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manufactory and magazine, and after six years Sir B. 

 Thompson wrote that the net profit on the various 

 trades and manufactures in the Munich Workhouse up 

 to that time was 100,000 florins ; and he could refer to 

 its growing reputation, its extensive connexions, which 

 reached even to foreign countries, to the punctuality 

 with which all its engagements were fulfilled, to its unim- 

 peached credit, and to its growing wealth. The amount 

 of orders executed in the sixth year of its establishment 

 did not fall much short of half a million of florins. 



Among the various measures that occurred to Sir 

 B. Thompson by which the military of the country 

 might be made subservient to the public good in time 

 of peace, ' none,' he says, ' appeared to me of so much 

 importance as that of employing the army in clearing 

 the country of beggars, thieves, and other vagabonds, 

 and in watching over the public tranquillity.' 



The beggars swarmed everywhere. They were 

 dissolute, sturdy, shameless, importunate robbers. 



A system of mounted police was formed throughout 

 the country by four regiments of cavalry. Means were 

 taken, first, to furnish suitable employment for those 

 who were able to work ; and, secondly, to provide the 

 necessary assistance for those who, from age, sickness, 

 or other bodily infirmities, were unable by their 

 industry to provide for themselves. 



' To make vicious and abandoned people happy, it 

 has generally been supposed necessary first to make 

 them virtuous. But why not reverse this order ? Why 

 not make them first happy and then virtuous ? ' 



A large building, once a manufactory, was taken in 



