418 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



Turks purchased tobacco, and that 

 the refuse, from the English. It 

 was late before they learned to 

 cultivate the plant themselves. 



In 161 5, it appears that tobacco 

 began to be sown about Amersfort, 

 in Holland. 



In 16] 6, they began to cultivate 

 tobacpo in Virginia; the seeds had 

 probably been carried thitlier from 

 Tobago. 



In \6\9, king James the first 

 wrote his "Misocapno" against the 

 use of tobacco ; and ordered that no 

 planter in Virginia should cultivate 

 more than 100 pounds. 



In 1620, some English com- 

 panies introduced the custom of 

 smoking tobacco, in Zittau, in Ger- 

 many. 



In IG20, Robert Konigsmann, a 

 merchant, brought the first tobacco- 

 plant from England to Strasburgh. 



In 1624, pope Urban VIII. pub- 

 lished a decree of excommunica- 

 tion against all who should take 

 snuff in the church, because then 

 already some Spanish ecclesiastics 

 used it during the celebration of 

 mass. 



In 1631, smoking of tobacco was 

 first introduced into Misnia by the 

 Swedish troops. 



In 1634, smoking was forbidden 

 in Russia, under the pain of having 

 the nose cut off. 



In 1653, they began to smoke 

 tobacco in the canton of ApenzeU, 

 in Switzerland. At first, the chil- 

 dren ran after those who smoked in 

 the streets. The council likewise 

 cited the smokers before them, and 

 punished them: and ordered the inn- 

 keepers to inform against such as 

 should smoke in their houses. 



In 1661, the police regulation of 

 Bern was made, wnich was divided 

 according to the ten commandments , 



In it the prohibition to smoke to- 

 bacco stands under the rubrick — 

 " Thou shalt not commit adultery !" 

 The prohibition was renewed in 

 1 675 ; and the tribunal particu- 

 larly instituted to put it in execu- 

 tion, " Chambre du Tahac," con- 

 tinued till the middle of the pre- 

 sent century. 



In 1670, and in the following 

 years, the smoking of tobacco was 

 punished in the canton of Glarus 

 by a pecuniary fine of one crown 

 Swiss money. 



In 1676, two Jews first attempt- 

 ed the cultivation of tobacco in the 

 margraviateof Brandenburgh; but 

 which, however, was not brought 

 to tear till 168I. 



In 1C86, tobacco first planted in 

 the canton of Basil. 



In 1689, Jacob Francis Vicarius, 

 an Austrian physician, invented the 

 tubes for tobacco-pipes, which have 

 capsules containing bits of sponge ; 

 however, about the year I67O, al- 

 ready pipes were used with glass 

 globules appended to them, to col- 

 lect the oily moisture exsudingfrom 

 the tobacco. 



In 1690, pope Innocent XII. 

 excommunicated all who should 

 be guilty of using snufF or tobac- 

 co in the church of St. Peter, at 

 Rome. 



In 1697, great quantities of to- 

 bacco already produced in the pala- 

 tinate and in Hessia. 



In 171 9, the senate of Strasburgh 

 prohibited the culture of tobacco, 

 from an apprehension lest it should 

 prove injurious, by diminishing the 

 growing of corn. 



In 1724, pope Benedict XIV. re- 

 voked the bull of excommunication 

 published by Innocent, because he 

 himself had acquired the habit of 

 taking snuff. 



