1788. £1,340,000 voted on motion of Mr. Pitt for the benefit of American loyalists.
1793. British order in council to capture vessels bound to France with corn meal or flour, the cargoes to be paid for.
1794. Festival in Paris dedicated to the Supreme Being.
1794. Corsica united to England.
1794. Godfred Augustus Burger, a German poet, died, aged 46.
1795. Louis XVII (the dauphin), died. The unhappy prince was put in charge of a wretch, on the execution of his father, by the name of Simon, a cobbler, with the instructions that he was to be got rid of. Accordingly, by the most severe treatment, by beating, cold, vigils, fasts, and ill usage of every kind, he sank to the grave.
1806. George Wythe, a signer from Virginia, died, aged 81. He was a learned and upright man.
1807. Battle of Gutstadt, in which the French under Bonaparte defeated 10,000 Russian cavalry, and 15,000 infantry, taking 1,000 prisoners.
1809. Thomas Paine, a political writer of great force during the revolution, died, aged 72. His writings were deemed of so much service that the legislature of Pennsylvania voted him £500, and New York made him a grant of land. His life and conduct subsequently was extremely imprudent and reprehensible.
1809. Battle of Viga; the French, 8,000, under Ney, attacked 12,000 Spaniards under Carera, and were repulsed.