Great conflagration at
Jan. 14. Hanover annexed to the kingdom of Westphalia.
Buonaparte's marriage with the em press Josephine dissolved.
robe, in Ireland, destroyed by fire caused by the friction of the mac machinery.
tholics at the St. Albans tavern, London, Feb.1. A meeting of English Roman Cavoted a perition to Parliament for a re peal of the penal penal statutes against their
Feb. 5. Malaga entered by the French, and given up to pillage for two days.
him-glish from the French.
Feb. 6. Guadaloupe taken by the En-
Jan. 18. Mr. Lyon Levi threw self from the top of the London Monument, and was dashed to pieces.
Jan. 23. The session of Parliament opened by commission.
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. 81. Col. Wardle received the thanks and freedom of the City of London in a gold box.
About the end of this month, a violent 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 middle of the town.
February 1. The flour-mills at Ballin
Feb. 9. The electors of Westminster voted a petition to Parliament for a reform in the representation.
of unusual violence and duration, felt ar Feb. 16. A shock of an earthquake, Malta.
the union of the Roman states to Feb. 17. A decree passed at Paris for France.
liance concluded between his Britannic
Feb. 19. Treaty of friendship and al-
Majesty
Regent of Por-
Feb. 20. The British Government announces to the foreign ambassadors in this country a determination to blockade the ports and coasts of Spain, from Gi-. 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 arms
for disrespectful language 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
1500l. 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,
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,
&c. united to France by a treaty between
Buonaparte and his brother Louis, king,
of Holland.
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.
Aprit 14. Mr. Walsh Porter's collec-
tion of pictures sold by auction for
30,0331.-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 509001. for completing the Cale-
doniar anal.
A1121. In an insurrection at Con-
stan.inople, 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
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
7000l, 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-
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.
May 23. Mr. Hunt, late treasurer of
the Ordnance, is expelled from the House
May 23. Riots at Rotterdam.
of Commons for mis-application of the British court took leave of their majesties,
public money.
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.
Juno 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 reforın.
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 a 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 90,000l, 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-
June 15. Mr. Cobbett tried for libel,
and condemned to two years' imprison-
ment in Newgate.
Junc 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.
July 8. The isle of Bourbon taken
from the French by the English...
July 9. Decree of the emperor Napo-
leon, annexing
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
A flock of crossbills, or German par-
rots, appeared at Aberdeen.
August-18. The prince of Ponte Cor-
vo, the French general Bernadotte, no-
minated crown prince of Sweden.
Aug. 27. Almeida surrendered to the
French by the English and Portuguese.
September 5. A conflagration at Buda
destroyed above four hundred houses.
Sept. 6. Battle of Rudschuck gained
by the Russians over the Turks.
Sept. 11. A great eruption from
Mount Vesuvius.
Sept. 27. The battle of Buzaco gained
by the English and Portuguese over the
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 manu-
factures.
Oct. 25.
His Majesty, George III.
completed the fiftieth year of his reign.
Oct.30. The earl of Ormond sold to
government, for 200,000/. 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. :
Nor. 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 at-
proces
count of the king's illness.
Nov. 9 and 10. Tremendous and de-
structive storms in almost every part of
the kingdom.
Νου. 14.
Gustavus Adolphus, the de-
posed king of Sweden, arrivés at Yar-
mouth.
Nov. 16. Edict issued at Berlin for the
general suppression of ecclesiastic esta-
blishments throughout Prussia.
Nor. 19. Sweden declares war against
England
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