In March 1797 he looked with sympathy on a scheme by MPs and peers to form a government without Pitt and wrote a Memorial on the state of Ireland in which he called for Emancipation and the sacking of anti-Catholic members of the Irish government, which would reconcile Catholics to British rule and halt the spread of Jacobinism.

Seven locks, each with a small rise, were planned but the scheme foundered in 1797, due to financial difficulties.

Two Vaudois, Charles Monnard ( 1790 – 1865 ) and Louis Vulliemin ( 1797 – 1879 ) carried out their great scheme of translating ( 1837 1840 ) J von Müller's Swiss history with its continuation by Hottinger, and then completed it ( 1841 – 1851 ) down to 1815.

The engineer Rennie designed a canal link from the Monkland Canal to the Clyde in 1797, but it involved of lockage and was impossibly expensive ; Stevenson prepared a similar scheme later but it too foundered.

It later came to the attention of the West when it was discovered by Louis Nicolas Vauquelin in the mineral crocoite ( lead ( II ) chromate ) in 1797.

He had plans of Notre Dame delivered and participants in the coronation came to his studio to pose individually, though never the Emperor ( the only time David obtained a sitting from Napoleon had been in 1797 ).

Zane's Trace, as it has become known, was completed by 1797, and as Zane's sons began to carve the square-mile tract astride the Hocking into saleable plots, the city of Lancaster formally came into being in 1800.

This led to more dawdling and the unitarists in the Assembly now came with their own proposal in the form of the Declaration of 43 on December 12, 1797, containing a nine-point manifesto concerning the minimum conditions to which the new constitution should conform.

The first territorial claim on a part of Namibia came when Britain occupied Walvis Bay, confirming the settlement of 1797, and permitted the Cape Colony to annex it in 1878.

Plan of the fleet deployment during the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 </ br > by Alfred Thayer Mahan During the night came the sounds that the English fleet had been waiting to hear – the signal guns of the Spanish ships in the fog.

A fact important to the later development of the steam locomotive by others was that, in 1797 and 1798, Richard Trevithick came to live in Redruth next door to the house where William Murdoch lived ( 1782 to 1798 ).

A few years after the French Revolution, the Ionian area came under the rule of the First French Republic ( 1797 – 1798 ), and the island became the honorary capital of Cephallonia, Lefkada, and part of the Greek mainland, which formed the French département of Ithaque ( the prefecture was at Argostoli on Kefalonia ).

Historian Will T. Hale believes that the first settlers in the county were at Liberty and came from Maryland in 1797.

The coat-of-arms currently on display is that of Ludovico Manin, the Doge reigning when the Republic of St. Mark came to an end in 1797.

While pursuing the Indians, the Spaniards came upon a fertile valley in 1797 which was named Los Vallecitos de San Marcos ( Little Valleys of Saint Mark ) to honor the day of discovery: April 25, “ St.

The township was incorporated in 1797 out of part of the existing Newton Township, and was said to have been named after Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after a visitor who hailed from that area came to help out at the rural school in the township.

Andrew Hume got the appointment of Commissary-General for New South Wales, and came out to this colony in 1797.

Several islands, most notably Crete ( 1204-1669 ), Euboea ( Negroponte, until 1470 ), and the Ionian Islands ( until 1797 ) came under the rule of Venice.

With the peace treaty of Campoformido in 1797, Venetian domination came to an end and Friuli was ceded to Austria.

After the fall of Venice in 1797 and with the Treaty of Campo Formio, Zadar came under the Austrian crown and was united with the rest of Croatia.

In 1797, George Bass, in an open whaleboat with a crew of six, was the first European to enter what came to be called Bass Strait, the passage between the Australian mainland and Van Diemen's Land ( Tasmania ).

He came into power as head of the business on his father's sudden death in 1797.

Father John MacEnery ( 27 November 1797 – 18 February 1841 ) was a Roman Catholic priest from Limerick, Ireland and early archaeologist who came to Devon as Chaplain to the Cary family at Torre Abbey in 1822.

The recipe then came into the hands of Henri Louis Pernod through the means of a business deal, and in 1797, he and Daniel Henri Dubied opened the first absinthe distillery in Couvet, Switzerland.

The first creation came in the Peerage of Ireland in 1797 when he was made Baron Keith, of Stonehaven Marrischal, with remainder in default of issue male of his own to his daughter and only child from his first marriage, Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, and the heirs male of her body.

His parents, William and Mary Batman, came to Sydney in 1797 aboard the Ganges.

In 1794 the king came of age, and in 1797 he began to exercise power on his own.

In 1797 the town came under French occupation during the French Revolutionary Wars.

The city was under the Republic of Venice from 1405 to 1797.

By the charter renewal in 1781 it was also the bankers ' bank – keeping enough gold to pay its notes on demand until 26 February 1797 when war had so diminished gold reserves that the government prohibited the Bank from paying out in gold.

The earliest written reference to crochet refers to slip stitch crochet | shepherd's knitting from The Memoirs of a Highland Lady by Elizabeth Grant ( 1797 – 1830 ) in the 19th century.

In 1797, Thompson was sent south by his employers to survey part of Canada-U. S. boundary along the water routes from Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods to satisfy unresolved questions of territory arising from the Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States.

Requesting a sitting from the busy and impatient general, David was able to sketch Napoleon in 1797.

A notorious instance from the Britannica's early years is the rejection of Newtonian gravity by George Gleig, the chief editor of the 3rd edition ( 1788 – 1797 ), who wrote that gravity was caused by the classical element of fire.

After an absence from the stage from 1790 until 1797, she reappeared, quitting it finally in 1799.

He retired from the presidency in 1797 and returned to his home, Mount Vernon, and his domestic life where he managed a variety of enterprises.

After retiring from the presidency in March 1797, Washington returned to Mount Vernon with a profound sense of relief.

( Contains mostly writings from the late Jena period, 1797 – 1799 ).

The future site of Washington Square was a potter's field from 1797 to 1823 when 10 to 20, 000 of New York's poor were buried here, and still remain.

A writer and follower of the philosophers of the Enlightenment tradition of the previous century, Jovellanos had served as Minister of Justice from 1797 to 1798 under King Charles IV of Spain.

In 1834 James Frampton, a local landowner, wrote to the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, to complain about the union, invoking an obscure law from 1797 prohibiting people from swearing oaths to each other, which the members of the Friendly Society had done.

Coleridge attributed the poem's origins to one of his stays at Ash Farm, possibly the one that happened in October 1797: " This fragment with a good deal more, not recoverable, composed, in a sort of Reverie brought on by two grains of Opium taken to check a dysentry, at a Farm House between Porlock & Linton, a quarter of a mile from Culbone Church, in the fall of the year, 1797 ".

Böttiger supplied the descriptive letter-press to the 1797 German edition of Tischbein's reproductions from William Hamilton's second collection of Greek vases, and thus introduced the study of Greek vase-painting into Germany.

In 1794, France's revolutionary armies began bringing pieces from Northern Europe, augmented after the Treaty of Tolentino ( 1797 ) by works from the Vatican, such as Laocoön and His Sons and the Apollo Belvedere, to establish the Louvre as a museum and as a " sign of popular sovereignty ".

The song is a lively mazurka with lyrics penned by Józef Wybicki in Reggio nell ' Emilia, Cisalpine Republic ( now in Italy ), around 16 July 1797, two years after the Third Partition of Poland erased the once vast country from the map.

The word was originally an alchemist's term for the extraction of metals from minerals: the ending-urgy signifying a process, especially manufacturing: it was in this sense it was used by the 1797 Encyclopaedia Britannica.