vine Being to bless the nations of ALEXANDER

YORK.

From the N. Y. Daily Advertiser. "A LETTER from the Emperor Alexander to the Secretary of the Peace Society of Massachusetts has been published in most of the newspapers of this country; and that doubtless afforded much satisfaction to those who have observed the disposition manifested by this distinguished sovereign in relation to the subject of peace as connected with the precepts of the gospel. In addition to the evidence which that letter furnished of the pacific sentiments of the Emperor, and of his christian condescension, it may not be uninteresting to the public to learn, that a letter of the same import has been received by a few individuals in this city of the Society of Friends; who, not knowing what the Peace Society of Massachusetts had done, took the liberty of transmitting to St. Petersburgh a volume of essays, in which the nature, the tendency, and the policy of war, are discussed with unusual clearness and force. The following is a copy of the answer received a few weeks since.' ""

GENTLEMEN,

RECEIVE my thanks for the volume of Essays on Peace, and for the expressions of christian regard, contained in your letter accompany. ing it. The efforts which you and other individuals and societies in North-America, are now making to promote love and peace among men, are worthy of the imitation of every well wisher to the peace and happiness of the world; and in the e labours of charity I wish you every possible success. Being well acquainted with the diversified misery and wickedness which war spreads among mankind, I shall account it a great happiness to be instrumental in any degree in preserving that peace uninterrupted with which it has pleased the Di