Copy of a letter from the Duke of Portland : to the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Chester, and of His Lordship's letter, directing the same to be laid before the magistrates for the said county, at their general quarter-sessions, on the 14th Jan. 1800, for the purpose of alleviating the distresses of the poor, from the effects of the late unfavourable harves,, by the substitution of soup and other food, in lieu of bread corn; and copy of several suggestions transmitted by the Duke of Portland ... on the same subject: printed pursuant to an order made at the said quarter sessions. - Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, (Printed by J. Fletcher, Chester,, 1800)