report.

11th of June 1795.
Bill of Fare.
Bread, dumplins, and soup.
Details of expenses, &c.

 For the dumplins.
lb.
loths. Creutzers.
2 13 wheaten bread ... ... 14
0 16 butter ... ... ... 9
1 0 fine flour ... ... 4½
0 11 eggs ...
... ... ... 3
0 6 salt ... ... ... ... 0½
0 0½ pepper ... ... ... 0½
3 16 water ... ... ... ...
------- -------
7 30½ Cost
31½ creutzers.

 For the soup.
lb.
loths. Creutzers.
1 14½ ammunition bread ... 2 7/8
0 6 salt ... ... ... ... 0½
0 1 sweet herbs ... ... 1
12 0
water ... ... ... ...
------- -------
13 21½ Cost 4 3/8 creutzers.

For bread.

Four pieces of ammunition bread, weighing each ten loths, for each person,--namely, one piece for breakfast-- one at dinner--one in the afternoon,--and one at supper; in all, 40 loths, or one pound and a quarter, costs two creutzers and a half.

Details of expenses, &c. for each person.

 lb. loths. Creutzers
For 1 8 dry bread ... ... 2½
For 0 22 bread
dumplins ... 2 15/24
For 0 31½ bread soup ... ... 0 3/8
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2 30½ of Food Cost 5½ creutzers.
The
same details expressed in Avoirdupois
weight, and English money:
For each person
lb. oz. Pence
1
8 76/100 dry ammunition bread 0 10/11
0 13 6/10 bread dumplins ... 0 693/792
1 3½ bread soup ... ...
0 36/264
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3 9 86/100 of Food Cost 2 pence.
June 20th, 1795.
Serjeant Kein's mess,
second regiment of grenadiers.
Bill of Fare.
Boiled beef--bread soup--and liver dumplins.
Details of expenses,
&c.
For the boiled beef and soup.
lb. loths. Creutzers.
2 0 beef ... ... ... 15
0 6½ salt ... ... ... 0½
0 0½
pepper ... ... 0½
0 2 sweet herbs ... 0½
2 24 ammunition bread 3¼
17 0 water ... ... ...
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22 1
Cost 19½ creutzers.

Details of expenses, &c. for the liver dumplins.

 lb. loths. Creutzers.
2 28 of fine semel bread 15
1 0
of beef liver ... ... ... 5
0 18 of fine flour ... ... ... 2½
0 6 of salt ... ... ... ... 0½
2 24 of water ... ... ... ... ---
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Total 7 12 Cost 23 creutzers.