The Sun.
London, England, 1817-11-27 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

AS 'every thing relative, to the late. departed,
PRANCESS must be interesting to our Readers, we
extract the following account of the Bishop of
CHESTER'S SERMON on the melancholy national
Igss frOM The Chester Courant of the 25th inst. :

SERMON,

-OCCASIONED BY TILE DEATH OF HER ROYAL BIOFI-

NESs TIifiPRINCESS CHAR.LOTTE.

About ten O'clock on Sunday morning last,
the -Mayor.antl Corporation, of this cityproceed-
ed. from the Exchange to the. Cathedral to hear
Divine Service. SeVeral of the Member's' wore
mourning robes. The Psalms appointed for' the
Morning Service, were.the 39th, 90th, and 16th ;
thel43son, the 46th ch. Isaiah, and 15th ch. of
.corit'ith.' The .Antheni,. by' •EliclOtt, Was. iptres.•
threettliy a symphony -on tho organ: The. lirtit
bII was. for three voices., contra-tenor, tenor, and
ass The souls of the righteous are in the
laud of God, uud there shall no torment touch
them.' The second part, recitative,-.._' In the
sight of the unwise they seem to die, and their
departure is taken for misery, and their going from
us :o be their destruction.' Verse—three voices,
contra-tenor, tenor, and bass,—' But they are in
peace, and their hopes is full of immortality.'—
Air,—Handel,

' Pious orgies, pions airs; •
Dracut sorrow, decent pray'rs,
Will to the Lord ascend, and move
•
His pity, and regain his love.'
Air,—Pergolest. ‘ 0 Lord have mercy upon me,
11)1.1 am in trouble :my strength failed' Me, but
my hope hath;been in thee OLord ; 1 have said,
thou art my trod.'—Chorus, Ehdeu,---‘ For 'glo-
rious it the fruit of good labours, and the root of
wisdom shall never fall away.'
" The- Lord ;liiskop of the Diocese delivered an
eloquent and appropriate -Sermon on this occa-
sion, from the Ist chap of Job, 21st verse,--' fhe
Lord gave, and the Lord bath taken away, biassed
he the name of the-Lord.'

He introduced his discourse by observing,
that the first and great foundation of „every good
principle is a constant sense of the superintending
Providence of the Almighty. This sentiment or
feei;ng (he said) lies at tit,: root of all religion ; it
should, therefore, be the medium through, which
every incident of our lives is contemplated. It
should be mixed with all our thoughts and prayers.
Thus shall we learn to see the DEITY in all
things, and seeing him, we must adore the wis-
dom and beneficence of all his works, as they must
al ways tend to generate this frame of mind. Adver-
sity, affliction, and death, can never be contemplat-
ed withuut
slumber and apathy into.which ease and afflitenee'
are so apt to lull, us.—they naturally remind uspf
out' own precarionsneserand mortality, and better
prepare us to meet our God.—Sorrow is the nurse
of, ilwisdom. • Every pious meditation,—every
good disposition, are cherished, strengthened, and
matured in the House of Mourning. It is there
we are taught to feel and know that we are men
and Brethren, It is there we learn to commune
with our own hearts. It is there that we throw
off the debasing clogs of mortality, and more ar-
dently aspirt to those heavenly regions- where
peace and happiness for ever dwell. The contem-
plation of death, (the worthy Prelate added) can-
nut but convince every one of the uncertain and
fading nature of all things here below. It cannot
but remind us of that land of darkness to which
we are all rapidly tending. Pass but a few years
more, and this vast assembly will be all laid op
in the grave,—out of sight, and out of remem-
brance: The sun will rise and set,—but not tons.
Inc tides will ebb and flow;—the laws of nature
will have their course,—but we shall not be sen-
sible of: these things. The earth will
,give her
increase, and the business of the world will go
on,—but we shall have, no share—no conscious-
oess of what is passing. Affliction produces other
advantages'i-one of them is; that it tends to in-
spire ns with a feeling of dependence upon Go(L
There is nothing in reality so near to us, and yet
nothing, which is very often so distant front our
mindS as the Deity. But in adversity, when all
other helps have tailed, we then feel the necessity
of fleeing unto God. , His providence then be-
comes the object of our hope.--the source of our
confidence, and of our consolation.
He, tlren, who makes affliction and death
productive of their proper effects, will learn to see
in the arm of God, a power which over-rules all
causes, and which can preserve him through all
adversities. He becomes satisfied, both from
experience and revelation, that his views of his
Maker never ultimately terminate in misery, but
that God constantly produces good, for evil.
" Now, if ever there seas a periOd, or a circum-
stance, which calls forth these reflections, and
which compels every rational being to think and
feel, it is that event which your minds have al-
ready, I ant sure, gone before me in anticipat-
ing,—au event, which has' thrown a cloud over
the happiness of nations, or which, more correctly
speaking, has filled iheland with sadness. is a
calamity indeed, • both of a public and a private
nature. In
.a public point of view, it has disap-
pointed the hopes" on which loyalty wan reposing;..
As a private affliction, it has gone home to the
bosom of every family, and of almost every indi-
vidual in the Empire.
" Painful 'as 'may be the contemplation of the
particulars of this sad event,let -us not shrink
from the duty. It may be of service to us to he
thus, afflicted. • We may hence become better and
wiser men.

