Day. Full earlier than the blackbird he begins To please the admiring eye! so, loud and soft, The Throstle.-Grahame. Births. Deaths. X. Joseph Pellicer, 1602, Zaragoza. Henry VII. (of England), Cal. Dr. John Davies, 1679, London. 22. Henry Fielding, 1707, Sharp ham Park. 1509. d. Richmond. John le Noir, 1692. d. Nantes. Immanuel Kant, 1724, Königs- Matthew Elias, 1741. berg. James Grahame, 1765, Glasgow. Obits of the Latin Church. St. Caius, Pope, 296. Antony de Jussieu, 1758. d. Paris. Dr. Edward Cobden, 1764. Isaac de Chapellier, guillotined, 1792. Christian de Malesherbes, beheaded, 1794. She doth not, with laying long a-bed, spoil both her complexion and condition; nature hath taught her, that too immoderate sleep is rust to the soul: she rises, therefore, with the lark, and goes to bed with the lamb. Thus lives she; and all her St. Opportuna, of Montreuil, V. care is that she may die in the Abbess, d. 770. spring-time, that she may have St. Rufus (or Rufin), Anchoret store of flowers strewed with her of Glendaloch. corpse. The Milkmaid. As the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue: it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march. Bacon. All heavenly beauties join themselves in one, Drayton's Margaret. Acts. THE marriage of Henry VI. with Margaret, daughter of Réné, Duke of Anjou (titular King of Naples and Jerusalem) is solemnized at Titchfield, 1445, and upon the 30th of May following, the lady was crowned at Westminster. This princess chose for her device a daisy, an allusion to her name,‚—as expressed in French, marguerite. Sir Philip Hoby being appointed Usher of the Black Rod, 17th March, 1553, writes this day from Brussels to Sir Wm. Cecil, "I have received your letter and the Rose withal, which according to your advertisement, I have tied to a lace, and do carry about my neck, in token of mine office." The Royal Society of London is incorporated by the charter of Charles II. himself a novice in physical science, and a patron of the really skilful, 1663.—The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle is concluded, 1668. A total eclipse of the sun, nine in the morning, when the stars appeared, and the birds sunk within their nests, 1715. It is noticed by Halley and Louville, who came to London to assist his observations. Chatterton leaves his native city for the capital, 1770.-General Washington enters Philadelphia, with the honours of a triumph, 1789. The trial of Warren Hastings, governor-general of Bengal, terminates, 1795, by the sentence of the House of Lords, pronounced by the Chancellor : 66 Warren Hastings, you are acquitted of all the charges of impeachment brought against you by the Commons, and of all matters contained therein; you and your bail therefore are discharged." The twenty-two articles of charge were delivered by Burke, at the table of the House, during the first week of April, 1786; and the trial was opened in Westminster Hall, the 13th February, 1788. The Easter Term commences on Wednesday, following the second Sunday after Easter Day; and concludes on the Monday after Ascension Day.-See 14th May. Patience is the armour and conquest of the godly: this meriteth mercy, when causeless is suffered sorrow.-Naught else is war but fury and madness, wherein is not advice but rashness; not right but rage, ruleth and reigneth. King Henry VI. Day. To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face: The dauntless child This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Thine too these golden keys, immortal boy! This can unlock the gates of joy ; Of horror that, and thrilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.-Gray. IX. Cal. 23. St. Louis IX. of France, 1215, Mezentius, (of Etruria), B. C. 1176. Neuville. 1016. St. Paul's. ley Street, Stratford upon Giles of Assisi, 1272. died, Pe George, Lord Anson, 1697, Peter Danes, 1577. d. Paris. St. George, of Cappadocia, PA-John Barbeyrac, 1744. Anthony Dinouart, 1786. d. St. Gerard, Bishop of Toul, d. St. Adalbert, Bishop of Prague, 997. St. Ibar (or Ivor) Bishop in Ire land, d. c. 500. Paris. James d'Espremenil, guillotined, 1794. Nicholas Schiavonetti, 1813. Aaron Arrowsmith, 1823. died, Honi soit qui mal y pense.-Confusion to dishonourable thoughts. Motto of the Garter. Our ancient word of courage, fair St. George!