The Sun.
London, England, 1820-12-13 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

'From The Plymouth and Deck Telegraph and Chronicle,
Dee. 9.)
PEACE AT HOME !---4EACE:4IIROAP

If there ever was a period, when,- More than at any other,
.he doctrines of peace should be nut merely inculcated, out
practised, -it is the present. A revolutiobary mania, fur •it
were too delicate an expression to call it a spirit of reform,
since the two words,- revolution and reform, are in meaning
as distiect from each ether as the poles, is fermenting gene-
rally throughout, Europe, which bids fait, ere long, if nut di-
rected into a prudential course.,i, to del e, flier world-again
with,borrors, easier.to be imagined than described. Sedition,
anarchy, and disotderrappea•to- be natifralizing themselves
,fast in the minds of men ;- in fact, they are almost the only
orders of the day, notwitbstarniing the circulation of the
Bible and the diffusion of Christian Tracts, both which tenth,
or ought, al least,to teach notch nobler principles ; and this
has always been,and ever, wilt he, the gam:, when the divine
oracles are not made the sale foundation of human opinions.
In proportiun as the latter deviate from the former, every
thing grows irregular, until error is copfittigli into a habit,
and the whole life becomes tainted with corruption.
For the welfare of wan .it ,is absolutely requisite that he
should revert, as quickly as 'possible, -to a stale of things
morecongenial with his true interests ;and as a preliminary to
that return, nothing would conduce in a strunger manlier than
the love of peace—Terice at home, and peace abroad.—lf this
amiable sentiment were the only governing principle of Na-
tions, and of individuals,. would the accrues, daily witnessed in
this and other countries, he presented ?—No. A love of peace,
if it were *sincerely recognized l-y all, would constrain all
to be patient,-forgiving, pitifuL and tender atlectioned ; but,
instead of beitetilingthese -ehriltiart,feelinegii,„ialiat is the as-
pect of the world ? Impatient, vindictive, and obdurate,
dens' equally to the past lessons of bitter etrperience as to the
letter -antlspirit of •that humane religion, winch the Supreme
-has bestowed on his rational creatures.
It is.pleasing, under such circumstances, to refresh the eye
with a survey -of those benign societies, which espouse the
trailing dictate-of the Scriptures—peace on earth and good
will between man awl •man Happily, they are increasing
every slay in number, and fortunate, indeed, will it prove,
when the utility of such societies shall be universally owned,
and as universally. carried•into real practice. To profess, how
ever, an affection for-peace, i 9 very easy ; but actions, not
words, are the test of sincerity. A thousand instances might
he adduced that words of peace have been in t he mouth,hut not
in the heart, which is the most appropriate place for them to
reside in. When firmly seated there, a suitable disposition
and behaviour naturally ensueovitieb produce, as their fruits,
all the things best calculated to promote the advantage of
the country where they. grow, and the good of the individual
by whom they are experienced.
To this criterion the attention of our countrymen is espe-
tially called, at the present crisis. Let them rally around
the energies of the State, with tranquil submissiun to " the
powers that be ;" and, if there be any evils which stand iii
need of correction, they may rest assured that, remedies•will
arise out of patience and price, sooner than from any way-
ward impulses of-captious discontent, or -angry railing. What.
cannot be immediately cured, •must calmly await-the-healing
influences of time, which, sooner or later, alleviates- endur-
ance, and sheds a balm into every wound.' There is a time
fur all things, for joy as well as for sorrow, and the •former
never einner. without a welcome,. or at an unacceptable pe-
riod.
• Far, nevertheless, be it from us, far be it from every fries.
•to his country,• to decry those improvements, those con
stitutional improvemeuts, of which the coontry_
be soSeeptible: the contrary, we tease • been,
are, and shall she without ~ceasing ,their
.strenuous adro•
cates. But, we feel satisfied' that they arc tp be -obldirie