the Poor in Bavaria. 303 



are furnished with clothing from the Military Work- 

 house at Munich. The troops of the Palatinate, and 

 those of the Duchies of Juliers and Bergen, receive 

 their clothing from a similar establishment at Man- 

 heim. 



The Military Workhouse at Manheim was indeed 

 erected several months before that at Munich ; but as 

 it is not immediately connected with any institution for 

 the poor, as the poor are not fed in it, and as it was my 

 first attempt or coup d'essai, it is, in many respects, in- 

 ferior in its internal arrangements to that at Munich. 

 I have therefore chosen this last for the subject of my 

 descriptions ; and would propose it as a model for imi- 

 tation, in preference to the other. 



As both these establishments owe their existence to 

 myself, and as they both remain under my immediate 

 superintendence, it may very naturally be asked why 

 that at Manheim has not been put upon the same foot- 

 ing with that at Munich. My answer to this question 

 would be, that a variety of circumstances, too foreign to 

 my present subject to be explained here, prevented the 

 establishment of the Military Workhouse at Manheim 

 being carried to that perfection which I could have 

 wished.* 



But it is time that I should return to the poor of Mu- 

 nich, for whose comfort and happiness I laboured with 

 so much pleasure, and whose history will ever remain 

 by far the most interesting part of this publication. 



* Since the publication of the first edition of this Essay, the author has re- 

 ceived an account of the total destruction of the Military Workhouse at Man- 

 heim. It was set on fire, and burned to the ground, during the late siege of that 

 city by the Austrian troops. 



