ADDITIONAL

FACTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

HORRORS OF WAR.

WAR OF THE PALATINATE.- "De Longes ravaged the Palatinate without even sparing the tombs of the dead. The French soldiers on this occasion seem to have been actuated by the most brutal inhumanity. They butchered the inhabitants, violated the women, plundered the houses, rifled the churches, and murdered the priests at the altars. They broke open the Electoral vault, and scattered the ashes of that illustrious family about the streets.

"They set fire to different quarters of the city; they stripped about 15,000 of the inhabitants, without distinction of age or sex, and drove them naked into the castle, that the garrison might be the sooner induced to capitulate. There they remained like cattle in the open air, with

out food or covering, tortured between the horrors of their fate and the terrors of a bom

bardment.

"When they were set at liberty in consequence of the forts being surrendered, a great number of them died along the banks of the Neckar, from cold, hunger, anguish, and despair.

"These enormous cruelties, which would have disgraced the arms of a Tartarian freebooter, were acted by the express command of Louis the Fourteenth of France, who has been celebrated by so many venal pens not only as the greatest monarch, but also as the most polished prince of Christendom."-Smollett's Works, vol. vii. p. 200.

For a picture of the horrors of war, see Arnold's fourth lecture on Modern History, in which he describes the miseries endured by the Genoese when besieged by the Austrians, and blockaded by the English under Lord Keith.

"In fighting for Christ," says St. Bernard, in his address to the Templars, "the kingdom of Christ is obtained." "The sword," says the prophet Mahomet, on the other hand, "is the

key of heaven and of hell: a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting, and of prayer. Whosoever falls in battle his sins are forgiven him in the day of judgment. Fighting for religion is an act of obedience to God." The Mahometans and Knights Templars were well matched in fanaticism.

PROSPECT OF A WAR WITH FRANCE.

"We are constantly told that France cannot be easy till she is rounded off by the Rhine; that France must have Belgium; that France should have the ascendant in Spain. Why-good Heaven! has not this principle of appropriation been tried, and found wanting? Have Italy, Germany, Spain-has even little Switzerland, escaped French clutches? and is not the least of the plundered more prosperous than their former plunderers?

"France has every element of greatness within herself; but a very large part of her active mind has unfortunately acquired the habit of looking for greatness any where except at home; and the very consequences of this habit have helped to confirm it.

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"The evil effects of wars have left discontent which seeks for fresh wars. The great military outburst of France (it is said) will come one of these days: but if it does come, it will add one more lesson to those which France has received, from Louis the Fourteenth to Napoleon; and which, if these prophets are true, she has received in vain. Victory or defeat will leave the victors exhausted in any future contest, as it did before, and will only have made a fresh subtraction from her means of happiness and solid greatness."-Globe Newspaper, Aug. 3, 1839.

INEQUALITY OF NUMBERS IN WAR.

In a note on the 21st verse of the 20th chapter of Judges, it is said: "On common military principles there is nothing to occasion surprise in the defeat of an army of 400,000 men (the Israelites) by one of about 27,000 men (the Benjamites). It has been the great mistake of Orientalists generally, in all ages, to calculate their prospects of success rather by the numbers than by the efficiency of the men they can bring into action."