The general situation offered them no inducements to embark on fresh offensives.
Special inducements in the way of land grants were offered to persons embarking with the first governor.
Then, however, the Russian government held out inducements to settlers, and these have been responded to by Russians, Greeks, Armenians and Rumanians, but the process of repeopling the long deserted territory is slow and difficult.
It was a bribe little likely to appeal to the Protestant minority which constituted the Irish parliament, and to them other inducements had to be offered if the scheme was to be carried through.
These inducements were not all corrupt.