Pious GRATITUDE or THE TORIE , ■.—The Prestnnptive Heiress to the Throne
yesterday received, at the Chapel Royal, from the Archbishop of Can- terbury, the rite of Confirmation. Under any circumstances, this public pro- fession of a person of distinguished rank, must be an object of respectful interest to the Christian people whom she is destined to govern. But there is much in the events of the time, and more in the character and education of the Princess, to excite the best feelings of the country upon the occasion. The Church of England, in which her Royal Highness has row, fm the first time, enrolled her- self by her own voluntary act, is a persecuted Church. We do not wish to desecrate this interesting solemnity by political allusions; but it is notorious that the Church of England is exposed to enemies the reverse of scrupulous in prosecuting their hostility. The art of the young Princess is, therefore, a most important and a most seasonable act of friendship, whether regarded as a testimony or as an example. If, lion-ever, education and character afford, as undoubtedly they do. the hest pledge for the conduct of life, there is every reason to anticipate with confidence that the future Queen of England will do. honour to the Christian profession of that Church, her connexion with which she has so lately ratified. Her Royal Highness's talents are of the first order ; her dispositions the most amiable; and both have been cultivated by her illus- trious mother, with a degree of pious care which could not be exceeded in the case of any family, rich or poor, distinguished or humble. The education of the Princess has been strictly a telig;ous education—such an education as would fit her to fill any station in life, with happiness to herself, and to all around her, and provide that when life should end, a far greater happiness would open
in eternity.—Stanclard, Friday. - -
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