received a deputation from the monks of mount Sinai, and countersigned the charter they had received from Mahomet.
1803. Louisiana taken possession of by the Americans.
1807. Embargo; the ports of the United States closed against British commerce.
1812. James Clinton, an American general, died. He was a firm and undeviating patriot of the revolution.
1812. Peter Henry Larcher, a French writer, died. He translated some of the principal Greek classics.
1813. The Indians attacked and defeated at Ecchanachaca, by the Americans under general Claiburn, who destroyed the town, 200 houses, with a large quantity of provisions.
1818. Philip Francis, an English statesman, died. He was an active promoter of the impeachment of the famous Warren Hastings, and was considered by some as the author of Junius's Letters.
1822. William Lowndes, a distinguished orator and patriot, of South Carolina, died at sea.
1828. William Hyde Wollaston died, aged 62; one of the ablest and most renowned of English chemists and natural philosophers. Very little of his personal history is known, his biography not having been written (1846).
1832. Francis Huber, a Swiss naturalist, died, aged 82. He lost his sight at the age of 17. Notwithstanding this difficulty in the way of scientific pursuits, with the assistance of his wife, he wrote and published a very accurate work on the habits of bees, and some other works.