him in his dreary palace below. He started from his throne, and instantly emerged to the regions of light.

What's all this clamour, said Pluto, to disturb the regions of the shades and of eternal silence? Cause enough! said Cephisus; here are your infernal bands, let loose and mur. dering my innocent shepherds. Pluto, kindled into wrath, stamped on the ground and shook all the shores of the Hellespont. "Tis a lie, said Pluto, 'tis a lie. These are not deThey must be men: for I swear by the river Styx, that there is not a fury in the infernal domain, so completely accursed and depraved, as not to be ashamed of such horrid barbarities.

mons.

For the above article we are indebted to a learned and intelligent gentleman, who says Mr. Langhorne has versified a Fable relative to the soldiers of Alexander; but it appears to me that the Fable is most pungent in prose, and in the simple manner of the ancients."

STORY OF THE SHEPHERD AND VULTURES.

Tax following paragraphs are from the original No. 22, of the Idler, by Dr. Johnson. "On the republication of that work in volumes this paper was suppressed and another substituted in its stead." It was republished in the first Number of the Herald of Peace.

A shepherd of Bohemia has, by long abode in the forests, enabled himself to understand the voice of birds; at least he relates with great confidence a story, of which the credibility is left to be considered by the learned.

"As I was' sitting," said he, "within a hollow rock, and watching my sheep that fed in the valley, I heared two vultures, interchangeably crying on the summit of the cliff. Both voices were earnest and deliberate. My curiosity. prevailed over my care of the flock: I climbed slowly and silently from crag to crag, concealed among the shrubs, till I found a cavity where I might sit and listen without suffering or giving disturbance.

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"I soon perceived that my labour would be well repaid; for an old vulture was sitting on a naked prominence, with her young about her, whom she was instructing in the arts of a vulture's life, and preparing, by the last lecture, for their final dismission to the mountains and the skies.

"My children,' said the old vulture, you will the less want my instructions, because you have had my practice before your eyes; you have seen me snatch from the farm the household fowl, you have seen me seize the leveret in the bush, and the kid in the pasture; you know how to fix your talons, and how to balance your flight when you are laden with your prey. But you remember the taste of more delicious food: I have often regaled you with the flesh of man.” Tell us,' said the young vultures, where man may be found, and how he may be known; his flesh is surely the natural food of a vulture. Why have you never brought a man in your talons to the nest?' He is too bulky,' said the mother; when we find a man we can only tear away his flesh, and leave his bones upon the ground.' 'Since man is so big,' said the young ones, how do you kill him? You are afraid of the wolf and of the bear; by what power are vultures superior to man? is man more defenceless than a sheep? We have not the strength of man,' returned the mother, and I am sometimes in doubt whether we have the subtilty; and the vultures would seldom feed upon his flesh had not nature, that devoted him to our uses, infused into him a strange ferocity, which I have never observed in any other being that feeds upon the earth. Two herds of men will often meet and shake the earth with noise, and fill the air with fire. When you hear noise, and see fire, with flashes along the ground, hasten to the place with your swiftest wing, for men are surely destroying one another; you will then find the ground smoking with blood and covered with carcases, of which many are dismembered and mangled for the convenience of the vulture,' But when men have killed their prey,' said the pupil, why do they not eat it? When the wolf has killed a sheep, he suffers not the vulture

