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irreverently of these things, and the enemies of the Gospel say, that you are more like subjects of the Evil One, than of the God of Heaven.

May God be gracious unto you, and take you into his holy keeping, and may you be children and disciples of his blessed Son.

BIOGRAPHY.-GALEN.

As our last Number contained some extracts from the works of Galen, (see page 474) it may be satisfactory to some of our younger readers to know who Galen was. He was a celebrated physician of ancient days. The cures which he performed are said to have been so wonderful, that many of the ignorant people of his day thought he had the gift of healing diseases by the art of magic. We åre told that Galen wrote two or three hundred volumes, the greater part of which were burned at a great fire in Rome, to which place this learned Physician had come, after having travelled through Greece and Egypt to get knowledge. Those books of his which still remain, contain a great deal of instruction in the science of medicine. There was another celebrated Physician, named Hippocrates, who lived nearly 400 years before Christ. Galen lived nearly 200 years after Christ. These two celebrated names are often brought together as of great weight and authority in medical matters. The short extracts in our last Number, sent by a correspondent, contain reflections truly excellent. Galen's father took great pains to have him taught all the learning of his age;-but none seemed to please him so much as the knowledge of Physic. He began his travels for the sake of learning all he could on his favorite subject, in different parts of the world; and, during these travels, he

was of great service in applying his skill towards healing the diseases of the people in the countries where he was travelling. He says of himself, that he was naturally very weak and delicate;-still, however, by the great care which he took of himself, he lived to the age of 90. He says that he always took care never to eat any thing that he supposed would disagree with him;-and, knowing that an overloaded stomach is the way to bring on all sorts of disorders, he laid it down as a rule for himself and others, never to eat as much as he could, but to rise from table a little hungry.

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THE TWO VILLAGES.

To the Editor of the Cottager's Monthly Visitor. MR. EDITOR,

I READ your account of the "Two Villages" in your last Number. I dare say, that, in many villages, if there were no alehouses at all, it would be much the better for the people; but yet, in many places, it would be difficult to know what to do without them. These houses were intended for the accommodation of travellers, and for other needful purposes; they were never intended for people to go and sit in, and spend their time and their money, and starve their families. I do not think, however, Sir, that you deny a publichouse to be sometimes useful. One thing, however I know, and that is, that any man is a blockhead who has got a house of his own over his head, and yet leaves it to go to the alehouse. A man commonly gets, there, three times as much as is needful for him, and he pays about twice as much for it as he could get it for at home; and if this is not the way to ruin a labouring man, I do not know what

is.

I have been a working man myself, and I once had a way of going to the alehouse.-I soon found that I must wear a ragged coat, and a hát with holes in it, and there must be a cold fire-side at home, and the little children must look poor and mean, and my wife must look melancholy and live badly. I could not stand it, Sir,-I soon gave it up, and I soon found the comfort of it. It was like doubling one's income. I do not speak here of all the harm that a man gets from the company at the alehouse, or all the good that he may get, and give, when he is at home with his own family. I only just now speak of the foolish extravagance of going to the ale-house, and of the wretched poverty to which it leads.

Your's, Sir,

A RICH POOR MAN.

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LODDINGTON.

To the Editor of the Cottager's Monthly Visitor.

MR. EDITOR,

WHETHER your description of the "Two Villages" be imaginary or not, I cannot tell, neither is it of much consequence to enquire. However this may be, I can inform you that I once knew a village in Northamptonshire, where there was no alehouse : -and a more happy looking village I have not seen since. And yet there was nothing very particular in the situation of Loddington either; but the people all looked so quiet, and calm, and cleanly, and prosperous, that it was plain there must be some reason for this state of comfort. The reason, I really believe, was that the Clergyman, who had lived for many years in the parish, neve would consent to have an alehouse there. He is gone

now; and what is the present state of things I know not; but, when I have walked through this village in a summer's evening, and have seen the Cottagers, as it were, all at home, sitting at their doors engaged in their several employments, all doing something useful, and all looking cheerful and cleanly, no appearance of squalid poverty,-no noise and quarrellings in the streets, and when I have seen the venerable Pastor walking through the village, among a people who seemed all like his own friends, I could not help thanking him in my mind as the cause of the comfort which he saw around him.

That the want of a house of public resort was sometimes an inconvenience, is not to be denied; and this, in a worldly view, was felt most by the Minister himself, who was often obliged, at his own private expence, to furnish those accommodations which a public-house would have afforded; he was, however, willing to submit to this inconvenience, rather than be the means of leading his flock into a danger which it was in his power to prevent. I mention this, Sir, to shew that there may be a village without an alehouse, and yet no great misery come from it either.

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ESCAPE OF KING CHARLES THE SECOND.

(Continued from page 454.)

THEY resolved to make their next attempt in Hampshire and Sussex. They must pass through all Wiltshire, before they came thither; which would require many days journey; and they were first to consider what honest houses there were in or near the way, where they might securely repose; and it was thought very dangerous for the King to

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ride through any great town, as Salisbury, or Winchester, which might probably lie in their way.

There was, between that and Salisbury, a very honest gentleman, Colonel Robert Philips, a younger brother of a very good family, which had always been very loyal, and he had served the King during the war. The King was resolved to trust him; and so sent the Lord Wilmot to a place from whence he might send to Mr. Philips to come to him; and, when he had spoken with him, Mr. Philips should come to the King, and Wilmot was to stay in such a place as they two should agree. Mr. Philips accordingly came to the Colonel's house, which he could do without suspicion, they being nearly allied. The ways were full of soldiers, which were sent now from the army to their quarters, and many regiments, of horse and foot, were assigned for the west, of which division Desborough was commander-in-chief. These marches were likę to last for many days, and it would not be fit for the King to stay so long in that place. Thereupon, he resorted to his old security of taking a woman behind him, a kinswoman of Colonel Windham, whom he carried in that manner to a place not far from Salisbury, to which Colonel Philips conducted him. In this journey he passed through the middle of a regiment of horse; and, presently after, met Desborough walking down a hill with three or four men with him, who had lodged at Salisbury the night before, all that road being full of soldiers.

The next day, upon the Plains, Dr. Hinchman, one of the Prebendaries of Salisbury, met the King; the Lord Wilmot, and Philips, were then leaving him to go to the sea-coast to find a vessel. The Doctor conducted the King to a place called Heale, three miles from Salisbury, belonging then to Sergeant Hyde, who was, afterwards, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and then in possession of the