1816. Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman and orator, died at his seat of Morrisiana, near New York.
1817. Charlotte Augusta, wife of prince Leopold of Coburg, and daughter of George IV of England and queen Caroline, died. The domestic life of the two former is held to be a pattern—not so the latter.
1831. Philip Van Courtland, an officer of the revolutionary war, died at New York, aged 82.
1839. The British war ships Volage and Hyacinth proceeding to Chumpee in violation of the Chinese proclamation, were approached by 29 Chinese war junks, which they attacked. Six of the junks were sunk or blown up, and upwards of 500 men killed. The English suffered no
injury. This was the beginning of the Chinese war.
1840. George R. T. Hewes, one of the persons who assisted in throwing the tea overboard in Boston harbor in the beginning of the revolution, died at German Flats, aged 106.
1854. George Cathcart, an eminent British general, killed at the battle of Inkerman, aged 60.
1854. Charles Kemble, an eminent English comedian, died at London, aged 74; the last surviving brother of this distinguished family.
1854. Battle of Inkerman, in which 50,000 Russians engaged 14,000 British and French. Russians lost about 9,000 besides prisoners; allies lost about 4,000.
1854. By the cholera which prevailed this season, the number of deaths up to this day were: in New York, 2,425; in Philadelphia, 575; in Boston, 255; in Pittsburg, 600.