24. Mr. Reuben Kelsey of Fairfield, Vermont, died of voluntary starvation, caused by mental delusion. He lived fifty-two days without taking any nourishment, except water. 24. General Vismout appointed governor of Buenos Ayres. 25. Joseph Story installed as the first Dane Professor of Law in Harvard University. 25. General Diebitsch, with the main body of the Russian army, commences his march from Adrianople towards Constantinople. SEPTEMBER. 12. Surrender of the Spanish army under General Barradas at Tampico, Mexico, to the Mexican army under General Santa Anna; the Spaniards to transport themselves to Havana, and pledge themselves not to serve against Mexico in future. APPENDIX TO PART FIRST. True Distances between the Centres of the Sun and Moon, for every third Hour (apparent Time) for the Meridian of Greenwich.* When the distances decrease the sun is east, and when they increase, west, of the moon. *These distances are corrected for the error in Delambre's tables of the sun, which are used without correction, in the computation of the distances, in the English Nautical Almanac. |