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JUNE 22d.-Brougham's first plea at the bar of the House of Lords in behalf of Queen Caroline.

"You have here, lady, men

Of singular integrity and learning;

Yea, the elect of the land, who are here assembled To plead your cause."

HENRY VIII., Act ii., Scene 4.

JUNE 23d.-The French defeated at Crevelt by Prince Ferdinand.

"Sword, hold thy temper; heart, be wrathful

still;

Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill.”

2 HENRY VI., Act v., Scene 2.

JUNE 24th.-Josephine, Empress of France, born. 1763.

"Thou art alone,

(If thy rare qualities, sweet gentleness,
Thy meekness saint-like, wife-like government,
Obeying in commanding—and thy parts
Sovereign and pious else, could speak thee out,)
The queen of earthly queens."

HENRY VIII., Act ii., Scene 4.

JUNE 25th. Battle of Bannockburn.

1314.

"When the English measur'd backward their own

ground

In faint retire. O, bravely came we off."

KING JOHN, Act v., Scene 5.

JUNE 26th.

George IV. crowned.

1830.

"Yet looks he like a king: behold his eye,
As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth,
Controlling majesty: Alack, alack, for woe,
That any harm should stain so fair a show."
RICHARD II., Act iii., Scene 3.

JUNE 27th.-Mississippi Scheme failed.

1720.

"Thus hath the candle singed the moth." MERCHANT OF VENICE, Act ii., Scene 9.

JUNE 28th.-The "Royal George" went

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"If thou tell'st this heavy story right, Upon my soul the hearers will shed tears."

3 HENRY VI., Acti., Scene 4.

JUNE 29th.-Dark at ncon in France.

1035.

"A prodigy of fear, and a portent

Of broached mischief to the unborn times." 1 HENRY IV., Act v., Scene 1.

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JUNE 30th. Sub-Treasury became a law. 1840.

"Banish usury, that makes the Senate ugly.”

TEMPEST, Act iii., Scene 5.

July.

JULY 1st.-Battle of the Boyne. James II. defeated by William III.

1690.

"Oh! my grieved friends!

That we, the sons and children of this isle,
Were born to see so sad an hour as this:
Wherein we step, after a stranger march,
Upon her gentle bosom, and fill up
Her enemies' ranks."

KING JOHN, Act v., Scene 2.

JULY 2d.-Union Act of Ireland. 1800.

"This land of such dear souls-this dear, dear

land

Dear for her reputation through the world

Is now leas'd out, (I die pronouncing it,)

Like to a tenement or pelting farm."

RICHARD II., Act ii., Scene 1.

JULY 3d.-Revolution in Paris. 1789.

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