The National Register. — London, England, 1809-06-18 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 'ITV?'" ..A. JUNE IS. METHODIST SERMON ON KISSING. Mr. EnITOR, Although this Sermon was preached many (a great marry) Nears since in a parish of the County of Suffolk, it rusty serve to amuse some of your Readers ho are not acquainted with the style of these propagators of the doctrine of original sin an't the necessity of regeneration. The text iv ill he found in the 21 verse of the first chapter of the song of Solomon. " Let him kiss me with the hisses of his mouth." My beloved, you will perceive (rota the words of the text that my discourse this eveniuff is intended for the younger part of my audience, w ho, I doubt not, will pay that sweet attention to it w hick the tendeiness of the subject demands more p.ati cularly from them. These songs of the Royal Prophet have been considered by many divines of what is cr:/%.!tt the established church, in an allegotical scow, but fur my pitrt 1 can only urderstand them in the literal sense, %%16 4 11 so naturally occurs in the eerusal. Solomon was the greatest and t Priuce that ever reined, (it required no great sharo of wi:dom you Will Say to be di— tingtashed for it among Princes), and consequently he entertain ed a mire than continuo regard for the fair sex, for how else, my dearly beloved in the Lord, ran we account for his having had (at one and the same time) three hundred wives, and seven hundred eoncubines, as we are assured in holy writ he certainly had. But wisdom, my beloved, is power ! Solomon must have been a prodigious wise man ! Thus far for introduction. Now for your better understanding of the text ! " Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth :" I shall divide the subject into three heads. First, The Kiss of Friendship. Secondly, 7he Sentimental Kiss. Thirdly and lastly, The Setamat Hiss. First, The Kiss of Friendship—by this you donbtedless know that I mean the salute which is customary among those who are allied in blood, on a temporary separation, or upon meeting again after it, and that it likewise proceeds from that natural and mutual regard between the sexes in general, without either particular views or impure thoughts. This Sort of kissing, any dearly beloved, is. I believe, the most common of all. Many an old hatchet or and aged virgin has been devoutly consoled with it. I t is given, received, and soon forgot, and as harmless as the endearments of little children, consequently you may all of you safely and piously indulge ynurselves therein. I say piously, any beloved, for you know, or if you do not, you (ight to know, that the Apostle Paul bath commanded that " we 6hould greet each other with an holy kiss." Now, if there he any prudes among any hearers who arc otieoded with Oak ad% ice, who consider, or rather Afeet to consider, the touch from the lips of a man, as a blemish upon the unsullied ermine of their purity, let such, in God's name, kiss each Other, they have my free consent so to do ; but with all my charity for them, I cannot help suspecting their sincerity (11 judge, my beloved, from myself), and do verily believe that all such like hut too well to partake of the secret Seasual Kiss, the kiss behind a door, or in some snug corner, and peradventure, sometimes consider it only as a prologue to a play. This sort of kissing, my beloved, I meaa the Kiss of Friendship, I ap prehend to have been the prineipal ammement of most of Solomon's rives and concubines; or what other use he could make of so great a number, is above my comprehension; for. judging, as I said before, by myself, oe most otherwise have very much mis•llletalated his wants; and they, Tamar souls, they were deserving of pity ; my bowels yearn towards them, and I have shed maoy a tear of kind compassion when 'perusing the history of their pohappy I come now to my secorol head, the Sentimental Kiss. which, my keloycd, is meant the Nisi which colavtyx ve heart, MY and which tnaav of you, my beloved, hav- most devoutly e•:- perienced. It is a mode id kissing wlt;ch affords isltioite sat faction. One of the profane poets has described the soft trmt sports that flow froM such a glowing of the lips in these which I. think superior