Williamsburg, Sept. 25, and invest Yorktown, 6: Cornwallis surrenders the land forces to the Americans, and the fleet to the French, Oct. 19: there were more than 7000 prisoners, exclusive of seamen, 60 pieces of cannon, principally brass, and 2 frigates, and 20 transports, with their crews; Lafayette returns to France.

1782. The U. S. vessel Hyder Alley, Capt. Barney, of 16 guns, captured the British ship General Monk, Capt. Rogers of 29 guns, April 8: Holland acknowl. edges the independence of America, April 19, and forms a treaty with her, Oct. 8: American independence acknowledged by Sweden, Feb. 5: Denmark, Feb. 25: Spain, March, 24: Russia, July.

1783. Preliminary articles of peace, signed at Versailles, between the American and British commissioners, Jan. 20: by official accounts furnished the British Parliament, 43,633 men, exclusive of officers, had been killed or died in the, American service, and the sum expended in that war amounted to $645,615,455, March 4; New York evacuated, Nov. 25: Washington separates from the army, Dec. 4: resigns his commission into the hands of Congress, in person, at Annapolis, Md., Dec. 23.

1785. John Adams, first ambassador from the U. States to the Court of St. James, had his first audience of the king of Great Britain, June 2:

1786. Rebellion in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, under Daniel Shays.

1787. Shays is attacked by Genera! Lincoln and his party dispersed.

1788. Constitution formed at Philadelphia, May. 1789. Eleven States adopt the new constitution, and George Washington elected president and John Adams vice-president.

1790. Rhode Island accedes to the Constitution, in May: a treaty with the Creek Indians is formed: a National Bank is establishsd: Vermont admitted into the Union Gen. Hamar defeated by the Indians, near Chilicothe, Sept. 30.

1791. The first census of the United colonies completed; population, 3,921,326-revenue, $ 4,771,000; exports, $ 19,000,000 › imports, $20,000,000.,

The same year, Gen. St. Clair supersedes Gen. Hamar, and on the 4th Nov. is surprised and defeated by the Indians: Kentucky is admitted into the Union.

1792. Mint established.

1793. Washington and Adams re-elected: the French revolution, which broke out in 1789, beginning to affect American politics, Washington issues a proclamation of neutrality, 22d April: same month, Génet, appointed minister by the Republic of France, arrived at Charleston, and created much disturbance in the States: he was recalled at the request of Washington.

1794. Gen. Wayne defeats the Indians, Aug 20 : so decisive was the victory that it disposed the enemy to peace, and had a salutary effect upon all the tribes northwest of the Ohio, and the six nations: Jay's treaty, Nov. 19: Mr. Jefferson resigns as secretary of state, and is succeeded by William Bradford.

1795. Mr. Hamilton resigns as secretary of the treasury, Jan. 1, and is succeeded by Oliver Wolcott, of Connecticut; 'Gen. Knox resigns as secretary of war, and is succeeded by Timothy Pickering: treaty with Algiers treaty with Spain, Oct. 27.

1796. Mr. Monroe is sent to France-is recalled, and followed by C. C. Pinckney: Tennessee is admitted into the Union: Gen. Washington signifies

his intention to retire to the shades of private life, and publishes his farewell address to the people of the United States.

1797. Mr. Adams elected president, and Mr. Jefferson vice-president, Feb.: Congress apprehend a war with France.

1798. Gen. Washington takes command of the army the French frigate L'Insurgente of 40 guns, captured by the frigate Constellation, of 36 guns, Com. Truxton, who compelled another frigate of 50 guns to strike her colours, but she afterwards escaped in the night, Feb. 10.

1799. Gen. Washington aged 68 years, died at Mount Vernon, after an illness of 24 hours, Dec. 14.

1800. Seat of government transferred to Washings ton city treaty with the French directory, Sept. 30: Mr. Adams signs the alien and sedition laws.

