The National Register. — London, England, 1811-09-15 00:00:00

Thontas Doyle, late of Crittched.friars, rut-reliant. BA tiftftU PTS. John Bownas, of Liverpool, merchant. Richard Vorster, of Carnahy-street, cheesetronger. John Piper, late of Bal....vin's -gardens, Leathcr•lane, common brewer. Alex , nder Learmouth, sen. John Learmrluth, and Alexander Learmouth. jun. of Islarliathent-street, merchants. Abraham Ellis of Lower East Stnatifield. slopseller. Joins Ri k :gins, of North Bradley, Wilts, victualler. Mietvel :aP. of the !oro.l-1)-11 ;ark( t hore-daler. - Joh* Thomas Beurain, late of Highstreet, Shadwell, apo tbeeley. William lid,: fitly, of Widegate-street, Bishopsgate -street, rimer : lienry Hughes, of Mai.zhester, cotton-spinner. Charles Webb, late of Howard-treet, Strand, wine mer chant. William Pennell, jun. late of Queenhithe, merchant. obert tV illiams of Os ford-itrcet, china-man. 'Award Ellis, of %Acre Canterbury, batter. CERI Water Brid. , e. of Liverpool, soap-hoiler.—John Tviaeauley .I,4ines o;d fi eltl,(;-; Liverpool, mercliants.—Williarn Cruden, 'taint i hi ip and Jacob, GI •w ester, rnaltster.—Robert Smith Sig rp, of Great Yarmoilth, thernist.-1-Janies Liversedge, of WW . I, York. cltton-manufacturer.—Valliam Porter and Wil liam slactlish Porter, of Coirthall-court, Throcinorton-street, rn. bt Frida y-Arett, 'Norwich-shawl ' e l se facturer —William Beck, late of shy ate street, draper. V A ititas.:r Adams, of Bu klershard, Suiettialeipton, ship-builder. a-itobert P..ing,le, late of Northumbetland streri, Straaid, titstchisoten§umusl Lonc;more, of Brbtol, linen-draper. TILE COME,T. VOA the Intrtiense poptilatioe of London, its numerous nar- Mi(► meets and lanes which intercept a full view of the Hea- Yens. it is to be supposed that many of its inhabitants have never et observed this interesting stranger. It not therefore be intpinper to niention that during this and the f ollowin g week, Cpl perhaps mueh longs r, it may be observed from the south End or ha n ulms and tilack'riars bridges, and the east end of that of WeAmitesti i. provided thy ski is unclouded and the horizon tal vapours and sna.ike O' the, City do not interrupt tke view. From Illackfrtars bridge at'is minutes past eight in h tee evenin it may be observed N. W. by N. it point westerly, immediately Above the King's Beneb.and Temple (harden, and not far from being below two bright ; Stars in the left tide of the quadrangle in the constellation of Ursa Maj Or.. From the south end of Loedon bridge abort half an hour sf:er eight the Comet will be twin immediately eihnee st. Paul's Cathedral, and from the, east pild of Wes; teinster. bridge at eight &clock , nearly above White ball, Chart- g-eress, the brightness of the Nucleus Coma and tail fine: easing from bight o'clicis till a little after nine, when from its getting near the horizon it becomes dins and uninteresting. This (eoniet is pronounced by a very distinguished Mathe matician, Mr. Page, of Congleton, to be the same that appeared in 1031, and whose period is 150 years. and not 129 years, as has been generally suppteied, and hence expected in 1189, and con fou'.dtd v.ith - the one seen in 1552. Time 1011;014 the tail is conjectured to be betvv,..en twenty and thirty miiiions of miles. The observer, to verify or refute this conyctu. - e, will note the star nearest to the Comet, aiel the rat at the extremity of the tail. It may be of use to inform bur leaders, that fur common observations, the best instrument C' can look through at this C omet is an opera-glass. The C. inets in our system, act ,rding to Sir I. Newton, are 21 in member, moving in all directions. Of these the periods of three May ere supposed to be known to any degree cf certainty. The f.res of them is supposed to return, so as t 3 be visible te the it,lial)itants et arch every 7Sth year; the steond every 129th year; ane 'site third in no less a time than 575 years. This lalt‘te eeo:1 - ,et, at its greatest distaece, is eleven thousand two 1111.0ted millict. f milts from the Sun; and its least distance frdth'the Sun's centi e, which is 490,000 miles, is within less than pate. of the Sun's ititmeter from his surface. In that p.ali of, its orbit, which is nearest the Sun: it flies at the amazing ,wiftaesl.; 18E1r)i.100 miles in an hot:r, and at that period its heat • hp •- hotter than red hot iron, and being thus it a 1 roaches the tut. ape:, instead of its supposed period of 'us of Comets There are rt.un bodies, accompanied by eeeesioned them - to be celled „. F Autis ate 4treptly • r.:' I . llr, NA' • •- - B ANKRup I' SITPERsF.DF.I). _ , must he 1..pc0 Inics hotter Mon r • : .