THE rIRST EDITION. XX1X the kingdom for its moral and political destruction. Can she, therefore, forbear repeating, that if her degenerate sons betrayher, and her honourablesons desert her, her perils are indeed imminent ? At her .advanced age the writer has little to hope from praise, or little to fear from censure, except as her views may have been in a right or a wrong direction. She has felt that a renewed attention to growing errors is a duty on those who have the good of mankind at heart. The more nearly her time approaches for her leaving the world, there is a sense in which she feels herself more strongly in- terested in it ; she means in an increasing anxiety for its improvement ; for its ad, vance in all that is right in principle, and virtuous in action. And as the events and experience of every day convince her, that there is no true virtue which is not founded in religion, and no true re- ligion which is not maintained by PRAYER, she hopes to be forgiven if, with declining years and faculties, yet with increasing a3
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