There was in truth some days before greate suspicion of those two nations joyning; and now, that they had been the occasion of firing the towne. This report did so terrifie, that on a suddaine there was such an uproare and tumult that they ran from their goods, and, taking what weapons they could come at, they could not be stopp'd from falling on some of those nations whom they casualy met, without sense or reason. The clamor and peril grew so excessive, that it made the whole Court amaz'd, and they did with infinite paines and greate difficulty reduce and appease the people, sending troopes of soldiers and guards to cause them to retire into ye fields againe, where they were watch'd all this night. I left them pretty quiet, and came home sufficiently weary and broken. Their spirits thus a little calmed, and the affright abated, they now began to repaire into ye suburbs about the Citty, where such as had friends or opportunity got shelter for the present, to which his Matys Proclamation also invited them. Still ye plague continuing in our parish, I could not without danger adventure to our church.-See Evelyn's Memoirs, vol. i, p. 391, et seq.

*3. 1739.-GEORGE LILLO DIED,

Well known as the author of the Tragedy of George Barnwell, which, on account of its interest, and the useful lesson it teaches to youth, holds its place as a performance for holiday evenings, when the theatre is more particularly frequented by youthful visitants. All his pieces have merit, and especially Arden of Feversham,' and Fatal Curiosity.' 7.-SAINT EUNERCHUS.

Eunerchus, or Evortius, was Bishop of Orleans, and present at the council of Valentia, A.D. 375. The circumstances of his election to this see were considered as miraculous, and principally ascribed to a dove, which alighted upon his head in consequence of the prayers of the electors.

*7. 1665.-PLAGUE IN LONDON.

Mr. Evelyn, in his Diary for this day says, 'There are perishing near 10,000 poore creatures weekly; however, I went all along the Citty and suburbs from Kent Streete to St. James's, a dismal passage, and dangerous to see so many coffines exposed in the streetes, now thin of people; the shops shut up, and all in mournful silence, as not knowing whose turn might be next.' Again, in the same Diary for October 11, he says, 'I went through ye whole Citty, having occasion to alight out of the coach in several places, about businesse of mony, when I was environed with multitudes of poore pestiferous creatures, begging almes; the shops universally shut up, a dreadful prospect!"

From Ethiopia's poisoned woods,

From stifled Cairo's filth, and fetid fields
With locust armies putrefying heaped,

This great destroyer sprung. Her awful rage
The brutes escape: Man is her destined prey,
Intemperate Man! and o'er his guilty domes
She draws a close incumbent cloud of death,
Uninterrupted by the living winds,

Forbid to blow the wholesome breeze, and stained
With many a mixture by the sun, suffused,
Of angry aspect. Princely wisdom, then
Deject his watchful eye, and from the hand
Of feeble justice, ineffectual, drop

The sword and balance: mute the voice of joy,
And hushed the clamour of the busy world.
Empty the streets, with uncouth verdure clad,
Into the worst of desarts sudden turned
The cheerful haunt of Men: unless escaped

From the doomed house, where matchless horror reigns,
Shut up by barbarous fear, the smitten wretch,

With frenzy wild, breaks loose; and, loud to heaven

In a previous part of Mr. Evelyn's Journal, the progress of this dreadful scourge is noticed under the following dates:

July 16, 1665. There died of the plague in London this weeke 1100, and in the weeke following above 2000.-August 8. Died this weeke in London 4000.-15. There perished this weeke 5000.'

Screaming, the dreadful policy arraigns,
Inhuman, and unwise. The sullen door,
Yet uninfected, on its cautious hinge
Fearing to turn, abhors society;

Dependants, friends, relations, Love himself,
Savaged by woe, forget the tender tie,

The sweet engagement of the feeling heart.
But vain their selfish care: the circling sky,
The wide enlivening air, is full of fate;
And, struck by turns, in solitary pangs
They fall, unblest, untended, and unmourned.
Thus o'er the prostrate city black Despair
Extends her raven wings; while, to complete
The scene of desolation, stretched around,
The grim guards stand, denying all retreat,
And give the flying wretch a better death.

