1769 1808 1811 1776 1789 1790 1795 1811 1829 1831 1769 1778 Died, aged 70, Lord Chatham, having been struck with his death illness in the British House Orangeburg, S. C. surrendered to the Americans under General Sumpter, who took many Shock of an Earthquake felt at Wilmington, S. C. Eighty vessels wrecked in a dreadful storm at and near Newfoundland. Died, aged 83, Robert Treat Paine, one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. sons lost. Charleston, S. C. surrendered by General Lincoln to the British General, Sir H. Clinton. Fort Motte, S. C. captured by Generals Marion and Lee, taking 175 prisoners. Society of the Cincinnati established by officers of the army of the U. S. who had served in Charlotte, a town at the mouth of Gennessee river, N. Y. unsuccessfully bombarded by the The Tariff Bill passed the Senate of the U. S. Steamboat Majestic burst her boiler at Memphis, en the Mississippi; 14 persons killed, and about 40 scalded. Much damage done by a violent hail storm in the Sumpter District, S. C. Violent storms in Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Greene and Major Flag surprised by a party of Refugees at The British troops evacuated their post at Nelson's Ferry, S C. Washington City, in the District of Columbia, declared the Seat of General Government. Died, at Washington City, Jonathan Hunt, member of Congress from Vermont. Paper Money, or Continental Currency established by art of Congress. The American Fort at the Cedars, surrendered to the British, who took 390 prisoners. soners. Camden, S. C. burnt by the British. General Washington held a conference with Sir Henry Clinton, the British Commander-in- Died, in Philadelphia, aged 73, David Irving, a distinguished officer in the United States service. Great rise of the waters of the Hudson and other rivers in America. A Convention or Agreement of Peace signed at Velasco, Texas, between D. G. Burnet, President of Texas, and Santa Ana, the President and General of the Mexican army. Roanoke on the Chattahoochie, Georgia, burnt by the Indians. The Virginia House of Burgesses passed several Resolutions against the powers of England, Messrs. Lewis and M'Henry, both from Virginia, killed each other in a duel with rifles. dence. The British Ship, Hope, captured in Boston Bay by Captain Mugford, and brought safe into Died, in Savannah, Georgia, William Murren, a revolutionary officer from Pennsylvania. tured. Died, in Philadelphia, aged above 60, Lieutenant Colonel Philip Pancake. U. S. Gun Boat, No. 157, wrecked on the South Breakers, Charleston, S. C., and 12 persons Died, aged 84. John Jay, Governor of New York, a distinguished statesman. town takes its name. Virginia, Maryland, and South Carolina adopted the non-importation agreement. Mischianza. 18 1805 19 1535 1676 1788 The Tripolitans repulsed by the American General, Eaton, in their attack upon Derne, in the Barbary States. James Cartier, the discoverer of the St. Lawrence and the Canadas, sailed on his second expedition to the New World, then known as New France. Massachusetts Volunteers surprised an encampment of hostile Indians at Turner's Falls, on the Connecticut, and put them to the rout with great slaughter. Congress ordered two cannon to be named after Hancock and Adams, being one moiety of the whole train of artillery possessed by the American Colonies at the commencement of the Revolutionary War-the other two having been taken by the English. 1795 Died, aged 66, Josiah Bartlet, one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. 1811 Above one hundred houses destroyed by fire in New York. 1833 1499 1506 1774 1775 1778 1781 1813 1815 1834 1835 Steamboat Lioness destroyed by gunpowder on Red River, 40 miles above Alexandria, killing 15 or 16, including Josiah S. Johnston, Senator of United States, and Judge of Supreme Court of Louisiana. Americus Vespucius sailed from Cadiz on his first Voyage of Discovery. Died, aged 76, at Valladolid, Spain, Christopher Columbus. Died, aged 86, John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians. He was an Englishman, of Cambridge University, and emigrated to Massachusetts, devoting his life to the service of the Aborigines. The Bill for entirely subverting the Government of Massachusetts passed the English Houses of Parliament. The American Provinces sign Articles of Union and Alliance. One hundred and forty Americans marching to relieve the Post at the Cedars, near Montreal, Lafayette made a masterly retreat from an intended surprise by the British at Barren Hill, Lord Cornwallis and the British army arrived at Petersburg, Virginia. U. S. Frigate, Congress, captured British brig of War, Jean. Died, near Philadelphia, aged 65, General Jonathan Williams, a distinguished patriot. Died, at Bellefonte, Pa., aged 79, Andrew Gregg, M. C. from 1791 to 1813. Ferdinand de Soto, the discoverer of the Mississippi, died on its banks, and was buried beneath its waters. Fort Dreadnought, at Silver Bluffs, S. C. surrendered to the Americans. Wreck of the American Ship, Margaret, on her passage from Naples. 