1792. JOHN, earl of Bute, died. He was made prime minister of England, from which he voluntarily retired to enjoy a life of learned leisure. 1797. The city of Albany made the capital of the state of New York. 1797. Delaware county, in the state of New York, erected. 1812. BONAPARTE issued a decree _denationalizing_ all flags that should submit to the British orders in council. 1813. Action at night in Chesapeake bay between the United States schooner Adeline and the British schooner Lottery; the latter it is supposed was sunk. 1819. FREDERICK HENRY JACOBI, a German philosophical writer, died. 1820. BENJAMIN WEST, the painter, died at London, aged 82. He was born at Springfield, Penn., 1738. The first indications of his genius were elicited at the age of seven years, by drawing the portrait of his sleeping sister in red and black ink. He began painting as a profession at the age of 18, and four years after went to England. He was subsequently induced by Sir Joshua Reynolds to take up his residence in London, where he acquired a reputation seldom attained, and at the time of his death was president of the Royal academy. 1826. JOHN PINKERTON, an eminent and voluminous Scottish author, died at Paris, aged 68. 1829. The William and Anne, a British trading vessel, wrecked at the mouth of Columbia river, on the north-west coast of America, and the whole crew, 16 Europeans and 10 Sandwich islanders, murdered by the natives. 1833. SAMUEL TUCKER, an American revolutionary commodore, died at Bremen, Maine. He was distinguished as a brave and able commander, and at the time of his death, was supposed to have been, next to Lafayette, the highest surviving officer of the revolution. 1855. JAMES BROWN, an eminent book-publisher of Boston, Mass., died, aged 55. He not only was eminent in his profession, but possessed the taste and spirit of a scholar. 1855. CARLOS, the claimant of the Spanish throne from the time of the death of Ferdinand in 1833, died at Trieste, where he was known as the conde de Molina. 1855. The college building at Princeton, N. J., known as Nassau hall, was destroyed by fire. It was built in 1756 and in the Revolutionary war was used for barracks, by both the British and Americans. MARCH 11. 1302. The marriage of ROMEO MONTOCCHIO with JULIET CAPELLETTO was solemnized at the church of the Minorites, at Citadella. These were Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 1444. The university of Paris issued a circular addressed to all the French clergy, expressing the opinion of the church, that the _feast of fools_, about the calends of January, was a well imagined institution, connected with Christianity, and that those who attempted to suppress it should be curst and excommunicate. 1513. JOHN MEDICI elected pope and assumed the title of Leo X. From his grave appearance it was often said he seemed never to have been a child. 1544. Birthday of TORQUATO TASSO, styled the prince of Italian poets.