It is a wond'rous thing, how fleet
'Twas on those little silver feet,
With what a pretty skipping grace,
It oft would challenge me the race:
And when 't had left me far away,
'Twould stay, and run again, and stay.
For it was nimbler much than hinds;

And trod, as on the four winds. ---The Fawn.

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The Earls of Pembroke, Marr, and Southampton, and the Duke of Lennox, are made Knights Companions of the honourable order of the Garter by King James, at Windsor Castle (Sunday), 1603.

Oliver Cromwell is solemnly inaugurated Lord Protector, in Westminster Hall, 1657. "The Speaker invested his Highness with a purple mantle, lined with ermine; presented him with a bible, superbly gilt and embossed; girt a sword by his side, and placed a sceptre of massive gold in his hand. On the right of the chair, at some distance, sate the French, on the left, the Dutch Ambassador: on one side stood the Earl of Warwick, with the sword of the Commonwealth; on the other, the Lord Mayor, with that of the city."

Lady Montagu writes to Pope, from Belgrade Village, N. S. 1717: "To say truth, I am sometimes very weary of the singing, and dancing, and sunshine, and wish for the smoke and impertinences in which you toil, though I endeavour to persuade myself that I live in a more agreeable variety than you do; and that Monday, setting of partridges; Tuesday, reading English; Wednesday, studying in the Turkish language (in which, by the way, I am already learned); Thursday, classical authors; Friday, spent in writing; Saturday, at my needle; and Sunday, admitting of visits, and hearing of music, is a better way of disposing of the week, than Monday, at the drawing-room; Tuesday, Lady Mohun's; Wednesday, at the opera; Thursday, the play; Friday, Mrs. Chetwynd's, &c.: a perpetual round of hearing the same scandal, and seeing the same follies acted over and over again.”

Coutel, the aëronaut, accompanied by an adjutant and general, reconnoitres the contending armies at Fleurus, in an air-balloon, and preserves a communication with Jourdan, in defiance of the Austrian batteries, 1794. This battle continued for fifteen hours, a summer's day. The Duke of Clarence escorts the Sovereigns to the continent, 1814.

Semper eadem.---Always the same.---Motto of Queen Elizabeth.

Let high-birth triumph! What can be more great?
Nothing-but merit in a low estate.

To virtue's humblest son let none prefer

Vice, though descended from the Conqueror.

Shall men, like figures, pass for high, or base,

Slight, or important, only by their place?

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;

The fool, or knave, that wears a title, lyes.---Love of Fame.

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THE ACCESSION OF KING WILLIAM THE FOURTH. The day of a new reign is, politically, a day of restauration, and therefore one of unmingled prospective cheerfulness. In a moral sense, indeed, a man is removed from existence, a personage with the tissued qualities of our common nature, who immediately becomes the subject of opinion. There are private, dear connexions that, gazing upon his vacant chair, will call up his sentimental and social character, and weep the more, because they weep in vain; and there are also public tears, the sorrows of a nation, who, if he possessed a parental attachment for his country, if his name be associated with its glory, if he has advanced her reputation by his demeanour, her happiness by his charities, or her elegance, by patronising those emollients of manners, the fine arts, which are the certain heralds of philosophy, they will gratefully consecrate his memory. But these are limited reflections, wholly separable from the contemplation of a consecutive sovereignty. Although the state-waggon and charioteer are the same, yet the levers are of other metal, and its "propriety” is changed the long-resounding pace is renewed in other paths. As the lord and lady of the chariot pass, a health is fired from three kingdoms : LONG LIVE KING WILLIAM IV. and God bless QUEEN ADELAIDE! Green-mantled Thame waved her silvery locks, and venerable Ocean smoothed his shaggy beard and smiled. Flattery, that impious vice, which diverts all good and patriotic resolves into false channels, is ever a close watch in the chambers of princes, unless, like his Majesty, they can maintain the integrity, and the wholesome blessings of an English fireside. It is scarcely an art-the art of making love and popularity.

Je main tiendria.---I will maintain.---Motto of King William.

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Sweet queen of parley, daughter of the sphere !-Comus.

Cæsar's fortune had nothing more excellent than that he could, and his virtue _nothing better than that he would always save and pardon every man.-Cicero.

