From the prospective effects of our Sovereign's fornication, and all other of his deadly sins; from the anger of the world; and the hands of all honest men. Good Satan, deliver us. From the effects of the false and fabricated contents of the King's Green Bag, from the lightning and tempest, from the plague, pestilence and famine, and from the battle and murder, which now threaten us, and from the fear of suicide or sudden death. Good Satan, deliver us. From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion of the people, from their false doctrines, heresy, and schism; from tenderness of heart, and contempt of thy word and commandment. Good Satan, deliver us. By the mystery of thy holy funding system, by its nativity and circumvention, by our baptism, the people's fasting, and Brougham's temptation. Good Satan, deliver us. By the agony and bloody sweat of our victims, by our frequent use of the gallows, and bloody knife, by refusing them the common mode of burial, and oh!-from that dreadful resurrection and ascension, and the coming of that Holy Ghost-LIBerty, Good Satan, deliver us. In the time of our approaching tribulation; in the time of our loss of wealth and power; in the hour of death, and in the day of judg ment. Good Satan, deliver us. We sinners do beseech thee to hear us, O Satan; and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy church universal in the right way. We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true wor shipping of thee, in hollowness of life, thy servant GEORGE our most gracious King and Governor; We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith, fear, and love; and that he may evermore have affiance in thee, and ever seek thy honour and glory; We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper, giving him the victory over all his enemies; We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to exclude from thy court and service, our sovereign's wife, Queen Caroline, and all those who heap upon thee and us infamy and disgrace; We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to illuminate all bishops, priests, and deacons, with the true knowledge and understanding of thy word; and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth, and shew it accordingly; We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to endue the present lords of the council, and all the nobility, with thy subtlety and understanding; We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to bless and keep the Manchester Magistrates; giving them courage to execute our orders, and to maintain thy truths, by the aid of their Yeomanry Cavalry; We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. " That it may please thee to assist us in massacreing a rebellious people; We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to give to all nations, unity, peace, and concord, agreeable to thy promises made to the holy alliance; We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee, and diligently to live after thy commandments; We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to give to all the people an increase of patience, to hear meekly thy word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of thy spirit abundantly; We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth and a knowledge of thee alone, all those who have erred and are deceived, and whom we have shut up in our dungeons for thy sake and the preservation of thy word and government; We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to strengthen all those who stand by thee, to comfort and help George Canning who grows weak-hearted, to raise up them that seek to follow thee, and finally to beat down LIBERTY under our feet; We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to succour, help, and comfort us thy servants, that are falling into danger, necessity, and tribulation; We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. Oh, that it had pleased thee to have destroyed our Queen Caroline when she travelled alone by both land and water, and to have prevented her presence amongst us, by which we have fallen into irretrieveable disgrace; We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to defend and provide for us thy servants in preference to the fatherless children and widows, and all that are desolate and oppressed, from our glorious adherence to thee; We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to have mercy upon none but such as we recommend to thee. We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to incline by thy subtlety our injured Queen Caroline to forgive her enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, and turn her heart from Alderman Wood. We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, so as in due time we may enjoy them, for ruling those by whose labour they are produced. We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. That it may please thee to give us true repentance if ever we have inadvertently strayed from thee, to forgive us all our sins, negligences, and ignorances, and to endue us with the grace of thy holy spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy word. We beseech thee to hear us, good Satan. O Belzebub, prince of devils, we beseech thee to hear us. O ye descendants of Satan, that keep the world in sin and misery, O Satan hear us. O Satan hear us. Belzebub, have mercy upon us, Belzebub, have mercy upon us. O, all ye host of hell, be favourable unto us, LET US PRAY. Q Satan, make our path straight before us, and so incline our hearts and minds unto thee, that whenever we fall into trouble and adversity, such as now inflict us, we may have an assuring hope that thou