Nor was War all, says the King: "accidental Fires in different
places," while we struggled to repair the ravagings of War, "were
of unexampled frequency, and did immense farther damage. From 1765
to 1769, here is the list of places burnt: In East Preussen, the
City of Konigsberg twice over; in Silesia, the Towns of Freystadt,
Ober-Glogau [do readers recollect Manteuffel of Foot and "WIR
WOLLEN IHM WAS"!], Parchwitz, Naumburg-on-Queiss, and Goldberg;
in the Mark, Nauen; in the Neumark, Calies and a part of Lansberg;
in Pommern, Belgard and Tempelburg. These accidents required
incessantly new expenditures to repair them."

Friedrich was not the least of a Free Trader, except where it
suited him: and his continual subventions and donations, guidances,
encouragements, commandings and prohibitions, wise supervision and
impulsion,--are a thing I should like to hear an intelligent
Mirabeau (Junior or Senior) discourse upon, after he had well
studied them! For example: "ON RENDIT LES PRETRES UTILES, The
Priests, Catholic Priests, were turned to use by obliging all the
rich Abbeys to establish manufactures: here it was weavers making
damasks and table-cloths; there oil-mills [oil from linseed];
or workers in copper, wire-drawers; as suited the localities and
the natural products,--the flaxes and the metals, with water-power,
markets, and so on." What a charming resuscitation of the rich
Abbeys from their dormant condition!

I should like still better to explain how, in Lower Silesia, "we
(ON) managed to increase the number of Husbandmen by 4,000
families. You will be surprised how it was possible to multiply to
this extent the people living by Agriculture in a Country where
already not a field was waste. The reason was this. Many Lords of