Laories where multitudes of working hands, whatever be their age, are collected. In proportion as virtue is more valuable than bodily strength, in proportion as eternity is more important than the present life, the manefacturer who pays no attention to the religious principles and morals of the people under his care, is more criminal than if he had suffered them to put poison to their mouths without apprifing them of its qualities. Several of the measures already indicated as prefervatives of health, are equally adapted for the prefervation of morals. The employment, for example, of as fmall a number of persons as may be in the same room; encouragement afforded to workmen to refide in vil lages, where convenience will allow, rather than in the midst of the infection of a great town; permission given them to perform their work at their own homes, when the nature of the fabric will admit that practice; and ft.ong and repeated inculcation of habits of cleanliness, are means adapted to the accomplishment of both purposes. But these are not the only or the most efficacious means of preventing the inroads of vice. Let the proprietor of the manufactory employ the different fexes apart from each other. Let him provide for the establishment of schools for the religious instruction of all who can be induced to attend them, whether children or of mature age, on Sundays at least, if not in the evenings of week days. Let him diftribute from time to time religious books level to the capacities of the readers. Let him establish a little library, from which proper treatises may be lent out for a limited period, and under proper regulations, to all who defire them. Let him appoint penalties for drunkenness, oaths, and improper language; aud exact them regularly and with impartiality. Let him take every fit measure to fecure the constant attendance of his

people on religious worship, and to lead them to use fome short and fimple form of family prayer every evening in their own houses. Let him acquire their confidence and secure their attachment by joining uniform mildness and affability of behaviour to the firmness requisite for the maintenance of his authority. Scrupuloufly abstaining from every mark of pride and fuperciliousness, let him convince them that he has their interest at heart by studying their comforts; by advancing them little fums of money beforehand, when fickness, or an approaching rent day, or the neceffity of laying in fuel against winter, or fome other emergency, diareffes them. Let him acquaint himself, as far as may be practicable, with each of his workmen individually, and observe his temper and dispositions, his habits of life, and the ftate of his circumstances, that he may be able to admonish him occafionally in fuch a manner as may be most likely to be beneficial. Let him uniformly shew favour to the meritorious, and check the idle and the profligate. And never let him forget the efficacy which he may give to his instructions and reproofs, by his own virtuous example.

By thus diligently watching over the health, the comforts and the morals of his workmen, the manufacturer will obviously promote his own fatiffaction and emolument, while he is discharging an indispensable duty. He will render a large proportion of his workmen robuft, industrious, and honest. He will inspire them with that personal attachment to himself. which, among other advantages, will contribute to fecure him from the machinations of any unprincipled competitor, who may be base enough to tempt them by bribes to betray their master's operations, or to defert him for the purpose of entering into a rival manufactory.

cretion, the principal inhabitants of it fell down upon their knees before him, and presented him with the keys of their town. Rise, rise,' said he; ' it is your duty to fall upon your knees to God, and not to fo frail and feeble a mortal as I am.'

Gustavus, differently from our modern generals, never engaged in any battle without first praying at the head of the troops he was about to lead toward the enemy, sometimes with, and fometimes without book. This done, he used to thunder out in a strong and energetic manner fome German hymn or pfalm, in which he was followed by his whole army. (The effect of this in unifon with thirty or forty thousand men was wonderful and terrible.) Immediately before the battle of Lutzen, so fatal to himself, but so honourable to his army, he vociferated the tranflation of the forty-fixth pfalm, made by Luther when he was a prifoner in the fortress of Coburg, that begins God is our strong castie. The trumpets and drums immediately ftruck up, and were accompanied by the ministers and all the foldiers in the army. To this succeeded a hymn made by Gustavus himself, which begun, My dear little army fear nothing, though thy numerous enemies have sworn thy ruin.' - The word given by the king for that day was, • God be with us."

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The minifters of Louis XIII, king

of France, were defirous to infert in a treaty between their sovereign and Gustavus, that the king of France had the king of Sweden under his protection. Gustavus spiritedly replied, I have no occafion for any protection but that of God, and I defire no other. After God I acknowledge no fuperior, and I wish to owe the success of my arms to my sword and my good conduct alone.'

In a conference he had with the minister from our court, fir Henry Vane, whom he supposed to have been bribed by the court of Spain, as fir Harry was pressing him in a man

ner which he did not like, he faid to him in Latin, Sir, I do not understand you, you talk Spanish.'

He always preferred foreign foldiers, who ferved voluntarily for pay, to those which were inlifted by the authority of government in his own country. A hound,' faid he, that is dragged by force to the field, never hunts well.'

In one of his journies he was accosted by a student in Latin, who defired him to permit him to serve in his cavalry. Be it so, fir,' replied the king; an indifferent fcholar may make a very good foldier. But why, fir, replied the king, do you with to discontinue your studies?' • Alas! fire,' said the student, I prefer arms to books.' • Ah, man!' replied the king, who fpoke Latin very fluently, and who was a good Latin scholar, I see what it is it is as Horace says,

caballus.

Optat ephippia bos piger: optat arare The flow dull ox gay trappings wants; To plough the fiery courfer pants.

Gustavus used to say, That a man made a better foldier, in proportion to his being a better Christian.' He used alfo to say, That there were no persons so happy as those that died in the performance of their duty.' It was faid of his death, He died with

his word in his hand, the word of

command in his mouth, and with

victory in his imagination.'