Rome stands by her ancient morals.---Latin Sentence. Acts. THIS day was dedicated by the Romans to Bellona, the goddess of war. The capture of Antioch, on the Orontes, the capital of Syria, by the first crusaders, 1098. This famous siege commenced the 21st of October, 1097. The sword of Godfrey divided a Turk, says an eye-witness, from the shoulder to the haunch; and one-half of the infidel fell to the ground, while the other was carried by his horse to the city gates! Mahomet II. sits down before Belgrade, on the Danube, 1456. The marriage of Henry VIII. with Katharine is solemnized 1509. The Cadiz expedition, under Nottingham and the fiery and gallant Earl of Essex, sails from Plymouth 1596.—See 21st June. Sir Amias Paulet, the keeper of Mary, reports 1586: "The Scottish Queen is getting a little strength, and has been out in her coach; and is sometimes carried in a chair to one of the adjoining ponds, to see the diversion of duck-hunting, but she is not able to walk without support on either side."-Alas! it was nailing down the vineyard. King James visits the Lions' tower, 1605. After being forced from their den with burning links; "then was there two racks of mutton thrown unto them, which they did presently eat: then was there a lusty live cock cast unto them, which they presently killed, and sucked his blood. After that the king caused a live lamb to be easily let down unto them by a rope, and being come to the ground, the lamb lay upon his knees, and both the lions stood in their former places, and only beheld the lamb; but presently the lamb rose up and went unto the lions, who very gently looked upon him and smelled on him, without sign of any further hurt." This was an amusement of the British Solomon and his court. The Earl of Sandwich defeats the Dutch fleet, off Harwich, 1665. King Charles wrote a letter of thanks to the commander upon this great and happy victory: "I will say no more myself till I see you, that I may take you in my arms, and give you other testimonies how truly I am your affectionate friend." The transit of the planet Venus, over the sun's disk, observed by Dr. Hornsby, Lalande, and others, and at Otaheite, by Mr. Green, who sailed for that purpose under Captain Cook. The city of Port-au-Prince, in St. Domingo, is destroyed by an earthquake, 1770. Mara's last vocal performance in England, 1802. Never talk of your schemes before they are executed, lest you be exposed to the double mortification of disappointment and ridicule. Pittacus. Day. Above, below, without, within, around, Prid. Emanuel Alvarez, 1526, Island Alice (of France), 1206. died, 4. Paris. James Mylne, 1737, Suttie Alvares de Luna, 1453. behead. Rome. Sir John Arden, 1526. John Scott, Earl of Eldon, 1751, John Fryth 1533. burned, Smith Newcastle.] Obits of the Latin Church. field. M. A. Muretus, 1585. died, Paris. St. Quirinus, Bishop in Pan-Archbishop (William) Juxon, nonia, Martyr, 303. St. Nenooc (or Nennoca), Vir- c. 564. St. Burian, an Irish Woman, (before) 10th Century. St. Walter, of England, Abbot, 1150. St. Walter, Abbot in Ancona, 1663. St. John's, Oxford. Sir John Lawson, killed, 1665. Francis le Moine, 1737. Alexis Normant, 1745. Louis XVII. (of France), poisoned, 1795. Sir Francis Buller, 1800. Francis Xavier Talbert, 1804. d. Lemberg. Marshal Louis Davoust, 1823. Celerity with politick men is like the motion of a bullet in the air, which flieth so swift as it outruns the eye.-Bacon. Be just and fear not. Proceed in thy great work; bring forth thy knight And magic of his arm he may restore Those ruin'd seats of virtue, and build more. Beyond the paths, and searches of the sun, Let him tempt fate; and when a world is won, Submit it duly to this state, and throne, Till time, and utmost stay make that his own.---Jonson. Acts. A TEMPLE was dedicated by Sylla to Hercules.-See 39th June. Dionysius attests, that in his time (the Augustan age), the twentythird day of the Greek month, Thargelion (April), fell seventeen days before the Summer solstice; and he computes thirty seven days from that point to the end of the Attic year; therefore the fourth day of Hecatombæon would then occur on the 22d day after the tropic. Henry VIII. creates the Bishopric of Bristol, in the place of the monastery, 1542. The municipium was the next year proclaimed a city. Prince Henry receives the dignity of Prince of Wales, in his sixteenth year, 1610. Ben Jonson produced his Masque of Oberon, and the Barriers, on the two succeeding days, to celebrate the event. It was at these Barriers that Carr, then a page to Lord Hay, broke his leg, which laid the foundation of his extraordinary fortune. The Prince at tilt adopted the style of Maliades, Prince of the Isles, which in anagram expressed his mot and character, Miles à Deo.