15 saved in the long boat. 26 lost. Born, near Warwick, R. I., Major General Nathaniel Greene, a celebrated revolutionary officer. General Greene invested Fort Ninety-Six, S. C. U. S. Frigate, Congress, captured British Brig of War, Diana. 1813 1817 Shock of an Earthquake felt in the Eastern States. 1819 Died, aged 85, Hugh Williamson, Physician, Statesman, and Philosopher. 1832 Great rise in the waters of the Kennebec river. James Cartier, the discoverer of the St. Lawrence, sailed from France on his third voyage to the New World. The English Government granted a new Charter to the Virginia settlers, which entirely Spain concludes a Treaty with England, resigning all claims to the American Colonies. The British Stores at Sag Harbor, N. Y. destroyed by Col. Meigs. Died, at Andover, Massachusetts, by lightning, James Otis, a distinguished American Patriot aged 58. The Federal Constitution adopted by South Carolina, by a vote of 149 to 73, being the eighth state in succession. Died, aged 69, Isaac Van Wirt, one of the men who arrested Major André. Died, at Manchester, Vt. aged 55, Richard Skinner, at various times, member of Congress, Died, at Rhinebeck, N. Y. aged 72, Edward Livingston, celebrated jurist and statesman. The Government of New England changed. John Hancock elected president of Congress. The British Government refused to ratify the treaty with the U. S. made by Mr. Erskine. The Bill for removing the Indians to west of the Mississippi, passed the House of Representa- Died, at Philadelphia, aged 60, John Randolph, of Roanoke. Generals Howe, Clinton, and Burgoyne arrived at Boston from England, in the Cerberus. Mutiny in two regiments of Washington's troops. The men returned to their duty at the 1787 1814 Federal Convention at Philadelphia for altering the Constitution of the U. S. Year. 1637 1781 1784 1817 1577 1647 1775 1776 1777 1781 1788 1811 1813 1672 1754 1781 Six hundred Pequod Indians slain and burnt by the settlers in Connecticut. Died, aged 71, at Philadelphia, Anthony Benezet, celebrated philanthropist. Destructive Fire at Sag Harbor, N. Y. Died, at Columbia, S. C. aged 70, General Francis Preston, M. C. from '93 to '97. The Creek Indians defeated by Alabama troops at Tuchlaluchie, near Columbus, Georgia400 killed, wounded, and captured. An English Fleet, under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth, sailed for America in search of gold Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam, now New York, elected to his gubernatorial office. The British defeated at Hog and Noddle's Island, near Boston, with loss of 200 killed and wounded. The British Post at the Cedars, near Montreal, re-captured by Arnold, who thereby liberated 500 American prisoners. Died, in a duel, in Georgia, aged 45, Button Gwinnett, one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. The Americans, under Lafayette, compelled by a superior British force, under Cornwallis, to evacuate Richmond, Va. Grand Federal Procession in Charleston, S. C. Died, at Richmond, England, aged 76, Richard Penn, Governor of Pennsylvania before the Revolution. Fort George, U. C. surrendered to the Americans. War proclaimed in Boston against the Dutch. This was the first declaration of war in the The French and Indians defeated at Fort Du Quesne by the Americans, under Washington. 1786 Born, in Smyrna, Delaware, Louis M'Lane, Statesman. 