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taken the liberty of submitting to the 
public, through the medium of your 
Magazine. If, however, Sir William 
Congreve can make it appear that this 
scheme of serving country-banks ori- 
ginated with himself, and was in no 
way derived from the information 
which I (and probably others) had the 
honour of submitting to the commis- 
sioners for their consideration, I have 
nothing farther to say on the subject. 
Who the artists are who have been 
employed to execute the notes, said in 
the Monthly Repository to have been 
the invention of Sir William Congreve, 
it isnot my present purpose to enquire. 
I wish not to detract from the just 
claims of any man, but to give a plain 
statement of what has taken place, so 
far as I have been concerned in this 
very important national affair, and to 
leave the question for the public to 
decide. 
I may take this opportunity of add- 
ing, that so far back as 1801, in a cor- 
respondence with Samuel Thornton, 
esq. M.P. and Sir Thomas Frankland, 
bart., I gave a full detail of what then 
appeared to me a plan calculated to 
put a stop to this growing evil. I 
mention these facts, to show that, 
whatever modifications and improve- 
ments my plan may have undergone, 
it is in substance now what it was 
twenty years ago; indeed, for a much 
longer period my thoughts and endea- 
vours have been directed to the per- 
fecting of a discovery in every respect 
so important to the interests of society 
and of humanity. 
Newcastle ; 
March 28, 1822. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
EXTRACT of a@ LETTER on HORSES and 
on RURAL SUBJECTS, from COUNT 
ViLTHEIM, of BRUNSWICK, to MR. 
LAWRENCE, of SOMERS TOWN. 
epee frequent complaints of bad 
weather in England and Ger- 
many always remind me of Sir Ro- 
bert Walpole, who, in one of his letters, 
says, “That he could not help veing 
much astonished at our constant com- 
plaints of bad summers, as our poets 
and novelists had borrowed their de- 
scriptions of fine summer mornings and 
evenings only from Grecian and Roman 
poets. After them we formed this 
ideal of fine weather; but we do not 
consider, that in the northern parts of 
Europe we cannot pretend to a fine 
elimate, but, on the contrary, a goed 
Tuomas Bewick. 
Count Veltheim on Horses and Rural Subjects. 
[May 1, 
fire-side is our best summer; and 
should we, nevertheless, have a fine 
one in nature, we ought to accept of it 
as an unexpected gift of Heaven, with- 
out complaining of the contrary.” 
Of my journey to Stuttgard and 
Wisbaden I shall tell you little, as you 
have already a short description of the 
oriental stud of Wirtemberg, and a 
particular one would be much too long 
for the compass of a letter; and of 
Wisbaden I know nothing that could 
interest you, except the great number 
of your countrymen now there, with a 
few of whom I was so fortunate as to 
make acquaintance. As for Stuttgard, 
I cannot avoid telling you, in general, 
that I found there a great many fine 
and thorough-bred oriental horses, a 
breed that I hope to see established in 
Germany. 
By my solicitation the King of Wir- 
temberg requested, through the French 
consul- general, M. Drovetti, at Cairo, 
of the Pasha of Egypt, some informa- 
tion relative to the Dongola horses. 
By this it appears, that “ good Don- 
gola horses are an excellent, and in 
Egypt a much esteemed breed; but 
till now it has always been very diffi- 
cult to obtain the best of them, and 
generally the worst only have come to 
Egypt.” But for the future, as the 
son of the Pasha had conquered Nu- 
bia, M. Drovetti, provided with a 
firman of the Pasha, will himself send 
to Dongola to buy, at the place itself, 
for the King of Wirtemberg, a certain 
number of the best horses. I have 
lately been informed from Stuttgard, 
that this has been really performed ; 
and, if so, these horses will arrive 
next spring at Stuttgard. 
Two Dongola stallions, which were 
lately at Vienna, both of them bought 
at Cairo, one from a merchant, the 
other from the Prussian general Mi- 
nutoli, are said not to be of very par- 
ticular quality, but much disfigured by 
great white marks, which however, as 
Burckhardt says, is their characteris- 
tical sign. According to all circum- 
stances, these two horses may be of 
the number of the above-said bad one ; 
but two other such horses, which the 
Pasha made a present of to the Prince 
of Carignan at Turin, have been much 
praised. 
Count Rzewusky has sold to the 
Emperor of Russia all the horses he 
brought with him from Arabia; and 
he is at present occupied with the de- 
scription of his journey, and with his 
remarks 
