Speeches in the House of Commons upon the equalization of the weights and measures of Great Britain; With notes, observations, &c. &c. also, a general standard proposed for the weights and measures of Europe: with brief abstracts of the most material acts of the British legislature, and other ordinances and regulations, for the equalization of our weights and measures from Magna Charta to the present time, &c. &c. By Sir John Riggs Miller, bart. Together with two letters from the Bishop of Autun to the author, upon the uniformity of weights and measures; the prelate's proposition, respecting, the same, to the National Assembly, and the decree of that body, of the 8th of May, conformable to the Bishop's proposition.-with English translations.

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M.DCC.XC. [1790]