Great conflagration at

Jan. 14 Hanover annexed to the kingdom of Westphalia.

Buonaparte's marriage with the empress Josephine dissolved.

Jan. 18. Mr. Lyon Levi threw himself from the top of the London Monument, and was dashed to pieces. Jan. 23. opened by commission.

The session of Parliament

Jan. 24. Prince Christian Augustus adopted by the King of Sweden as his son, with the name of Charles Gustavus, and acknowledged as hereditary prince. Jan. 27. Proclamation for a general fast.

Jan. 31. Col. Wardle received the thanks and freedom of the City of London in a gold box.

About the end of this month, a vio lent tempest, of two days' duration, at Otschosk in Siberia, raising the water in the river twelve feet-above its ordinary level, and carrying a ship into the mid

dle of the town.

February 1. The flour-mills at Ballin

Feb. 5. Malaga entered by the French, and given up to pillage for two days.

glish from the French. Feb. 6. Guadaloupe taken by the En

Feb. 9. The electors of Westminster voted a petition to Parliament for a reform in the representation.

Feb. 16. A shock of an earthquake, of unusual violence and duration, felt at Malta.

Feb. 17. A decree passed at Paris for the union of the Roman states to France.

liance concluded between his Britannic Feb. 19. Treaty of friendship and alMajesty and the Prince Regent of Portugal.

Feb. 20. The British Government announces to the foreign ambassadors in the ports and coasts of Spain, from Githis country a determination to blockade jon to the French territory.

Feb. 21. John Gale Jones committed to Newgate by order of the House of

Commons, upon a charge of libel on that
body.

Feb. 27. The foundation-stone of a
new pier was laid at Berwick upon
Tweed.

Mr. Fuller, M.P. for Sussex, commit-
ted to the custody of the serjeant at armis
for disrespectful fanguage to the speaker

of the House of Commons.

March 1. The isle of Walcheren
united to France.

March 4. The Duke of Orléans in-
vited by the regency of Spain to assume
the command of the army of Catalonia.

March 5. Paid into the treasury
1500. received by the chancellor of the
exchequer in an anonymous letter, as the
amount of certain duties omitted to be
paid by the writer.

March 9. The number of dollars
stamped and issued by the bank of Eng-
land, previous to this date, was
4,817,634.

A sum of 980,000l. voted by parlia
ment, as a subsidy to Portugal.

March 11. Buonaparte married, by
proxy, to Maria Louisa, arch-duchess of

Austria.

March 16. Zealand, Dutch Brabant,
anted to France by a treaty between
Buonaparte and his brother Louis, king
of Holland.

March 24. Ceuta, on the Barbary
shore, occupied by British troops.

March 25. Quantity of woollen cloths
made in Yorkshire during the year end-
ing this day, 15,777,805 yards-being
near one million and a half above the
number made in the preceding year,

March 26. A large sea-eagle, measu-
ring seven feet, six inches, killed in Lin-
colnshire,

April 1. Buonaparte's marriage with
the arch-duchess of Austria celebrated at
Paris.

Foundation-stone of new

April 5.
pier laid at Margate.

April 6. The House of Commons order
Sir Francis Burdett to the Tower, upon
a charge of libel on that body, and a
breach of their privileges.

The House of Commons voted an in-
crease in the salaries of the Scottish and
Irish judges...

April 9. Sir Francis Burdett arrested
in his own house by the serjeant at arm3,
and committed to the Tower.

April 11. The foundation-stone of
the Taunton and Somerset hospital was
Jaid,

dard 12. A bill, for the removal of

Smithfield market, rejected in the House
of Commons.

Aprit 14. Mr. Walsh Porter's collec-
tion of pictures sold by auction for
30,033,-one of the pictures for 2750l.
another for 20501.

April 16. The fortress and isle of St.
Maura taken by the British forces.

April 18. The House of Commons
voted 50,000l. for completing the Cale-
donian canal.

April 21. In an insurrection at Con-
stantinople, the Janizaries set fire to se-
veral houses; which conflagration con-
sumed a third part of the suburb of

Pera.

April 26. The first stone of a new
bridge at Carrow laid by the mayor of
Norwich.

April 30. The House of Commons
voted 400,000l. to enable his majesty to
make good his engagements with the
king of Sicily, for the year 1810.'

May 1. The commencement of the
fourth century from the foundation of
St. Paul's school, London, was cele-
brated by gentlemen educated in that
seminary.

May 2. Petition from the freeholders
of Middlesex rejected by the House of
Commons.

May 4. The House of Commons vote
7000, ayear to the duke of Brunswick
Wolfenbuttle, nephew to his Majesty.

The livery of London passed resolu-
tions expressing their regret and indig
nation' at the proceedings of the House
of Commons in the commitment of Sir
Francis Burdett to the Tower-and voted
a petition to parliament for a reform in
the representation.

A French convoy of seventeen armed
and coasting vessels taken by the En-
glish at the isle of Rhé, and partly de-
stroyed.

May 9. Petition from the livery of
London rejected by the House of Com-

mons.

May 16. The ministerial budget for
the year, fifty millions and a half.

May 17. A mutiny of the Mendip
local militia at Bath, on account of a de-
duction made by their officers from the
marching guinea.

May 22. Resolved by the House of
Commons to double the duties on timber
from the Baltic, and to grant bounties
on the importation of timber from the
British territories in America.

Muy 23. Mr. Hunt, late treasurer of
the Ordnance, is expelled from theHouse

May 23. Riots at Rotterdam.

