1404. PHILIP (_the bold_), duke of Burgundy, died. He was a just and brave prince, but so profuse in his expenses, that his body was seized after death by his creditors, and it was with difficulty that his duchess could redeem it. 1573. The army or the States General seized Flushing, and hanged the Spanish commander. 1603. King JAMES I, on his way to take possession of the English crown, was magnificently entertained at Winchinbrook by Sir Oliver Cromwell. 1610. Patent for Newfoundland granted to the earl of Northampton and 44 other persons, by the name of the treasurer and company of adventurers and planters of the cities of Bristol and London, for the colony or plantation of Newfoundland, from lat. 46 to 52 deg., together with the seas and islands lying within ten leagues of the coast. 1667. MILTON disposed of the copy right of the _Paradise Lost_ for £5! It was with much difficulty that he could find any one to undertake the publication of it. 1702. JOHN BARTH died; who by his bravery and skill rose to a high rank in the French navy. 1717. The Dissenters received £5,000 for damages done their meeting houses during the rebellion on account of the pretender to the English throne. 1742. NICHOLAS AMHERST, an English political writer, died. He for a considerable time published the _Craftsman_, a paper conducted with unusual spirit and success, which guided the public taste and awed the administration. 1762. The Irish levelers suppressed by Lord Halifax. 1775. The Bostonians delivered up a large quantity of guns, &c., to the British general Gage. 1782. EDWARD CHAMBERLAYNE, an English statesman, died. He was one of the best scholars of his age. 1785. Prince LEOPOLD of Brunswick, son of the reigning duke, having gone to the relief of the inhabitants of an inundated village on the Oder, near Frankfort, was upset in his boat and drowned. Thus dying as he had lived, in the highest exercise of humanity. 1792. JOHN JAMES ANKERSTROOM, a Swedish officer, executed for the murder of Gustavus, king of Sweden. 1794. WILLIAM JONES died, a man who rose by the superiority of his genius, from a low station to a high judicial office in Bengal. By his unwearied industry and skill in the Asiatic languages, he successfully explored the hidden sources of oriental science and literature, and to whose translations we are indebted for many beautiful effusions of the Persian muse. As a linguist he has seldom if ever been surpassed. He was master of almost every language of Europe and Asia. 1794. JAMES BRUCE, the celebrated Scottish traveler, died. Being consul at Algiers, he found leisure to study the oriental languages, and formed the project of exploring the interior of Africa. He discovered the sources of the Nile.