1789. JOHN LEDYARD, the traveler, died. He was born at Groton, Conn., 1751; entered Dartmouth college at the age of 19, but for some reproof resolved to escape: accordingly he felled a tree on the bank of the Connecticut, of which he constructed a canoe, and descended the river 140 miles to Hartford: studied theology a while, and then enlisted as a common sailor for a voyage to Gibraltar; accompanied Capt. Cook in one of his voyages, of which he published an account. Not meeting with assistance to prosecute any of the daring enterprises he proposed, he finally determined to make the tour of the globe from London east, on foot; and had proceeded as far as Yakutsk in Siberia, when he was arrested by order of the queen as a French spy and hurried back to the frontiers of Poland. He returned to London, he says, "disappointed, ragged, pennyless, but with a whole heart." He had scarcely taken lodgings when Sir Joseph Banks proposed an African expedition. He accepted the offer and proceeded as far as Cairo, where he was attacked by a disease which carried him off. 1789. CHARLES IV proclaimed king of Spain. 1791. Lord DUNGARVON, an Irish peer, was tried at the Old Bailey, London, for stealing three and a half guineas from a poor woman in town, but was acquitted. 1792. GEORGE HORNE, bishop of Norwich, died. His _Sermons_ and _Commentary on the Psalms_, are well known. 1795. The stadtholder, WILLIAM V, obtained permission from the States General to withdraw from Holland. 1800. The church at Chelmsford, England, fell; it was first built in 1424. 1804. CHARLES NISBET died, aged 67. He was a Scotch clergyman, and the first president of Dickinson college in Pennsylvania. 1806. An iris or lunar rainbow was seen for one hour (9¼ to 10¼) at Wakefield in Yorkshire, England. 1810. Masquerades and masked balls prohibited by the authorities in the city of Philadelphia. 1811. The Mexican patriots under Hidalgo totally defeated near Guadalaxara by the Spaniards under Calleja. 1813. Capture of the United States brig Vixen, 12 guns, Capt. Henley, by the British frigate Narcissus. 1815. The king of Spain issued an edict against freemasonry. 1817. At Philadelphia and Albany the singular phenomena of snow, clear weather, rain, snow, thunder and lightning, hail and snow, was observed in succession. 1836. Two engagements in the mountains of Arlaban, between the forces of the queen of Spain under Gen. Cordova and the Carlists, in which the latter were defeated. 1841. REZIN P. BOWIE died at New Orleans, aged 48; "well known in the southwest by his many deeds of valor in its early history, among the Mexicans and savages." 1851. SPENCER COMPTON, marquis of Northampton, died, aged 61. He was president of the Royal society; was associated with Wilberforce in the anti-slavery cause, and with Macintosh as a criminal law reformer.