Fultria, on hearing these objections to the use of the means of emancipation which he had provided with so much labour and ingenuity, ascended the platform, and addressed the Best Man in Council in defence of his engine and his views. I found his speech on record, it having been carefully preserved, notwithstanding the lapse of many centuries. I translated it with the aid of Surui, but our language is not sufficiently nervous to convey the sentiments of this enlightened man with the energy and conciseness of the original language. I endeavoured to put down the substance of it in English, but it cannot be expected that a sailor should do such justice to a fine specimen of Symzonian eloquence as might be done by some of our professed belles lettres scholars, who pass their lives in studying the arrangement of words and in admiring the elegance and dignity of their compositions. FULTRIA'S SPEECH. "Best Man of our race! you have been told that it would be barbarous in us to exterminate the corrupt and contaminating invaders--should we not be more barbarous to submit to depravement and degradation? "You have been told that by using the engine I have invented, you would take an unjustifiable advantage of our foes--do they not take unjustifiable advantage by employing their superior skill in the diabolical arts of physical warfare and moral turpitude, to prostrate the strength and destroy the virtue of our people? "You have heard it urged, that the practices of civilized men do not justify the use of such means of warfare, and that the adoption of them would be the extreme of inhumanity. What then shall we do? Shall we permit the wicked to gratify their cupidity by plundering the feeble and devastating the defenceless, with little danger of hardship to themselves, and many allurements of advantage from success, and thus perpetuate war by rendering the pursuit of it safe and attractive? --"No, Sir; it is most humane to cut off the instigators and performers of inhuman deeds. "I would show my abhorrence of war by rendering it too horrible to be encountered. I would abolish war by ensuring inevitable destruction to all who engaged in it I would utterly destroy the invaders that none may hereafter dare to draw the sword for invasion. Let all who take the sword perish by the sword, and war will be known no more."