The National Register. — London, England, 1813-05-16 00:00:00

TU B E NATIONAL REGISTER. 16. The fourth Sunday after Easter.—Epistle St. Jame', 1. 17. Gos. pal tit. Joint, 6, 5. St. Übaldies, a Bishop of Erigubiu-a, in Umbria, very eminent fur his pastoral virtues. He died ann. 1128.-1538. Nary Quern of Scots lands at. Workington, ib Ctimberland.--17.2ti. John Ward, of Hackney, was expelled the House of CWlllllOll'l fur • forgery, arid pilloried. Toe Sim rues at 4 h. 11 min. sets at 7 h. 49 min. water minting at 2 li. 52 min. afternoon at h. 8 min. 17. Monday. - St. T,rpetes, a principal man in the t‘ rant Nero's court. who vs•ry probably was converted to the faith of Christ by smut of the r.postle• ; he ts mentioned in one of the Epistles of St. Paul.- 1771. The Isrii , cess of Wales was born in Germany. The Sun rises at 4 Ir. 12 min. sets at 7 h. •,I8 tnin. High-water morning at 3 h. '23 min. afterneon at 5 h. 38 min. 18. 1 ttesd oy. -The Martyrology appoints this day for the commetno r• tion of Veoantios; who, accused of being a Christian under the reign. of toe E uperor Dechis, was, after suffering all sorts of tortures, thrown from a roi•li, en4l at last beheaded.-1804. This day will be recollected in the arimils of En rope, from the circumstance of Buonaparte been 'um:fanned Emperor of the 'French. •-1797. Ihe Princess Royal of Euglaud marries !he Prince of Wirt •mbere, and has since received the title n 4 Queen from 13uoipparte.-1808. The Swedes take the Rus sian 18dtiilit,--1800. Died Field-Marshal Su warolf. The. Sun rues at 4 h. to min. sets at 7 h. 50 min. Thigh- %Hier ilio. ohs, at 3 h. 33 lido. afternoon at 4 h. 9 min. 19. Wednesday.— Queen Charlotte's birth day.—S . Peter Celestine, who, from his solitude, was forced into the papal chair, and after hav ing per formed the duties of a good pastor for several years, abdicated the lionouis of she Tiara, and returned to the peaceful bowers of his hermitage, where, so morale:own and pray •rs, he passed the rest of a virtuous and most exemplary hick ended in the yi..ar 1296. Also St. Prudeetia, who died in the second century ; and St. Dunstan, fir‘t bishop ut Wrrcester, who died ann. 988.-1744. Iler Majesty was burls in Germ i l iy. 1 he Su:s rises at 4 h. 9 min. sets at 7 b. 51 min. Higli-water mot, ing at 4. h. '.6 min. anemone 7 Is. 45 min. 20. Thursdag. : —St. bus n in Provence, where Ise lived peat up in at little cell, without a door, having only a little window, to take h. provisions in, which consisted in nothing more than bread and w•.., r, Irish and roots. supplied by the charity of those who arli naked his virtues, and listened to his pious exhortations. lie died in the sixth century.-1.497. Americo Vespatio sails from Cadiz in search of a Western World : from hie: America received its name.-1505. Death of Ciilumbus, who had made previous discoveries in the same hemisphere, but who was not destined by Providence to be immortalized by giving Isis name to the new Cont;mlit. 'I he Sun rises at 4 h. 7 min. sets at 7 It. 53 min. Thigh-water morning at 5 la. 5 min. afternoon at 3 h. 25 min. 21. Friday.—St. liernardinus, a friar of the order of St. Francis, an eminent preacher, whose eloquence, fraught with divine unction, recalled many of his hearers to a sense of submissive duty to the Chris• tiao religion, at a time when the church was most corrupted, and th6se Wha ought to have given the best examples of virtue, were held up as prototypes of vice and all sorts of profanation. Ile died in the year 1244.-1787. Yielding to the impetuosity of his temper, to the ins puke t opposition zeal, Mr. Burke impeached Mr. Warren Hastings, a man w bid; enjoys, not only the glory of has lug been most clearly acquitted, but even the confidence of those whose interest lead them to enquire about the government of our Eastern empire.-1803. Buona parte, who is always ready to make every thing subservient to his view, tied tiro °Rea lucky in the event, aimexes the patrimony of St. Peter, t;ie papal territory to the kiegdom of Italy, that is, to his own authority. The same Pope, whom lie stripped of Isis temporal muse quince, has lately, to *rescue it, confirmed his marriage with the daughter of the House of Lorraine—the union of the son of a Corsican attorney with the descendant of the Emperors !--Quantum mutatus rah Marriage of Charles IT. with a Princess of Portugal, at Portsmouth. The Sun rises at 4 It. 5 min. sets at 7 h. 55 min. Thigh-water !naming at 5 h. 46 min. afternoon at 6 b. 11 min. S'ufarday.