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cence and peace) shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed, their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaning child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den. THEY SHALL NOT HURT NOR DESTROY in all my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Under any, and under every form of REVEALED TRUTH, we hail the accelerated spread of Knowledge, Purity, and Joy! Reason, matured and consecrated by the hallowed energies of the Christian dispensation, is the instrument destined by the Almighty to accomplish what hath hitherto been deemed an insuperable task-that of annihilating the evils of WAR, and of perpetuating the reign of PEACE among the nations of the earth: But

Say, REASON, say,

When shall thy long minority expire?
When shall thy dilatory kingdom come?
Haste, royal infant-to thy MANHOOD spring!
Almighty when mature to rule mankind!
Weak are the outward checks that would supply
Thy bridle's place within the secret heart-
Thine is the majesty-the victory thine
For thee reserv'd o'er all the wrongs of life!
The pigmy rapine, whose invasions vex
The private scene that hides his head minute
From human justice—it is thine to end!
And thine the Titan-crimes, that lift to Heaven
Their blushless fronts, and laugh at laws-to thee

All might belongs-leap to thy ripened years-
Mount thine immortal throne, and sway THE world*!

FAWCETT.

See Peace, the real Interest of every Human Being: an ADDRESS delivered at Brighton, Thursday, July 7, 1814; being the day appointed for Thanksgiving on account of the re-establishment of PEACE. By JOHN EVANS. Second

Edition.

The DOVE

Her resting place hath found,

Glory to God-deliverance for mankind!

Semita certé

Tranquillæ per Virtutem patet unica Vitæ !

The path to Peace is VIRTUE!

SOUTHEY.

JUVENAL.

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THE JUSTICE.

And then, the JUSTICE,

In fair round belly, with good capon lin❜d,
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances,
And so he plays his part!

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A CIVILIZED Community implies the existence of LAWS; the object of which is to regulate the passions, and direct the conduct of the subject. These laws in the first instance are produced in the Senate, by the united wisdom of Parliament. Hereditary nobles, and the representatives of a free people, are in our legislature employed to make certain regulations for the well-being of the nation. Without such restraints human affairs would soon run into confusion. Neither life, nor property, nor reputation, could have any security attached to them, were every individual suffered to do as he please, without any regard to the interests of those

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