}gated, it I , ..tist retain its hit till kven..l.o 1:.1 it be 20,000 years, ins 575 y . eal4. .. p ~- ~_;,' •r Itc•bilisin speaks tltt . , jr _1 -triakihe Heaven's c. . • •s?-1". ' . s ht , ,ch . hai! ~.. : - ......- ,u• . 4 , •1, j> 4 , , I" : . , i•V-, • . : - rd \ .; ' . 1 1 ...... ... imp f .... ow .. . .-3. bi•-) 4 . . „.),„ (1 . . sk II % • . • ..•, I '',. .. 2, . - 40.1.110 ,1411 r . . . and the only general remarks that can be made on n them arc thag the train or tail is gener all y small on the first appearace of it Comet, gradually lengthens as the Comet comes int 0 the neigh bourhood of the sun , and again diminishen i es a it dire retires n to nearly thee twice. Also the tail is always extended o opposite to the sun." - Hie opinions of Philosophers concerning Comets have been very different. Sir Isaac Newton first abewed that they are a part of the solar systetn revolving round the sun in trajectories, nearly paraboiical, having the sun in the focus. Dr. Haley com.mted the motioes of several Comets, anti among them fotte l d some whhth had precisely the sante trajtetory. lie theree f , ” - e concluded that there were different appearances of one Comet, and that the path of a Comet is a very eccentric eclipse, having the sun in one focus. The apparition of the Comer of len in 1159, which was predicted by Halley, has given his opinion the most complete confirmalion. Comets are therefore planets, 'resembling the others in the laws of their motion, revolving round the sun in elipses, de scribing areas proportiodal to the times, and having the squares of their periodic times prrporttonal to the cubes of their mean distance from the sun. They differ from the planets in the great variety of the position of their orbits, .ai d in this, that many of them have their course in antecedentia Siznorum, (contrary to the order of the Signs of tht Zodiac.) Their nuirtter is very great ; but there are but few with the elements of whose mo tions we are well acquainted. The Cornet of MO came very near to the sue on the 11th of December, its distance not es ceeding its semi-diameter. 'When in its aphelion, it will be al most 150 time- further from the sun than the earth is. Our ideas cc the extent of the 'solar system are thus greatly en larged. No satisfactory knowledge has been acquired concerning the cause of that train of light which accompanies the Com of e the te. S o f ti e philosophers imagine, that it is the rareratmosphere 1 Comet, impelled by the sun's rays. Others imagine, that it Ili a phenomenon of the same kind the Aurra Borealis, and that this earth would appear like a with o Comet to a spectator placed on another planet. The apparent magnitude of Comets is very different, some• times seeming not bigger than the fixed Stars, at other times equal in diameter to Venus. Hevelrne obatrved one in 1652, which was not inferior to the moon in size s thOugh not GO bright; I its light, pale and dim, its aspect dismal. PRICE OF STOCKS. 3 per Cent. Consols • 63 iii 4 per Cent. Consols hut . . India Bonds India Bill*, 3d.. par. is. -dis. - Ditto, Sid 4s. Si. pin. Omnium . Gi dis. Consols Nl' October S ' ILL64____ TIDE ABI,Z. 1110 1 ! WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE OH Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday . . Thursday Friday . . . • Saturday . . . • • . . • • . MOUNING. M. H. 14 after 12 2 1 47 1, 27 2 0 3 30 3 0 4 A FT IL IIY4 CON:, M. 40 after 12 24 1 . 9 2 46 2. 16 3 45 3 • 12 4 • TO CORRESPONDENI'S. ON e§i Mu s wilt resume " Tlit PULPIT," on Sunday next, with an estimate of the clerical character of the Rev. Mr. Su EePAitp, the Morning PreaCht.r at Pentonville- Chapel. Stanzas on the death of the lute Mr. SPENCER will appear 14 our next. The irregularity complained shall be attended to. of by Lieut. F. of the Bellerophon, THE•NATLONAI:_R3 ., iS _ • ton Don. • SUNDAY. SLPTE 'OBER. 15, 1811. PORTUGAL. • The Easterly wind std ci;ntinucs, and come. quently the c4pectvci arrotals from fiertugal hive uffered fuitlier delay.. Whilst *dm wind t ontifiALl , 1 1. i