Know thyself.---Motto of Thales. Acts. THE first stone of the Senate House, at Cambridge, is placed 1722. The Act of James I. against conjuration, witchcraft, and dealing with evil and wicked spirits was repealed from this day, 1736. The proem of the Act in the 5th year of Elizabeth, 1562, against enchantments, &c. is as follows: "Where at this present there is no ordinary ne condign punishment provided against the practices of the wicked offences of conjurations and invocations of evil spirits, and of sorceries, enchantments, charms, and witchcrafts, the which offences, by force of a statute made in the xxxiii year of the reign of the late King Henry the Eighth, were made to be felony, and so continued until the said statute was repealed by the act and statute of repeal made in the first year of the reign of the late King Edward the Sixth : sithens the repeal whereof, many fantastical and devilish persons have devised and practised invocations and conjurations of evil and wicked spirits, and have used and practised witchcrafts, enchantments, charms, and sorceries, to the destruction of the persons and goods of their neighbours, and other subjects of this realm, and for lewd intents and purposes, contrary to the laws of Almighty God, to the peril of their own souls, and to the great infamy and disquietness of this realm."-See 29th September. The foundation of the Grammar School, at Edinburgh, is laid, 1777. The division of the territories and treasures of Tippo Saheb, 1799. It may here be told, that the Duke of Wellington (then Colonel Wellesley) was struck with a spent ball on the knee, during the attack of the Tope on the 5th of April; and that the present Marquis Wellesley (then Lord Mornington) was at this time Governor-general of India. The Trinity Term begins on the Friday (at the two Universities on the Wednesday) following Trinity Sunday, and continues until the Wednesday fortnight from that period, (twenty days) unless it happen on St. John's Day. The conclusion of this term, at Oxford and Cambridge, is regulated by the Act of the former, and the commencement of the latter, which usually take place the first Tuesday in July. That house is best wherein the master may live at ease.---Thales. Day. VII. 25. The native beauty that once fill'd your cheeks, Like untouch'd cherries pale with morning dew, Linnet, and wanton sparrow, from their lays.-Glapthorne. John Coropius Becanus, 1518. Philip Duke of Swabia (Em St. Maximus, Bishop of Turin, St. Moloc, Bishop in Scotland, St. Adelbert of Northumberland, peror), 1208. assas. Bamberg. Queen Eleanor (of Provence), 1291. d. Ambresbury. Jane (Abbess) Chabot, 1593. d. Paraclete. Henry Howard, Earl of North- John Marston, 1634. Temple Bishop (Thomas) Westfield, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1674. 1689. Worcester. Charenton. Charles Barbaroux, guill. 1794. Aristocracy is as fatal as democracy. Our constitution ad St. William, Founder of Monte-mits of neither. It loves a king, 1142. chosen by the unbought suffrages of a free people.-Junius. O great restorer of the good old stage, O happy love! where love like this is found ! And sage experience bids me this declare- 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.---Burns. Acts. THE marriage of Joan, the elder sister of Henry III. with Alexander II. King of Scotland, is solemnized in the cathedral of York, 1221. An imperial diet assembles at Spire, where the divines who attended the Elector of Saxony and the Landgrave, preached publicly, and administered the sacrament according to the rites of the reformed church, 1526. The coronation of Charles IX. of France, at Rheims, 1561: "At that solemnity, Mary (of Scotland) appeared in all the state and pomp of widowed royalty; but distinguished by the white mourning allotted to youthful dowagers; her dark brown tresses were concealed under a long crape veil, which floated loosely on her shoulders, and, according to Brantome, was not so delicate as the tint of her colourless cheeks." The Hexham Grammar School is instituted by Queen Elizabeth, 1598. King William retakes Namur from the French, after a long and bloody siege, although the town was defended by ten thousand men, commanded by Bouflers; and it appears that Villeroi, at the head of ten times that number, was in the neighbourhood, 1695. The dreadful conflagration of the Luxborough vessel, bound from Jamaica to London, in the latitude of forty-one degrees, forty-five minutes, and longitude, from Crooked Island, thirty degrees, thirty minutes, East. She blew up and disappeared; those that hastily