Vlil PREFACE TO portion of the prosperity of his favoured people may have been obtained for them by the supplicationsof a patriot, paternal, praying king ? Firmly attached to the church ofwhich God had made him the supreme bead ; strong in that faith of which God had appointed him the hereditary defender, he yet suffered no act of religious per- secution to dishonour his reign. His firmness was without intolerance, his moderation without laxity. Though involved in darkness, both bodily and mental, for so many of his latter years. hp was still regarded with a sentiment compoundedofsorrow, respect, and tenderness. He was, indeed, con- signed to seclusion, but not to oblivion. The distinctions of party, with respect to him, were lost in one common feeling ; and the afflicted monarch was ever cherished in the hearts of the virtuous of every denomination, whether religious or political. Even in the aberrations of reason he
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