cousin and friend--Greeting:

Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin and friend.

The thanks which your eminence, by your {445} letters written under date of
the 15th 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 my not appear to be wanting
either in the will or in affection towards your eminence, have communicated
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,
CHARLES REX.

WILLIAM WINTHROP.

La Valetta, Malta.

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DISEASE AMONG CATTLE.

For some years past, a great many cattle have died from a disease of the
lungs, for which I believe 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 instances 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 AMON