wilt not forsake us. Guide the hearts of our assistants, Wilberforce, Bankes, and Brougham, so that they night use that hypocrisy with which thou hast so amply furnished them, to our benefit and relief. Fill their minds with an hope that we shall be willing to recom pense their services in rescuing us from such a dangerous and painful dilemma. And shouldest thou be graciously pleased to render of good avail those heretical professions which they occasionally make of being independent of us and thee, and still keep the people of this country hood-winked and deluded, we will continue to magnify thy name for ever and ever. Amen. Minister. O Satan, deal not with us after our sins, O Satan, father of lies, that despisest not the sighing of an hypocritical heart, nor the cravings of those who faithfulïy serve thee, mereifully assist our prayers that we make before thee, in all our troubles and adversities, whensoever they oppress us; and graciously hear us, that those evils which the craft and subtlety of Alderman Wood, and the virtuous obstinacy of the Queen, worketh against us, be brought to nought, and by the providence of thy goodness, they may be dispersed; that we, thy servants, being hurt by no persecutions, may live to persecute others, for thy honour and glory. Amen. O Satan, arise, help us, and deliver us, for thy name's sake. O Satan, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us the noble works which thou didst in the days of William Pitt and Robert Walpole, and in the old time before them, by thy servants, Scroggs and Jefferies, and our sovereign's true prede cessor, Harry the Eighth, deign so to direct us, that we may not meet an untimely end, like the one of those thy servants we named to thee. O Belzebub, arise, help us, and deliver us, for thine honour, Glory be to the father of lies, and all the infernal crew. As it was in the beginning, is now, but must soon end without thy assistance specially granted. From our enemies defend us, O Satan. Graciously look upon our afflictions. Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts. Mercifully forgive the sins of thy servants towards thee. Favourably with mercy hear our prayers, That the true son of David may have mercy upon us. Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us, O Satan. Graciously hear us, O Satan, Graciously hear us, O Belzebub. Minister. O Satan, let thy mercy be shewed upon us; Answer. As we do put our trust in thee. The grace of our Sovereign lord George the Fourth, and the love of Satan, and the fellowship of Belzebub, be with us all evermore. Amen. HERE ENDETH THE LITANY. The first thing we shall do after writing the Litany, is to enter our protest against the probable charge or idea of bringing the book of Common Prayer into contempt. We dis claim any such intention. The Litany is written in a pleasing and popular stile, and has been parodied in five hundred different shapes and purposes. The seventeenth century produced continual parodies on the Litany, on the subject of one grievance and another. If it be asked who we mean to bring into contempt?-we answer, the MINISTERS, or rather to heap additional contempt upon them. We ourselves have no belief in the existence of any such gentlemen as Satan or Belzebub, nor in such a place as hell; therefore, we disclaim the charge of any irreverance to serious subjects in the foregoing Litany. We consider it highly necessary, that the Ministers and their supporters should have a new Litany adapted to their peculiar situations; and we hope to receive a reward from them for our trouble in composing one so well adapted. The old woman who held a taper to the picture of Satan, replied, when asked whether she knew what she was doing, That she knew it was the devil, but one might as well have friends in hell as in paradise, as one did not know where one might go." By the same rule of reasoning, we would recommend the foregoing Litany to the use of Ministers and their supporters, for they must be more certain than the old woman; as if there is to be a future life of rewards and punishments, they must have long since made up their minds for the worst in the next world, as by a course of vices in this, they have wallowed in luxury at the expence of millions, who have been made miserable from want of the necessaries of life. The negotiation having been broken off, the Queen, making the restoration of her name to the Liturgy, or the reception at foreign Courts, as Queen of England, a sine qua non, the Ministers again lay a string of papers on the tables of both Houses of Parliament, containing the particulars of the negotiation. "What shall we do next?" cried they. "Oh! Mr. Wilberforce sees their difficulties and dangers, and he, a good and religious man, proposes that, that House of Parliament, shall address the Queen, calling upon her to dispense with the prayers of the people of this country." We would put the question to any moral man, and ask him, which would have been the most religious and prudent, that Wilberforce should have proposed the addressing of the King to restore her Majesty's name to the Liturgy and the prayers of the people, or, that he should have called on the Queen to dispense with such a circumstance? Those fellows are cutting their own throats in a religious point of view. What can be the extent of Mr. Wilderforce's religious mind, when he calls upon the Queen to dispense with the prayers of the people? What horror would this hypocrite have professed if any other circumstance was omitted to be prayed for, or any other change made in this Liturgy? Indifferent as we are to every thing which belongs to the common fraud of religion, yet we cannot help |