Franklin's Fable Of The Young Angel

In what light we are vievcd by superior beings, may begathered from a píece of late West India news vvhich possibly ha? not yet reachedyou. A young angel of distinction, heing sent down to th's world for the first time on important Lusiness, had an old courier spirit. ujsigned him for h is guide. They arrived over the seas of Martinico in the mid rile of the obstir.ate ficfht beiween the fleets of Rodney and Do.Grasse. When through the clouds of smoke he saw the fire of the guns, the decks covered with tnangleJ limbs, and bodics doad or dying; the ships sinking, btirnitig, or blown into the air,and Ihe quanlity of pain, mi'ery and destruciion vvhich the crews yet oáve wsre dealing around to each other with ao much eagerness, the young angel lurned nngrily to his guide. and paid, 'Yon blunderai ! You undertook to conduct me to the earth; but you have brought me intohell!' 'Nu, Sir' pnys the guide, I have made no mistuke. This ie rea!]y the eaith; and these are men. Devils never treat one another in this cruel manner; they have rriore sense, and more of what men vainly cali