The National Register.
London, England, 1813-10-10 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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Last week died, by a paralytic stroke, in an advanced age, and
much lamented by all the fanners in the neighbourhood of Dorking,
Sir Thomas Markethuuse. lie was wholly supported by the muni-
ficence of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, who generously gave lain
all the profits arising from the toll, on all kinds of grain, butter,
egus, fowls, and bacon. He is said to have lived in three Kings
reigns, without one day's illness, and what is very remarkable,
never slept one night Iron home. He is succeeded in title and es-
tate by his sou who is in his minority.
The budyae an elderly man respectably dressed, was found sts-
'pebded to a tree in a wood, leading from the Harrow-road to Wait-
fial, by some boys who were nutting on Vednesday. By some
papers in his pocket, he turned out to have lately been usher at a
or hoot in the neighbourhood of Clerkenwell. His name was Le-
gart, and be was by birth a Swiss. Distressed citcumstances are
supposed to have been the cause of suicide.
MELANCHOLY CERCUMSTANCE.—Upwards of a fortnight ago, a
boy, between eleven sad twelve years of age, disappeared from the
J urgh of Queeusferry ; after public advertisement, and the most
diligent search, no trace could be found to lead to a discovery of
this mysterious circumstance till Monday sc'nnight, when some of
the men hi the- employ of Itlmrs. Taylor and Suns, soap-boilers of
that place, while clearing out a waste lee-receiver, found the skeles
bin of the unfortunate youth. Nut a particle of the tlesh could be
perceived,..the pent Crating lees having completely reduced it ; even
.the bones we:v as
.son as wax. This should be a caution to pros
pricturs of such works to prohibit children from coming sitar them.
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10. The seventeenth St:nday tyke Trinity.. Epistle Ephes. iv. 1.
St. Luke xiei, I.—St. Francis de Borgia.. educated in great piety by his
father, and under the direction of the Archbishop ofZaragossa. Ile was
sent to the court of Charles V. and married, but soon alter becoming a
widower, he founded-a college ter the Jesuits, took the habit, was or-
dained priest. and retired to an hermitage, where he subjected himself
to the meanest otfices of the house, begged alms r the rest, and cate-
chised the children. However, the great and merited reputivion of
his talents forced him out of his retirement. He preached through all
Spain with great success, and after sowing every where the seed of
piety and other virtues, he reaped in Heaven the reward of his labours
at a very advanced age.-1794. Kosciuscow taken by the Russians.
The Sun rises at 6 h. So ruin. sets at 5 h. 30 mitt,
.High water morn. 2 h. 31 min. Aerie ut 2 h. 51 mile
Full Moon at 31 min. past 0, morning.
11. 3lnnday.—Old Michaelmas Day. St. Gummarus, born in Bra-
hant in the eighth century, was called by King Pepin to the court of
France, and lived in the palace as if he had been in solitude : in vain
the. allurements of pieasure, the dainties of the table, the liveliness of
the assemblies, called hint loudly out of his small oratory ; his love fur
retirement, prayer, and mortification, made him resist their entice-
ments. Ile was visited with the misfortiine of having a wee of the
Worst tempt r imaginable, but he submitted, with a generous
and exemplary patience. to all her provocations, considering her as a
sick person under his care, and whose infirmity and incurable distem-
per sequired his compassion. After many years of this sort of domestic
martyrdom. the worst, perhaps, because it seamed to be endured
w Wand a reword in sight, he was called to that place where Ito fear of
quarrels or scoldings can disturb the everlasting peace of the 1,111,-
1796. Spain under a fooli.ll influence, declares war ageitea England.
1797. Admiral Duncan defeats the Dutch fleet, and captures nine
•Itips of the line.-1705. Died Dr. Amentons, the repu.ed inventor of
that useful instrument called the telegraph (from the Greek, meaning
'4 writing at a distance.") Ile was a Frenchman, but did not live to
see his early scheme brought to perfection.
Die Sun 'rises at 6 h. 31 min. sets at 5 It. 29 min.
llzgli water morning at 3 h. te min. afternoon at 3 h. V 9 min.
12. Tuesday.—St. IValfrid, Bishop of York, in the beginning of the
eighth century —1492. Columbus &stovers the place now called Son
Salvador, one of the Bahama islands.-1537. Butt!, of Edward IV. at
Hampton court.-1-798. Sir John Borlase reit's victory over the
French orTory Island.
The Sun rises at 6 h. 33 min. sets ut 5 h. 17 min.
High water morn. at 3 le 47 min. afternoon at 4 h. 6 min.
1:;. Wedne.Fday.—The trinslation at' St. Edward the C'onfessor's
body to the Abbey of IVestminster, where his tomb still ecneuirr r, loud
ought to be looked at wkils the veLeration not only due to antiquity.
but to the merits au departed gootl king of these realms. By a council
held at Oxford, this day was appointed, in the ear 1221, to be kept
holy throughout the realm, in mentury Dia prince whose public and
domestic virtues had endeared him so much to his people.-1399
Coroua;ion of Henry IV. ► •
The Sun rises at 6 h. 33 min. sets at 5 h. 25 min.
High ts oter looming nt 4 h. 25 min. aftt•rtioi,so at 4 h. 46 min.
' 14. Misrsdaq.—St. lli•hop of Ron:e. Ile lived under the
despicable rt len of the elfioninate Ilelii.obalus, and after about five
years of administration tae bend of the church, in very difficolt
Pines; and where St. Peter's boat was tossed upon a dreadful sea of
persecurion, lie received t!:e ern 4ls of marl. rdluda, guns faV5.---14616.
William the Conqueror began his reign. Ih.ruld was killed at the
Battle of Ilastitltts.

'I Sun rise% at 6b. 37 min. sets at sh. t:3 min.
High water morn. ut 5 h 10 min. alterip.on at 5 h. 33 min.
15. reiday.—St. 'Merest', a native of Avila it. Spain. She wit‘ af-
flicted duriitg her lite with severe atiticks, but her paf.enye was so
Urea!, that in the middle of her excruciating suiteratices, s!iv leas often
heard to exclaim Aniplius; nut lta, out nmri. " .M111;re still : to suffer,
or to die." She died in 1..)8:4---70 beinfe Christ, birth of Virgil,
whiew name 'tell front the Verge/ite. or sevra stars, comp.:coons
in the nocturnal sky at the i;onceitt ut h's birth.
'llw Sun rises at G h. 39 lain. sets at 5 It. 21 nth,.
water mornitto nt 6 h 3 lain. atteit,oon at (;
16. Saturdau.—St. Gallus, bred in the 1,1 %irtuei end t
practice of wortification. under the ereas ('f.!tutian, in ti
he afterwards found a retired abode among the roma:it lc val,
craggy rocks of the Alps, and settling there in a sinall lieratuat
led a most exemplary life, and died in the seventh cetiter), aged
1651. Charles 11. landed in France, at Fecatup iu Normandy.--

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