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 must be, when covered with the dying and the dead; and the dreadful sufferings to which the actual combatants are necessarily exposed; there are other painful emotions — there are other evils attendant on a state of warfare, which humanity has cause to deplore. What, for instance, must the neighbouring inhabitants feel, who reside in a country immediately adjoining the seat of war? "How dreadful" says the judicious Hall, “to hold every thing at the mercy of an enemy and to receive life itself as a boon dependant on the sword? How boundless the fears which such a situation must inspire, where the issues of life and death are determined by no known laws, principles or customs: and no conjecture can be formed of our destiny except as far as it is dimly decyphered in characters of blood in the dictates of revenge, and the caprices of power. Conceive but for a moment the consternation which the approaches of an invading army would impress on the peaceful villagers in this neighbourhood. When you have placed yourselves, for an instant, in that situation, you will learn to sympathise with those unhappy countries which have sustained the ravages of arms. But how is it possible to give you an idea of these horrors? — Here you behold rich harvests, the bounty of heaven and the reward of industry, consumed in a moment, or trampled under foot; while famine and pestilence follow the steps of desolation —There the cottages of peasants given up to the flames; mothers expiring through fear, not for themselves, but their infants; the inhabitants flying with their helpless babes in all directions, miserable fugitives on their native soil!—In another part you witness opulent cities taken by storm; the streets, where no sounds were heard but those of peaceful mirth and contentment, filled on a sudden with slaughter and blood, resounding with the cries