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Philip (of Macedon), assassi

nated, B. C. 335.

Caius Caligula, assass. A.D. 41.
Justice Henry Yelverton, 1630.
Dr. W. Holder, 1697. St. Paul's.
Sir George Rooke, 1709. Cant.
Philip de Vendome, 1727.
Archbishop (W.) Wake, 1737.
James Ralph, 1762. Chiswick.
Edward Capell, 1781.

He was a man whose elegance and judgment were universally confessed, and whose bounty to "If," said De Witt, "I have the learned and witty was gene- any necessary despatches to rally known. "I know not how make, I think of nothing else it is," said Rochester, "but till those are finished if any Lord Buckhurst may do what domestic affairs require my athe will, yet is never in the tention, I give myself up wholly wrong.-Life of E. of Dorset.

Obits of the Latin Church.
St. Timothy (Disciple of St.
Paul), Martyr at Ephesus, 97.
St. Babylas, Bp. of Antioch, M.
c. 250.
St.Macedonius, of Syria,d.5th C.
St. Cadocus (or Cadoc) Abbot
in Wales, d. 6th Century.
St. Suranus, Abbot in Umbria,
M. 7th Century.

to them till they are set in order." We often see men of dull and phlegmatic tempers arriving to great estates, by making a regular and orderly disposition of their business; and that, without it, the greatest talents and most lively imaginations, rather puzzle their affairs than bring them to a happy issue.-Spectator, in dié.

The advantages he received from his learning did not countervail the mischief he brought upon him in the exercise of his authority; so difficult it is for those to obtain the virtue that is necessary for a wise man, who have the absolute power to do what they please without control. Josephus on Caligula.

All love, at first, like generous wine,

Ferments and frets until 'tis fine;

Becomes the richer still, the older,

And proves the pleasanter, the colder.-Butler.

Acts.

CLAUDIUS is elected Emperor on this day, A. D. 41; which was the feast of Seed-time, feria sementina, among the Romans.

In the journals of Dr. Swift to his Stella and her companion, Mrs. Dingley, are contained, for this day, the following passages : 1711.-" Morning. Come now to your letter. As for my old friends,

if you mean the Whigs, I never see them, as you may find by my journals, except Lord Halifax, and him very seldom; Lord Somers never, since the first visit, for he has been a false, deceitful rascal. My new friends are very kind, and I have promises enough, but I do not count upon them. Your news, that Mr. St. John is going to Holland; he has no such thoughts to quit the great station he is in, nor, if he had, could I be spared to go with him. Pray God Stella's illness may not return. If they come seldom they begin to be weary: I judge by myself; for when I seldom visit I grow weary of my acquaintance. So good morrow, Madams, both."

1712. The Secretary made me promise to dine with him to-day, after the parliament was up; I said I would come; but I dined at my usual time, knowing the house would sit late on this great affair [the censure of the Duke of Marlborough by the ministry]. At ten, this evening, I went to the Secretary, but he was not come home I sat with his lady till twelve, then came away; and he just came as I was gone, and he sent to my lodgings, but I would not go back."

:

1713. "I was at Court to-day, and it was comical to see Lord Abercorn bowing to me, but not speaking; and Lord Selkirk the same. I dined with Lord Treasurer [Harley], and the Saturday club, and sat with him two hours after the rest were gone, and spoke freer to him of affairs than, I am afraid, others do, who might do more good. All his friends repine, and shrug their shoulders; but will not deal with him so freely as they ought. It is an odd business; the parliament just going to sit, and no employments given.

If I were a divine, I would remember, that in their first creation they were designed as a help for the other sex; and nothing was ever made incapable of the end of its creation. Lady Montagu.

Day.

He was the wren amidst the grove,
When in his homely vein;

At "Bannockburn" the bird of Jove,

With thunder in his train.-James Montgomery.

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Chæreas, beheaded, A. D. 41.
Aurelian, ass. A. D. 275.
Athanaric, 381. Constantinople.
Stephen V. (Pope), 817.
Gregory IV. (Pope), 844.
Bp. Flemming, 1431. Lincoln.
Christian II. (of Denm.) 1559.
Henry Wm. Ludolf, 1710.
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1733.
Francis Arisi, 1743.
Ph. Argellati, 1755. d. Milan.
Nich. Beauzee, 1789. d. Paris.
Dr. Alex. Webster, 1784. Edinb.

Dr.J. Evans, 1827. d. Islington.

Not an opera is produced on our theatres without some one or two solemn invocations to Hope, to be sung by lovers on the brink of despair; and in

St. Apollo, Abbot in Thebais, d. real life we have not a condemned malefactor who does

c. 393.

