He showed a true appreciation of Frederick's character and conception of his duties as a ruler, in believing that the King of Prussia would rather have had a hundred thousand labourers more, and as many soldiers fewer, if his situation had allowed it.

_Corresp.
avec le roi de Prusse_, _Oeuv._, v.

305.] [Footnote 161: See Essay on Turgot in my _Critical Miscellanies_, _Second Series_.] [Footnote 162: Such, as that their feudal rights should be confirmed; that none but nobles should carry arms, or be eligible for the army; that _lettres-de-cachet_ should continue; that the press should not be free; that the wine trade should not be free internally or for export; that breaking up wastes and enclosing commons should be prohibited; that the old arrangement of the militia should remain .-- Arthur Young's _France_, ch.xxi.p.

607.] [Footnote 163: _Ib._ ch.

xxi.] [Footnote 164: _Critical Miscellanies_, _Second Series_, p.