Haste thee, then, and with thee bring,
Many a little venom'd sting,
Many a tale, that no one knows,
Or shall be nameless Belles and Beaux,
Unknown marriages, some twenty,

Private child-bed linen plenty ;
And borns just fitted to some people's heads,
And certain rumpled coals, and certain tumbled beds.-Scandal.

acts.

The festival of Haggai, the tenth, in time, of the minor propbets.

Coriolanus receives the female mission in his camp before the walls of Rome, B. C. 488. The eloquent entreaties of his mother, Volumnia, (Livy has named ber Veturia) to withdraw the Volscian force from against the walls of his native city, prevails : “ Rome is saved, but your son is lost.” A temple to the FORTUNE OF Women, in the Latin way, was voted and established (with a priestess) by the Roman ladies to perpetuate this event, yielding to none in consequence.

The battle of Dorylaum, in Phrygia, and rout of Soliman, A. D. 1097.

Robert Whittington is crowned with the rhetorical laurel at Oxford, 1513. The first royal laureate occurs in the reign of Edward IV. in the person of John Kay, the omega of the role.

The discovery of the American land, Virginia, 1584.---See 10th June.

The Parliament, commonly named Barebone's, from a tradesman of that name, who was one of the 120 independent, but faithful and godly members, assemble in the council-chamber at Whitehall, 1653. Cromwell delegated to them their chairs for fifteen months.

The Anniversary of the Declaration published by the thirteen American colonies, asserting their Independence, and renouncing all political connexion with the British crown, 1776.

The singular victory of Sir John Stuart in the plains of Maida, 1806.

The dog-days preceded and followed the heliacal rising of the lesser dog-star, in the morning, an appearance which was the Sigma in Apollo's literal thermometer, and marked the highest temperature in the blood of animals. At Argos, there was a festival expressly instituted for the killing of dogs, during this season. The star, Canicula, rises with us about the close of August, but in Pliny's time, the ‘atror hora' fell on the eighteenth of the present month. In our reformed Calendar, the dog-days are forty, now beginning, and ending the 11th of August, which nearly accords with the exortus of the Latin naturalist.—See 25th.

Non satis est pulchra esse poemata ; dulcia sunto. It is not enough that your poems are handsome; they should give delight.

In patriots, fertile : thine a steady More,
Who, with a generous, though mistaken zeal,
Withstood a brutal tyrant's useful rage,
Like Cato firm, like Aristides just,
Like rigid Cincinnatus nobly poor,
A dauntless soul erect, who smil'd on death.
Frugal and wise, a Walsingham is thine;
A Drake, who made thee mistress of the deep,
And bore thy name in thunder round the world.- Summer.
Births.

Deaths.

Day.

III.

Tho. Broughton, 1704, London. Benedict V. (Pope) A. D. 965. Non. Peter Isaac Poisonnier, 1720, Paulus Æmilius, 1529. Cuthe5. Dijon.

dral, Paris. Charles Alfred Stothard, 1789. Sir Thomas More, 1535, be

headed, Tower Hill.(Chelsea.) There is not any man living Madelaine (of Scotland), 1537. so affectionate with his children Peter de Bourdeilles (Branas he, and he loveth his old

tome), 1614. died, Richemont [second] wife as well as if she Castle. were a young maid ; and such Sir Simon Baskerville, 1641. is the excellence of his temper, St. Paul's. that whatsoever happeneth that Sir Bevil Grenville, 1643. killed, could not be helped, it pleaseth Lansdown. him as though nothing could Chs. Ancillon, 1715. d. Berlin. have happened more happily. Dorothea Jordan, 1816. d. St. You would say there were in Cloud. that place Plato's academy; 1 Sir Robert Strange, 1792. died, should rather call his house a

London. university of christian religion. Anton-Maria Vassalli, 1825.

Erasmus.

Obits of the Latin Church.
St. Modwena, V. of Ireland, What was philosophy in him
Abbess of Pollesworth, near

would have been frenzy in any Ardennes, 9th Century.

one who did not resemble him, St. Edana (or Edaene), Virgin as well in the cheerfulness of his in Ireland.

temper as in the sanctity of his St. Peter of Luxemburg, Car- life and manners.--Addison.

dinal, Bishop of Metz, 1387. When I come home I must discourse with my wife; chat with my children; speak with my servants; which I number amongst my affairs.-More.

......... 456 ..

Nor gift I seek, nor shall ye ransom yield;
Let us not trade, but combat in the field ;
Steel, and not gold, our being must maintain,
And prove which nation Fortune wills to reign.
Whom chance of war, despite of valour spar'd,
I grant them freedom, and without reward.
Conduct them then, by all the mighty Gods !
Conduct them freely to their own abodes.- Ennius.

Acts.

AGESILAUS crosses the Hellespont on his recal from the Persian satrapy, a march of thirty days, which had occupied Xerxes twelve months. See 14th August. The great battle fought by the Spartans, against their countrymen, near Corinth, happened about the same day, B. C. 394.

A warrant is issued for payment of £200, to T. de Berkeley and John Mautravers, for the expenses of the lord Edward (11.) late King of England, our father,' 1327. The deposed monarch was put to death the 20th of September, and a pardon was granted to Mautravers, the 13th of April, 1329, of all offences against the peace of the late king. The actual murderers were Ogle and Gurney, two retainers of Lord Berkeley, and the hirelings of Mortimer, who forfeited his life.