1808 1813 1818 1828 29 1736 The bones of the prisoners who died on board the English prison ships at New York, during Action off Stoney Point, Lake Ontario, between the boats of the British Fleet and 19 Ame- The Spanish Fort, Barrancas, Florida, occupied by American troops, under General Jackson, the garrison being considered prisoners of war, but were afterwards sent to Havanna. The Bowery Theatre, New York, burnt down. Died, at Litchfield, Conn. aged 80, Frederick Wolcott, remarkable for having held important public offices for 45 years, during all fluctuations of party. Born, in Hanover, Va. Patrick Henry, the celebrated patriot. General Burford and American troops surprised by Col. Tarlton at the Waxhaws, S. C. Great slaughter ensued. Died, at Brookline, Conn. aged 72, Major General Israel Putnam, the distinguished revolutionary General. The British made a descent upon Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. and were repulsed with great loss. The British repulsed at Pongoteage Creek, Va. by the Accomac militia. Fayetteville, N. C. almost wholly destroyed by fire. Columbus sailed from Spain on his third Voyage of Discovery. Mobile formed into a District by Proclamation of the President of the United States. Died, in Philadelphia, aged 81, William Ball, the first G. M. of the Grand Lodge of Pennsyl vania. American privateer brig, Yankee, captured British brig of war, Thames, with cargo worth 180,000 dollars. 1814 Two British Gun Boats, five barges, and 175 prisoners captured by the Americans at Sandy Creek, N. Y. Union between the three Colonies of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Great fire at Newburyport, Massachusetts. Upwards of two hundred and fifty houses de- General Convention of Amity and Commerce between U. S. of America and Republic of Violent Tornado in Tennessee. Towns of Shelbyville and Charlotte almost entirely de- REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. SKETCHES OF PARIS: IN FAMILIAR LETTERS TO HIS FRIENDS. BY AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN. One Volume, pp. 320. Carey and art. WE have read this book attentively, and with pleasure; and having enjoyed personal acquaintance with the subjects described, can answer for the general correctness of the author's delineations, and the truth of his vivacious remarks. The liveliness of the details and the originality of the style compelled our attention to the end of the volume, which is pretty positive proof that these "Sketches" are more than usually interesting. Mr. Sanderson, the author, is an observant traveller, not pleased with trifles, nor willingly annoyed; he does not intrude an undigested lump of politico-economical remarks into a chapter on the French opera; nor does he construe an invitation to breakfast into a national offence; he enjoys the French vivacity without repudiating his country, and glories in the land of his birth without insulting the hospitality of his foreign friends. His "Sketches" are written in an easy, off-hand, familiar style, which occasionally startles us by its freedom and absence of deference to the conventional usages. Such a traveller reflects more credit upon his country than scores of snarling, factious demagogues, who are for ever thrusting the superiority of their native land and the perfectness of its institutions into the throats of strangers, till the very name "stinks i' the noɛtrils." To use his own words, "I am never angry with foreigners for having any thing better than we have it ourselves; nor do I take any merit to myself because the Mississippi is two miles wide, or because the Niagara falls with such sublimity into Lake Ontario." Mr. Sanderson was in Paris at the time of the dispute respecting the payment of the indemnity to the United States, when the President's Message was the general topic of discourse. He says, good humoredly enough, while describing a fete, given on the birth-day of Louis Philippe, I did not take off my hat, and shout with the rest, when his majesty bowed. I was not quite sure whether the laws of natious would justify me in making a bow, until he has paid the "twenty-five millions." However, I said, quietly to myself, "vive le roi!" He is, sans compliment, the most sensible head of a king that is in Europe; and I wish him, from the good will I bear the French nation, to live out his time.