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and engaging, his conversation affable and entertaining; his elocution easy, persuasive, and ever at command. He loved peace, but possessed both conduct and bravery in war; was provident without timidity; severe in the execution of justice without rigour; and temperate without austerity. He preserved health, and kept himself from corpulency, to which he was somewhat inclined, by an abstemious diet, and by frequent exercise, particularly by hunting. When he could enjoy leisure, he recreated himself in learned conversation, or in reading; and he cultivated his natural talents by study, above any prince of his time. His affections, as well as his enmities, were warm and durable; and his long experience of the ingratitude and infidelity of men never destroyed the natural sensibility of his temper, which disposed him to friendship and society.-Hume.

26.-PROCLAMATION OF KING GEORGE III.

His present Majesty was proclaimed King on the 26th of October, 1760, the day after his accession to the throne.

*26. 1751.-Dr. Doddridge died,

One of the most learned and candid of the Dissenters, who was solicited to take preferment in the church, and whose writings are recommended by its most strenuous advocates. His life, by Orton, is a valuable piece of biography. The excellent lines written by Dr. D. on the motto of his family coat of arms, Dum vivimus vivamus,' in Dr. Johnson's opinion, constitute one of the finest epigrams in the English language, and, although generally known, cannot be too widely circulated.

'Live, while you live,' the Epicure would say,
"And seize the pleasures of the present day?
'Live, while you live,' the sacred preacher cries,
And give, to God, each moment as it flies.'
Lord, in my view, let both united be;

I live in pleasure while I live to thee.

*27. 1783.-M. D'ALEMBert died.

After he left college, he found himself alone and

unconnected in the world, and sought an asylum in the house of his nurse. This good woman perceived his ardent activity, heard him mentioned as the writer of many books, but never took it into her head that he was a great man, and rather beheld him with compassion. You will never,' said she to him one day,

be any thing but a philosopher; and what is a philosopher?-a fool, who toils and plagues himself during his life, that people may talk of him when he is no more.' D'Alembert is principally known by his mathematical publications, and his contributions to the Encyclopedie.'

28. SAINT SIMON AND SAINT JUDE, Apostles. -Simon is called the Canaanite, from the Hebrew word Cana, to be zealous: hence his name of Simon Zelotes, or the Zealot, Luke vi, 15. After enduring various troubles and afflictions, he, with great cheerfulness, suffered death on the cross.

Jude is called both by the name of Thaddeus and Libbæus: Matt. x, 3, and Mark iii, 18. Jude, the brother of James: Jude, verse 1. And Judas, not Iscariot: John xiv, 22. He was of our Lord's kindred; Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James and Joses, and Simon and Judas ?' Matt. xiii, 55. After great success in his apostolic ministry, he was, at last, for a free and open reproof of the superstitious rites of the Magi, cruelly put to death. He has left one epistle of universal concern to Christians.

*28. 1704.-JOHN LOCKE DIED.

This great and most excellent philosopher was rendered illustrious, not only by his wisdom, but by his piety and virtue, by his love of truth and diligence in the pursuit of it, and by his generous ardour in defence of the civil and religious rights of mankind. His writings have immortalized his name; and particularly his Essay concerning the Human Understanding,'

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*28. 900.-ALFRED DIEd.

The merit of this prince, both in private and public life, may, with advantage, be set in opposition to that of any monarch or citizen, which the annals of any age or any nation can present to us. He seems, indeed, to be the complete model of that perfect character, which, under the denomination of a sage or wise man, the philosophers have been fond of delineating, rather as a fiction of their imagination, than in hopes of ever seeing it reduced to practice; So happily were all his virtues tempered together; so justly were they blended; and so powerfully did each prevent the other from exceeding its proper

bounds.

He knew how to conciliate the most enterprising spirit with the coolest moderation; the most obstinate perseverance, with the easiest flexibility; the most severe justice, with the greatest lenity; the greatest rigour in command, with the greatest affability of deportment; the highest capacity and inclination for science, with the most shining talents for action.

Nature also, as if desirous that so bright a production of her skill should be set in the fairest light, had bestowed on him all bodily accomplishments! vigour of limbs, dignity of shape and air, and a pleasant, engaging, and open countenance. By living in that barbarous age, he was deprived of historians worthy to transmit his fame to posterity; and we wish to see him delineated in more lively colours, and with more particular strokes, that we might at least perceive some of those small specks and blemishes, from which, as a man, it was impossible he should be entirely exempted.-Hume.

*31. 1817.-THIRD

CENTENARY OF THE REFOR-
MATION.

It was on the 31st of October, 1517, that Martin Luther, that celebrated Saxon Reformer, issued his

famed 95 Propositions against the shameful sale of indulgences, and thus laid the foundation for a reform of many abuses which had prevailed for ages in the church of Christ. This third jubilee was celebrated all over the Continent on this day, and in the Lutheran churches in London. In the front of the pulpit, the name of LUTHER was inscribed in large letters; below, that of MELANCTHON; and on both sides, Frederick the Wise, and Gustavus Adolphus, the latter of whom sacrificed his life in the right and liberty of the Protestant church. The churches were decorated with evergreens, &c. &e.

Astronomical Occurrences

In OCTOBER 1818.

THE Sun enters Scorpio at 28 m. after midnight on the 23d of this month; and he will rise and set at the following times during the same period.

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Of the Sun's Rising and Setting for every fifth Day. October 1st, Sun rises 12 m. after 6. Sets 48 m. after 5

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The Sun will also be eclipsed on the 29th of this month, but the eclipse will not be visible here; as it will be central at 5h. 494m. in longitude, in 87° 25' west, and latitude 51° 2' south.

Equation of Time.

Subtract the following quantities from the time as indicated by a good sun-dial, and the remainders will be the mean time answering to the same epochs.

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Eclipse of the Moon.

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Middle of the eclipse

End of the eclipse

Digits eclipsed 1° 51' on the Moon's northern limb, or from the south side of the Earth's shadow.

Moon's Passage over the Meridian.

The Moon will pass the first meridian at the following times during this month, viz.

October 7th, at 52 m. after 6 in the evening.

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4 in the morning.

Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites.

The following are the visible eclipses of Jupiter's first and second satellites during the present month,

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