1801. Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Burr having an equal number of votes for president and vice-president, the election devolved upon the house of representatives, and it was not till the thirty-sixth vote, that the election was decided, when Mr. Jefferson obtained a majority of one: he was inaugurated president, March 4; Congress declare war against Tripoli.

Second census completed :-population 5,319,762: revenue, $12,945,000: exports, $ 94,000,000,

1802. New Orleans, having been ceded by Spain to France, was closed against the United States; and a proposition was made in Congress to take the the whole country by force, which, however, not meeting the pacific views of the executive, a treaty was entered into with the French directory, who, for $15,000,900, sold to the United States the whole country from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean : the treaty was concluded in 1803, at Paris.

1803. Com. Preble sails with a squadron against Tripoli; the frigate Philadelphia is captured by the Barbarians, in Oct.

1804. Capt. Eaton appointed navy agent for the Barbary powers; Decatur recaptures and destroys the frigate Philadelphia Feb.: Alexander Hamilton is killed in a duel by Aaron Burr, July.

1805. Eaton forms a convention with Hamet, the expelled bashaw of Tripoli, for the subjugation of that government: an army is raised in Egypt, and Eaton appointed general under Hamet: from Egypt they cross a desert 1000 miles in extent, to Derne, a Tripolitan city on the Mediterranean, which they attack and carry, in which Eaton is wounded, another battle is fought, and Eaton again victorious, June 10: the bashaw offers terms of peace, which are acceded to, and 200 prisoners given up, the U. States paying $60,000, June 23: Mr. Jefferson re-elected president, and George Clinton of New York, vice-president.

1806. Impressment of American seamen begun by Great Britain, under the plea of their having been born in that kingdom: Charles Fox's paper blockade, May: Berlin decree, Nov. 21.

1807. Col. Aaron Burr, late vice-president, is arrested on the river Tombigbee, in Mississippi territory, charged with high misdemeanour and treason, in Feb.-is brought to Richmond, Va. under military escort-tried before Chief Justice Marshall, and acquitted, sufficient evidence of his guilt not being presented, Aug. the British ship of war Leopard commits an outrage upon the frigate Chesapeake, Com. Baron, June 22: Britain issues orders in council retaliatory to the Berlin decree, Nov. 11: Bonaparte issues the Milan decree, Dec. 17: Congress lave an embargo on American vessels, Dec. 22.

1809. James Madison elected president, and George Clinton re-elected vice-president: embargo repealed, aud a non-intercourse act passed, March: Bonaparte's Rambouillet decree, March 23: Mr. Erskine the British minister recalled for making an unauthorized treaty he is succeeded by Mr. Jackson with whom the American government have a rupture, and demand his recall: French decrees repealed: Great Britain refuses to repeal her orders in council.

1810. Third census completed: population, 7,239,903.

1811. The frigate President, Com. Rogers, is attacked by the Little Belt, Capt. Bingham, off Cape Charles, May 16; the Indians being excited by agents of Great Britain, collect on the Wabash under the famous Tecumseh, and his brother, a fanatic of the Shawanee tribe, who commit the usual atrocities of barbarian warfare; Gen. William H. Harrison is ordered against them, and fights the battle of Tippecanoe, and defeats the Indians, Nov. 7: Mr. Foster succeeds Mr. Jackson as minister from Great Britain: Congress were assembled by the president's proclamation, Nov. 4: the regular army was augmented to 35,090 men, and the president authorized to borrow $11,000,000: double duties laid on foreign goods, and taxes on domestic manufactures: measures preparatory to war.

1812. The president lays before Congress copies of Henry's disclosure, Feb. 25: embargo laid on American vessels, April: War declared, against G. Britain, June 18: Gen. Hull erected the American standard in Upper Canada, July 13: the U. S. brig Nautilus, of 16 guns, Lieut. Crane, captured by a British squadron, July 15: Michilimackinack taken by the British, July 17: Gen. Hull surrendered his army and the whole Territory of Michigan to the British