-But I did not let the paltry sum of" twenty-five millions" interfere with the respect I owed her majesty's curtsey. The shoe blacks of Paris" take the shine out" of our humbler Samboes-voila! Let me introduce you to this shoe black. He has, as you see, a little box, a brush or two in it, and blacking, and fixture on top for a foot; this is his fond de boutique, his stock in trade. He brushes off the mud to the soles of your feet, and shows you your own features in your boots for three sous. This one has just dissolved an ancient firm, and his advertisement, which he calls a "prospectus," standing here so prim upon a board, announces the event. The partnership is dissolved, but the whole "personnel," he says, of the establishment remains with the present proprietor; and M. Badaraque, ex-partner, has also the honor to inform us that he has transported the "appareil de son etablissement," to the " Place de la Bourse, une des plus jolies locations de la ville." The "Decrotteur en chef," at the Palais Royal, and other places of fashion, has his assistants, and serves a dozen or two of customers at a time. He has a shop furnished with cloth-covered benches in amphitheatre, as at the Chamber of Deputies, with a long horizontal iron support for the foot, and pictures are hung around the walls. "On dit, monsieur, que c'est d'apres Teniers—celui, monsieur? c'est apres Vandyke," and there are newspapers and reviews; so that to polish a gentleman's boots and his understanding, are parts of the same process. The description of Taglioni, the illustrious danseuse, is good. To use the author's words, applied to another artiste, "The description will seem bombast only to those who have not seen her, and to those who have, it will seem tame and inadequate." The opera last night was " Robert le Diable." There was the representation of a grave yard and a resurrection; and the ghosts, at least two hundred, flocked out of the ground, in white frocks and silk stockings, and they squeaked and gibbered all over the stage. Then they asked one another out to dance, and performed the most fashionable ballets of their country, certainly, in a manner very creditable to the other world. And while these waltzed and quadrilled, another set were entertaining themselves with elegant and fashionable amusements, some were turning somersets upon a new grave; others playing at whist upon a tombstone, and others again were jumping the rope over a winding sheet; when suddenly they all gave a screech and skulked into their graves; there was a flutter through the house, the music announcing some great event, and at length, amidst a burst of acclamations, Mademoiselle Taglioni stood upon the margin of the scene. She seemed to have alighted there from some other sphere. I expected to be little pleased with this lady, I had heard such frequent praises of her accomplishments, but was disappointed. Her exceeding beauty surpasses the most excessive eulogy. Her dance is the whole rhetoric of pantomime; its movements, pauses, and attitudes, in their purest Attie simplicity, chastity and urbanity. She has a power over the feelings which you will be unwilling to concede to her art. She will make your heart beat with joy; she will make you weep by the sole eloquence of her limbs. What inimitable grace! In all she attempts you will love her, and best in that which she attempts last. If she stands still you will wish her a statue that she may stand still always; or if she moves you will wish her a wave of the sea that she may do nothing but that move still, still so, and own no other function.”—To me she appeared last night to have filled up entirely the illusion of the play-to have shuffled off this gross and clumsy humanity, and to belong to some airy and spiritual world. The art of dressing, as I have read in the history of Holland and other places, has been carried often by the ladies to a blameable excess of quantity; so much so, that a great wit said in his day, a woman was "the least part of herself." Taglioni's sins, it is true, do not lie on this side of the category; she produced last evening nothing but herself-Mademoiselle Taglioni in the abstract. Ovid would not have complained of her. Her lower limbs wore a light silk, imitating nature with undistinguishable nicety, and her bosom a thin gauze which just relieved the eye, as you have seen a fine fleecy cloud hang upon the dazzling sun. But there is no gentleman out of New England who would not have grieved to see her spoilt by villanous mantua-makers, She did not, moreover, exceed what the courtesy of nations has permitted, and what is necessary to the proper exhibition of her art. The house and family of the Parisian executioner are well described-and the story of De Laly is an accredited fact. I will now show you a house in this street, (Rue des Marais du Temple, No. 31,) a house that once seen will never depart from your memory. Its closed door and windows, as if no one lived there; its iron railing without entrance, and the interstices condemned with wood, in front; and the slit in the centre of the door to receive