The Correspondence of Sir John Sinclair Author:John Sinclair General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1831 Original Publisher: s.n. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select fro... more »m more than a million books for free. Excerpt: I then explained to his Majesty the nature of the " Statistical Pyramid," by which inquiries were first carried on upon a broad basis, beginning with every parish in a kingdom, then narrowed to each county or province, and ultimately condensed into a general view of the political circumstances of a country; a mode of obtaining information which he seemed to consider as of a superior description. The conversation having turned on the military services of Scotland, his Majesty pronounced a warm eulogium on that well-known corps, " The Scotch Greys" which had frequently. attended him. He said, that it was impossible to have a finer corps in any service. He then asked, whether all the horses in the regiment were bred in Scotland. I answered, " Not all; but that Scotch horses were preferred when they could be got." Upon my taking leave, he said, " That he regretted much the shortness of his stay in England, which prevented him from paying the attention he would otherwise have given to inquiries of an agricultural nature; but that he would always be happy to hear from me regarding those subjects, through the medium of his ambassador, the Count Lieven." The audience, which occupied about thirty minutes, gave me a very high idea of the Emperor's politeness as a gentleman ; of his. anxiety for the acquisition of useful knowledge; of his zeal to promote the improvement of his dominions; and of his fitness for the exalted station in which he was placed. GEORGE THE THIRD. His late Majesty, (George III.), occupied a farm at Windsor, to which he paid much attention. He certainly was more...« less