May 29. The crown prince of Swe-
den fell from his horse in an apoplectic
fit, and instantly expired.

May 31. Attack on the Duke of Cum
berland by Salis, his own valet, with the
infent of assassinating him.

June 1. A motion in favor of the Ro-
man Catholics negatived in the House of
Commons by a very great majority-ne
gatived also by a great majority in the
House of Lords, June 6.

June 6. The common council of the
city of London vote a petition to the
House of Commons in favor of parlia
mentary reforır.

June 8. Meeting of the freeholders of
Middlesex at Hackney, and several reso-
lutions passed in consequence of the re-
jection of their late petition to the
House of Commons for the release of Sir
Francis Burdett, and á reform in the re-
presentation.

Vote of the House of Commons to
raise the salary of the lord lieutenant of
Ireland from 20,000 to 30,0001, a year.

The province of Walachia united to
the Russian empire.

June 13. Petitions from the freeholders
of Middlesex and the inhabitants of
Sheffield rejected by the House of Com-

mons.

June 15. Mr. Cobbett tried for libel,
and condemned to two years' imprison-
ment in Newgate.

June 21. Parliament prorogued; and
Sir Franci Burdett, of course, released
from his confinement in the Tower.

July 1. Louis Buonaparte, king of Hol
land, abdicates the regal dignity in favor
of his son, Napoleon Louis.

July 1 and 2. Tremendous and de-
structive storms in different parts of the
kingdom.

July 6. A convention, and truce for
two years, concluded between Portugal
and the Dey of Algiers.

July 7. An attempt made to seise the
person of Joseph Buonaparte, king of
Spain.

Juin 8. The isle of Bourbon taken
from the French by the English.

July 9. Decree of the emperor Napo-
icon, annexing Holland to France.

July 10. Ciudad Rodrigo, surrenders
to the French.

July 11. The Persian ambassador at the

preparatory to his departure for Persia.
July 15 Dreadful and destructive
tempests in various parts of the king-
dom.

July 17. The ship, Queen Charlotte,
of 120 guns, launched at Deptford.

July 31. The Argus, English news-
paper at Paris, terminated its exis-

French.

Sept. 28. The first session of the Cortes
opened at Cadiz.

October 19. A decree issued by Buo-
naparte for the burning of British mang-
factures.

Oct. 25. His Majesty, George III.
completed the fiftieth year of his reign.

Oct.30. The earl of Ormond sold to
government, for 200,0001. his right to
the duty of prizage, &c. on wines im-
ported into ireland.

November 1. Parliament meet; and his
Majesty's indisposition is announced.

Nov. 2. Death of the princess Amelia,
youngest daughter of his Majesty, George
III.

Nov. 9. The corporation of London
went in a private manner to the court of
Exchequer, where the lord mayor elect
was sworn into office by the barons; the
usual procession being omitted on ac-
count of the king's illness.

Nov. 9 and 10. Tremendous and de-
structive storms in almost every part of
the kingdom.

Nov. 14. Gustavus Adolphus, the de-
posed king of Sweden, arrives at Yar-

mouth.

Fowls on shipboard, Hint for preserving,

26

Freedoms (What)'allowable by young lady
to gentleman
Frozen market at Petersburg, Account
of the,

Funeral of the princess Amelia,

Gardens, Floating,

Good temper, Remarks on,

Greensloe (Simon) to Judith Crabface,

Night-lights, Hints on,
Not at home,' Extract from,
Officer, The young,

547
66

204, 249, 297

Oh! this love!" a comic opera, Sketch
of,

Old maids, Judith Crabface on,
Oriental anecdotes,

-literature, Remarks on,

273

114

389, 514

163

Origin of reading sermons,
Pearls dissolved and swallowed,

613

419

150

Peg-tankards,

583

Physician, an apologue,

32

Hamburg, Picture of,

533

Piper, Anecdote of a Scottish,

419

Hannibal's rapid flight,

Hatem Tai, Anecdotes of,

Herculaneum, Ruins of,

Highland hospitality and generosity, 199
Hindoo widow burned with her dead
husband, Account of,

Hogarth, Anecdote of,

Horse of the desert, Account of,
Horsemanship, African,
Jealousy, a novel,

Query, what freedoms allowable by
young lady to gentleman,

271

152

200

Quinault, Anecdote of,

418

363

398

561, 610

Scottish anecdotes,

419

51

548

606

Josephine, empress of France, Memoirs
of,

Lamps, Mode of managing,

Liberty (Effects of) on the human mind,

Literature of the East, Remarks on the,
163

Louis Napoleon Buonaparte, Biographic
sketch of, 339--Anecdotes,
419
Love (Virtuous) rewarded, 28, 105
Lucien Buonaparte, Biographic sketch
of,

Madrid described,
Man of business,

435

348

267

21
370

Temper (good), Remarks on,
Temperance and intemperance, an alle-
gory,
Thoughts, Detached,
Timbuctoo, Account of,
Tournament, The,.

. .198.

614

317

537,601
301
28,105

Volcano, Extraordinary formation of a,
607

Vesuvius, Eruption of,
Virtuous love rewarded,

8

21

Mendicants, Reflexions on,
Modern seduction,

252

Walpole (Sir Robert), Anecdote of, 200
Wash for the mouth,

23

Montalbert, Memoirs of,

More (Sir T.), Anecdotes of.

Morris dance, Ancient English
Mouth (sore), Wash for,

Nautical Anecdote,

508, 541, 593

of,

115

204, 249, 297