MR. LYTTELTON. It is said, my Lord, that the heat of the blood is of the same temperature, in youth and in age, amid the snows of Siberia and in the burning sands of Africa; and that while by wool, fur, feathers, and other non-conductors, this animal heat can be prevented from escaping, the living creature will bear almost any severity of climate.

BISHOP HOUGH. So I have read.But let me caution you, that when I speak of the final cessation of animal heat being a mere sinking into repose, I am not talking of the parting hour of the criminal and the vicious. To meet death with ease and tranquillity, is the exclusive privilege of piety and virtue. At the same time, frequent meditation on our removal from this material world

is necessary for those who desire that the terrors of death should be soothed, and its pangs alleviated. I have long meditated on the subject; and indeed to neglect it at my advanced period, would be to sleep on my post at the moment of attack. But here again, age has its advantages: and I must observe, as to the actual pain of death to the aged, that in a state of maturity the fruit drops spontaneously from the tree and the separation of the immortal soul from the mortal body, is of course less painful than in early life. How different was the death of the youthful LORD RUSSEL, which I witnessed in 1683!-The forlorn age of his father, -the widowed state of his dear Lady Russel,—the orphan condition of his children,-the illegality of his sentence, the dark

clouds which overhung his country,-and the cruelty of Charles and James,did so combine to embitter his removal from this world, that it required all his Christian fortitude and patience, and all the support which he derived from his earnest prayers, to bear the trying scene with decent composure.-Not that even in youth, death is always arrayed with terrors our excellent Sovereign, QUEEN MARY, in the prime of life, met her approaching end with calmness and tranquillity; thus expressing herself, "I "thank God, I have always carried this "in my mind that nothing is to be left "till the last hour. I have now only to "look up to God, and to submit to his " will."

BISHOP GIBSON. The parting hour,

of our late Royal Mistress, QUEEN CAROLINE, was not less affecting and impressive. She closed her life with admirable and exemplary devotion ; maintaining to her last moment, christian fortitude and serenity of mind, “I "have made it," said she, "the object " of my life to discharge my religious "and social duties; and hope that God "will pardon my infirmities, and accept "the sincerity of my endeavours to pro"mote the King's honour and the pros"perity of the nation." The prayer which she repeated on the immediate approach of death, was her own composition, and truly devout and pathetic. When she concluded it, she desired those around her to join in repeating the Lord's Prayer so loud, that she

might hear them; and waving her hand as it concluded, she silently expired.

BISHOP HOUGH. The dread of the unknown world to which we are approaching, is like the fear of a child going into a dark room; and we only blame the child, when he knows the place well, and yet fears the darkness in which it is for the time involved.-The heathens knew not the place to which they were going: they had no Revelation as to a future state, and were therefore terrified. To us it is revealed; and we know, and are sure, that the world we are leaving, and that to which we are approaching, are under the same government and protection of the same omnipotent and benevolent power,with this only difference, that sin and

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