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

TUBE 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 iliy.
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.