The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-13 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,-Reading your paper of yesterday, I observed you
said her Imperial Majesty, the Duchess of Braganz a, had
invited the Duchesses of Palmella and Terceira, to ac.
company her Faithful Majesty to Portugal. I wish it
were so; but I dare say that none of the Noble Lathe,
whose husbands and sons are fighing in Portugal for the
Queen Donna Maria, have, to this day, been invited, as
they expected, and had a legitimate right to. Ladies as
the Duchesses of Palmella and Terceira, the Marchionesses
of Valenc a and Fronteira, and the Countesses of Luiniares
and Saldanha, ought not to he left behind,—some of them
in the greatest distress, after having made the greatest
sacrifices for the cause of the Queen of Portugal. Perhaps,
Mr. Editor, that fault can yet be repaired if you deign to
insert these observations.

I have the honour of remaining, &c.
London, Sept. 12. LISBONENSE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR.,-At the present time when the cholera has un-
fortunately again made its appearance amongst us, and its
awful ravages have in many instances proved fatal, it
seems strange, that although we resort to all the various
remedies that art can suggest, and to all the means of pre-
serving life that human skill can possibly devise, amidst
all these earthly means of succour, which, however effica-
cious, are at best but a broken reed, if they have not the
Almighty's blessing on our endeavours, that we should so
entirely have forgotten on the present occasion to invoke
the succour of that Providence, who dispenses health and
sickness, life and death, as He sees fit ; and in His merci-
ful power may perhaps sometimes avert the blow of dis-
ease, or death, which is impending over its victim ; for as
we are told " that the effectual fervent prayer of a righte-
ous roan availed' much," so might we, without presump-
tion, entertain the hope that the effectual fervent prayers
of a righteous nation, (or rather a religious nation,)
might avail much also ; for on a recent lamentable occa-
sion, when this dreadful disease visited our land, we offered
up our prayers to the Almighty Disposer of all human
events in all our places of public worship ; and although
we could not presume to hope that those prayers could
entirely avert the extent of that dreadful disease, yet we
should recollect that all prayer is a proof of the depend-
ance of the creature on the creator, who alone can " kill
and make alive ;" and whose power can rescue from the
verge of death, those who, to all appearance, are already in
its cold embraces. Why, then, I would inquire have
we neglected to offer up our prayers to the God of all
mercy to avert from us as individuals, and as a nation,
this dreadful and impending calamity, which may fall on
those who the least suspect it, and what is infinitely
worse, are the least prepared to meet it; for we read of
numerous instances in holy writ where the children of
Israel offered up sacrifices and prayers to avert the pesti-
lence which was spreading throughout their nation ?
Thus in Numbers, 16th chapter, 47th and 48th verses,
its rye, " And Aaron stood in the midst of the congrega-
tion, and entreated the Lord, and by prayer and sacrifice
made atonement for the people, and he stood between the
living, and the dead, and the plague was stayed." There-
fore, as under the Gospel Dispensation, prayer is the only
sacrifice we are commanded to offer up, we should not
omit that which, under the law, as given by Moses, was
never omitted. I would, therefore, with due humility,
suggest to those who have the rule, and controul, over our
spiritual affairs, to order that those prayers should be again
resorted to, which were used on the late unfortunate occa-
sion when the cholera prevailed amongst us ; this is what
I could hardly hope any remarks here suggested could
possibly produce ; but should this meet the eye of the
Bishop of London, (who I believe takes in your valuable
Journal,) the idea might perhaps occur to his Lordship
to represent the importance of the subject to those of his
Majesty's Council, through whose instrumentality the
prayers in question might again be ord,red to be used ; at
the same time I can hardly hope that any remark will be
attended to, (although inserted in your widely spread
Journal) from so humble an individual as your truly
obliged and obedient servant,

A DAILY READER.

Tottenham, August 29, 1833.
[The above letter had been mislaid, or it would ha ve
been inserted much earlier. As it is, our well-meaning
correspondent will be highly gratified to learn, that the
cholera has so much abated, that clean bills of health are
henceforth to be granted from the port of London. Our
correspondent will find a package at the post-office ad-
dressed to " A Daily Reader."—EDlTOß.]