-See Drummond's "Tears." Charles I. is seized by Joyce, at Holmby, near Northampton, and conveyed first to Newmarket, and afterwards (the 24th of August) to Hampton Court, from which place he escaped in the night, 11th of November, and, two days later, found himself in a closer custody within the walls of Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight, 1647.-See 30th Jan. The city of Glasgow is declared by charter a royal borough, with power to elect its own magistrates, independent of the diocesan, 1690. The young Nelson sails with Captain Phipps from the Nore, in a voyage to the North Pole, 1773. His adventure with the bear, "that he might carry the skin to his father," is one of those unimportant, but delightful traits in the life of a great man which is always sure to be preserved, as straws in amber-sunny petals dried in the folio of memory. Trinity Thursday. "Corpus Christi," the Catholic Eucharistic festival. When you go abroad consider what you have to do; when you return home, what you have done. Cleobulus. Pleasure and pain, which are two sentiments so different in themselves, differ not so much in their cause. From the instance of tickling, it appears, that the movement of pleasure, pushed a little too far, becomes pain; and that the movement of pain, a little moderated, becomes pleasure. Hence it proceeds that there is such a thing as a sorrow, soft and agreeable. Fontenelle. Day. Births. Deaths. Non. Joseph de Tournefort, 1656, Lamoral, Count Egmont, 1568. Aix in Provence. beheaded, Brussels. 5. Dr. Adam Smith, 1723, Kirk- Philip de Montmorenci, Count aldy. The authority of a father, so melted down into the mother's Burke. Obits of the Latin Church. Horn, 1568. beheaded, Brus- Nicholas Tooley, 1623. buried, Roger Cotes, 1716. Trinity Dr. Henry Sacheverell, 1724. John Paisiello, 1816, Naples. St. Dorotheus, of Thebes, Ab- Harry Stoe Van-Dyk, 1828. bot, 4th Century. St. Illidius, Bishop of Clermont, d. c. 385. St. Boniface, of England, Arch King James I. used to say bishop of Mentz, Apostle of of flattery, "Nay, by my soul, Germany, Martyr, 755. (See that is too hard."-Temple. English Church Calendar.) But we generally have a great love for our grandfathers, in whom this authority is removed a degree from us, and where the decay of age mellows it into something of a feminine partiality.---Burke. And, Memory, preserv'ress of things done, So long as these unhappy times did last; Acts. THE Boeotians, upon the fifth of their month, Hippodromius (Hecatombæon), achieved two signal victories, both of which restored liberty to Greece; the one at Leuctra, under Epaminondas, twenty days after the Spartan congress, corresponding with the eighth of July, the year in which he founded Megalopolis, B. C. 371: the other at Ceressus, about B. C. 500, when they defeated the Thessalians led by Lattamyas. The earliest eclipse of the sun mentioned in the Roman Annales Maximi as having been observed, fell, according to Cicero, on the nones of June, about the year B. C. 350: the earlier eclipses were computed backward from it, unto that when Romulus was carried up to heaven. Henry IV. issues from Westminster a proclamation to dispel the rumours of Richard II. having appeared in Scotland-stating that he was recently dead and buried, A. D. 1402. The eleven Judges address a memorial to the ministers of Queen Elizabeth, complaining of the arbitrary imprisonment and detention of certain individuals, contrary to the laws of the realm, 1591. The English merchants trading to the Levant, surrender their patent to King James, who exonerates them from the annual pension of £4000 contributed by them for this commercial monopoly, 1603. The marriage of Shakspeare's daughter, Susannah, with Dr, John Hall, a celebrated physician, 1607. The qualities of this female were wit above her sex, universal charity, and a strong religious feeling. The attack of New Ross by the Irish rebels, who are repulsed, 1798. The old law of wager of battle, in which personal combat was allowed, is abolished 1819. An exterminating plague at Tunis, same year. TRINITY FRIDAY. Tradition states, that the beautiful Godiva, of Coventry, wife of Leofric, Earl of Chester, in the time of Edward the Confessor, procured upon this day from her lord a restitution of privileges for the citizens, by a nude exhibition, which is so well known to have excited the curiosity of a child of the needle, called the Peeper. It is safer trusting to an unbridled horse than to an intemperate tongue. |
