1813. American privateer schooner Hazard, Capt. Le Chartier, of 3 guns and 38 men, captured the British merchant ship Albion of 12 guns and 15 men; on the 23d she was re-captured by the British cutter Caledonia of 8 guns and 38 men; on the 26th the Hazard fell in with and took both of them; but succeeded in bringing the Albion only into St. Mary's. The Hazard had her first lieutenant and 6 men wounded, but she was much shattered. Great part of the Caledonia's crew were killed or wounded. 1814. BONAPARTE defeated by the allied army near Chaumenil. 1814. A destructive eruption of Albay in Luconia, one of the Phillipines. 1815. Eruption of the volcano of Albay, in the province of Camarines, on the southern part of one of the Phillipine islands, in the Indian ocean; by this awful catastrophe five populous towns were entirely destroyed and more than 1200 of the inhabitants perished. 1824. HENRY BATE DUDLEY died. He was born in England 1745, educated for the pulpit, and succeeded to his father's benefice. He established the _Morning Post_, and subsequently several other papers, and manifested his literary abilities by the production of several successful comedies. He obtained a baronetcy, and at the time of his decease was a magistrate for eleven counties. 1824. JOHN LEMPRIERE died, author of the _Biographical Dictionary_. He was an English prelate, and an excellent classical scholar. 1833. ELIZABETH MOORE died, in Pitt county, North Carolina, aged 101. 1837. A memorial was presented to congress, signed by 56 authors of Great Britain, praying that body to secure to them the exclusive right to their respective writings in the United States. 1837. EDWARD DONOVAN died, near London, a celebrated author on natural history. 1837. SIMPSON, in the service of the Hudson Bay company, reached Athabasca, having completed since the first of December a journey of 1277 statute miles, the _preliminary_ step of the expedition. 1845. SAMUEL MCGWINN, known as the _Caithness Veteran_, died at Andover, New-Hampshire, aged 110. 1851. MARY WOLSTONECRAFT, widow of Percy Bysshe Shelley, died, aged 53; known in authorship by her _Travels_ and _Frankenstein_. 1852. Ohio state house burnt, and a large mass of valuable papers perished with it. 1854. SILVIO PELLICO died near Turin in Italy. In 1820 he was seized by the Austrians as a carbonaro, while employed as a tutor, and confined in the fortress of Spielberg ten years. On his release he was employed as librarian by the Marchesa Barolo until his death. 1854. The splendid Parliament house at Quebec, with the government library and philosophical apparatus, were destroyed by fire. 1855. The United States surveying steamer Water Witch, ascending the Paraguay in violation of the ordinance that no man of war should enter that river, was fired at from the fort, and one man killed. The Water Witch returned the fire and backed down the stream.