let us keep in mind, the very precarious tenure by which we hold all our possessions. The exalted Personage, who is thus suddenly gone, seemed likely to survive many even of the most youthful amongst us. But a few days ago, she was in the midst of those enjoyments, which render life most desirable; in the vigour of youth, in the full relish and possession of the most rational delights; honoured with titles; blessed with affluence; beloved and esteemed by all; fondly expecting the happiness which she should soon enjoy as a parent, and as the mother of a future sovereign of this highly-favoured and happy kingdom. Yet an hour, a few moments, were sufficient to extinguish in her all sense of these joys, and for ever remove her from every thing which the world holds most dear. We see by this affecting instance of mortality, that no human advantages can resist the stroke of death, that all carthly glory like the flower of the field must wither and decay; that they who are most exalted in rank must obey the summons, no less than the most obscure and indigent. Thus it is with the lives of men, as with the course of rivers: some traverse a greater extent, and pass through more pleasant scenes than the others; but all equally tend to the same abyss, and are blended at last in one common receptacle. How should this consideration cool the ardour of dissipation; humble the insolence of pride; moderate the flame of ambition; and quench the insatiable thirst of avarice!-in a word, wean our hearts from the things that are seen and temporal, and fix them on those that are unseen and eternal!-For to what does all, even the best of this world, amount? Stretch your imagination to the utmost-conceive a person in the full possession of rank, and power, and riches, and honour. And when you have finished the gaudy picture, what does the value of it amount to? the scene is vanity, and ends in vexation of spirit. O! that I could so shew you the emptiness of these things, and the great importance of things eternal, as to send you away heartily resolved to seek a better and more enduring substance than this world can afford!-I should

then gain one of the noblest ends of my office, and we should have reason to acknowledge our meeting together this day to have been for the better, and not for the worse.

Sermon by the Rev. Johnson Grant, M.A., St. Pancras.

2 CHRONICLES, chap. xxxv. v. 24.

"And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah." GRATEFUL indeed to thee, sacred Shade! if the beatified are ever permitted to behold the affairs of this lower world; and if the high glories of eternity can be enhanced by any satisfaction arising from this imperfect scene; grateful, even amidst the troop of clustering spirits, who have received thee, and in the first possession of that immortal youth, that amaranth garland, for which thou hast, happily for thyself, but mournfully for those who are left, exchanged a fading crown and a crown of cares; grateful must be this universal respect and regret, which a nation, and almost a world, sends after thee into the heavens. It becomes not us, indeed, to arraign the counsels of Providence, for human nature might otherwise be apt to wonder in its blindness, (if we may employ the lan guage of an eloquent writer) why virtue in the bloom of spring is so suddenly snatched away, whilst vice, full blown in iniquity, endures and grows, and weathers out its period, till the decay of nature extinguishes the poisonous nuisance; why this benefactress of her neighbourhood and of society, must no longer bestow her bounty, no longer make the indigent smile, or wipe away the tears of the afflicted; why SHE must no longer dispense her blessings, whilst the scourges and tormentors of man too often continue the curses of the age in which they live. We know not. But she is gone for ever; the tears of the people will moisten her tomb, and their loud lamentation testify their sorrow.

Sermon by the Rev. W. Thomas, Chase-Side, Enfield.

LAMENTATIONS, chap. v. v. 15.

"The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning." We have lost not only a rare example of connubial tender

ness and attachment; we have lost what is vastly beyond even this an example of personal religion! It is asserted upon good authority, that the royal pair maintained family worship in the morning and evening of each day. What a singular instance in exalted life! Well might these personages resolve not to mix with the fashionable world; they well knew that the practice of family prayer could not be kept up with such connexions, and they wisely and magnanimously determined for God and religion against the practice, and perhaps in despite of the sneers of a large proportion of what is called the great world. Their regular attendance, on the Lord's day, on the public worship of God, will, I trust, become an effectual rebuke to those who, from whatever motive, with whatever excuse, neglect "the assembling of themselves together."

Sermon preached by the Rev. Weeden Butler, Pimlico.

ISAIAH, chap. xxvi. v. 20.

"Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast."

YE sons and daughters of fashion and dissipation, ye pampered, delicate, and easy of heart, who daily, monthly, and yearly, court the smiles of wayward fortune, and give up all your hours to sloth, and self-indulgence; oh! be for once persuaded to learn wisdom from the tomb of the Princess Charlotte: open the eyes of your understanding, before you, too, like her, shall sleep the sleep of death! Look around you, and behold the eternal Godhead, in this his tremendous dispensation, demanding all your attention, all your care and watchfulness. The deadly arrow, that flieth in darkness, hath gone forth; it hath struck no common victim; and all the assiduous efforts of medical skill to withstand its force proved vain. The hardy champions of our cause, in battles by sea and land, have often conquered and been divested of their strength; within these few years a most able and virtuous

prime minister has been martyred; our wise and religious monarch, at the death of a beloved daughter, has long been bereft of understanding; and now to crown the climax, youth, and sense, and beauty, and every dignified unobtrusive female excellency, in an hour of peculiarly affecting interest, are despoiled of their complexions, their charms, and their existence. Yes, Britons! our blooming and beloved Princess, the presumptive heiress to the throne, is now no more.

Sermon preached by the Rev. Robert Philip, Newington Chapel, Liverpool.

GENESIS, XXXxv. v. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.

"And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.— And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.-And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.—And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.”

AWARE, as I was, how the doleful tidings must affect a devoted and intelligent people; still I could not have con ceived that any thing short of a universal earthquake-or the blast of the archangel's trumpet, would have produced the gloom and consternation which now surround us; and who, that contemplated Britain the week before this catastrophe, and saw her vast population labouring in their respective spheres of action, as if nothing could divert them from gain or gaiety, as if every individual felt only for himself? who that saw this could have named any event, not miraculous, which, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, would banish mirth from all the gay, and composure from all the serene→ make the merchant lay down his pen, and the mechanic his tools-unrobe the bride of her ornaments, and the bridegroom of his attire-turn the house of feasting into a house

of mourning, and command a pause to pleasure and business. Like the shaking amongst the dry bones in the valley of vision; such a shock was inconceivable from natural impulse. Sleep departed from the fatigued and the thoughtless for a time-honour and wealth seemed to be insipid-the orphan forgot his exposure, the widow her desolation, and the widower the "wife of his youth," in the more aggravated woes of Claremont; and, by an instantaneous movement, the whole community seemed to discover that their personal comfort had been suspended on the Princess." One dead" in every family could not have excited more general consternation.

Sermon preached by the Rev. John Naune, D. D., Ashford. ST. MARK, chap. v. v. 39.

"The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth."

WE feel that the Almighty has taken away the best hope of the country; we sanguinely entertain the hope that our departed Princess has exchanged a corruptible for an incorruptible inheritance: that her crown is no longer temporal but eternal. God forbid we should be compelled to fear, that she is removed from this lower world, that she may avoid any national calamity; that she is classed among those righteous who are taken away from the evil to come. An intimate knowledge of her virtues, when compared with the practices of the majority of this nation, and with the vices which we are daily implanting from our infidel neighbours, too well warrant such an apprehension.

Sermon preached by the Rev. Peter Roe, A. M., Kilkenny.

1 PETER, chap. i. v. 24, 25.

"For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass,

The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away :-But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the Gospel is preached unto you."

AT the termination of a long and sanguinary war, throughout which the Lord signally prospered our enterprises, our land