1559 _Henry II. of France_ died of a wound in the eye, received in a tournament from the Count de Montgomery. In his last moments the monarch commanded that the unfortunate, but innocent, cause of his death should not be molested; but, fifteen years after, he was arraigned for the fact, and sacrificed to the revengeful feelings of Catherine de Medicis. THURSDAY, 11th. 1708 The _Duke of Marlborough_ and _Prince Eugene_ obtained a great victory over the French at Audenard, or Oudenarde, on the Scheldt. FRIDAY, 12th. 1536 Death of _Erasmus_.--He was one of the most learned men of the extraordinary age in which he flourished. Equally courted by the Sovereigns of France and England, and by the Popes of the House of Medici, he could never be induced to abandon the learned pursuits in which he delighted, for the employments or benefices so profusely offered to him. The cotemporary of Luther, it has been said of him, that there was not an error which Luther sought to reform that Erasmus had not made the subject either of severe censure or keen satire; yet, restrained by the natural timidity of his temper, by his love of peace, and hoping that mild measures would produce a gradual amelioration of the vices he so loudly censured, he chose rather to assume the character of a mediator between Luther and the Church of Rome, than openly to join the party of the reformers. He died at Basle, in the sixty-ninth year of his age, and was interred in the Cathedral of that town. SATURDAY, 13th. 1771 _Captain Cook_, in the Endeavour, returned to Portsmouth, having sailed round the world. 1788 A dreadful storm took place in France, which desolated the country and destroyed the harvest for a space of fifty leagues. 1789 The first breaking out of the French Revolution; the mob of Paris forcibly entered the Hospital des Invalides, and possessed themselves of the arms deposited there. 1793 Marat, the coadjutor of Robespierre and Danton, and one of the worst monsters the Revolution produced, was assassinated by Charlotte Cordé. SUNDAY, 14th. SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. 1223 Died at Mantes, in the forty-third year of his reign, and the fifty-ninth of his age, _Philip II. of France_, called by his historians Philip-Augustus. He was the great rival of Richard Coeur de Lion of England. 1824 _Riho Riho_, or _Tamehameha II., King of the Sandwich Islands_, died in London; his wife, who came to this country with him, had died about a week before. LONDON: PUBLISHED IN WEEKLY NUMBERS, PRICE ONE PENNY, AND IN MONTHLY PARTS, PRICE SIXPENCE, BY