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Svciettj for the Promotion of Peaoe, 



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peace lias beeu established iu London^ 

 The distinijuishinjT feature of it has 

 been a bold and manly avowal of prin- 

 ciple on the part of its committee, 

 namely, that they are averse to all war, 

 tmdcr any pretence; a circumstance 



which places contributions have been 

 sent to the parent society. The number 

 of tracts printed in the first yeaf was 

 48,000— iu the second 128,000. 



The members of the committee have 

 also endeavotired to interest the public 



which, indeed, may limit the sphere of mind by exciting a spirit of inquiry, 



the society, but its early operations 

 will, we doubt not, eventually render 

 its influence more permanently exten- 

 sive, and consolidate its estublishnieut 

 on an immoveable basis. The com- 

 mittee embraces many highly respecta- 



by correspondence, and through the 

 medium of ditt'erent provincial publi- 

 cations. 



On the occasion of the late Congress 

 at Aix-la-Chapellc, they were not un- 

 mindful of the interests of humanity ; 



ble individuals, including that eminent and happy would it be for mankind if 



pliilanthropist Tliomas OUirkson, Esq 

 the zealous co-operator with Mr. Wil- 

 berforce, in the abolition of the slave 

 trade. A considerable number of 

 cheap, but neatly printed tracts, have 

 been circulated, expressive of the opi- 

 nions of the society on tlie momentous 

 subject of the unlawfulness of war, 

 upon christian principles, and to point 

 out the means best calculated to main- 

 tain permanent and universal peace. 

 The tracts hitherto published are very 



their suggestions, iu their address to 

 the soveieigus on that occasion, were 

 adopted iu the settlement of national 

 disputes ! Mr. Clarkson was the bearer 

 of the copies of this address. During 

 that gentleman's stay at the seat of 

 tlie C'ongress, he was honoured by a 

 private interview with that truly illus- 

 trious monarch the EmperorAlexander, 

 to whom Mr. C. presented a set of (he 

 society's tracts, elegantly bound. The 

 Emperor, on this occasion, said, " it 



judicious, and enjoy the peculiar ad- had given him peculiar satisfaction, 



vantage of not having been recently 

 written, so that the prejudices which 

 grew out of the late events are not 

 thereby awakened. 



The receipts of the society for the 

 first year, ending June 1817, were 

 £211 15s. lOd.— for that ending June 

 1818, f367 lls.7d.; and the number 

 of subscribers in the last year have been 

 nearly tripled. Two auxiliary sociC' 



wlien he had heard of a society, esta- 

 blished hi the United States of Ame- 

 rica, /or the prevention of war. This 

 had coincided so much with his own 

 views, and was for so great a moral 

 purpose, that he had thought it right to 

 signify his own opinion of it to its pre- 

 sident with his own hand. Equally 

 happy ^1'as he now to learn, that a soci- 

 ety had been establislied in Loudon for 



ties only had been reported at the close a similar puq)Ose, or for the promotion 



of the first year — Swansea and Neath, 

 and Tavistock : those of Edinburgh, 

 Glasgow, Darlington, Newcasile-upon- 

 Tyue, Hertford, Worcester, and Frome, 

 are added to the number. The society 

 has also regular correspondents at 

 Bath, Maidenhead (for Berkshire), 

 Bristol, Stroud (for Chatham and its 

 neighbourhood), Chelmsford, Cirences- 

 ter, Doncaster, Dundee, Gainsborough, 

 Guenisey, Hitchin, Hartshill (War- 

 wickshire), Horsham, Hull, Ipswich, 

 Liverpool, Leeds, Fulbeck and Gedney 

 (for Lincolnshire), Norwich, Notting- 

 ham, Northampton, Ogden (near Rocb- 



of permanent cind universal peace. 

 These societies were so many proofs to 

 him of the moral improvement of the 

 times, and (he spread of gospel princi- 

 ples upon earth. He was of opinion 

 that the peaceful times prophesied of in 

 the Holy Scriptures were hastening on, 

 and that they would most assuredly 

 come to pass. War itself (continued 

 the Emperor) among others, must give 

 way wherever Christianity maintains a 

 solid seat in the heart of man."* Se- 

 veral sets of the society's tracts, hand- 

 somely bound, were also forwarded to 

 their Majesties the Emperor of Austria 



dale), Charlbury (for Oxfordshire), and King of Prussia, to Prince Galitzin, 

 Plymouth, Horsehay (for Shropshire), and to other distinguished individuals, 

 Stockport, and York; from many of To his Royal Highness the Prince 



t The first society iu Loudon, having this 

 object, was established by the Editor of 

 this Miscellany, early in J 816; but it 

 yielded to the superior means and connection 

 of the sociely alhided to by our correspon- 

 dent. 



• In reply to the address of the society, 

 the Emperor Alexander honoured the society 

 with a letter (inlnisted to the Rev. Lewis 

 Way,) dated October 6th (O.S.) 1818, signed 

 with his own hand, expressive of his cordial 

 approbation of the objects of the society. 



Regent, 



