420 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



the desire of every living thing, we 

 thank thee that thou hast reserved 

 unto us the appointed weeks of 

 harvest, and caused our valleys to 

 be covered with corn. Sustain and 

 keep alive in us, we beseech thee, 

 such a sense of thy bountiful good- 

 ness, that weforget not, in the pride 

 of our heart, the hand from which 

 every blessing flows. It is thy mer- 

 cy, O God, that humbleth us in 

 want. It is thy mercy that feedeth 

 us with plenteousness. Protect and 

 cover us, we pray thee, from the 

 abuses of each ; lest we be full, and 

 deny thee, and say. Who is tiie 

 Lord? or lest we be poor and steal, 

 and take the name of our God in 

 vain. More especially at this time 

 dispose us to acknowledge, with all 

 humility, thy good Providence, in 

 supplying our wantsat the moment 

 of approaching necessity, in up- 

 holding our cause against the in- 

 creased aggression of our enemies, 

 and in continuing thy protection to 

 our most gracious sovereign, the 

 father of his people, and the dis- 

 penser of thy mercies. These praises 

 and prayers we humbly offer at the 

 throne of grace, through the merits 

 and mediation of our Lord and 

 Saviour Jesus Christ. — Amen." 



The ■prayer Jor the restoration of 

 his Majesty's health, 



" O God, who commandest us 

 when we are in trouble to open our 

 hearts, and to tell out our sorrows 



unto thee in prayer, and dost pro- 

 raise to listen with compassion 

 to our humble supplications, give 

 us grace so to approach thee, that 

 we oft'end not in word or thought : 

 put away from us every impatient 

 feeling, silence every unworthy 

 expression : let not our prayers 

 assume the language of complaint, 

 nor our sorrows the character of 

 despair. Upon thee, O God, and 

 upon the multitude of thy mer- 

 cies, we repose our grief. To thee 

 alone we look for that blessing for 

 which our hearts bleed. Raise, 

 we implore thee, our beloved sove- 

 reign from the bed of sickness and 

 of affliction ; soothe his parental 

 cares; restore him to his family, 

 and to his people. And of thy 

 great mercy, O God ! look down 

 with pity and compassion on the 

 accumulated sorrows of the royal 

 fiimily. Give them strength, and 

 courage, and virtue, to meet with 

 pious submission the grievous 

 trial to which they are exposed : 

 and, whether it shall seem fit to 

 thine unerring wisdom, presently 

 to remove from us this great 

 calamity, or for a time to sus- 

 pend it over us, teach both ihem 

 and us, patiently to adore thy 

 inscrutable Providence, and to 

 bless thy holy name for ever and 

 ever. These prayers and suppli- 

 cations we humbly address to ihy 

 Divine Majesty, in the name and 

 through the mediation of our 

 Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 

 — Amen." 