to ,ofee Mere v.,!nies tlatt have been writ ten upon this Lilt!: delightful tillbjC(l. " When thought everts thought, e'er from the lips it part, " And each wain., wish spri mutual from the heart." Methinks I read in our eyes, and :rather from the i f frosion lir you(' cheeks, my dearly, very t deafly .)e.oved, how you enjoy the sentiment, how you sock in the sweet conta 4 ion, even as the bee loadeth his thigh with the swerti of the !Aril ru=e lyni, but sort W : I A doubtless lie cm loos ta know if) w bat manner the heart is conveyed by this sort or ? my beloved, it springs in a moment from the breast of a man into the bosom of the fair in whom he delighteth, and grapples with her very heart strings ; but all this awl a emit deal more is done so imper ceptibly, a, neither to be seen or hecrd, bet only to be felt. Yost will, perhaps, object to the absurdity of a ittno's contiefting to live after he has lost his heart ; for how, you will say, c: life suhsist w hen the source and fountain of it is removed ?-- True, IT beloved, and the observation is aja •1, very just one; tt ithhot a heart you yy•ould doubtless be like so many dead mackerel, or teith,T sprats. There is only one !flog t:fits coo i,ove von, and that, inv dearly hr !WM!, k the ilia rec. von have when your heart is finial; tixed in the bosom of your fair, of its never being gaiet lier's is geniiy bored au , sewer o f Lure, and made to glide softly dowo into the vacatiity prepred for it under sour kit breast; and if is mice get it there, hold it fast as you value your existence, for woe be unto von if you once let it go ; believe me, i t will he next to a miracle if you ever catch it again. And now, toy beloved, as to the ;applica tion of this ducts isle, 1 must leave. it to dame nature and s ossn conscience. Itly Gird and last head, the Sensual lii would perhaps lead me a great way at this late hour, hot as I hope to see yon all again next Sniniay, I shall keep this part of soy discourse for our next meethig. THE Qv EVN or SwEnes.---This :tibia e, this disconse late Princess, is most inierestit,rly• belt cry much resembling her sister the I.'.mprvss of Russia. she is fair, with expressive blue eves, her tea:tires are line, hut the affability of her counteuitnr, smile. and eogaging independentiv of other charms, woutzi be sufficient to to ciliate every 'heart almost to forget she v•as Cf.teen in her loveliness as a woman. the dr:..sies with exquisie taste. The last time she graced the st;.ge hex at t!!e theatry, her Majesty wow her hilir in hut tresirs over her brow aid ht tt t, aud leotu up with a dteilde diwlent of jewels. Her ro!)e Was Sp lendid v crnbroidcred, and on 111. - breast she more the bakt ; ;es of the Order of t. Cathe rine. And certaiidy it must be acknowlAgeii. star , :, whether of diitinction or of heantv, 1! , .2% Cr Sh One brinlite- than on the bosom of the fair Helen of the North ; for thus this beautiful Queen is g,enertily distinguished, though she may be mere appropriately compared to Audromache, whose beauties., lovely as they m ere, were yet transcended by the more endearing graces of the chaste wife and the tender mother,---The Queen, the disconFo!ate Queen, is suffered to have access to the King - in his -confinement at Cripsholm. All the Ladi t s of Honour, and courtly attendants, have withdrawn. themselves from her Majesty's person, and their ',laves are supplied by two female domestics, awl a lad, v. - ho are assiduous in their attendance; their services are requited by her Majcsty, whose ineahs, it is well I: nown, are very scanty. Tl , e first interview in the castle, lam assured by an e N e witness, was the most affecting scene he ever be held. The Queen, on seeing her husband pale and ema ciated, fell at his feet and fainted. The Crown Prince, who is al'out ten years of age, acid who had till now been kept ignorant of the situation o f his father, burst into tears, and c:minred his Royal Parents to impart to hint the cause of I°'oer sorrow. When Count Tennis Wrangel. nd Baron Lagerbjelke, were about to NV It lid taW, the Prince threw himself at their feet, and, frantic with grief, exclaimed: “Do not leave me I Don't you see my tee. Cher, how she cries ! That has my father done :". T 1