Hon. Elias Boudinot, New Jersey; Rev. John Heckewelder and Roberts Vaux, Esq. Pennsylvania; Samuel Rodman and William Rotch Jun. Esquires, Massachusetts; J. N. Mooyaart, Esq. Jaffnapatam, India; Thomas Clarkson, Esq. Great Britain; and William Willshire Esq. British Consul at Mogadore.

Col. Joseph May, S. H. Walley Esq. Mr. J. S. Foster, and Mr. Lewis Tappan were appointed a Committee of Finance, to devise measures for increasing the permanent funds of the Society, and recommending any measures they may see fit respecting the financial concerns of the Society.

The Treasurer was requested to ask the assistance of Mr. J. W. Burditt, in receiving and collecting subscription monies, until the choice of officers in December next, when it is proposed to choose an Assistant Treasurer.

At the same meeting were passed the votes relative to privateering, which have been given in a preceding article.

The Executive Committee have elected John Gallison Esq. to deliver an Address at the next anniversary celebration.

IMPORTANT EXTRACTS FROM RECENT LETTERS.

From Pennsylvania." The unreasonable and unchristian custom of war, was perhaps never so generally a subject of consideration as at the present time, and it should seem that intelligent and accountable beings have only to examine the .question fairly, to become the friends of peace. In this view we may be encouraged to hope that from the standard of strife and misery, not only individuals but nations will flee, to rally under the banner of good will and love."

From Maryland." Peace Societies, by promoting universal harmony, find an easy access to the messengers of science and religion in every quarter of the globe. It is, if I may be allowed the expression, the ushering in of the Millennium. It is the first dawn of holy light arising in the west, not to expire in the horizon, but to spread to the vortex of heaven, to the extremity of the universe."—" I find that your efforts are seconded by the exertions of your brethren not only in different parts of the United States, but also beyond the Atlantic. And I anticipate with pleasure that a few years will behold them established in every civilized country of the

grant pecuniary assistance for " the translation, printing, and distribution of the Bible,”—and " in giving a more general diffusion to the Holy Scriptures throughout the world." To enforce the recommendation, the North Carolina circular says, “the doctrines of the Gospel go directly and powerfully to establish and sustain one of the fairest pillars of our order-Peace and good will towards all mankind."-Is not the time approaching when the Masonic Fraternity of every land will cast the whole weight of their influence into "the better scale," for the abolition of war, and for the peace of the world ?-Come on, Brethren, and show what Masonic Associations can do to bless the family of Man.

VI. The Leesburg Branch of the Ohio Peace Society is preparing to publish 2000 copies of the first volume of the Friend of Peace, with the Solemn Review and Monument, " to be bound in leather." "This, says our correspondent, will give permanency to that work in this part of the country, and it will be deposited in libraries, both public and private."

VII. We are informed by letters that two more Peace Societies, respectable for numbers, have been formed in Massachusetts; one at Cummington, the other at Hingham. The officers had not been elected when the letters were written.

Many new members have been added to the M. P. S. and its several Branches since the last number was published.

VIII. Considerable exertions are making to form a Peace Society in the state of Vermont. These efforts will not be in vain.

LETTER FROM A PRINCESS TO THE KING OF PRUSSIA.

"The following letter of her late majesty, written before her marriage, and from which the King is said to have received the first intimation of her extraordinary endowments, was addressed to the King of Prussia, on his entering the territories of her cousin, the Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin. It was transmitted to King George II, as a prodigy of patriotism and good sense in so young a princess."

"May it please your Majesty.

"I am at a loss whether I shall congratulate or condole with you on your late victory; since the same success that crowns you with laurels has overspread the country of Mecklenburg with desolation. I know, sire, that it seems unbecoming in my sex, in this age of vicious refinement, to feel for one's country, to lament the horrors of war, or wish for the return of peace. I know you may think it more properly my province to study the arts of pleasing, or to turn my thoughts to subjects of a more domestic nature; but however unbecoming it may be in me, I cannot resist the desire of interceding for this unhappy people.