--St. Julia, a zealous Christian; who, soon after the taking of Carthage by the Vandals, wits condemned to die upon the cio-s and expired with the words Crux mea, salsas wt. " The cross is 'my salvation."--1776. Princess Elizabeth's birth-day.-344. 13. C. Bettie of the . thanieus, where Alexander the Great, with 30,000 Mace donians, defeahed 600,000 Persians. • The Sun rises at 4 h. :3 mln, sets at 7 la. 57. min. Iligh water morning at 6 h. :37 min. 'afternoon 7 It, 4 milt. • Jupiter sets at 1 h, molting. AASIVER TO CURREWONDENTS UPON THE ETYMOLOGY- OF LOW SUNDAY. One of the Commandments of the Roman Church obliges the faithful to confess and receive the communion at Easter. Originally, Easter•day, and the two days following were assigned for this annual duty ; but the indulgence of the Mother Church, in latter times, al lowed a whole fortnight for the performance of these religious obliga ti)n., that is, from Palm-Sunday to the honday the octave of Easter. Those whose conscience could nut be 'easily reconciled, used to delay their confession and communion to this last day, and as they were generally noted as people of dubious virtue and faith, the Sunday, from that circumstance, took the surname of Low. The - idea that this denomitodion arose from the service of Lister day being repeated with less pomp on that day is erroneous, as the whole service is perfectly different from that of Easter. This explanation would have been pre sented to our readers at its proper place, had we nut been considera bly pressed for room on account of die accidental influx of domestic and foreign matter. 771 E HER n 011. A DA Ii Y . MAY. a •'ft • ' a ST3 . • PRICE OF ST:)CKS YESTERDAY. 3 per Cent. Con: 3 per Gott. Bed. 4 per Cents. THE NATIONAL REGISTER; tontion, SUNDAY, MAY 16. CESSATION OF HOSTII,IIIIEi BETwEEN GREAT BRI- TA IN AN 1) AMERICA. This event was announced in the papers of yesterday in • the following letter:— " PORTSMOUTH, MAY 14.—" Arrived this day the Jaea, from the East Indies, being the only ship that was missing of the East India fleet, that passed by this port yesterday, for London. By her we learn, that a Cessation of Hostilities for Three Months was sinned, on the :3(1 of April last, between the Americans and British, by Admiral Sir J. B. WARREN and the American Minister. The Jam spoke n few days since the American ship Packet, on her voyas;e fror.l New York to Lisbon, with a cargo of grain, who cm mitnicated the above Intelligence to the Commander of the Java, and he farther stated that about 300 sail of Americans had and were on the eve of sailing from the American ports with cargoes of grain, for the Peninsula." That a cessation of hostilities has been concluded is not very improbable, as Lord LIVERP.OOL observed on Friday. that he was much misinformed if those parts in the United States which had been most clamorous for war, were not now most anxious for peace. On this subject we shall say nothing at, present, but we arc not without hopes that it will be found that this armistice has been the result of active and victori ous exertions on our part. VICTORY OVER SUCIIET. Dispatches were on rriday received at Lord CAST LE REA Office from Sir HENRY \V EL LESLEY, the Bvitish Ambassador at Cadiz, containing some particulars of the victory lately obtained over Marshal SUCHET by the troops of the Allies in Valencia. The substance of these dispatches was in the course of the day communicated in the following BULLETIN. " s t reet, I , lth 4 1 1 fail, 1813, " A dispatch has been received this morning at Lard . CASTLE REAGIVs Office, from Sir HENRY WELLEsLEY, dated the l;Oth ult. ill which Sir IL W. transmits the copy of a dispatch from Gen. Emu dated April 15, from Castalla, conammicating the details of the, ditkren t affairs het'. ern the Allied and time French trtylps on the t i tb, , I'tth, and 13th of that month, on the gt onnd between Castalla and Fueute la Hignera, which terminated in the repulse of the French with very considerable losi, and their retreat to the last n: 2ntioned place, The Spanish rorps, under Licut-Geh. WinTTINGHAN, and the '..7th regiment, appear to have had the principal share in the action of the 13th. General Liao states the loss of the enemy to have exceeded 1000 men in une'day. No official account had bow • 64'4 MAY 16. 4 : 1 :, I