sional man killers are thought to be the DEFENCE and the GLORY of a nation!

A state prison and hard labor would, by many, be› thought a light punishment for the elephanticide; but a NAPOLEON, who has occasioned the slaughter and misery of millions of his fellow beings, must be supported in idleness and pomp, at an expense which would provide for thousands of sufferers who have been made widows or orphans by his merciless and desolating ambition! This, however, is European justice and humanity. But, on both sides of the Atlantic,

"One murder makes a villain—millions a hero !"

"CIVILIZED WAR."

"Civilized War!-How strangely pair'd these terms
Must strike on pensive rumination's ear!

Oh! I could speculate with calmer eye,
A monstrous cloud of fierce conflicting fiends
Met in mid air, with malice hot from hell,
Than this strange chequer of our motly strife
Urbanity and battle! manners smooth

And ruffian actions! Thorns that deeply pierce,
And beautifully flower! Soft, courtly camps
That kill, and smile, and smile, and kill again !"
"Civilized War! in every shifting view
Ill suits thee, fiend accurs'd, so fair a name,
Though in the field a smoother form thou wear
Than thy wild sister, hag of craggier shape,
A feller fury thou! for on thee wait
Intenser sufferings, and a wider scene,
With varied woes, thine ampler mischief fills."

"Yet this same act, which e'en though singly done, If naked seen such shuddering horror moves,

-when it is done

With all its tinsel on it, with its pomp

And robe about it, by a numerous troop

Whom ermined Mightiness commands and keeps
Gay rainbow butchers !—

-the amiable vice

Hid in magnificence and drown'd in state,
Loses the fiend; receives the sounding name

Of GLORIOUS WAR!-and through th' admiring throng,
Uncurs'd the ornamented murderers move."

"If but some few life-drops

Blush on the ground, for him, whose impious hand
The scanty purple sprinkled, a keen search
Commences straight: but if a sea be spilt-
But if a deluge spread its boundless stain,
And fields be flooded from the veins of man,
O'er the red plain no solemn Coroner
His inquisition holds. If but one corse,
With murder's sign upon it, meet the eye
Of pale discovery in the lone recess,
Justice begins the chace: When high are piled
Mountains of slain, the large enormous guilt,
Safe in its size, too vast for laws to whip,
Trembles before no bar."

"How long shall it be thus? say, Reason, say, When shall thy long minority expire?

When shall thy dilatory kingdom come?

N. B. These are but extracts from a poem of considerable length, written by the celebrated Joseph Fawcett, and entitled "Civilized War." The whole deserves the serious attention of rulers, and of all who patronize the sanguinary custom.

ENCOURAGING FACTS.

IT has been stated in the newspapers that Sweden, Holland, Denmark, and Switzerland, have acceded to the "Holy League," which was formed between Russia, Austria, and Prussia. If this intelligence be correct, SEVEN European governments are now allied for the preservation of peace. May we not hope that our goverament will not be the last to accede to the pacific alliance?

From a speech delivered by Mr. Vansittart, the chancellor of the exchequer, before the British and Foreign Bible Society, it appears that the British government

had full confidence in the sincerity of the three sove reigns who formed the league, and that the object was approved by the British cabinet.

In several ways information has been received, that a Peace Society has been formed in England, and that its operations were commenced by republishing the "Solemn Review of the Custom of War."

In a pastoral letter to the churches, the General Association of Massachusetts Proper, has approved and recommended Peace Societies, in a manner which is calculated to excite attention, and to promote the glorious object.

An able and interesting work, on the subject of war, has been recently published in New-York, entitled "Letters addressed to Caleb Strong, Esq. late Governor of Massachusetts."

By a letter to the Corresponding Secretary of the Massachusetts Peace Society, information has just arrived, that a Peace Society was formed in the State of Ohio, Warren county, in December 1815, the same month in which the Massachusetts Peace Society was formed, and the "Holy League" was published in Russia. The letter was from a Committee of the Society in Ohio. The God of Peace is omnipresent.

SERMON ON WAR:

DELIVERED BEFORE THE CONVENTION OF CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS, MAY 30, 1816. AND PUBLISHED AT THE REQUEST OF THE OFFICERS OF THE PEACE SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. BY WILLIAM E. CHANNING, MINISTER OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN FEDERAL-STREET, BOSTON.

Isaiah, 2d chap. 4th verse. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

I HAVE chosen a subject, which may seem at first view not altogether appropriate to the present occasion-the subject of WAR. It may be thought, that an address to an assembly composed chiefly of the ministers of religion, should be confined to the duties, the dangers, and encouragements, which belong to the sacred office. If an apology be necessary for a deviation from the ordinary discussions of this day, I would observe, that the subject, which I have selected, has strong and peculiar claims on Christian ministers. Their past negJect of it is their reproach; and it is time my brethren, that this reproach were wiped away; that our obligations, as ministers of the Prince of peace, should be better understood and more deeply felt; and that our influence should be combined in illustrating and enforcing the slighted and almost forgotten precepts of Christianity, on the subject of war. I have been induced to select this topic, because, after the slumber of ages, Chrfatians seem to be awakening to a sense of the pacific character of their religion, and because I understood, that this Convention were at this anniversary to consider the interesting question, whether no method could be devised for enlightening the public mind on the nature and guilt of the custom of war. I was unwilling that this subject should be approached and dismissed as an ordinary affair. I feared, that in the pressure of business, we might be satisfied with the expression of customary disapprobation; and that, having in this way relieved our consciences, we should relapse into our former indiffer

ence, and should continue to hear the howlings of this dreadful storm of human passions with as much unconcern as before. I wished-perhaps it was a presumptious wish, perhaps a humbler office would have been more wisely chosen-but I wished to awaken in your breasts a firm and holy purpose, to toil and suffer in the great work of abolishing this worst vestage of barbarism, this grossest outrage on the principles of Christianity.The day I trust is coming, when Christians will look back with gratitude and affection on those men, who, in ages of conflict and bloodshed, enlisted under the banner of philanthropy and peace, cherished generous hopes of human improvement, withstood the violence of corrupt opinion, held forth, amidst the general darkness, the pure and mild light of christianity, and thus ushered in a new and peaceful era in the history of mankind. My fathers and brethren! In that day of triumph to the church, may it be recorded, that in this age of war and crime, there were not wanting those, who looked with mingled indignation, horror and grief, on the woes inflicted by man on his brother; and who never fainted in their toils to infuse the spirit of mercy and peace into their fellow-beings.

The miseries and crimes of war, its sources, its remedies, will be the subjects of our present attention.-In detailing its miseries and crimes, there is no temptation to recur to unreal or exaggerated horrors. No strength, no depth of coloring can approach reality. It is lamentable, that we need a delineation of the calamities of war, to rouse us to exertion. The mere idea of human beings employing every power and faculty in the work of mutual destruction, ought at once to strike a horror into our minds. But on this subject, our sensibilities are dreadfully sluggish and dead. Our ordinary sympathies seem to forsake us, when war is named. The suf ferings and death of a single fellow-being often excite a tender and active compassion: but we hear without emotion of thousands enduring every variety of wo in war. A single murder in peace thrills through our frames. The countless murders of war are heard as an amusing tale. The execution of a criminal depresses the mind, and philanthropy is laboring to substitute milder punishments for death, But benevolence has