"It was but a few years ago that this territory wore the most pleasing appearance; the country was cultivated, the peasants looked cheerful, and the towns abounded with riches and festi. vity. What an alteration at present from such a charming scene! I am not expert at description, nor can my fancy add any horrors to the picture; but sure even conquerors themselves would weep at the hideous prospect now before me. The whole coun⚫ try, my dear country, lies one frightful waste, presenting only objects to excite pity, terror, and despair. The business of the husbandman and the shepherd is quite discontinued; the husbandman and the shepherd are become soldiers themselves, and help to ravage the soil they formerly occupied. The towns are inhabited only by old men, women, and children; perhaps here and there a warrior, by wounds or loss of limbs rendered unfit for service, left at his door; his little children hang round him, ask a history of every wound, and grow themselves soldiers before they find strength for the field. But this were nothing, did we not feel the alternate insolence of each army as it happens to advance or retreat. It is impossible to express the confusion which even those who call themselves our friends excite. Even those from whom we might expect redress, oppress us with new calamities. From your justice, therefore, it is that we hope for relief; to you even children and women may complain, whose humanity stoops to the meanest petition, and whose power is capable of repressing the greatest injustice. I am, &c."

[Memoirs of the late Princess Charlotte, by Thomas Green.]

DISGRACEFUL OCCURRENCES.

UNDER this head we thought of giving a list of duels, and chal lenges for duels between officers of our army and navy in the course of the present year; but, recollecting that the circulation of this work is not confined to the United States, we are unwilling to be the instruments of extending to other countries a detail of such barbarous occurrences in our own. If the frequency of duels and challenges, among officers in the pay of the United States, is not a reproach to our government and to the pation, it must be for a reason which we should blush to record. May we not then hope that it will soon be understood by all our fellow citizens, that no confidence can safely be placed in the pretended patriotism of any officer, whether civil, military, or naval. who will wantonly outrage the laws of God, and the laws of his own Country Can such men be relied on as the defenders of our rights and our lives as the protectors of our liberty and our laws, our civil and religious institutions? Why not as rationally rely on

wolves to guard our sheep, on hawks to protect our chickens, on swine or bears to defend our fields of corn?

We most sincerely lament that such fruits of barbarism and delusion should continue to blacken the annals of our country. It is, however, a question of some importance, whether better things can reasonably be expected of men who are educated for the very purpose of destroying their brethren, and who are taught to" glory in their shame."

"They never care how many others
They kill, without regard to mothers,
Or wives, or children, so they can

Make up some great dead-doing man."-BUTLER.

The principles of duellists are not less barbarous than those described by the same poet in the following lines :—

"So a wild Tartar when he spies

A man that's handsome, valiant, wise,
If he can kill him, thinks t' inherit

His wit, his beauty and his spirit ;
As if just so much he enjoy'd

As in another he destroy'd."

LINES WRITTEN BY MARRIOTT.
Full oft has poetry's impulsive strain
Urg'd the rash stripling to the tented plain,
Feign'd wondrous happiness in loud huzzas,
And painted murder as the path to praise.
Did lawless lust of power, or vengeance fell,
Give birth to deeds which man should blush to tell,
The dazzled bard consigns those deeds to fame,
And, love of glory, styled the infernal flame,
In glowing verse, of battles, deaths, and frauds,
He sings-with shouts the multitude applauds ;
Lays, to oblivion due, they call sublime,
Extol the language, and forget the crime.

But can the man who boasts his faith to draw,
From the pure stream of evangelic law,
Who hears forbidden every thought unkind,
And love in every circumstance enjoined ;
How can he guiltless fan that murderous flame,
For whose extinction Heaven's Messiah came;
Their blood, though guilty, can he guiltless shed
For whose redemption Heaven's Messiah bled?

N. B. An interesting letter has just been received from the Hon. ELIAS BOUDINOT, approving the objects of Peace Societies.

The

Obituary-Died at Norton, the Hon. GEORGE LEONARD, aged 90. death of Rev. JOSEPH LEE, of Royalston, another worthy member of the M. P. S. should have been recorded in the last number.