4th Century.

St. Projectus, (or St. Prix), Bp.

St. Publius, Abbot in Syria, d. not 'hope for the best,' nor an old woman expiring in an hospital, who does not comfort herself by repeating that while there is life there is hope.' Looker-on, in dié.

of Clermont, m. 674.
St. Poppo, Abbot of Stavelo, d.

1048.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty: 'twas only fear made tyranny put so many to death, to secure themselves.-King James.

They say it is observed in the Low Countries that every five-and-thirty years the same kind and suit of years and weathers comes about again; as great frosts, great wet, great droughts, warm summers, winters with little heat, and the like; and they call it the prime. It is a thing I do rather mention, because, computing backward, I have found some concurrence.-Bacon.

Acts.

A FESTIVAL in commemoration of the miraculous Conversion of St. Paul, at Damascus, A. D. 37, observed both by the English and Catholic church. It was instituted in the year 813, and first noticed in our English Calendar, 1662.

The great council meets at Clarendon, in which John of Oxford is president, 1164.-The marriage of Edward II. with the beautiful Isabella, daughter of Philip the Fair, is solemnized at Boulogne in the presence of four kings, and three queens, 1308.-It was the day also of this unhappy monarch's alleged abdication (then styled Edward of Carnarvon), and the commencement of his son's long and brilliant reign, 1327.

By a statute of this day, 1504, it is enacted that no man shall shoot in a long bow without the king's license, except he be a lord, or have two hundred mark land.

Captain Hawkins arrives at Mount's Bay, in Cornwall, from his third and most calamitous American expedition, 1569.

Burns writes from Ellisland to Mrs. Dunlop, 1790:-" I forget what part of Scotland had the honour of giving Falconer birth (!), but he was the son of obscurity and misfortune. He was one of those daring adventurous spirits which Scotland, beyond any other country, is remarkable for producing. Little does the fond mother think, as she hangs delighted over the sweet little leech at her bosom, where the poor fellow may hereafter wander, and what may be his fate....Allow me to give you two stanzas of an old simple ballad, which I am sure will please you. The catastrophe of the piece is a poor ruined female lamenting her fate. She concludes with this pathetic wish :

O, that the grave it were my bed;

My blankets were my winding sheet;

The clocks and the worms my bedfellows a';
And, O, sae sound as I should sleep!

Misery is like love; to speak its language truly, the author must have felt it."

'Tis the trial of a man to see if he will change his side.-Selden.

Day.

Courtesy oft is sooner found in lowly sheds,

With smoky rafters, than in tap'stry halls,

In courts of princes, where it first was named.-Comus.

Births.

VII.
Lord George Sackville, 1716.
Cal.
26. J. B. Bernadotte, Pau, 1764.
Bp. (Thomas) Middleton, 1769,

Kedleston.

You live upon mock-turtle, and stewed beef; I dined, yesterday, upon crumpets. You sit with parish officers, caressing and caressed, the idol of the table, and the wonder of the day. I pine in the solitude of sickness, not bad enough to be pitied, and not well enough to be endured. You sleep away the night, and laugh, or scold away the day. I cough and grumble, and grumble and cough, and am disordered by very little things. Is it accident or age?— Johnson to Mrs. Thrale, in diê.

Obits of the Latin Church.

Deaths.

Marcian (Emperor), 457.
Dr. John Bate, 1429. York.
Henry Brigges, 1630. Oxford.
Alice Spencer, C. of Derby,

1636. Harefield.

Sir Samuel Tuke, 1673. d. Scmerset House.

R. Chat de Rastignac, k. 1696.
John (Lord) Cutts, 1707.Oxford.
Dr. Daniel Williams, 1716.
Peter Dan. Huet, 1721.d. Paris.
Dr. John Kennedy, 1760.
J. B. Negroni (Doge), 1771.
Frances Brooke, 1789.
Dr. T. Nash, 1811. Droitwich.
Henry Andrews, 1820.d. Royston.
Dr. E. Jenner, 1823. Berkeley.
Alex. Tilloch, 1825. Islington.
Lady Caroline Lamb, 1828.

Prophetic schemes, And golden dreams,

St. Polycarp, Bp. of Smyrna, M. May I, unsanguine, cast away!

d. 166.

St. Paula, Widow, d. Bethlehem, 404.

St. Conon, Bp. of Sodor, d. 648.

Have what I have,

And live, not leave,

Enamour'd of the present day! Young.

It is less difficult to feign sensations which we have not, than to conceal those

which we have.

Rochefoucault.

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