the correspondence of its horrible master, who sits within as a spider in its web, you will see all the rest of your life. It is the house of MONSIEUR de Paris. Oh, dear! and who is Monsieur de Paris? He is a civil magistrate, and belongs to the executive department. No one living is, perhaps, so great a terror to evil doers as this Monsicur de Paris. Monsieur," you must recollect, has its particular, and its general meanings. Monsieur, means any body; un monsieur, is a gentleman of some breeding and education; La maison de monsieur, is the family of the king's eldest son; Monsieur de Meaux, means the Archbishop, and Monsieur de Paris, means the Hangman! He is also called the "Executeur de la haute justice," or "Executeur des hautes œuvres," and vulgarly, the Bourreau. This is his Hotel. The name of the present incumbent is Mr. Henry Sanson. His family consists of a son, a person of mild and gentle manners, who is now serving his apprenticeship to the business under his eminent parent; and two daughters. The elder about fifteen, is remarkable for beauty and accomplishment. The father is rich; his salary being above that of the President of the Royal Court, and he has spared no expense in the education of the girls. They will be sumptuously endowed. The two ends of society are affected sometimes in nearly the same way. A princess, being obliged to select her husband from her own rank and religion, runs the hazard of a perpetual virginity; and Mademoiselle de Paris experiences exactly the same inconvenience; she can marry but a Hangman. There is no one of all Europe, who has performed the same eminent functions, as Mr. Henry Sanson, or to whom, without loss of dignity, he can offer the hand of his fair daughter. Ye lords and gentlemen, if you think you have all the pride to yourselves, you are mistaken; the hangman has his share like another man. Mr. Sanson has appropriated one or two rooms of this building to a Museum of ancient instruments, used in judicial torture-Luke's iron bed, Ravillac's boots, and such like relics; and is quite a dilettanti in this department of science. We expect a course of gratuitous lectures, as at the "Museé des Arts et Metiers," when the season begins. Amongst other objects, you will see the sword with which was beheaded the Marquis de Laly. I am going to tell you an anecdote I have read of this too famous execution, which is curious. About the year 1750, in the middle of the night, three young men of the high class of nobility, after breaking windows, and the heads of street passengers, and beating the guard, (which was the privilege of the higher classes in those times,) strolling down the Faubourg St. Martin, laughing and talking, and well fuddled with champaigne, arrived at the door of this house. They heard the sound of instruments, and music so lively seemed to indicate a hearty bourgeois dance. Ilow fortunate! they could now pass the night pleasantly. One of them knocked, and a polite well-dressed person opened. A young lord explained the motive of their visit, and was refused. You are wrong," said the nobleman, "we are of the court, and do you honor in sharing your amusements." "I am obliged nevertheless to refuse," replied the stranger: "neither of you know the person you are addressing, or you would be as anxious to withdraw, as now to be admitted.""Excellent, upon honor! and who the devil are you? "The executioner of Paris.” Ha, ha, ha! what you? you the gentleman who breaks limbs, cuts off heads, and tortures poor devils, so agreeably?" "Such indeed are the duties of my office; I leave, however, the details you speak of, to my deputies, and it is only when a lord like either of you is subject to the penalties of the law, that I do execution on him with my own hands." The individual who held this dialogue with the executioner was the Marquis de Laly. Twenty years after he died by the hands of this man, upon whose office he was now exercising his raillery. 64 The description of the Morgue, or House of the Dead, is a befitting pendant to the above. Towards the south and west of the island you will see a little building distinguished from its dingy neighbors by its gentility and freshness. It stands retired by the river side modestly, giving a picturesque appear. ance to the whole prospect, and a relief to the giant monuments which I have just described. This building is the Morgue. If any gentleman, having lost his money at Frascati's-or his health and his money too at the |