The “swan-upping'day was fixed by the swan-laws (instituted in 1570), on the Monday after St. Peter's day. The swan was an omen of fair weather to mariners; because, according to a fragment of Æmilius, the Veronese, "nunquam mergit in undis,” it will float in the roughest sea.

James, Duke of York, prosecutes Sheriff Pilkington, on the statute of scandalum magnatum, for saying the Duke was accessary to the burning of the city of London, 1682. The damages were laid at £10,000, yet only a tithe of the fine.

The Duke of Monmouth's rebel army is defeated at Sedgemore, near Bridgewater, 1685. This misguided nobleman was taken sleeping in a dry ditch, with the George, and two hundred guineas, in his pocket.

The statue of Newton is placed in Trinity College, Cambridge, 1755. General Whitelocke is repulsed from Buenos Ayres, 1807.

A proclamation that the new coin called a Sovereign should pass current at twenty shillings, 1817.

The capitulation of Algiers to General Bourmont, 1830.

Now with loud applauding hand,
Now they shake their robes in praise..--Aristenetus.

With hope, or fear, or love, by turns,
The marble leaps, or shrinks, or burns,

As Sculpture waves her hand;
The varying passions of the mind
Her faithful handmaids are assign'd,

And rise and fall by her command.
She, like Promethius, grasps the fire;

Her touch revives the lambent flame;
While Phænix-like, the statesman, bard, or sage,
Spring fresh to life, and breathe through every age.- Ode.

Day.

Births.

Beaths.

Prid. John Flaxman, 1755, York. Henry II. (of England), 1189. Non. Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, d. Chinon Castle. (Fontev6.

1781, off Port Morunt, Ja- rauld.)
maica.

Benedict XI. (Pope), 1303.
Edward VI. (of England),

1553. d. Greenwich. (West-
When it was represented to minster.)
Alexander, to the advantage of Archbishop (Edmund) Grindal,
Antipater, who was a stern and

1583. Croydon.
imperious man,—That he only, Sir Thomas Lucy, 1600. died,
of all his lieutenants, wore no

Charlecote. purple, but kept the Macedonian Thomas Lord Grey, of Wilton, habit of black : Alexander said,

1614. d. Touer.
Yea, but Antipater is all purple Bishop Gunning, 1684. Ely.
within. Apophthegms. Anne Gonzague, 1684. Paris.

Humphrey Wanley, 1726.
Michael Bruce, 1767.

Bishop (Edmund) Keene, 1781.
Obits of the Latin Church. George Augustus Elliott, 1790.
St. Julian, of Mesopotamia, c.

d. Aix-la-Chapelle. (Heath

field.)
370.
St. Palladius, Bishop, Apostle

Granville Sharp,1813.d.Fulham.

Samuel Whitbread, 1815. i of the Scots, c. 450.

Madame Blanchard, the AéroSt. Moninna, l'irgin, Abbess in l'Ister, 518.

naut, 1819, killed, Paris.

Sir Henry Raeburn, 1823. d.
St. Goar of Aquitain, 575.
St. Sexburgh, Abbess in Shepey, Sir T. Munro, 1827. Madras.

Bernard's Stockbridge.
c. 700.

They tonch our country, and their shackles fall.

Fair Eva, plac'd in perfect happiness,
Lending her praise-notes to the liberal heavens,
Wrought not more pleasure to her husband's thoughts,
Than this fair woman's words and notes to mine.
May that sweet plain that bears her pleasant weight,
Be still enamell’d with discolour'd fiowers;
That precious fount, bear sand of purest gold.-Bethsabe.

acts.

The Roman Capitol is consumed during the night, by an incendiary, together with the famous Sibylline verses,--Julius Norbanus, consul, B.C. 83. Sylla had the reputation of rebuilding it.--See 21st June. During the games which Catulus exhibited at the dedication, B. C. 69, the theatres were covered in with fine linen cloths of various colours.

The death of Henry II, who established the first assize of arms in 1181; his son, Richard, of the Lion-heart, succeeding, Thursday, 1189.

The solemn act of reunion between the Greek and Latin churches is subscribed in the cathedral of Florence, after a separation of six hundred years, by the Pope (Eugenius), the Emperor of Constantinople, and the principal members of both churches, 1439.

Richard III. with his consort (Anne Beauchamp, widow of Edward, Prince of Wales) is inaugurated at Westminster, 1483. The train of the King was borne by the Duke of Buckingham, that of the Queen, by the Countess of Richmond, both of the opposing house of Lancaster.

The victory of Charles VIII. over the confederates at Fornova, 1495.

George Peele, ‘Maister of Artes in Oxenforde,' takes his degree at Christ Church, 1579 : “at which time he was esteemed a most noted poet in the University,” quoth Anthony à Wood.

Henry Hudson reaches the Isle of Godsmercy,' in the Streight which bears his name. On the 2d of August, 1610, he discovered the land, which he called Cape Wolstenholm.

Aureng-Zeb intoxicates and then imprisons his brother, Morad, 1658. Charles II. receives the address of hospitable Cologne, 1660.

The ' little illustrious' literary prodigy, Willium Wotton (well-known afterwards as the antagonist of Swift) is now brought to London, 1679. His precocity was only the father of vexation and disappointment.

Napoleon's great victory at Wagram, in Austria, 1809. There were twenty thousand prisoners taken, besides all the artillery and baggage of the Archduke, who fled in confusion.—This is Old Midsummer Day.

Hear this, () ye that swallow ap the needy; saying, when will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat? making the epbah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances.- Amos.