Friends and fellow-soldiers, the seasonable period of my departure is now arrived, and I discharge, with the cheerfulness of a ready debtor, the demands of nature. I have learned from philosophy, how much the soul is more excellent than the body; and that the separation of the nobler substance should be the subject of joy, rather than of affliction. I have learned from religion, that an early death has often been the reward of piety, for which I am thankful. I die without remorse, as I have lived without guilt; for I hold it equally absurd, equally base, to solicit, or to decline, the stroke of Providence. Emperor Julian.

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THE estival solstice of Meton, the Athenian, corresponds with this day in the 87th Olympiad, B. C. 432.—See 13th May. From the time of Solon, whose Archonship took place in the year, B. C. 594, the Attic months were lunar, of three hundred and fifty-four days, composed alternately of thirty and twenty-nine days, and connected with the solar revolution by an intercalary month (called Posideon 2) of twenty-two and twenty-three days, alternately, every two years. The Enneadecaeteris of Meton, took a wider circuit by intercalating seven months in nineteen years. The years which received the embolismic months were these: 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 16, 19, and his nineteen years contained two hundred and thirtyfive months of thirty days, or seven thousand and fifty days. But as nineteen years in solar time contained six thousand nine hundred and forty days, according to Meton's computation, there was an overplus of one hundred and ten days to be expunged from his cycle. These he deducted by a new method. In the old system of taking one day from every alternate month, too much was gained. His method, therefore, was to strike out every sixty-third day. Yet his months did not agree with the lunations, and in his solar year there was still an excess of thirty minutes, amounting, during a period, to nine hours and a half. This was attempted to be corrected by the cycle of Calippus, of seventy-six Julian years, containing four Metonic periods, commencing July, B. C. 330, the year when the last Darius was slain. It was, however, only a partial reformation, by deducting one day in seventy-six years, leaving an excess of eleven minutes and three seconds beyond our Gregorian year. The Calippic cycle and the calculation by Olympiads fell together.

The election of Jovian by the imperial army, A. D. 363. Julian was in his thirty-second year, having reigned one year and about eight months from the death of Constantius. He died just before mid-night.

I offer my tribute of gratitude to the Eternal Being, who has not suffered me to perish by the cruelty of a tyrant, by the secret dagger of conspiracy, or by the slow tortures of lingering disease. Julian.

He had the fruits, more than the seeds:
We were his followers, he would call us friends;
He was a man most like to virtue; in all,

And every action, nearer to the gods,

Than men, in nature; of a body as fair

As was his mind; and no less reverend

In face, than fame; and what his funerals lack'd

In images and pomp, they had supplied
With honourable sorrow, soldiers' sadness.

Jonson in Sejanus.

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Pope Boniface VIII. issues an authoritative rescript, directed to Edward I., by which he claimed the feudal sovereignty over Scotland, and reserved to his decision any controversy between the crowns, 1299. This document was delivered by Archbishop Winchelsey to Edward, in his camp before Caerlavarock, the 26th of August, 1300, and was answered by the Barons of England, 12th of February, 1301: " It is, and by the grace of God shall always be, our common and unanimous resolve, that with respect to the temporal rights of our Lord the King, he shall not plead before you nor submit in any means to your judgment." The monarch also, in a familiar letter, dated 7th May, 1301, formally deduces his claim to the superiority from Brute, the Trojan. His Holiness replied that the Scots cared not for Brute, the Trojan, as they were derived from Scota, the daughter of Pharaoh, who landed in Ireland, and whose descendants became Kings of Albany by conquest.—Upon this day the University of Oxford unanimously determined that the jurisdiction of the Pope of Rome did not exceed the ministry of any other English Bishop, 1534.

Ferdinand, of Arragon, resigns the government of Castile, 1506. Richard III. ennobles the two Howards, 1483.-See 22d August. Howell writes to his father, Mr. Ben Jonson, 1629: "I find that you have been oftentimes mad; you were mad when you writ your Fox; and madder when you writ your Alchymist; you were mad when you first writ Cataline, and stark mad when you writ Sejanus; but when you writ your Epigrams, and the Magnetic Lady, you were not so mad insomuch that I perceive there be degrees of madness in you. Excuse me that I am so free with you. The madness I mean is that divine fury, that heating and heightening spirit, of which Ovid speaks."

O, they are fled the light! Those mighty spirits
Lie raked up with their ashes in their urns.-Sejanus.