by poverty to shed their last drop of blood in a foreign land, far from the endearments of kindred. A man, a reasonable being, a christian, plunging the bayonet, without passion, into the bowels of a man for hire! The poor creatures who actually do this (in despotic countries) are but mechanical instruments of knaves in

power. Their poverty, and not their will, consents. May Heaven's sweet mercy, then, wash off the blood-s.ains from their hands, and reserve its wrath for those whose thirst of power, which they never had a wish to use for the good of man, leads them to wade to it through seas of human gore!

THE PARADE.

THE eagle's plumes are brown or gray;
The lion wears a tawny coat;
We hear not music in the note
Of beast or bird of prey:
But Man, preparing to destroy,
Puts on the forms, the sounds of joy.

Sad is the dirge of howling winds,
When o'er the ship the billows fly;
Heaven's thunder in the sable sky
It's warning terror finds;

Which Man, preparing to destroy,
Hides in the forms, the sounds of joy.

Earth's bosom, ere it heaves around,
Rent by the force of hidden fire,
Groans fearfully, and throbbings dire
Proclaim the deep-felt wound:
Yet Man, his purpose to destroy,
Speaks but in forms and sounds of joy.

Since neither beast nor bird of prey,
Nor ocean, nor the stormy cloud,
Nor opening earth, is wont to shroud
Grim death in semblance gay;
Since these, commission'd to destroy,
Take not the forms, the sounds of joy,

Whence, Man! thy strange anomaly?
Does Nature, feeling secret shame
The murderous purpose to proclaim,
Her laws reverse for thee?
No-while the battle bids destroy,
Nor
eye nor ear is fed with joy.

Thy lightning scatters ruin then :

Thy piercing blade extorts the groan;
And sea and earth and sky bemoan

The monstrous mirth of Men ;
Who march, their fellows to destroy,
In pleasing forms, with sounds of joy!

L. H.

Hadleigh, 3d Nov. 1821.

To the Editor of the Herald of Peace.

SHOULD the whole or a part of the accompanying Inscription be admissible, its insertion will oblige

Your's,

J. H. C.

INSCRIPTION FOR THE TOMB OF

GUTHRON THE DANE,

In St. Mary's Church, Hadleigh, Suffolk.
O STAY thee, Stranger; o'er this hallow'd ground
In solemn silence pause! Here sleeps the Chief,
Whom royal ALFRED, with a Christian's zeal,
From deeds of savage slaughter, from the rites
Of Odin, bath'd in blood and breeding war,
Turn'd to the living God-Guthrun the Dane.

Here oft, repentant of the erring course
That stain'd his dawn of manhood, hath he bow'd
His head in meekness; with a pilgrim's faith
Abjur'd the idols of his native land;
Pray'd for redeeming grace; and, sighing deep,
Dropp'd the lone tear upon his Saviour's cross:
Then, hence retiring, with a patriot's care
Rul'd his brief realm, and kept his vow in peace.

O ye, who, mid the strife of battle, burn
With lust of fame or pow'r! Say, have ye felt,
E'en in the glow of conquest, when the car
In triumph bore you o'er the tented field,
Felt ye a throb of joy so keenly sweet,
Such thrilling rapture, as did GUTHRUN feel
When, free from ruthless rage and thirst of blood,
The storm of vengeful passion lull'd to rest,
Here, prostrate at St. Mary's shrine, he felt
His heart within him yearning for his God?

Go, Stranger, if perchance to thee belong
The honour'd name of Father, teach thy sons,
That not in deeds of rapine or of spoil,
Power's forceful arm, or vict'ry's crimson steel,
Consists the virtue or the good of man;

That He, who bade them breathe and live, alone
Looks on the heart, alone vouchsafes to dwell
In that pure bosom, where, with Peace, reside
The sister-forms of Piety and Love.

Drake's Winter Nights.

THE

HERALD OF PEACE.

APRIL 1821.

TO THE FRIENDS OF PEACE.

cruel act of aggression. We confidently anticipate its complete frustration; and have only to pray that it may be effected without effusion of blood.

But what is now the duty of Christians, and of Christian governments? They have it no longer in their power to prevent the commencement of hostile movements: That blessed reflection is lost to them for ever. But may they not yet stay the murdering sword? may they not strangle the savage monster War while yet in his infancy and heal the wounds already inflicted? The golden opportunity of preserving the peace of Europe from violation is gone by; but many an unhappy victim may yet be rescued from the brazen arms of the great moloch of destruction,-many a happy family saved from spoliation and ruin, -and the awfully demoralizing effects

of mortal warfare be averted!

Of all the countries in Europe, ENGLAND possesses the most powerful and effectual influence, if it could be induced to employ it. And are there no individuals of talent, energy, and benevolence, to rouse the attention of their fellow-countrymen to this important subject? We know there are thousands such. And we implore them to join their influence in procuring petitions to government, that it would remonstrate with the Members of the Holy Alliance, upon their present unjust proceedings towards Naples.

