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Guadeloupe tken by the British, March 

 5. Lord Colling wood dirt, March 7. Bona- 

 parte marries the Pnnceu Maria Louiu, daugh- 

 i.f the Emperor of Auitria, April 1. Great 

 .'.on, on the committal of Sir F. 

 Burdelt to the Tower, April 9. Crown Prince 

 of Sweden diet, April 29. American non-in- 

 tercourte act repealed, May 1. Mr Windham 

 diet, June 4. Riot in Stockholm, at the fu- 

 neral of the Crown Prince, June 20. Louis 

 Bonaparte abdicates the throne of Holland, July 

 ] . The Isle of Bourbon surrenders to the Bri- 

 tish, July 8. Holland annexed to the French 

 empire, Julr 9. Ciudad Rodrigo taken by the 

 French, July 10. A meteoric stone, weighing 

 7 J pounds, fell in the county of Tipperary, Ire- 

 land, Aug. 10. An earthquake felt at St Mi- 

 chael's, one of the A/ores, Aug. 12. Berna- 

 dotte chosen Crown Prince of Sweden, Aug. 21. 

 A small comet discovered by M. Pons, 22d Aug. 

 Lucien Bonaparte and his family taken by the 

 Pomona frigate, Aug. 23. Almeyda surren- 

 ders to the French, Aug. 28. A great erup- 

 tion of Mount Vesuvius, Sept. 10. Bonaparte 

 issues a decree to burn all British merchandize, 

 Oct. 19. Princess Amelia dies, Nov. 2. Gus- 

 tavus Adolphus, the late King of Sweden, ar- 

 rives at Yarmouth, Nov. 10. Three meteoric 

 stones fell in the department of the Loiret, Nov. 

 23. Henry Cavendish, ob. zt. 78. 

 . Tortosa surrenders to the French, Jan. 1. Prince 

 of Wales appointed Repent, Feb. 4. A me- 

 teoric stone, of 15 pounds, fell in the village of 

 Konlcghowsk, in the government of Tscherni- 

 goff, in Russia, on the 1st March. Battle of 

 Barrosa, in which the French are defeated by 

 the British under General Graham, March 5. 

 Anholt defended by a handful of British sailors 

 against the Danish flotilla, of 18 gun boats, and 

 4000 men. Badajos surrenders to the French, 

 March 10. A small comet discovered by Flau- 

 guergues, 2.5th March. The French defeated 

 by Lord Wellington in the battle of Fuentcs 

 de Honore?, May 5th. General Beresford de- 

 feats the French under Soult in the battle of 

 Albuera, May 16th. Action between the Ame- 

 rican frigate the President of 44' guns, com- 

 manded by commodore Rogers, and the Bri- 

 tish vessel the Little Belt of 18 guns, May 

 16th. Siege of Badajos raised, June llth. 

 Marshal Suchet takis Tarragona by assault, 

 Jane 29th, and makes himself master of Mont- 

 scrrat, July 24th. The settlement of Bata- 

 via, the last colony of France, surrenders to 

 the British under Sir Samuel Auchmuty, Sep- 

 trmber 17th. The Boulogne flotilla defeated by 

 tlie Nai id frigate in the presence of Bonaparte, 

 Sept. 22d. General Blake defeated by the 

 French under Suchet, Oct. 25. In consequence 

 of this victory Murviedro surrenders to the 

 1 rcnch, Oct. 27th. General Hill surprises aid 

 routs the division of gn.eral Girard, Oct. 28th. 

 A comet appears, Dec. 2:)d. The St George 

 of 98 gun*, and the 1) fence of 74 gun , Brand- 

 ed on the cout of Jutland, and the v.Uolc of the 



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crews, amounting to 2100 men, perished, Oct. 21. Chrono'*. 

 Thc Hero of 74 guns stranded on a sand bank 

 off the Texel, and the whole of her crew lost, * ^~V^ 

 Dec. '.':>th. General Blake defeated by the 

 French near Valencia, Dec. 26th. 



1812. The French defeated at Tariffa by colonel Sker- 

 ret, Jan. 1st. Lord Wellington takes Ciudad 

 Rodrigo by storm, Jan. 19th. Valencia surren- 

 ders to the French, along with the army under 

 General Blake, Feb. 6th. A dreadful earth- 

 quake in the Caraccas, March 26th. Bonaparte 

 makes proposals for peace, which arc rejected, 

 April 17th. Badajoa taken by Lord Welling- 

 ton, April 27th. Bonaparte sets out from Pa- 

 ris, to take the command of the army against 

 Russia, May 9th. Mr Perceval shot in the 

 lobby of the House of Commons, May llth. 

 America declares war against Britain, June 18th. 

 Joseph Bonaparte evacuates Madrid, June 28th. 

 Lord Wellington defeats the French under Mar- 

 mont, near Salamanca. Preliminaries of peace 

 signed between Britain, Russia, and Sweden. 

 Orders in council revoked, June 2:3d. Revolu- 

 tion in Sicily, July 20th. Lord Wellington en- 

 ters Madrid, Aug. 12. Marshal Victor besieges 

 Riga, Aug. 13th. General Hull and the Ame- 

 rican army taken prisoners by General Brock, 

 Aug. 17- Baltic of Similciisko, between the 

 French and Russians, Aug. 16. Battle of Mo- 

 jaisk, in which the victory is claimed both by 

 the French and Russians, Sept. 7. Soult raises 

 the siege of Cadiz, Aug. 25th. A great and 

 sanguinary battle fought at Borrodino, between 

 the French and Russians, in which the victory 

 is claimed by both sides, Sept. 7. The Rus- 

 sians burn Moscow, which the French enter, 

 Sept. 14. Lord Wellington' advances to Bu:- 

 gos, Sept. 21st. The French evacuate Mor- . 

 cow, and begin a disastrous retreat, Oct. 19th. 

 Lord Wellington raises the siege of Burgo c , 

 Oct. 20th. Moscow re-occupied by the Rus- 

 sians, Oct. 22d. Bonaparte, after leaving his 

 army at Smorgony on the 2.5th Nov. arrives in 

 Paris on the 18th Dec. The French defeat- 

 ed at the passage of the Bcresiua, Nov. 28th. 

 Wilna taken by the Russians, Dec. 10. Thir- 

 ty thousand Prussians under General York join 

 the Russian army, Dec. 30. 



1818. The Conservative Senate of France agree to place 

 350,000 men at the disposal of the Minister of 

 War, .Ian. llth. The House of Commons ag. 

 by a majority of 40, in a House of 488, to go 

 into a committee on the Catholic question, Mar. 

 2. The Russians enter Hamburg, Mar. 8, and 

 Berlin, Mar. 10. The Russians defeat the French 

 at Lunenburg under Morand, who is slain, April 

 2. Sir John Murray defeats the French under 

 Suchet, at Castello, in Spain, April 13. Thorn 

 surrenders to the Russians, April 16, and Span- 

 dau on the 18th April. B.ittle of Lut7.cn, in 

 which the victory is claimed both by the French 

 and the allies, May 2. The Roman Catholic 

 bill lost at its third reading in the HUEe 

 Commons, by a majority of four, May iM. 