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to touch it till he is satisfied himself. Is not man another kind of wolf? Man,' said the mother, is the only beast who kills that which he does not devour, and this quality makes him so much a benefactor to our species.' If men kill our prey, and lay it in our way,' said the young one, 'what need shall we have of labouring for ourselves ? Because man will, sometimes,' replied the mother, remain for a long time quiet in his den. The old vultures will tell you when you are to watch his motions. When you see men in great numbers moving close together, like a flock of storks, you may conclude that they are hunting, and that you will soon revel in human blood. But still,' said the young one, "I would gladly know the reason of this mutual slaughter. I could never kill what I could not eat,'My child,' said the mother, this is a question which I cannot answer, though I am reckoned the most subtle bird of the mountain. When I was young, I used frequently to visit the aërie of an old vulture, who dwelt upon the Carpathian rock's; he had made many observations; he knew the places that afforded prey round his habitation, as far in every direction as the strongest wing can fly between the rising and setting of the summer sun; he had fed year after year on the entrails of men. His opinion was, that men had only the appearance of animal life, being really vegetables with a power of motion; and that as the boughs of an oak are dashed together by the storm, that swine may fatten upon the falling acorns, so men are, by some unaccountable power, driven one against another, till they lose their motion, that vultures may be fed. Others think they have observed something of contrivance and policy among these mischievous beings; and those that hover more closely round them pretend, that there is, in every herd, one that gives directions to the rest, and seems to be more eminently delighted with a wide carnage. What it is that entitles him to such pre-eminence we know not; he is seldom the biggest or the swiftest, but he shews by his eagerness and diligence that he is, more than any of the others, a friend to the vultures." "

THE WATCHMAN'S ADDRESS TO THE ADVOCATES FOR WAR.

The impressive lines which follow were handed to us as having been writ ten by Mr. Wilson, Editor of the Delaware "Watchman." Whoever may have been the author, they deserve a place in the Friend of Peace.

O ye who fill the throne of power,
Who speak and millions must obey,
Who reign the monarchs of an hour,
And rise dictators of the day;

Think while the trumpet's clamorous breath
Re-echoes through the regions round,
What scenes of agony and death
Await the inharmonious sound.

O join not then with hasty rage

The tumults which are heard from far,
But shun the desolating stage.

O shun the guilty walks of war!

Think while the thundering cannons roar,
And while the waving faulchion plays,
How carnage wades through streams of gore,
And grins amid the steely blaze.

Ah! vain are words to paint the woes,
Which haunt the crowded field of blood,
Not all that rhetoric bestows

Can trace the sanguinary flood.

The thousands of the mighty slain,
Who sleep upon the martial shore,
Though they have felt the wound of pain,
They heave the languid sigh no more.

But if your thoughtless mind would know,
Or can endure of more to hear,

To widows and to orphans go,
And mark the never-ceasing tear.

Read in the groans that rend the heart,
Read in the tears that ceaseless roll,
What words are powerless to impart,
The speechless anguish of the soul.

O think of these, and shun the blade,
That darts its sickly beams afar,
And shun the dark impending shade,
That hovers o'er the scenes of WAR.

NOTICES OF A "PROPOSED MEMORIAL" ON PRIVATEERING.

In May of the present year a " Proposed Memorial to the Congress of the United States," on privateering, was published in the vicinity of Boston, to excite public attention to that interesting subject. In the Massachusetts Convention of Congregational Ministers, May 26, the Rev. Dr. Worcester of Salem made a motion, by which the object of the " Proposed Memorial" was brought under consideration. A Com、mittee, consisting of the following members, was chosen to consider the subject and make report-Rev. Dr. Worcester, Rev. Henry Colman, Rev. Dr. Bancroft, Rev. W. E. Chan-ning, and Rev. Dr. Parish.--On the next day the Committee presented the following

REPORT.

"The Committee of the Convention, to whom was referred the motion of the Rev. Dr. Worcester on the subject of Privateering, beg leave to report the following Resolutions to be adopted by the Convention :

"1. Resolved, That this Convention approve the object of the Memorial laid before them yesterday on this subject.

"2. Resolved, That they view the practice of Privateering as utterly abhorrent to religion and humanity, and inconsistent with sound national policy ;-and that they are prepared to make every effort within their power to discourage, prevent, and abolish it.

"3. Resolved, That appointed, consisting of

Committee of this Convention be members, whose business it

shall be to adopt any measures which they may deem expedient and conducive to this object.

"4. Resolved, That this Committee be instructed to confer and cooperate with the Massachusetts Peace Society on this subject.

5. Resolved, as the sense of this Convention, That this Committee should immediately open such Correspondence, as is likely to assist in this object in order to procure, as far as possible, a general and unanimous expression of abhor