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246 ANNUAL REGISTER, &c. | | | |a-new, formed most of the inclosures you see, built most of these houses; and to all the people that were industrious and saving, I lett farms according to their ability of living and stocking; and I found very soon that this way of managing the land, brought me in a better revenue than the cultivating it on my own account; for the bailiffs I trusted, generally turned out great rascals, and cheated me, at the same time that they infinitely oppressed the peasants. In my travels through England, I had fixed the design of letting farms, from the great success I saw attending it there; I liked the plan every day better and better, and by giving encouragement to such as tilled their land well, and kept their farms in good order, and by shewing no favour to idle persons and slovens, I brought them to be wonderfully attentive, do that at present I do not think you have many states in Scotland, or Ireland, better cultivated than this part of mine, and some not better in England. I should, however, tell you, that I did not leave them to the customs of their own country entirely, but procured workmen and implements from Flanders, to instruct them in the practice of methods, to which they were unaccustomed. This I did not find so difficult a business as might be expected; for very luckily, the people I produced were sensible and intelligent, and pointed out with great propriety the courses of management most proper for the lands; our foil they thought not good enough for the Flemish crops of | | |coleseed, madder, &c. but ought rather to be applied to the productions of wheat, barley, oats, pease, beans, turnips, clover, &c. I was entirely of the same opinion, and rewarded them for their advice, sending them home, after they had fully instructed my Danes in the use of their implements; we have stuck very closely to these ever since, except the introduction of some others from England, which have been likewise well approved by them. I have given premiums for the best ploughmen; others, more considerable, for the best crops of all sorts; and have been very attentive to spread among them the culture of turnips and clover, as the most advantageous means of wintering their herds of cattle. The attention of this sort, which I have given to their management, has been attended with great effects, for though I have been all over Denmark more than once, I know scarcely any spot to well cultivated as this; and you will readily allow, that I have found the work profitable, when I tell you that great tracks of this improved land, yield me a rent of a ducat and half for an English acre; and some of it two ducats, (which is from fourteen to eighteen shillings) but it has not been so high rented many years; it hath been so only since the increase of my town has been considerable, which, by providing them the market they so much wanted, has enriched them all, and is a strong proof of the justness of the principles upon which I first undertook all my works." THE| THE CONTENTS. ------------------------------------------- HISTORY OF EUROPE. CHAP. I. Revolution in the political system of Europe. Balance of power. In what respect other states may probably be affected by the dismemberment of Poland. Germanic body. The two northern crowns. France. Maritime powers. Revolutions in Sweden and Denmark. Mysterious appearance of the northern politicks. Troubles in different parts of America. Insurrection in the Brazils. Insurrection on the coast of Chili. p. [I CHAP. II. Negotiations for a peace. Armistice concluded. Congress held at Foczani in Walachia. Count Orlow, and Osman Effendi, are appointed the principal plenipotentiaries. The congress breaks up without effect. The Grand Vizir renews the negotiations with General Romanzow. The Armistice is renewed, and another congress opened at Bucharest. M. Oberscow and the Reis Effendi, are appointed plenipotentiaries. Treaty between Russia and the Crim Tartars. Turky. Mousson Oglou, appointed Grand Vizir. Ali Bey, is defeated and driven out of Egypt by Mahomet Aboudaab: flies into Syria, and is affectionately received by his friend the Cheik Daher; account of that extraordinary man; the war in Syria. Conduct of the partitioning powers. Enormous exactions and oppressions of the Prussian troops in Poland. [13 CHAP. III. Retrospective view of the conduct of the court of Vienna with respect to Poland, from the Commencement of the troubles in that kingdom. The unhappy effects which it had upon the Poles. Unexpected union in politics and sentiments, between the courts of Vienna and Berlin; probable effect of that junction, upon the conduct of the court of Petersburg. The Confederates R 4 surprize
