Humbly now she courts your favour, All her smiles of treach'ry savour- Trust her not, though angel seeming, Trust no more the faithless harlot, Wrest away the pow'r ye gave her, Ere the tyrant soul-enslaver All her curses on you show'r. Uttoxeter. ALEX. STAMMERS. VERSES ADAPTED TO THE PRESENT CRISIS. Britons, awake!-A loosen'd rock O'er many a sleeping head impends: In such a crisis of our fate, Slumbers the soldier at his post, While the fell Chartist madly throws His firebrand through the gaping crowd, Though fresh and free as morning gale.- Still sleep ye?-Then the boasted Laws, The palace flame,-o'er fertile plain, O'er wealthy town and banner'd tow'r, The rabble tyrants sternly reign, And riot through their feverish hour, GOD's temples must be razed, and all Th' assassin bare his bloody knife. 'But these are dreams?'-On neighb'ring shores Remote; for Gallia still deplores What she has view'd, what she has been ; She knows too well that not alone Her nobles, and her princes bled, On shepherd or on sov'reign Lord, Were taught their ruthless war to wage. And shall such wars on Britain's shore To prize, and guard what thou hast giv'n. Teach us the wisdom of Thy Word, THE QUEEN'S MARRIAGE. BEFORE another month shall have passed away, this great event, so important in its consequences both to Her Majesty and all her subjects, will in all human probability have taken place. We unite with perfect sincerity in the prayer expressed in the Royal Speech, that the Divine Blessing may prosper the union and render it conducive to Her Majesty's happiness and the welfare of her people. On this most interesting occasion the Christian will feel it to be his duty to retire to his closet, not only to supplicate the Divine Blessing on his Sovereign, but to make confession, after the example of the holy prophet Daniel, both for his own sins and those of the nation. Never perhaps in any period of our history did the reigning monarch more strongly claim both the prayers and the sympathies of the people. Awful indeed is the aspect of the times in which we live. The Divine displeasure is manifested against the nation by signs and tokens too evident to be mistaken. The Queen has been cast by the force of circumstances into the hands of advisers of whom we wish it could be said that we thought them worthy of her confidence. "The land mourneth," and Society is shaken to its lowest foundations by anarchy, revolution, and insurrection, in their wildest and most terrific forms. Where then shall both Prince and People look for succour in such an extremity but to Him who is the only Potentate, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and to whom "the shields of the earth" are said in Holy Scripture to belong. And whither shall Her Majesty turn for true and faithful supporters among her subjects? Not to the Whigs, as they are styled, for they have already grievously betrayed her, and done much, we fear, to shake the stability of her throne. Not to those who falsely call themselves Reformers, whilst they are Democrats in principle, and many of them Revolutionists in disguise. All these hold the impious doctrine which is alike repugnant to Scripture and subversive of an Hereditary Monarchy, that the People are the source of all power. Can she look to the Members of the Church of Rome, who are the subjects of a Foreign Potentate? How can these bear true and undivided allegiance to the Monarch of a Protestant Throne? The truth is, that the Church of Rome and Democrats of the present day seem to be united by one bond, and animated by one spirit-the spirit of bitter hostility to the altar and the throne. That hostility has been shewn already in open acts-acts, we regret to state, of deep and irreparable injury to both these high and sacred establishments. The men who have been thus guilty, may fawn, and flatter, and make what outward professions of loyalty they please, but whilst they render the homage of their lips, the purpose of their hearts is only to betray, and bring the kingly power into subjection, so as to make it minister to their own selfish and revolutionary schemes. All this, in a moral point of view, is nothing less than treachery and rebellion. No: If the Queen of England is to look around her in these awful and alarming times for faithful and devoted subjects, she will find those to be the best defenders of her throne whose loyalty springs from religious principles, and who act in obedience to the Word of God and the law of the land. They hold the great Scriptural truth, that "Power belongeth unto God," that, "by Him kings reign," and that, "the powers that be are ordained of GOD." These are the principles in which Her Majesty will, by the Divine Blessing, find the surest protection, and they are the principles of the Protestant religion. And we would humbly crave permission to add, in the language of a Divine of the Church of England, "Trust not to your armies, however brave, nor to your fortresses however strong; but trust in the spread of Protestantism, for that, under GOD, will encompass you with walls of iron." And as prayer is undoubtedly the chief duty of Protestants in times like the present, we would earnestly recommend to general perusal and as wide a circulation as possible, an Address on that subject recently issued by the Herts Reformation and Protestant Association. The Protestant Association have voted a Resolution of thanks to His Grace the Duke of Wellington, for his conduct in Parliament in defence of our Protestant Religion and Constitution on the first day of the Session. We are sorry that a similar amendment to the Address on the Queen's Speech, by the insertion of the word " Protestant," was not made in the Commons, as was done in the precedent of the marriage of George the Third