The Sun.
London, England, 1821-02-21 00:00:00

_FOR THE SUN.

Mn.: EDITOR—Many persons have fancied
themselves much interested in the question whether the QUEEN
should be prayed for in the Liturgy ; and, among them, no small
number who certainly care nothing for the QUEEN or the Li-
turgy, except so far as they max be employed to create some
embarrassment to the Government. Large and increasing
majorities in the House of Commons, have, it may be hoped, put
' an end to these attempts ;. and though some may murmur at
those decisions, all must ultimatelyperceive the justice of them.
But, Sir, I would fain ask that part of the QUEEN'S Ad-
mirets who really do pray, or wish to pray, what injury is done
to them ? Can they not still pray for her, seven times a-day, if
their hearts incline them to it ? There is no inspection into
their private closets, nor, if there were, would any inspector
make objection to an occupation so truly charitable. If they can-
not pray for her in Church, assistYdby the voice of the Minister,
they may pray out the whole fervour of their devotion in the
peaceful retirement of their chambers. Most edifying should
I think the sight, if, like Don Cleofas, I could peep into the
apartments of her legal Advisers, and see them on their knees,
praying that she may yet be endued with all those virtues which
even their must suspect her to want.
Even their own defects or faults may suggest the subject of
their prayers. I can imagine some of them praying for an in-
crease of modesty jointly for themselves and her ; some for the
grace of loyalty ; some humbly begging even for a little com-
mon honesty ; for the gift of sobriety, of continence, and man;
other virtues, of which they must feel the want in themselves,
and may possibly suspect it in her. How pious "a Nation
should we soon become, if all her Addressers should thus begin
to occupy themselves. The example would be irresistible
and the omission in the Liturgy would no longer ke felt, when
every one who wished for her name in thatplace;was conscious
of having offered much more enlarged and fervent supplications
for her in private.
There would be no sedition in all this, nor any thing ap-
proaching or leading to it ;
.anti though I am not so ready to
believe impossibilities as some of her Majesty's friends, de-
dare that there is no Petition in which I would more fervently
join, than in those which should tend to . make our present
Queen bear any, even the slightest, resemblance to the Queen
whom we have not yet ceased, to regret.
1 am, Sir, your's
. TURG ICUS.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS:

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Maras, 20° Pie Februarii, 1821 I

CHURCZIES.—Petition for leave to present a Petition for a Bill
for Croston Chura.
AGILICULTITRAL Drs•rnEss.Petitions complaining of, from
Truro and other parts of
Cornwall, Northleach, Chel-
.
thenham, Doncaster, County
of Warwick, Alcester, Stow
on the Wold, and Repton
and Gresley.
THAMES LAST AGE AND BALLAST Ordered to be read a
BILL. f second time. •
T174.13E11. DoTlEs.—Petition from Liverpool, in favour of.
ABSENcE.—Leave
of, given to Lord Clive and Mr. Mills, for a

•month..
Hum. Poon. RATES.—Petition from Thorne against.
CIEURCII BRIE'S.-11111 to regulate—ordered.
Copts A vEitAGEs.—Aets relating thereto read ; Committee on
' - Monday.
EAST INDlA.—Annual Regulations ordered to be printed. -
ELECTIONS.—PETERSFIELD Borough, Petition of Appeal
on the Right of Election, fixed for the 22d
of May-next.

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