May 13. 1854.] 



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letters written under date of the loth of August 

 last, returns to us on account of the fifty knights 

 of your Order liberated by our assistance from the 

 slavery of the barbarians, could hardly be more 

 acceptable to us than the prayers adjoined in the 

 above-mentioned letters for the liberation from 

 the slavery of the Algerines of another member 

 of your holy Order, the German, John Robert 

 A. Stael. We in consequence, in order that we 

 may not appear to be wanting either in the will 

 or in affection towards your eminence, have com- 

 municated our orders to our well-beloved and 

 faithful subject, Sir John Narbrough, knight, 

 commanding our fleet in those seas, that if the 

 city of Algiers should be constrained to agree to a 

 treaty of just peace and submission by the force of 

 our arms, assisted by Divine help, he should use 

 every effort in his power, so that the liberty of the 

 said John Robert A. Stael be obtained. 



Your eminence is already well aware of the 

 fidelity and zeal of our above-mentioned admiral, 

 .and we have no doubt that he will willingly and 

 strenuously observe our orders on that head. 



It remains for us to heartily recommend your 

 eminence and the whole of your military Order to 

 the safeguard of the Most High and Most Good 

 God. 



Given from our palace of Whitehall the 2nd 

 day of November, in the year of our Lord 1678. 

 Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend, 

 Chakles Rex. 

 William Wintheop. 



La Valetta, Malta. 



DISEASE AMONG CATTLE. 



For some years past, a great many cattle have 

 died from a disease of the lungs, for which I be- 

 lieve no effectual antidote has been discovered. 

 This fact having been mentioned to a German in 

 London, who had formerly been a Rossarzt or 

 veterinary surgeon in the Prussian army, he stated 

 that he had known a similar disease to prevail in 

 Germany ; and that by administering a decoction 

 of Erica communis (Common Heath), mixed with 

 tar, the progress of the disease had in many in- 

 stances been arrested. 



In order, therefore, that the British farmer may 

 obtain the benefit of this gentleman's experience, 

 and that he may receive all manner of justice, I 

 beg leave to send you a literal copy of the recipe 

 which he was kind enough to give pro bono publico. 



" REMEDY AGAINST THE PRESENT DISEASE AMONG CATTLE. 



" Taken Erika communis, and boiled it into water 

 of such quantity, that the water after boiling coloured 

 like beer ; generally of a pinte of water \ — | lb. Erika 

 communis, and boiling 5 to 6 hours. After it is be 

 done, filled the fluide trough a seive in ather boiler, 



and mixed the same with ^ part of common tear. In 

 order to make a good composition from it, you must 

 boiling the tear and the fluide to a second time of 

 2 — 3 hour's and much storret. After then the medecin 

 is to by ready. 



" Everry cattle sicke or well must you giving of 

 three times to day, everry time one pot from the said 

 mixture, which you have befor keapet a little warm 

 but not to much heat. Keepet werry much from the 

 fluide of Erika communis not mixed with tear, and 

 give to drinke the cattle a much as possible. Everry 

 cattle liked to drinke such fluide. 



" Becom's the tongue stick, black pumpels, or be- 

 com's the mouth and palatt red and sort, washe it 

 out with a softe brush deyed in a mixture as follow 

 described : One part of bony, 3 parts of vinaigre, 

 3 parts of water, and one half part of burned and 

 grinded allumn. 



" Becom's the cattle in the legs, generally in the 

 klawes, washed the sores with cold water, that you 

 mixed 1 once white vitriol, and 1 once burned allumn 

 of a pint of water, 3 — 4 times to day, and keepet the 

 cattle everry time day's and night's in the open air of 

 meadows or lots. Everry cattle become's in the first 

 time that it is driven out the stables to the green feed- 

 ing of meadow's, &c. a little sickness, generally a 

 little diarrhae, and this is a remedy against the disease 

 as before stated. 



" If you continnuit with the firste remedy, you 

 should findet that the cattle becom's a verry slight 

 influence of the said disease." 



Thos. Nimmo. 



I. In Roscoe's edition of Pope, vol. iv. p. 465., 

 is this epitaph : 



" Well then, poor G lies underground, 



So there's an end of honest Jack : 

 So little justice here he found, 



'Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back." 



This must have been running in Goldsmith's head 

 when he wrote : 



" Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, 

 Who long was a bookseller's hack : 

 He led such a damnable life in this world, 

 I don't think he'll wish to come back." 



II. Epigram on the feuds between Handel and 

 Bononcini : 



" Strange ! all this difference should be, 

 'Twixt Tweedle-DUM and Tweedle-DEK ! ** 



The various editors print only these two lines. 

 Where have I seen it printed as follows, in tis 

 lines ; and whence came the other four ? * 



[* These lines are quoted in the fourth edition of the 

 Ency. Britan., art. Bononcini, and are said to have been 

 written by Swift. Only the last two lines, however, are 

 given in Scott's edition of his Works. — Ed.] 



