The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-06 00:00:00

AUGUST.

&antis was the ancient Rom•n name of tbis month, being
the rinhth from March. The Emperor Augustus chanced
this miner, and pi,e it his own, been'''. to this month
Cause. Auxu.tus took posiwssion of his first consulship, re.
hrstrit three trisomphs, reduced Egypt tinder the power of
the RIIITITh people, and plot an end to all civil ware. The
Faxous called August orst.sionat, or ba►a-monaf, on account
of the halves'.

Remarkable days in it are—tat, Lammas Day. This is a
feast of the Rotiii.h Church, and the term is probably de-
rived Goan an old Saxon term soznif)ing Loof,cass, as it
was customary for the Saxons to Air en oblation of loaves
made of new wheat us, this day, as the first fissile of their
new cum.-6th, Trainfiguratiou.-7th,On this day the Jews
commemorate the death of Aaron, the high priest —lolh,
St Lawrence. He was by birth .II Spaniard, and treasurer
of the ('bore' of Rome, being deacon to Pops• S,•ttus about
the year 459. Soon after his Bishop was killed by She
flits of Veiniest, the Emperor, with whom St Lawrence
wood willingly have died: he ;closed to &liver sop the
chord' treasure. which they ionagned hr hid io his custody,
for which he suffered martyrdom by being binned to 'leads
on a gridiron, over a slow Ere-12th, •Flue Prince Regent
bores, in the year 17132.-15th, Assumption. ibis is a Greek
fs stint, in houour of the supposed miraculous ascension of
the Vicgin Mary into heaven. On this day the Jews 'observe
what is called the Black Foal, or anniversary of the destine-
* of the Ant sad 'nowt temples-24th, sc nirshoo.
mew. The word liarlholornese menses the sun of Tolinxi, the
name of a family among the Jews, mentiosed by Josephs's.
The 'lay is commemorated fur the erne! se 'dike Pro-
testants 111 t rarer, liege's on it in the reign of Unites IX.
611-11 upwards of seventy thousand persons perishrsl.-24th,
Is a slay obs•rvedl by the Jews for humiliation. sin account
lathe western light of the temple having lwess mirarsslotisly
extinguished sou it during Ilse reign of Ahem --1811.., St.
Augustine St. Asognstine wa■ a judicious divine mid VII.
111111411 MS n iter : he died in 430.-29th, Julius the Baptist
beheaded.

The appearances which will lake place is the heavens in
Ilse cosiese of August, 1818, sec, on the SO, the latitude of
the Moon will he nearly five degrees north in the fleet de.
gire of the fifth vicit, and it decreases In the Sill, schen it
rms., slit ecliptic in its descending node, aiNnrt llnee in the
afternoon, in the second decree of the eighth sign. Her
southern latitude now increases to the 14th, when al mid•
night it is five slegiirs sine minute in the fifth deg, ee of the
eleventh sign, and it decreases s) the 21. t, when she p
the ecliptic in her ascending nude shout nine in the unrrn-
iug,
in the eighth degree of the second sign. tier southern
lassies& increases to the 2Rth, when at midnight it is five de-
grees four miniitei in the fourth decree of the fifth sign, and
then decreases to the end of the month, being on the last at
midnight three degrees fifty-three minutes in the 'well tit Jr.gree of the sixth sign.
Saturn is on the meridian at a quarter past one of the
enth.

Vent's la an evening star, and d th 1.11111.23.1, when
she poses doe ecliptic in her descending node, in the tenth
decree of the seventh sign.

On the 27th, Mercury is an evening star, at hi, grenie,t

The •pparent diameter of the Son on the 14, ia 31 gni-
owes 3% secon,l4; on the 211th. 31 minutes 41 VI MIA ; asol
totere the sixth sign nn the 23.1, at 42 Islamics pat.t sevett in
the carisiog.—(Saut. Atas.)

A gold medal and 100 guineas have been nil-
ortged by the Society of Arts, to Mr. JAME,. It VAN,
of Netherton Colliery, near Dudley, liar his dis-
covery of a safe and practicable method of ventilist-
tog curd mints.
Oh Thursday last the Ettg.le cotter, of Ilitrwtc!t,
Lieut. l'ortsosi, fell in with and took a kiiimtgiiiig
vessel, belonging to Rochester, lads with silk and
other articles to the amount of 10,000/.
The boxing match for 100 guineas aside littireeti
Sprong and Painter, will take place to. row,
within .25 miles of London, agreeably to the art:-
Elem. The meal fought on the Ist of April last, nit
Down., when Spring won it 111 nun
hour and a hia, Panitvr having hurt his shoulder
in the early part of the light. Betting it.. 5 tol and
3 to 1 on Spring.