The National Register.
London, England, 1820-04-09 00:00:00

TABLE TALK,
FOR EVERY DAY IN APRIL.
From Gold and NJrethouse's Lowlon Magazine.

r Eve, and All Fool's Day: as the former, it is cele-
bra:ed by fasting, and voluntary sufferings. until
dawn next morn ng ; and as the latter, by making
every person as ridiculous as possible.
vas. Tain Aline the Great died.
2.-EAster Sunday.-:7.1. Jesus Christ celebrated the last Ma..
over. and initititted the Sacrament in its room.
179:t. Copenhagen was bombarded, when I.ord Nelson,
alter a very bloody engagement, took or destroyed
is Danish idtipsof the line.
3.-31 Jesus C;irist srus crucified, at three o'clock in the
afternoon.
1616. The Bard of Nature, the glory of Britain, William
Siiakspeare. died, aged 51.
;798. Louis XVIII. retired to Petersbnrgh, and was
allowed a procession by the Emperor of Russia.
4.-1774. Oliver Goldsmith died, aged 43.
1774. Boston proscribed, and the port shut up. by the
English Parliament, us punishment for a nut.
.5.-33. Jesus Christ row from the dead.
1605. John Stow, the historian, died, aged 80.
1776. Rev. Mr. Grainger died suddenly, as he was adminis-
tering the Sacrament.
1804. General Pichegru found dead in his prison, supposed
to be privately murdered, by order of Buonaparte.
-6.-1769. Malta had its Observatory, with its valuable appa-
ratus and manuscript observations destroyed by fire.
1796.-Dr. G. Campbell, the celebrated .opponent of Mune
on Miracles, died, aged 77.
7.-171 n. Betterton, the player, died, aged 85.
1779. Miss Bray shot in Covent Garden.
.8.-1677. A village called Baia. near Turin, suddenly stink,
together with above 200 of the inhabitants, and was
never after seen.
• 1795. 14 is preoent Majesty, George IV. married Caroline-
Annelia.Augusta, the second daughter of the Duke
of Brunswick (by Augusta, the eldest sister of his
late Majesty.)
• 9.-1413. Henry_V. crownedat Westminster.
17t7. Lord Fraser Loyal was beheaded for high treason.
1810. Sir Francis Burdett wascornrnitted to the Tower by
the House of Commons.
10.-1735. Prince Eugene died, aged 73. He commanded at
the battle of Hoshstet, August 5, 1706; victorious
at Turin. Sept. 7. 1706: victorious at Oudenarde,
wounded before Lisle, 1708 ; defeated the Grand
Vizier at Peterwarden. August 5. 1716.
•11.-1689. William, HI. crowned, with hu Queen.
It.-17N. William ill. was buried.
1759. George Frederick Handel died. aged 74.
1752. An engagement between Martinique and Guadeloupe.
when Admiral Rodney defeated the -French going
to attack Jamaica. and took live ships of the line,
and Admiral Court de Grasse.
LT.-1661. Charles 11. crowned.
1792. Queca Anne was crowned.
1722. Leslie, the great writer died.
1749. The Ruklifleianlibeary. at Word. was opined. It
was founded by the will of Dr. Radcliab, who left
40,0001. to the University for that
14.- 1441. Earl of Warwick. athe King-maker. 11%W and
slain at the battle of Bonet.
1707. Mons. Euler was born ; died Sept. 7.1711.
15.-1806. A live toad was found in a block of stone, at Newark.
The late Ld. Byron triad fee minder, sad aci
Protestants were in the misseeby in tboZat.
Spiess, when the dean for supped's the dos-
woes of the Church of Rome waspwaisted
1746.-Thabaule of Culloden. in Seethed, was
which put an end to the wham. by the
tithe of the rebels by the Doha Cumberland.
1790. Aselignats lint ordered by the Noised Assembly of
Prance.
1790. Dr. Fraohlin died is Philadelphia, aged 84.
1/...-5t5 B.C. The Passover was celebrated in the New Temple.
1689.-Lord Chief Justice JelFeries sent to the Tower by
the Lord Mayor of London. in December 16, 1628,
where he destroyed himself.
19.-St. Alplnge-Abbot of Bath. and Bishop of Winchester.
in the year 984, and afterwards Archbishop of
Canterbury. He was stoned to death by the
Danes, at Greenwich.
1799. Pope Pius VI. died, aged 81.
1104 s Dreadful massacre of the White Inhabitants of St.
Domingo.
20.-1601• Dr. John Darenant, bishop of Salisbury, died,
aged 71.
1787. Royalty Theatre, in Well Street, Rosemary Lane,
opess
21.-1696. Counsel ed.
first allowed to persons guilty of treason.
1766. Spot or enacula•of the sun, more than thrice the size
of the earth, passed the sun's centre.
1770. At the fireworks exhibited at Paris in honour of the
Dauphin's marriage (afterwards I.ouis XVI.) the
passages were so stopped up, that the people. seized
with a panic, trampled upon one another till they
lay in heaps ; a scaffold erected over the river also
broke down, and hundreds were drowned; nearly
1.000 persons lost their lives.
22.-1445. Henry s I. married Margaret, daughter of the Duke
of Anjou. at Southwick, Hants.
1715. A total eclipse of the sun in England, when the
darkness was so great, that the stars faintly ap-
peared, and the birds went to boost in the morning
about ten o'clock.
1776. The Duchess of Kingston tried for bigamy, convicted,
and degraded.
23. St. George, the patron Saint of England.
1349. Order the Garter began. It is remarkable that it
is thof
e 0114 Older width has been granted to foreign
Princes.
1369. The foundation of the Ttastile at Pan< wets laid.
1795. Warren Ilasting,, Govenior General of India, tried
by the Peers of Great Britain for high crones and
mudearneanors; the trial lasted seven years and
three months: he was acquitted.
24..-1740. Guildford Tower fell down.
25. St. Mask. The superstitious fears with which St.
Mark's Ewe is regarded by thousands in this coun-
try are well known.
1599. Oliver Cromwell was born, at Huntingdon.
1670. Cabinet Council was first constituted.
27.-1736. Frederick Lewis. Prince of Wales, son of George 11.
married Augusta. Princess of Saxe Gotha.
1797. Sir William Jones, the oriental scholar, died at
Bengal, aged 47.
28.a-1220. Salisbury l.athearal began building-finished in
12.58. aad cost 4oseio marks.
1772. atrial-ate and Brandt, Danish Counts, beheaded at
Copcnhag n.
1814. Bunnaparie embarked at Frejus, in the Undaunted
frigst , for Eloa.
24.a51729. II ell.nre clubs ,uppreased by order of Council.
1762. Cornelius N. pos. publisl•ed at Moscow, was the first
classical book liver teed in Russia.
10.-4451 B.C. The ,
anti enter Israelit, tinder Joshaa. pass the river
JordanCruaan. on Friday.
Ga. Lacers oondemned, and bled to death m a bath: be
was born at Cortiurs, in Spain, Nor. 11, 57.