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Extract of a Sermon, preached on Sunday evening the 29th=of Novr=1818. at St. Mildred's in the poultry, by the Revd. Mr. Ackland, from the 24th chapter of St. Mathew, verse 44 ,, "Be ye also Ready."-- "Among those who have lately been called hence, we trust, to join that blessed society, observation cannot but Nest on our aged and Virtuous Queen. Faction and slander may openly assail, as it is their nature to Assail. all that is either exalted in rank, or conspicuous in virtue. Envy and detraction may take a more insidious course. and with cold-hearted malignity. may seek to derogate from those good qualities which they want courage to dispute and authority to deny. -- But while I acknowledge the pulpit to be the last place of servile adulation or unmerited [[unclear]], still I should not feel that I was doing my duty as a Minister of that establishment, of which the family reigning in these Kingdoms is the head; I should not be speaking the truth boldly, as I ought to speak it. if I did not affirm, that, amidst the indecent assertions of some, and the uncharitable will bear ready testimony to the many amicable and estimable qualities of our departed Queen--will associate her memory with what is most valuable in the great practicle duties of life-- will a knowledge promptly and grasefully. that the whole weight and influence of her high station were invariably given to the side of religion, decency, and virtue; and will apply. therefore. to her the assertion of the wise man; that favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but that a vertuous Human, she shall be praised. -- To our venerable Monarch, and to his late virtuous Conduct; this Country owes the inestimable benefit of that example which, issuing from the throne, necessarily diffused an influence more or less powerful through all the ranks of society. Chosen as the partner of that Throne, in a very early Youth, she adopted from the first; and to the last; inflexibly adhered to that System of discrimination to those rigid principles of female honour and virtue, which made her Court conspicuous beyond those of all other countries, and beyond those of this Country at other times, for decorum of manner and purity of conduct.
