some funeral. Moreau, supposing that affected innocence and a bold demeanour would be his best defence against suspicion, actually went to the residence of Geoffroy on the day after he had deprived him of life, and inquiring whether he was at home, the domestick answered, that Mr. G. had caused great apprehensions for his safety by not returning as usual the preceding night, particularly as he had bills on his person to a large amount, which induced his friends to dispatch messengers, forbidding the payment of them till his fate could be ascertained.

Remorse, terror, despair, and the complete disappointment of his avaricious hopes, at once assailed the heart of Moreau; his countenance changed, and his whole frame betrayed so many unequivocal marks of guilt, that he was seized on the very threshold of his victim; and, unable to resist or pervert the dictates of conscience, he confessed his crime, and in due time perished on the wheel.

REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES IN THE MONTH OF

SEPTEMBER.

Mr. Baldwin, who published the Post Man in 1697, entertained his readers, on the 23d of September, with a recapitulation of remarkable and important historical events which had occurred during the month of that name, in various suc

cessive years. The subject is evidently from a superstitious source, but not the less curious on that account; it is therefore inserted verbatim from the original. Those who have patience and perseverance may, perhaps, take the hint, and complete the research to the present time; which task is declined by the editor of this collection for no other reason than that of extending the list beyond the limits he has prescribed for each article:

"In the year 1509, such an earthquake happened in September, at Constantinople, that 13,000 men were buried alive. The famous battle of Actium happened on the 2d day of the same month, wherein Augustus got the victory over Antonius, whereby the Roman empire fell into his hands. The 3d day of the same month, Sultan Soliman took Buda, the chief city of Hungary, with the greatest part of that kingdom.

"The same day and month, Rodrigues, king of Spain, was driven out of his kingdom by the Moors. The same day and month, Lewis XII. of France, took the city of Milan, and deprived Lewis Sforce, its duke, of his estate: on the like day, the Emperor Charles V. passed over into Africa, and invaded the kingdom of Algiers. On the 3d of September, 1658, died O. Cromwell, on that very day of the month wherein he gained

the

the victories of Dunbar in Scotland in 1650, and at Worcester in 1651.

"The 4th of September, Sultan Soliman, emperor of the Turks, died before Sigeth, taken the 7th day after. The city of Jerusalem was taken about this time of the month of September, by the Romans. The 9th of September, happened the famous battle of Arbela, wherein Alexander the Great overthrew Darius, king of Persia, with his army of 400,000 men. The same day, in the year 1544, James, king of Scots, was slain by the English, and his army overthrown.

"On the 10th of September, John, duke of Burgundy, was slain by order of Charles VII. which caused great wars throughout all France. On the 7th of September, the Greek Emperors, of the name of Paleologues, took Constantinople, and drove from thence the Earls of Flanders, who had long possessed that empire. The 14th of September, the Switzers received a great overthrow in the expedition of Marignan, and the Turks besieged Vienna with a great army. The 17th of September, happened the famous battle of Poictiers, wherein the French army was overthrown, and King John himself taken prisoner by the English.

"On the same day of the month, 1515, happened the famous battle of Lepanto, wherein the Christians took or destroyed the whole Turkish fleet; on the same day and month, 1567, Henry, king

of Sweden, was dethroned by his rebellious subjects, and cast into prison. The 18th day of September, Bulloign in France was surrendered to the English. Bajazet, emperor of the Turks, the same day of the same month, overthrew a Christian army of 300,000 men; and Saladin took the city of Jerusalem, Pompey having taken it, a long time before, the same day of the same month. Newbury fight happened the 20th of September, 1643.

"The 24th of September, Constantine the Great, in a bloody battle, overcame Maxentius, in the year 333, whence ensued a most remarkable change almost throughout the whole world: in this month Pope Boniface the 8th was taken prisoner, and deprived of the Papal dignity. The 3d of September, the Town Hall of Maydenburg in Germany, with most of the citizens who were dancing therein, was consumed by lightning.

"In September, 465, a fire broke out at Constantinople, by the water-side, which burnt with great violence four days together, and consumed the greatest part of that city, insomuch that, Evagrius saith, the strongest houses were but as dried stubble before it. This famous city of London was also almost consumed by a dreadful fire, which broke out the 2d of September, 1666.

"We read also that many of the greatest princes and monarchs of the world died in September; viz. Augustus, Tiberius, Vespasian, Titus, Do

mitian,

mitian, Aurelianus, Theodosius the Great, Valentinian, Gratian, Basilius, Constantine V. Leo IV. Rodolph, Frederick IV. Charles V. all Roman or Greek emperors, with many other famous monarchs; and of the French kings, Pepin, Lewis the younger, Philip III. Charles V. surnamed the Wise, and Lewis his kinsman, king of Hungary and Poland. It is observable that Lothair and Charles the Bald, the one king of France, and the other emperor of Germany, and both sons of Lewis the Devout, both died the 29th of September; the first in the year 855, and the other in 887. So Charles V. and Sultan Soliman, the two greatest emperors that have been for many ages, as they were both born in one year, so both died in the month of September."

CELEBRATION OF A THANKSGIVING DAY AT BRUTON, SOMERSETSHIRE, 1697.

We have many curious and even whimsical instances of popular demonstrations of joy upon. record: to those may be added the singular and eccentric suggestions of loyalty, zeal, affection, and the above delightful sensation of the mind, actuating the good people of Bruton, when called upon to commemorate the blessings of the Revolution of 1688, and the return of peace nine years afterwards. A circumstance which rendered the plan adopted particularly capricious was, the inclement season of December, calculated to chill

and