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IT has been conceived, that, on the present occasion, the Peace Society of London might adopt with some advantage, the custom of the American Peace Societies, by the delivery of an address, containing such general information, as could not, with propriety, be embodied in an Annual Report. This task has fallen upon me, incompetent as I feel myself to do justice to so important a subject. I purpose, therefore, in this Address, to make a few general remarks on the origin of Peace Societies, on the means they have adopted to disseminate their principles, and on the signs of the times which seem to favour the object they have in view. I shall premise one or two observations. The question is often asked, What is the Peace Society of London doing? And he that makes the inquiry is sometimes ready himself to return the answer, that its labour is fruitless, and its object visionary. Knowing this to be a very common opinion, the friends of this Society have need of strong confidence in the soundness of their principles, and the excellence of their cause, to encourage them to continue their labours, and to proclaim their principles boldly to the world. Though they have had to notice the smile of the sceptical, and to bear the repulse of the martial spirit; though they have often met with coldness, when they might have |