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contemplation and comparison, the mind is over- whelmed with sorrow, at the idea of the atrocity and darkness in which human nature may be in- volved, by the unbounded thirst of gold. 2d Month, 20th. I left S. P.'s hospitable roof accompanied by his brother-in-law J. T. The ground I travelled over this day was the scene of much bloodshed during the revolutionary war; it being that part of the country where the bat- tle of Brandywine was fought. My companion was present at the time, with several other friends, who were led forth by the dictates of hu- manity, in order to lend some assistance to the poor wounded and dying soldiers, that lay scat- tered over the fields, through an extent of several miles. On this occasion friends meeting-house of Birmingham was converted into an hospital, in which many of the poor mangled creatures breathed their last, and where many more suffered the am- putation of their limbs, with many other pain- ful operations concomitant with the carnage of war. Amongst those who ended their earthly course in this meeting-house, were several officers, who were buried in friends burying ground. One of them, a near connexion of the Duke of North- umberland, was a young man of the name of Percy, whose amiable and exemplary conduct under his severe sufferings, had procured him the