538 Dr. layard on the Dijlemper 
Since that time the contagious diflemper has been 
brought twice into Effex, and once into Suffolk, from 
Holland, and as often flopped by the fame means. 
His Majefty having mofl gracioufly been pleafed in 
April 1770 to appoint me to hold a foreign correfpon- 
dence, the orders and regulations which had happily 
fucceeded in Great Britain were communicated to the 
Dutch, the Flemifh, and the French, and copies of all 
papers delivered to Baron nolcken, the Swediih mi- 
nifter. In Flanders, and Picardy in France, the lyitem 
of killing was adopted, and fucceeded. Afterwards in 
1774, When the fame contagion was carried inn the 
South of France from Holland through Bourdeanx, 
many attempts having failed to effedt a cure, the devalua- 
tion was at laft flopped by no other means than by kill- 
ing the cattle, as in Great Britain. And here I beg 
leave to obferve, that Monf. vicq. d’azyr, in his Expofe 
des Moyens Curatifs et Prefervatifs centre les Maladies 
pejlilentielles , des Betes a Come , publifhed by authority at 
Paris in 1776, fays, p. 577, “ That the faltitary eflFedls 
“ of the precautions taken in the Auftrian Low Coun- 
“ tries had excited the attention of the Englifh j who by the 
“ fame means got rid of the fame calamity. They have 
“ exadlly and fcrupuloufly tfanflated and put into exe- 
" cution the edicts iffued from the Juntos of Ghent and 
a “ Bruffels, 