" Youth , now, under any circumstances, seldom
sinks into the g►'ave ❑nlamented ; and the sy►npa-
thies of our uature are generally strongly excited,

when they, whose morn was just opening to out'
view, prematurely close their earthly career, and
disappear from off the face of the earth to be seen
on it no more., But these regrets ere naturally
increased, when the comeliness of forth are snper-
added to the attractions of youth ; and such sen-
sibilities. are more powerfully excited, when the
shaft of Death has fallen on one with. was early
treading in the paths of religion, and whO was ex- ,
hibiting the bright pattern of. 'every rising virtue.
Our grief too is naturally augmented by contrast,
Under no circumstance can a loss be
.more se-
felt,---under none eould:a female he more .
deeply lamented, than if she sinks into the, tomb
at-that monleut_of. time; Mien expectation was at
its height,—whehaheW source of 'hope and dillies
was opening to 'her, ai a mother, •It daughter, and
a wife. Under thesesev2ral circumstances, she
whom we now latherigiaid the venerable' Dio-
cesan) departed this'life.
:" Neither our limits, neirTatistime, will allow
us; this week, t„ give the remaining part of this
beautiful discourse at so great:a length' as we
could have wished. We must therefore content
ourselves 'with ()tiering to the - notice of bur
Readers, the substance of some of -the more in-

erestis►g. passages.—The venerableyTeachersaid,

that if the Illustrious Princess, whose death so
great a number of persons had assembled then to
lament, had lived, she would have reigned over the
most distinguished Empire in the Universe. She,
although the grand•(laughter of a King, endeared
to us by his-virtues, and who, in his honourable
old age still reigned in tl►e hearts of his people,
had.laid aside the splendour of royalty,—lived in
the greatest retirement,—there exhibiting all the
virtues of a domestic life, and so preparing her-
self for the exalted situation she was likely to fill.
Her beneficence was unbounded. She lived and
died in private, but her los's was a public one. It
human effort, or ho prayer could-have averted
the dart of death, she would have no►v been a

Happy mother in a happy land. Ile dWelt with
much feeling on the loss her Illustrious• Consort

on bad sustained.

The ties that bound hilt) to

this country were dissolved, and his fairest pros-
pects overcast. He had been honoured by the
approbation and choice of
.our lamented Princess,
he had enjoyed, during his union with her, the

highcst.degree•of felicity, and at the very..mornent
of time, when he was inspired:with a fond and
reasonable hope of becoming the father of a long
line of British Kings,—that hope was destroyed,
and the cup of earthly happiness was dashed from
his lip, and he was lett a stranger in a foreign land.
—The loss we had felt was great, but we should
avoid repining. NVe should shew a spirit of re•
signation similar to that evinced by her whom we
now deplore, when she exclaimed--' It is the 'will.
f;t The learned Prelate, after Commenting.
oil the transitoriness of all earthly.grandenr, ad-
verted to the spit it of sorrow which pervaded the
country in consequence of this heavy visitation,
and to the effect it liad bad in hushing into still-
ness the clashing opinions of Party.—lle con-
chided his excellent discourse `with an impressive
prayer, in which lie 'was 'joined by the Congre•

" The Choir was literally crowded during the
whole of the service."

!I A T C.: A 1., RE ciTS T E
-Performed Gait-Night.
•Ttir.m.z.torAt„ oau HY-I. kNE.—Oroonolio-: 'OtoonOlto,
NVaP .cli ; hnoinda, Miss •ItobinsOn. After which, The
Magi, ie.
Li EAT IC ROYAL, CON-TINT-GA RDENL--452 bel :
; Isabella, Miss O'Neill. After'Whieh, Love, 'Law,
and Physic.
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THE SUN.

Se/LEM QUIS DICERE FALSVM AtIDLAT

LONDON,
TJJURSD4Y, NOVEMAII 27, 1817.