those arms, which are died in mutual blood, be wrested out of your hands. How long will it be before your minds will be so enlightened by the pure and benevolent precepts of Christian Philanthropy, that it will not be in the power of a few crafty, ambitious, unjust, self-interested, and sanguinary men, to drag you to mutual destruction ! How long must two ingenious and gallant nations, whose union would be productive of such incalcu lable benefit, and whose example might charm the world to peace, be separated from each other! In the hearts and wishes of a great majority of the inhabitants of each they are friends already-O, why must the pride, the hatred, the profligacy of a few individuals force them to be enemies? Sacred liberty-thou art the birthright and the blessing of every human being-but when have thy banners been unspotted with blood--where have thy triumphs been wholly uncontaminated with injustice and oppression? And must it for ever be thus? Surely not. Father of the Universe! Is there not a season coming, in which the mists of sensuality and selfishness shall be dissipated; in which the human mind, free from the tyranny of its unjust and ignoble passions, shall assert its divine origin, and delight in spreading all around it the empire of rightcousness and love. Then dear, sacred, venerated liberty! thy triumph shall be compleat-it will be the triumph of intellect and philanthropy it will be dishonoured by no deed of injustice-it will be dimmed by no tear of distress-it will be wounded by no chain of oppression. Mind and body will be equally emancipated. The palm of religion and the olive of peace will be twined for ever around the lance of true freedom!

It was thus, that on the night of the third of October last, unable for a long time to sleep, at the heart-withering prospect of protracted hostility be

tween France and my Native Country, I vented my feelings, when, at length, Morpheus prevailed; and an interesting slumber continued the subject of my waking thoughts.

Methought I was alone upon the summit of a lofty mountain; at first all was dark, and the air felt so sharp and biting, that I shivered with cold as well as fear, for I had no knowledge of the place where I was. I wished greatly for shelter, but I was terrified at every step I took, as I knew not to what it might conduct me. I found I was descending, but I had not gone far before some low groans reached my ear, these in a short time encreased and my alarm rose so high, that my progress was effectually stopped. I found I was not far from the sea for the sullen monotonous roar of the waves sounded in my ears-some broken sentences of most melancholy import at times reached me-and I longed for the light, that I might sooth, if possible, what I found were the wailings of bitter distress-even dark as it was, I bent my course towards the point from whence the voices came-I soon stumbled at something, and I found it was a dead body-by a natural instinet, I started back, and my foot slipping I fell to the ground, and my stretched-out hand pressed upon another cold human form. Almost petrified with terror, I rose as quickly as I could; still I could see nothing, but the voice, with which I was now become almost familiar, again, in fainter accents, exclaimed"O, thou Judge of the Universe, forgive thy wretched creature for all the violence with which he has been chargeable-the weight of blood lies heavy on my soul-what had the poor innocents, whose blood I have been the instrument of spilling, whose peaceful labours I have interrupted, or in whose bosoms I have planted daggers that will torture them as long as life endures what injury had

they done to me! none, none-I never knew them! and cursed be the hour when I consented to quit my peaceful home, to hurl misery and death upon multitudes who had never injured me. O glory, what a deceitful phantom art thou-I now see thee in thy proper shape; and thou art a highwayman, a barefaced robber, and a murderer. O, gracious Heaven, visit not upon my parents and my babes, the wretchedness I have brought upon others!" This soliloquy of remorse and death, which was often interrupted with pauses, and groans of anguish, was scarcely finished, when the light began to appear, and I saw at a little distance the wretched object from whom it proceeded-he was a subaltern officer, in the prime of life-he had several terrible wounds, and when I approached him his eyes were fixed, his lips moved, and he was evidently anxious to have said something to me, but it was too late; for the hand of death was pressing hard upon him, and in a few moments he was a breathless corpse. The morning now came on apace; the ground was covered with an hoar frost, and the whiteness which glittered around, rendered the streams and puddles of blood, which were still almost running, more terribly distinct. It was with

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the utmost difficulty that I could support myself in the scene of carnage with which I was surrounded, almost as far as the eye could reach, the vestiges of a destructive engagement was visible! and horses lay scattered, and in groups, more or less numerous, over a vast space of ground-several ditches were filled with human carcases-and the manner in which many of them, who had perished in the hottest of the combat, were pierced and galled, afforded a fearful spectacle. A few were still breathing, but the keen frost penetrating into their wounds, forbad all hopes of recovery-the groans which I had heard at first grew fainter every mo

ment, and at length all were hushed, not a sound was heard, and the silence of the sepulchre stilled the field of death. It was now broad day, and at a considerable distance the ruins of a large village were still smoaking; in a little time, from the demolished walls, which had separated gardens from the public road, and from many of the half consumed dwellings, at first a few, and, by degrees, a considerable number of wretched figures made their appearance. Fear was in every pale countenance, and horror, as they advanced to the scene of carnage, was visible in every eye. Melancholy, indeed, was the spectacle that followed-parents, with tears of agony, hung over their murdered children-lovely virgins sought, in the heaps of death, those gallant youths whose vows of affection they were never more to hear-and young widows, with little infants in their arms, came to gaze, for the last time, upon faces which had long been dearer than any earthly object to them.

"O, ye barbarians!" exclaimed a beautiful female, whom a lovely little boy was vainly endeavouring to soothe, and to lead away, "Cursed be the day, when, with cowardly arms, ye disturbed our guiltless village. May the vengeance of Heaven overtake your piratical sails, and the plunder that your superior forces have enabled you to carry off, be a dead weight upon your course-not even the minister of religion could escape your fury; blameless as a child was the man whom you murdered, with the messages of peace and submission on his lips." I turned towards the sea as she spoke, and saw at a distance a number of vessels, whose masts only were visible in the horizon; but by the empty trunks and boxes, and various articles of cloathing and furniture, which were broken and scattered along the beach, I beheld another proof of the miseries of war: and of the wanton havoc.

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that so often attends the progress of an army. My heart sickened within me, and my thoughts were busy, arraigning the ways of Providence, and daring to call in question the equity of that righteous administration, which admits into its plan such evils as those I had witnessed.

But, in an instant, the sky, which had lowered with black clouds, and from which I expected the thunder every moment to burst, cleared up; a mild .celestial light, which exceeded in softness, while it equalled in splendor, the blaze of the meridian sun, shone round about me all at once my ears were charmed with heavenly music, and greeted witha distant but joyous shouts! I turned about, and my astonishment, for a moment, deprived me of the pow er of attending to what I saw. The hill which I had descended was gone-the ample plain, which was expanded till the distance rendered every object obscure, was broken into a multitude of parts, arable and pasture lands were beautifully intermingled; innumerable flocks and herds covered the latter, and in the divisions of the former a luxuriant harvest waved its golden burden, and bowed almost to the earth with the weight of its ears. Instead of streams of blood, currents of the purest water meandered through the meadows. The heaps of dead, and the melancholy groupes that were wandering among them, were all vanished. The ruined village had given place to a town, in which every mark of prosperity was visible; and over the whole landscape were scattered hamlets and detached houses, in all of which neatness and comfort, and in some of which proofs of wealth and splendour were apparent. All was in motion, and even the birds of the air seem→ ed to partake of the general delight, their various notes was heard in every direction; bands of labourers, were faces of health and content, swarmed around; the reapers, with shining sickles, invaded