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slain in spite of the broad-sword by his side. But honest William Penn, or any of his quakers, with only his broad-brimmed beaver, and staff in his hand, might have walked throughout the country, not only in safety, but even thronged by the Indians, eagerly running to shake hands, calling him brother! brother! and carrying him with joy to their cabins to feast him on the best provisions they had. Captain Smith and the Indians were always in "hot water," and often in bloody wars, which never ended but in the extermination of the latter. But honest William Penn and the Indians lived so perfectly in the spirit of brothers, that during all the time that he and his followers, the FRIENDS, had the rule in Pennsylvania, even seventy years, there was never known one single instance of murder. Captain Smith's city, (old James-town) built on violence and blood, is now swept from the face of the earth; scarcely a broken tomb-stone remaining to tell where it stood. But William Penn's city, Phi ladelphia, established in justice and brotherly kindness though founded a long time after the other, has grown up to be the glory of this western world--with lovely streets, extending from the Delaware to the Schuyl kill, and noble wharves, warehouses, work-shops, arsenals, bridges, markets, aqueducts, hospitals, dispensaries, alms-houses, museums, academies, colleges, universities, and churches, with other buildings public and private, to an exceeding amount, both in number and elegance, and filled up with a crowded popula tion of between one and two hundred thousand souls Indeed no man can cast his eyes over this beauteous city, covering as it does, for many a mile, the lovely plains of silver-flooded Delaware and the winding Schuylkill-with its thousands of red shining edifices, and stately domes, and towering spires, without exclaiming, as did the prophet when from the tops of Pisgah he beheld the plains of Jericho covered over with the chosen seed," how goodly are thy tents, O

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Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! Happy are they who are in such a state; yea, blessed are the people who have the Lord for their God."

O when will mankind learn that "GOD IS LOVE”– that his plan embraces the happiness of ALL; and that none but those who seek their own consistently with the good of others, shall ever find it?

CHARACTER OF WILLIAM PENN,

FROM EDMUND BURKE.

"WILLIAM PENN, as a legislator, deserves great honour among all mankind. He created a commonwealth, which, from a few hundreds of indigent refugees, have in seventy years grown to a numerous and flourishing people. A people who, from a wilderness, have brought their territory to a state of high cultivation; filled it with wealthy and populous towns; and who, in the midst of a fierce and lawless race of men have preserved themselves, with unarmed hands, by the rules of JUSTICE and MODERATION, better than any other have done by policy and arms. The way in which he did this, deserves eternal notice. Though brought up, as it were, in the corrupt courts of Charles the Second, who had endeavoured to carry the kingly prerogative to as high a pitch of aristocracy as possible, yet-O glorious! O all subduing power of RELIGION! when he got that, he thought of nothing but to make every body happy. To take the lands from the Indians, he abhorred; he bought their lands.—To exact and starve the poor who followed him across the ocean for conscience and quiet sake, he could not brook. He put the lands at the low rate of forty shillings a hundred acres, and one shilling per hundred acres yearly quit

rent.

"But what crowned all, was the noble charter of privileges by which he made them more free, perhaps, than any people on earth; and which, by securing both civil and religious liberty, caused the eyes of the oppressed from all parts of the world to look to his country for relief. This one act of godlike wisdom and

goodness has settled Penn's country in a more strong and permanent manner than the wisest regulations could have done on any other plan. A man has but to believe that there is a God; that he is the inspector of our actions, and the future rewarder and punisher of our good and ill, and he is not only tolerated, but, if possessed of talents and integrity, is on the road to place.

This great and good man lived to see an extensive country rescued from the wilderness and filled with a free and flourishing people - he lived to lay the foundation of a splendid and wealthy city- he lived to see it promise every thing from the situation which he himself had chosen, and from the encouragement which he himself had given it — he lived to see all this — but he died in the Fleet prison!

"Tis pleasing to do honour to those great men whose virtues and generosity have contributed to the peopling of the earth, and to the freedom and happiness of mankind - who have preferred the interest of a remote posterity, and times unknown, to their own fortune, and to the quiet and security of their own lives. Now, both Britain and America reap great benefit from his labours and his losses. And his posterity have a vast estate out of the quit rents of that very province, whose establishment was the ruin of their predecessor's fortune."

MONTESQUIEU, ON PENN.

A character so extraordinary in the institutions of Greece, has shown itself lately in the dregs and corruption of modern times. A very honest legislator

has formed a people, to whom probity seems as natural as bravery to the Spartans. William Penn is a real Lycurgus: and though the former made peace his principal aim, as the latter did war, yet they re.semble one another in the singular way of living to which they reduced their people—in the ascendant they gained over freemen, in the prejudices they overcame, and in the passions which they snbdued.

THE END.