1807.] 
3. That part of the Duchy of Magde- 
burg which is situated on the right bank 
of the Elbe. It contains about 126,000 
inhabitants, upon an extent of 202 English 
square miles, 
4. Pomerania, which before the war 
contained 700,000 inhabitants on a terri- 
torial extent of 2,328 Enylish square 
miles. Stettin is its principal port: but 
Colberg, which stood so memorable 
a siege under the command of the gal- 
lant Major Neidhart von Gneisenau, who 
succeeded Colonel Loucadou, is likely to 
rise to great commercial importance, 
since the valuable exports from Poland 
that used to be conveyed down the Vis- 
tula to Dantzic may be brought to this 
place by the Bromberg canal. 
5. Silesta, which is divided into, 
Lower Silesia, containing the seven 
principalities of Breslau, Brieg, Schweid- 
nitz, Jauer, Liegnitz; Wohlau, and Glogau, 
Upper Silesia, containing the three 
principalities of Munsterberg, Oppeln, 
and Ratibor. ; 
The total amount of the population of 
Silesia before the war, was 2,100,000 in- 
dividuals, upon an extent of 3,150 English 
square miles. 
Onrecuapitulating the above statements, 
it will be seen that the present number 
of the inhabitants of Prussia would ex- 
ceed five millions and a half upon an ex- 
tent of 13,800 English square miles. But 
that variety of wretchedness and misery 
which attends and follows a disastrous 
war, is likely to have reduced the popu- 
lation to little more than five millions. 
The Prussian army having formerly de- 
pended chiefly upon the cantons of the 
different regiments for their recruiting, 
must suffer in proportion with the loss of 
territory 2 diminution of at least 80,000 
men and be reduced to 170,000,which was 
nearly its strength in the year 1772. Re- 
port, however, states that it is in future to 
consist of only 150,000 regular troops, all 
natives of the country, one third of whom 
are to do duty for one year, so that every 
man will have a furlough of two years in 
time of peace and be in actual service 
every third year. Besides this reeular 
army,a militia is to be organised of 880,000 
men who are to do garrison duty in time 
of war. This will enable the whole 
150,000 troops of the line to take the field 
agaist the enemy. 
Several other salutary reforms in the 
different departments of administration 
are reported to be in contemplation. 
Your's, &c. D. BoiLeauy 
Pimlico, No. 6, Upper Eaton street, - 
November 7, 1807, 
Dr. Franklin’s singular Observation on Colds. 
453 
Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
CONSTANT reader of your very 
interesting and useful miscellany 
wishes to engage the notice and remarks 
of some of your philosophical and medi- 
eal readers on a singular observation of 
the late Dr. Franklin’s, which seems 
hardly defensible, considering the gene- 
ral frequency of the complaint mention- 
ed, and its being incident to persons of ~ 
widely diferent constitutions and modes 
of living, “ invading, (to borrow Dr. 
Young’s expressive language) the chastes$ 
temperance.” 
Dr. Reid’s Monthly Reports are fre- 
quently highly interesting, exhibiting re- 
marks far beyond the beaten track and 
amere routine of practice; perhaps he 
may be kindly induced to favour your rea- 
ders with his remarks on the subject 
which may tend to relieve some minds 
froma very unpleasant impression left by 
Dr. }’s strong observation and indirect 
censure. He alleged that “a cold, in- 
stead of being contracted by the body’s 
being exposed to some external causes, 
which may stop the insensible perspira- 
tion, such as cold airs blowing partially on 
some part of the body, its continuing 
some time wet, &c. &c. a feast or some 
excess in eating or drinking willbe gene- 
rally found to have preceded.” In confir- 
mation of this opinion, he observed, “ that 
those who led temperate lives seldom 
caught cold, even though their constitu- 
tions and habits of body might seem to be 
little able to withstand the effects of 
such causes,” 
Your’s, &c. 
ee 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ON THE COMMON BREWERY. 
(Concluded from p. $48.) 
N the happy commencement of 
the just and necessary war, which 
has had an effect little short of. mira- 
culous upon the minds of the good 
people of this country, impelling thou- 
saids of them, who would not have given 
a guinea for any other just and generous 
purpose, not only to part willingly, 
and even oticiously, with the tithe of 
their income, but to stake theirall, body, 
goods and country, and even the fee sim- 
ple of their dear salvation—on_ this 
blessed event, I say, it soon became 
necessary for our great and popular 
minister to give his mighty mind its na- 
tural and proper direction, that 1s, to 
the discovery of the beautiful varieties 
of taxation. The heaven-born tax-mi- 
hister soon cast a wishful eye on the 
manufactory 
VERTE, 
