The National Register.
London, England, 1812-10-18 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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pisioter ; but they were not aware that a man of the name of Luke, who*
fur his virtues, was called " Luke the Saint," is the individual °rig'.
nr.ly selected by their predecessors as their tutelary Saint. and nut
Luke the Evangelist. He is represented with a bull at his side, becan•e
lie bevies his Gospel by speaking of Zacharias the priest, who was in
the habit of immolating bulls at the altar. Some others pretend that
it allude s to the strength of his style and the plainness of the facts he
relates.-1797. Peace signed between Austria mid France.
Tic Sun rises at 6 h. 44 min. sets at 5 h. 16 min.
19. Dranday.—St. Peter, of Alcaritara, born in- a place of that name
in Spain. He entered the order of the Franciscans at the early aged
sixteen, and died in the seventeenth century. Also St. Frideswid.,
daughter of a nobleman, and sometimes Abbess of a monastery In 02-
fuid. which h•r father had built. She became e 'Anent for her sanctity,
and filed A. D. 740.-1781. Earl Cornwallis, with a considerable Bri-
tish army, aumnders to the American and French Generals. Wa
ington and ►tochambeau.-1794. The Duke of York, defeated by the
,Frenclr.

The Sun rites at 6b. 46 min. sets at 5 h. 14 min.
20. Tuesday.—St. Arthemius, a' commander in Julian's army: who
seeing at Antiocbtwo holy priests put to torments by his order, Went tit
the Emperor and reproached him with his cruelty. Julian could not
hear this freedom, and coramanded hitn to be beheaded ; brit to take.
if he could, the glory of nuwtyrdom from him, ite condemned him as hav-
ing committed crimes of which he could not be guilty.-1687. Lima,the
capital of Peru, destroyed by an earthquake. The same fete awaited
the Same town on the VBthef this month, in 17416.-17t4. George I.
crowned at 11'estininster.
The `iitt rises at 6 K 46 min. sets at 5 h. 14 min.
Full Moon, at 9in the tuovitio.e. ' •
'2l. Wednesday. —St. Hilarion, born in Palestine, of infidel parents;
he was sent to scht.ol at Alexandria, and was instructed there in the
Christian faith. lie practised all the duties of prayer and of fasting
with strictness, and the rime of St. Anthony, having raised his wind to
a desire of still greater perfeeti .0, hebtscatue, for sometime; his disci-
ple. flaying distributed all his patrine. sty to the pour, he built a ceil
ia the romantic deserts of the Thebaii, where he subdued the passions
of the Mesh by the most woudertul acts of mortificntion. Ile•is reoorted
to have been several times annoyed by ,various temptations, which be
resisted at the example of his roaster. Bodily labour was one of the
means lie adopted to resivt tine esitising suggestions of &Asa, who, we
:ire told, used to assume the shape of most .besutiful !Nome. , to divert
him from his situations. Ile died in the Middle of reverel hermit*,
who had followed him in his retirement in the, 6'ear :389. %%hen tins
rocks of Egypt used to resound it. the wilderness, with the holy eject.
lations of the Apchorttes, and the rivulets of she deserts mixed thew
murmur to the penitent sighs of those holy melt, who fled from the
delicious flaunts. of Alexandria to live under sackclothes, and sleep
upon the hare ground-in the palm groves and deserted ruin", of the
once renowned Tiietres. Also St. Ursattionitl her virgin companions..
1005. Battle of l'rafiligar, and dealt of the uuiversally latuentad
Lord Nclson
The Sun sises at 6 h. 48 min. sets at .5 h. 1t miD.
Thursciuy.—St. Mark, Bishop of Jerusalem, and the first who
had been chosen by the Gentiles to the dignity of that see; he was
crowned with tuarlyrdorn under the Emperor Antoninis. Also Sa-
lome, one of those p 1 ins women, who attended upon Christ to the mo.
meat of his death. It is believed that she. as well as Magdsken, died
in Provence, iu the south of France. Mt. Death of Dt. *Arnold, la
fatuous composer of music.
The Sun rises at 6 h. 50 min. sets at 5 it. 10 min.
t 5. Friday.—St. Theodore, a young man who was seised at Antioch by
order of Julian, the Apostate ; and, after the cruel torment of having
his flesh torn and burnt lions motning 'till tiigl t, was cast into primes,
and alter some time released by the relenting Emperor. Hurnieks be
said to have survived his own martsrdons, end to have brosight.owity
the laurel of victory before he attained the goal in the Christian Sta.
diutn—The San, according to astrostcluical appearances, enter the sign
Scorpion . this reptile was chosen by the ancient to show the retrograde
motion of the Suit alter the equinox, as they had selected the crab or
ern:rev to point out his retiring from the solstice.-1685. Revocation
et the Edict a f Nantes.
The Sun rises at 6 h. 53 min. sets at 5 h. 7 min.
24. Satin day ,Maglore, is one of those persons eminent is
sanctity, many of whom Great Britain justly boasts to have produced.
t.:ducined at the sehdrl of St. aerie:llms, and having imbibed from
hint the spirit of piety and zeal, he crossed over into Britanny. where
he was .conseerated Bishop of Dol. Alter having discharged the epis-
copal duties as a Isithful steward, he retired to a desert part of the
country, where he passed the remainder of his days iu abstinence and
morti6cation.-1796. The King of England was acknowledged as /Ong
of that small island galled Corsica, from whiz% time the great enemy

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