WHAT mortal that had never seen a soldier, could look without laughing, upon a man accoutred with so much paltry gaudiness and affected finery? The coarsest manufacture that can be made of wool, dyed of a brickdust color, goes down with him, because it is in imitation of scarlet or crimson cloth; and to make him think himself as like his officer as 'tis possible, with little or no cost, instead of silver or gold lace, his hat is trimmed with white or yellow worsted, which in others would deserve Bedlam; yet these fine allurements, and the noise made upon a calf's skin, have drawn in, and been the destruction of more men in reality, than all the bewitching voices of women ever slew in jest. To day the swineherd puts on his red coat, and believes every body in earnest that calls him a gentlemen, and two days after serjeant Kite gives him a swinging rap with his cane, for holding his musket an inch higher than ke should do. As to the real dignity of the employment, in the two last wars, officers, when recruits were wanted, were allowed to list fellows convicted of burglary and other capital crimes, which shews that to be made a soldier is deemed to be a preferment next to hanging. A trooper is yet worse than a foot soldier, for when he is most at ease, he has the mortification of being groom to a horse that spends more money

money than himself. When a man reflects on all this, the usage they generally receive from their officers, their pay and the care that is taken of them, when they are not wanted, must he not wonder how wretches can be so silly as to be proud of being called gentlemen soldiers? Fable of the Bees: Remark (R)

M. DE ST. PIERRE,

POLITICIANS consider war as necessary to a state because, as they pretend, it takes off the superflux of mankind. In general they have a very limited knowledge of human nature. Independent of the resources of the sub-division of property, which multiplies the fruits of the earth, there is no country but what has the means of emigration within it's reach, especially since the discovery of the new world. Besides, even the best peopled states contain immense tracks of uncultivated land. China and Bengal are, Į believe, the countries on the globe' which contain most inbabitants. In China, nevertheless, are many and extensive deserts, amidst it's fin est provinces, because avarice attracts their cul tivators to the vicinity of great rivers and cities, for the conveniency of commerce. Many enlightened travellers have made this observation. Studies of Nature, St. vii.

T. JARROLD, M. D.

MAN has sufficient liberty, sufficient power, to keep down the population of any country to any standard he may please by violence and bloodshed; but God has not appointed him to that task; he is not an executioner by nature; and the office never becomes him. A man, covered with blood, destroying the labour of the husbandman, and sowing the seeds of pestilence, is not acting a useful, consequently not a natural... ór becoming part. If the pages of history are sullied with such characters, their dependents are to be pitied, and they execrated.

Dissertations on Man, p. 73.

RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE.

WHEN at length Hyder Ali found that he had

to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty, and no fignature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigi ble and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy,

Servants of the East-India Company.

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recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance; and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those. against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together was no protection. He became at length so confident of his force so collected in his might, that he made no secret whatever of his dreadful resolution. Haying terminated his disputes with every enemy, and every rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot, he drew from every quarter, whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, with out regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank,

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or sacredness of function; fathers torn from-children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears, of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able. to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine.

For eighteen months, without intermission, this destruction raged from the gates of Madras: to the gates of Tanjore; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder Ali, and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British Armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic, for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not fee one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any defcription whatever! One dead uniform silence reigned over the whole region !!! Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's debts.

CAUSES OF WAR.

MR. GORDON

How many peaceable nations have been robbed, how many millions of innocents butchered out of mere honour, princely honour? His

grace,