DR. HALES's VENTILATORS. 221 known his discovery of Ventilators; the utility of which was found to be so great in the SAVOY PRISON, that as between fifty and one hundred had died annually of the gaol distemper, only four in two years were lost,. though the number of prisoners exceeded two hundred, after the setting up his invention. During the French war, he, after long solicitations, procured from the Gallic king an order for the introduction of ventilators into the prisons where the English were confined; and he used merrily to say, "He hoped nobody would inform against him for corresponding with the enemy!" His Statical Essays, in two octavo volumes, are well known, though the ordinary channels of his communication was the Transactions of the Royal Society. DR. HALES was a friend of Pope's, for he, along with Lord Radnor and Spence, were witnesses (as already mentioned) to the Poet's Last Will and Testament. This may be pronounced a token of regard honourable to his memory. He died January, 1761, aged eighty-four, at the parsonage-house of Teddington, where he had passed most of his time in patriarchal simplicity. The father of his present Majesty had him in special esteem, and took pleasure by surprising him in his laboratory. Upon the death of this amiable prince, the princess appointed him her almoner, and nominated him to a canonry of Windsor. This promotion he instantly declined, by waiting upon his kind benefactress, and assuring her that as he was perfectly satisfied with his circumstances, a BETTER 222 RESURRECTION OF MAN. INCOME would only prove an incumbrance to him! Justly, indeed, was he denominated the Christian Philosopher, for all his studies and the whole of his researches into nature had one exclusive object-the good of mankind :— That there is LIFE beyond this mortal life The willing world believes, and well believes- I start and shudder. Can it be that MAN Drummond. But this Hope, which Reason whispers, Revelation unequivocally proclaims and establishes by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and the consequent resurrection of ALL MANKIND. What the philosopher wishes to be true, the Christian knows to be glorious reality; anticipation is in exercise, and the great event may be realized TIME is no more! Arise and burst your graves RESURRECTION OF MAN. For lo! the morning of THE TOMB's long night, 223 TOWNSEND. I am, My dear young Friend, Yours, &c. J. E. LETTER VIII. BUSHY PARK; HAMPTON COURT PALACE; ITS VENERABLE HALL; ANCIENT CHAFEL AND VARIOUS APARTMENTS; COLLECTION OF BRITISH ADMIRALS; CURIOUS PICTURES; QUEEN MARY'S CHARACTER; CARTOONS OF RAPHAEL; THEIr origin and HISTORY; THEIR SUBJECTS AND MERITS; VARIOUS COPYING OF THEM; ENGRAVING OF THEM BY HOLLOWAY; PLEASURE GARDENS AND STATUES; FAMOUS VINE AND GRAPE-HOUSE; KITCHEN GARDENS; THE MAZE AND ITS USES; HISTORY OF HAMPTON court under CARDINAL WOLSEY AND A SUCCESSION OF BRITISH SOVEREIGNS; BIOGRAPHY OF KING WILLIAM, ITS SECOND FOUNDER; DE FOE'S TRUE BORN ENGLISHMAN; CHARACTER OF WILLIAM, BY BELSHAM; DR. ISAAC WATTS'S ODE TO WILLIAM'S MEMORY; CENTENARY CELEBRATION OF THe revolution, 1788; KING WILLIAM AND GENERAL WASHINGTON; ADDRESS OF THE DISSENTING MINISTERS AND ALSO OF THE CORPORATION OF LONDON AT THE REVOLUTION; REPLY OF SERJEANT MAYNARD; WILLIAM'S PROGRESS FROM TORBAY TO WHITEHALL; DIBDIN'S HUMOUROUS ODE ON THE REVOLUTION. Islington, July, 1810. MY DEAR YOUNG FRIEND, QUITTING Teddington, we soon found ourselves entering BUSHY PARK, which has a very rural aspect and situation. To the right may be seen a handsome edifice, the abode of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, who for many years past has resided in this secluded part of the county. |