-Richmond. Acts. SAINT GEORGE's Day. The Anniversary of the Patron of England, beneath whose inspiring banner a long and splendid line of nobility have sprung, illustrating by their deeds in arms, their faith in counsel, and with hearts of courtesy, a THRONE, venerable from inheritance, and unspotted by dishonour; abroad respected; approached with general affection at home; and possessing all those energies which, triumphant as they have been in a whirlwind of contention, are still proved soundly wise in a diet of repose. The Chronicle of Rastel, speaking of the third Edward, contains the following apposite passage in relation to our national festival: "About the nineteenth year of this king [1345], he made a solemn feast at Windsor, and a great Just and Tournament, where he devised and perfected substantially the Order of the Knights of the Garter ; howbeit some affirm, that this order began first by RICHARD CŒUR de LION, at the siege of the city of Acre [1191], where, in his great necessity, there were but twenty-six knights that firmly and surely abode with the king, where he caused all them to wear thongs of blue leather about their legs; and afterward they were called the Knights of the Blue Thong." There is race in the leather, for no origin could smack more of real honour; that is, fidelity. In those moslem anti-silken fields the name of Richard Plantagenet, that word of fear, was employed as a spell by the Syrian mothers to silence their infants; and if a horse started suddenly from the way, his rider was wont to exclaim, "Dost thou think King Richard is in that bush?" Their style is "Equites Aurea Periscelidis." By the Great Council at Oxford, it was first decreed that the feast of Saint George, which at this moment commemorates the civil birth-day of His Majesty King George IV. should be observed as a holiday throughout England. In the time of Addison, there was a fine painting of the Martyr within the church of St. George at Verona, an easel-piece of Paul Veronese, then considered the chief ornament of that handsome structure. Let Palmerin of England be preserved; and let such another case be made for it, as that which Alexander found among the spoils of Darius. Don Quixote. Patronage was the daughter of Astræa, by a mortal father, and had been educated in the school of Truth, by the Goddesses, whom she was now appointed to protect. She came down, with the general acclamation of all the powers that favour learning. On Parnassus she fixed her residence, in a palace raised by the Sciences, and adorned with whatever could delight the eye, elevate the imagination, or enlarge the understanding. There she dispersed the gifts of Fortune, with the impartiality of Justice, and the discernment of Truth. Her gate stood always open, and Hope sat at the portal. Acts. Johnson. The honourable badge of the Garter does not materially vary from that of the Band worn by the companions of an order of knighthood so named, instituted by Don Alphonsus, King of Spain, in 1368, and derived from Augustus Cæsar. The riband of the Knights of the Band was of three fingers breadth, and they were subject to thirty-five rules. The order of St. Michael was established in France by Louis XI. in 1380 that of the Golden Fleece, by Louis the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in 1410 and that of St. Andrew, in Scotland, by James V. in 1520. The Emperor Frederic IV. instituted, in 1470, an order of knighthood in honour of St. George; and an honourable military order in Venice bears his name. The once celebrated library, collected by George of Cappadocia, and deposited at Antioch by the Emperor Julian, is now better remembered, from its destruction by Jovian. The twenty-third of Jiar was a Hebrew feast, for the capture of the city of Gaza (or Gazara), by Simon Maccabæus.-See 1 Macc. xiii. 43. The Vinalia are celebrated at Rome, when the libation of a bumper was presented to Jupiter, in memory of the death of the impious Mezentius, by the hand of Æneas; and the filleted maidens offered up salacious vows in the temple of Venus. The venerable monastery of St. Paul, at Jarrow, is dedicated by its founder, Geoffrey of Northumberland, 685. The foundations of the Bastile are laid, 1369: this odious building, which was the work of Hugo Aubriot, (founder also of the sect of Huguenots,) was completed by Charles VI. in 1383.—See 14th July. The heroic Earl of Warwick, Richard Beauchamp, on his passage to the Holy Land, is challenged at Verona, by Sir Pandulph Malet, whose shoulder the English knight cleaves with his battle-axe, after splintering their lances, 1408. Her dispositions she inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer: she derives her honesty, and achieves her goodness. Giletta. |