with the Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburgh, although in that case ample pledge had been given by the King, in his announcement to the Privy Council, of the Protestant principles of his intended Consort. That such official announcement should be made seems a necessary inference from the Bill of Rights, and therefore an imperative duty of the Government. We subjoin a copy of the Petition of the Protestant Association, as a record of the endeavour made by that body to discharge their duty on this occasion; also the Clause in the Bill of Rights relating to the Marriage of the Sovereign, and an Extract from the Articles of Marriage betwixt Queen Mary and Philip of Spain. "To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled. "The Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of "Humbly sheweth, "That your petitioners, actuated by the strongest feelings of loyalty and attachment to the Person and Government of our Most Gracious Sovereign the Queen, and being convinced that the maintenance of the Protestant succession to the Throne, as established by the Bill of Rights and the Act of Settlement, is vitally essential to the welfare, as well as to the rights of the Sovereign, no less than to the civil and religious liberties of the people, have observed with the most lively apprehension and alarm that Her Majesty's Ministers, while they have adopted in other respects the only precedent which has occurred since the Act of Settlement was passed, for the announcement of the approaching Royal marriage, have deviated therefrom in one most important particular, by withholding all pledge or assurance of an attachment on the part of the intended Consort of Her Majesty to those Protestant principles which placed the House of Brunswick on the Throne of these Realms, and on which, in fact, Her Majesty's Title to the Crown is by the law of the land declared to depend. "In times like the present, when the Church of Rome is so actively engaged in conspiracies to subvert the Established religion of the country, we feel it our duty as members of this Christian State to transmit to our descendants the inheritance and birthright of that pure and Reformed religion which was handed down to ourselves, and which is the basis of that free Constitution under which we have hitherto had the happiness to live. "Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that your Honourable House, in making provision for the event of Her Majesty's contemplated marriage, will require such securities as to your wisdom may seem best calculated to preserve unimpaired the inestimable blessings of our Protestant Throne and Protestant religion, as they were guaranteed to us by the two great statutes of the Bill of Rights and the Act of Settlement. "And your Petitioners, &c." Bill of Rights. "AND whereas it hath been found by experience, that it is incon"sistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be 66 "governed by a Popish Prince, or by any King or Queen marrying a "Papist, the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, do "further pray that it may be enacted, that all and every person and persons that is, are, or shall be reconciled to, or shall hold communion “with, the see or church of Rome, or shall profess the Popish religion, 66 or shall marry a Papist, shall be excluded, and be for ever incapable "to inherit, possess, or enjoy the crown and government of this realm, and Ireland and the dominions thereunto belonging, or any part of the same, or to have, use, or exercise any regal power, authority, or jurisdiction within the same; and in all and every such case or cases the people of these realms shall be, and hereby are "absolved of their allegiance; and the said crown and government "shall from time to time descend to, and be enjoyed by, such person or persons, being Protestants, as should have inherited and enjoyed the same, in case the said person or persons so reconciled, holding com"munion, or professing, or marrying as aforesaid, were naturally "dead."-Bill of Rights, clause 9. 66 66 66 Extract from the Articles of Marriage in the case of Queen Mary with Philip of Spain. "THAT Her Majesty as their onely Queene should solely, and as sole Queene, enjoy the crown and sovereinty of her realms and subjects, with all the preeminences, dignities, and rights thereunto belonging, in suche sole and onely estate, and in as large and ample a manner, in all degrees and exercises, from and after the solemnization of the said marriage, and at all times during the same, as she did before, and actually enjoyed at present, without any right, title, or claim, or demand, to be given, come, or accrue to the Prince of Spain, either by tenure or courtesy, or by any other means, by virtue of the said marriage of or to the said crown, sovereinty, realme, dominions, or authority, and rights thereunto belonging, notwithstanding the same marriage, or any other custom, statute, prescription, or any other thing to the contrary." CHURCH PASTORAL-AID SOCIETY. IT has been constantly maintained in the pages of the PROTESTANT MAGAZINE, that the Revival of true Religion in the land is the best, nay the only, effectual remedy for the National evils with which we are afflicted, as being the surest barrier against the inroads of Popery and Infidelity. We therefore earnestly and warmly recommend to the zealous support of the Christian public the above excellent society, which has been formed providentially at a most urgent Crisis, to assist the Established Church against its enemies, and to supply the spiritual necessities of the rapidly-increasing population of these kingdoms. We request the attention of our readers to one of the occasional papers of the Society, which will be found attached to the pre |