8. NATIVITY OF THE VIRGIN MARY.

A concert of angels having been heard in the air to solemnize this important event, the festival was appointed by Pope Servius about the year 695. Innocent IV honoured this feast with an octave in 1244, and Gregory XI, about the year 1370, with a vigil.

14. HOLY CROSS.

This festival was first observed in the year 615, on the following occasion: Cosroes, King of Persia, having plundered Jerusalem,carried away large pieces of the cross which had been left there by the Empress Helena. Heraclius, the emperor, soon afterwards engaged and defeated him, and recovered the cross; but, bringing it back in triumph to Jerusalem, he found the gates shut against him, and heard a voice from heaven saying, that the King of Kings did not enter into that city in so stately a manner, but meek and lowly, and riding upon an ass. The emperor then immediately dismounted from his horse, and walked through the city barefooted, carrying the cross himself. The holy-rood, or cross, when perfectly made, had not only the image of our Saviour extended upon it, but the figures of the Virgin Mary and St. John, one on each side; in allusion to John xix, 26,

Christ on the cross saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved, standing by.' The rood, in Roman Catholic times, formed a part of the furniture of our churches, and was put up in a gallery, called the rood loft, commonly in the arch between the church and the chancel. Traces of this, especially the doorway into it from some staircase, are still to be seen in many of our churches.

17. SAINT LAMBERT.

Lambert was Bishop of Utrecht, in the time of King Pepin I; but, reproving the king's grandson for his irregularities, he was cruelly murdered at the instigation of an abandoned woman. Being canonized, he obtained, at first, only a simple commemoration in the calendar; but Robert, Bishop of Leeds, in a general chapter of the Cistercian order, procured a solemn feast to his honour in the church in 1240.

21.-SAINT MATTHEW.

In the year 64 or 65, Matthew wrote his Gospel in Hebrew, which was afterwards translated into Greek. After many labours and miracles, he closed his life at Nadabar in Ethiopia, probably by martyrdom.

22.-CORONATION OF KING GEORGE III.

His present Majesty was crowned on the 22d of September, 1761. The form of the oath, and the manner of taking it, may be seen in T.T. for 1814, .p. 228-230.

26.-OLD HOLY ROOD. See HOLY CROSS, p. 221.

26. SAINT CYPRIAN.

He was an African by birth, of a good family and well educated. He behaved with great courage and resolution in the Decian persecution, and openly invited the people to constancy and perseverance: this conduct so enraged the Pagans, that he soon fell a victim to their fury, and suffered martyrdom under Valerianus and Gallienus, in 258.

29.-SAINT MICHAEL.

Saint Michael was an archangel who presided over the Jewish nation, and had an army of angels under his command and conduct; he fought also with the Dragon or Satan, and his angels; and, contending with the Devil, he disputed about the body of Moses. See Rev. xii, 7; Jude 9. This festival has been kept with great solemnity ever since the sixth century. For customs on this day, see our former volumes.

30.-SAINT JEROME.

Jerome was born in a town called Stridon, on the confines of Pannonia and Dalmatia. He translated the Old Testament into Latin: this version, now styled the Vulgate, is the only one used or allowed by the Romish church. He died in the 80th year of his age, A.D. 422.

Astronomical Occurrences

In SEPTEMBER 1820.

THE Sun enters Libra at 48 m. after 3 in the morning of the 23d, and he rises and sets at the following times this month. He will also be eclipsed as follows:

TABLE

Of the Sun's Rising and Setting for every fifth Day. Sept. 1st, Sun rises 13 m.after 5. Sets at 47 m. after 6

6th,

23

6

The Sun will be eclipsed on the 7th of this month, the circumstances of which, as visible in this country, are as follow. For these, as seen in some parts of the continent, see the observations under the head of next month.