OF THE PEACE SOCIETY, STAR COURT, BREAD STREET, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. COMMITTEE. Deputy Chairman. THOMAS STURGE, Esq., Newington Butts. Treasurer. SAMUEL GURNEY, Esq., 65, Lombard-street. Rev. JAMES HARGREAVES, Waltham Abbey. Honorary Foreign Secretary. Rev. THOMAS WOOD, 11, Goswell-terrace, Goswell-road. Rev. NUN MORGAN HARRY, Thurlow House, Hackney-road. JOHN S. ELLIOTT, Esq., Denmark-hill. Rev. R. VAUGHAN, 1, Holland Park-terrace, Notting-hill, Kensington. THEOPHILUS REDWOOD, 15, Crawford-street, Portman-square. NON-RESIDENTS. RICHARD DYKES ALEXANDER, Ipswich. THOMAS CLARKSON, Esq., M.A., Playford Hall, near Ipswich, Suffolk. Rev. C. DAY, LL.B. Vicarage-house, Rushmere, near Ipswich, Suffolk. JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY, Esq., Norwich. Rev. J. W. HAWKESLEY, Souldrop, near Bedford. JOSEPH TREGELLES PRICE, Neath Abbey. Rev. WILLIAM STEPHENSON, Fobbing, Essex. Assistant Secretary and Collector. ALEXANDER BROCKWAY, Star-court, Bread-street, Cheapside. SUBSCRIPTIONS Received by the Members of the Committee; at the Office, Star-court, Breadstreet; and at Messrs. WILLIAMS, DEACON, LABOUCHERE, THORNTON, and Co.'s, 20, Birchin-lane, Cornhill. It is requested that all Communications may be forwarded to the respective Officers of the Peace Society, directed to Star-court, Bread-street, Cheapside. ADDRESS, &c. &c. 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 |