escaped in the yawl, arrived without food or water, compass, mast, or sails, and with but three oars, at Newfoundland, the 7th of July, 1727. The survivors had lived upon fifteen of their dead companions. The fire began in the lazaretto. The Emperors of France and Russia hold their amicable conference upon a raft moored on the river Niemen, near Tilsit. The famous Treaty was ratified on the 7th of July, 1807, by which act Napoleon restored to Frederick William, ancient Prussia, and the French conques 3 in Upper Saxony-the King agreeing to adopt "the continental system." There were secret articles levelled against our maritime supremacy. Providence is like a curious piece of arras, made up of a thousand shreds, which, single, we know not what to make of; but, put together and stitched up orderly, they represent a beautiful history to the eye. Flavel. Day. VI. Cal. 26. As, when the Dove her rocky hold forsakes, And leaves her callow care, and cleaves the skies: To smoother flight, and shoots upon her wings.---Virgil. Ernest the Pious (of Luneburg), | Julian (Emperor), A. D. 363. 1497, Zelle. Dr. Philip Doddridge, 1702, London. slain, near Samara, upon the Tigris. (Constantinople.) Innocent V. (Pope), 1276. Charles Messier, 1730, Badon-James Touchet, Lord Audley, viller. beheaded, 1497. George Morland, 1763, Hay- Francisco Pizarro, 1541. assassi market. If you do not correct yourself, know that I will cut you off from the succession, as we lop off an useless member. Peter to his Son. Obits of the Latin Church. St. Vigilius, Bishop of Trent, St. Maxentius, Abbot in Poitou, St. Babolen, 1st Abbot of St. Maur's, 7th Century. The Venerable Raingarda, dow, buried, 1135. nated, Lima. Victorinus Strigelius, 1569. died, Heidelberg. Gabriel, Count of Montgomery, 1574. beheaded, Paris. Roger Manners, Earl of Rutland, 1612. Botsford. Ralph Cudworth, 1688. Christ College, Cambridge. John Flavel, 1691. Dartmouth. Alexis Czarewitz (of Russia), O. S. 1718. died (under sentence), Petersburg. Cardinal Julius Alberoni, 1752. d. Placentia. Alderman Hugh Smith, 1789. d. Trevor Park. Nich. Jadelot, 1793. d. Nancy. Wi-Gilbert White, 1793. Selborne. Peter Demours, 1795. d. Paris. St. Anthelm, Bishop of Bellay, King George IV. (of England), d. 1178. 1830. Royal Chapel, Windsor. If I spare not my own life for the good of my people, how shall I spare you? Peter the Great. But should the people ask me, while I choose Or fly whatever they dislike, or love; Mine be the answer prudent Reynard made To the sick lion---Truly I'm afraid, When I behold the steps that to thy den Look forward all, but none return again.---Horace. Acts. DIONYSIUS, of Alexandria, began his astronomical era, Monday, B. C. 285, the year of the accession of Ptolemy Philadelphus. He was the first person who found the exact limits of the solar year, consisting of three hundred and sixty-five days, five hours, and forty-nine minutes. Cicero arrives at Athens in his progress to Asia, and spends ten days with the Muses. This was the year of the rhetorician's pro-consulship: he left Rome on the 1st of May, accompanied by his brother and their two sons landed at Actium the 15th of June, at Ephesus the 22d, and reached Laodicea, one of the capital cities of his province, on the 31st of July, the day when his government began, B. C. 51. The memorable conference between Brutus, and Cassius, and Cicero, at Antium, a few weeks after the parricide, B. C. 44. ter of Cato) and Tertulla, the wives of the two friends, Portia (daughassisted. "With a temper The death of Pizarro, the conqueror of Peru, 1541. of mind no less daring than the constitution of his body was robust, he was foremost in every danger, patient under the greatest hardships, and unsubdued by any fatigue. Though so illiterate that he could not even read, he was soon considered as a man formed to command. Every operation committed to his conduct proved successful, as by a happy, but rare conjunction, he united perseverance with ardour, and was as cautious in executing, as he was bold in forming his plans. By engaging early in active life, without any resource but his own talents and industry, and by depending on himself alone in his struggles to emerge from obscurity, he acquired such a thorough knowledge of affairs, and of men, that he was fitted to assume a superior part in conducting the former and in governing the latter." This ambitious adventurer founded the city of Lima, the capital of Peru, on the feast of the Epiphany, 1535, and built the commercial town of Truxillo in the same year. If you do well, be monarch of the game. |