90 NOTES. 



31 In the works of the celebrated Count de Hertzberg, a particular detail is 

 given of the measures taken by Frederick the Great, for promoting the agricul- 

 tural prosperity of his dominions, and the particulars of all the immense sums 

 bestowed by him for that purpose. They are detailed, in " Miscellaneous Es- 

 " says," by Sir John Sinclair, printed an. 1802, p. 260. 



32 Had agriculture been sufficiently encouraged, such a breadth of land 

 would have been brought into cultivation, as would have rendered importation 

 unnecessary ; and our own farmers would have derived the whole benefit of 

 those high prices, which the deficiency of their crops required. 



33 Any government, whatever its form may be, must always be in a preca- 

 rious state, when its agriculture ceases to furnish means of subsistence for its in- 

 habitants ; and it is acknowledged, that the fear of famine, has as often dictated 

 to potentates, the necessity for making peace, as either conquests or defeats. 

 Curwen's Report, p. 4. 



34 Communications to the Board of Agriculture, (Essay on Waste Lands, 

 by the Bishop of Llandaff), vol. vi. p. 1 2. 



