among the horned Cattle. 539 
“ Bruffels, and their undertaking has been crowned with 
“ the moft complete fuccefs.” Monf. vicq_. d’azyr was 
mifin formed; for, on the contrary, the late Mr. Conful 
Irvine tranfmitted the a£ts of parliament, the orders of 
council, and my papers, containing every neceflary in- 
formation, to a member of the Junto of Ghent, whence 
they were fent to the government at Bruffels ; and it was 
a long while before the Juntos could be prevailed upon 
to adopt the fyftem of killing, as they called it. It 
originated in England in 1747; and it is certain, that the 
Court of Vienna knew fully the obligations which the 
Auftrian Netherlands had to the Britifh government, 
whofe orders and regulations had been implicitly fol- 
lowed, and which Monf. vicq. d’azyr, fays, p. 585, 
“ He had modified and adapted to the rules of French 
“ government.” 
In Flanders the infection was alfo prevented from 
fpreading a fecond time by the fame method of proceed- 
ing; but unfortunately in Holland the cattle continue to 
be expofed to the fame difeafe. The half-yearly returns 
which have been regularly fent me contain melancholy 
accounts of the fevere lofs of cattle; fometimes the 
whole have perifhed ; at other times two-thirds have 
died; and generally above half fell when the ficknefs was 
lefs violent. In a country where the illnefs is become 
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