1807. An armistice between the emperors of France and Russia, when they held a personal conference upon a raft moored in the river Niemen, near Tilsit. The sovereigns embraced each other, and retiring under a canopy, had a long conversation, to which no one was a witness.
1813. British under admiral Cockburn, with 2,000 troops, took Hampton, Va., and pillaged it for two days.
1815. Bonaparte's farewell address to his soldiery.
1816. Hugh Henry Brackenridge, a Pennsylvania judge, died; known as the author of Modern Chivalry, a poem, and by other works.
1823. Alexander Griffiths, at once a parricide and suicide, was buried in the cross roads near London; the last so interred, as the act giving suicides Christian burial then took effect.
1841. Alexander Macomb, commander in chief of the army of the United States, died at Washington. He entered the service of the United States in 1799 as cornet of dragoons; was raised to the rank of brigadier general in 1814, and commanded at the successful battle of Plattsburgh.
1842. M. Sismondi, the historian, died near Geneva, aged 69.
1844. Jarvis Cutler, the first white man that cut down a tree for a settlement in Ohio, died at Evansville, Indiana.
1852. Dudley Marvin, an eminent lawyer of western New York, died, aged 65, at Ripley, Chautauque county. He was a native of Lyme, Ct., studied at Canandaigua, and was several times returned to congress.