England, above all other countries, is bound to protest against the attack upon the Neapolitan State, for that

attack is aimed at a Co..stitution founded upon similar principles to its own-England, above all other nations, is bound to exert itself in the

cause of Christian Benevolence, because there is no other where the truths of religion and the duties of humanity have been so generally and so mercifully diffused.

We conclude with earnestly wishing, in reference to the subject of this address, that every believer in Christianity would impress indelibly upon his memory, and his heart, the Saviour's declaration-"Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the children of God." 21st March, 1821.

Defence of the Peace Society.

A Member of the Committee of the hands of a friend, a literary character Peace Society having put into the lation of Mr. Clarkson's "Essay on and a Frenchman, a Spanish transthe Doctrines and Practice of the Early Christians, as they relate to his friend a Letter, stating his objecWar," he afterwards received from tions to Mr. Clarkson's positions. As this Letter was written in French, and the citations from Mr. Clarkson, in Spanish, the paragraphs selected from the Letter for animadversion, by the author of the following Defence of the Peace Society, are, in justice to the writer, given in the language in which they are written. It is conceived that, to the English reader, the Defence itself will sufficiently develop the arguments of the objector.

SIR-AS your animadversions on Mr. Clarkson's work are an attack upon the principles of the Peace Society, I beg leave to submit for your consideration some remarks upon Letter. them, in the order they stand in your

qu'on la considére, est un grand mal, et 1. La guerre, de quelque manière

jamais elle n'a pû être regardée comme un bien. Tout les âges et tous les peuples en sont convenus. Les ecrivains qui se sont dévoués à célébrer les exploits des héros, au milieu de leurs chants adulateurs, n'ont pû retenir l'expression d'une juste indignation, contre cet antique et moderne fléau du monde. Depuis Homére, jusqu'à lord Byron, on ne trouve pas un poëme, ou une dissertation politique, qui la justifie, à l'exception dependant des livres sacrés.

uns n'est qu'une modification de la religion des autres. Les bases sont les mêmes, puisqu'elles reposent sur l'A'ncien Testament. Si, dans ce livre, la guerre est préconisée sans cesse, si Dieu même l'ordonne, pour les motifs les plus legers, je dois dire même les plus injustes, s'il se complait dans l'appellation épouvantable de Dieu des armées, si enfin depuis le commencement de ces écrits jusqu'à la fin, nous sommes épouvantés par le reçit des horreurs perpétuelles commandées et

par les ordres du Suprême Inspirateur de ces terribles pages; on damner la continuation de ces usages ne peut s'appuyer de lui pour conbarbares.

In this paragraph you travel away from and lose sight of the argument of Mr. Clarkson. But waving this objection, I answer, that though the God of the Christians is the God of the Jews, I cannot join you in the inference you attempt to draw from that fact; neither are you correct in the positions you advance. When you say that war is incessantly extolled in the Old Testament, when you say that" from the beginning to the end

excécutées Writers, who have celebrated the exploits of heroes, may, in the midst of their flattering song, have incidentally lamented some of the miseries attendant on war, but they could not condemn what they were in the act of extolling. Is not Homer an eulogist of heroes? Are not their military exploits emblazoned in his pages as objects worthy of the highest ambition? Does he not represent a short life gloriously employed in military slaughter, as preferable to a long life of inglorious ease? Such a poet not only justifies War, but excites his readers, who imbibe the true spirit of his poetry, to the same murderous deeds, as the path best leading to glory and renown. Alexander, Cæsar, and Charles XII. of Sweden caught the inspiration of the Iliad, and in their career of human slaughter we see its glorious fruits.

Your assertion, that poems devoted to the celebration of the exploits of heroes express a just indignation at their conduct, involves ideas so incongruous, that I shall not attempt a serious refutation of it. Upon examination, it will, I believe, be found that all the eulogists of heroes are inspired by a martial heroic spirit, and infuse the same spirit into their readers, whether they wrote in the days of Homer, or in those of lord Byron.

2. Quand Mr. Thomas Clarkson à cru pouvoir attaquer ce fléau, par l'opinion des premiers chrétiens à cet égard, il n'a pas considéré les réponses qu'il est facile de faire à ses observations. Le Dieu des chrétiens est le Dieu des juifs, la religion des

of this book we are shocked with the recital of continual horrors command

ed and executed with the sanction of the Supreme Inspirer of these terrific pages," you say what an impartial examination of these pages would convince you they do not authorize.

Turn over "these terrific pages as you miscall them, examine the characters they delineate, and you will find that the cause of the eulogiums passed on them is their worship of the one true God, in the midst of Pagan darkness, their faith in his promises, and their implicit obedience to his commands. For what military exploits has the historian eulogized Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Samuel, Elijah, Elisha, Obadiah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, and his companions Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. None of these were heroes.-And even Joshua and David, who may be called military characters, are not