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HR. 87vARr3 TRIAE AND PHE LICRNMUS PREss. Fe* incident./ or a local nature hive eveitml more intermit thlit the recent ilitel in Scotland, it, CA lanstionscomulueures, and,tbe trial of the snrvtviag coaehttaat Throe, severally, turmoil leuromoolleadful indeed, but every *ay abounding with instruction. A few moult's atm we beheld twu wen, mosiseatty ►unun able , the pride and prop of 'bete respective the ornament •nd hope of their pecoliar circles; the Doe witty, lit , prowl, and brave—Whoop very name awakened the moot delightful asooeiations I. lb. ►asom otmeery lower of ermdisinr, and t oemial eomplatitoe ship ; the whet frisk, auble,sttd independent, with motiomers . . . the eat urbane, and principles tb• moat patriotic; now we behuldlhe former lying in a premature gingte, lisiried, perhaps taprepared, hefote the throne of his God; and the I altregfearling, • ith she wirkedect of felons, charged wit% the great" t of coins a—allotted by his at-curets an • cur. drier! Nor is this the only sight of she kind. The earth has scarcely made one revolotios since a winder seeme pre rented itself : I max, highly talented, whose works delighted ether. while they Immo . lined himself—the father, peutee tor, and provoke of a numerous family, lay dead, after hourly tacres.ing ampules; whole he who way the fatal bat rspeoiagit cigar of this dreadful event—goakiag a wife buslanadless, and many children fatherless—awaited the Ail of a Jury, to know whether his fate was to be 1111 Ignores!. pions death, or the contioname of a life sew rendered dark aid bleak by the clouds of sogivailiag penitence and remorse. And from what has this deep and wide-spreading misery arises? isistry way prom, onacgeassied with the CiIMOIWI. -masers, would reply—? Surely the persons what fought must ease hazarded their lives, the happiness of their friends, sod the peace of society, in support of tom great principles, or for *matching they demised worthy of each &gagers and arsith sacrilees."—NolVag of the sort. Oe one gide twain, could be gained by the encounter. To Sir Alexander Bow wel4staccwit acitlal hare brought infamy—the wool of If hail brought tlestk:—and yet there Was Ott alternative; the only a haste he hail of escaping was by becoming a liar, et row timing hiss* If a eshionniatur ; he had volnslarily threw. "tigswelf from a height to which be coati sot by say wawa svascend--and all riots aw pporting • vile and visaligellve syw meg of literary sasasaisatioo. What an awful warning is preached from lhe 111111111110•1. neriag remains grf Scott and Boswell to the Nelda Ira wakes, of " Ra//e," " Ile I noas," " Saafkallo s ft aid 0 11/10. hawk NO.112111111!" Every whoa after dimbeeilli= riling escooragemest to the itsismewe if andcalomay tarried on by the epj ion mew. pegu em mosed, is answerable to society aid file Taft try futons l'aes that may he toil in vindicativg bosom', or osmosis. ie. solted tome:eau. The persona who rekeenbe to, furnish rtsferiale for, or lake them in, are, for any him' they b,se totlatistoutrary. inciainal cariernro. .Witboat the = which indimdsals give by purchasing these recepl " foal thoughts sod serpeats' tangoes,' they atatoW eel be carried on ; but baying Slat support, they are carried an. All such persons these/we, nay consider themselves Isktain sad abettors in flair et incise! career—a career • in sellishuess, malice, and malignity; consisord be inn into, fomenting*, and (este/Mtge ; tentlailag lan priefikaw (Catfish Journal.) THE .Alli Cr. ru... Tuesday, *boot three o'clock in the afleyween, arrived al the Pgrecia-l.oure, Dublin, in the Intrepid teas I coarpantes of the Royal Artillery, front Woolwich, r spertS and Purim/40a. Twit companies of them mime to Wide., mad the other remained on board until Then*, NstoPo the two manpenks shit are relieved this day esoltark with therm Major D. Campbell, raigh two companies, will est! for - GifteMtar,•asol Major 1111•Losiblia, 'for Code. Out Thursday last the first division of she 433 light rll fairy marched from limerick fur Galway, where they are to be stationed. Captain Champ sod Rilance's companies of the 454 left 11.i.nsd e h oh Thursday for Galway. The second division proceeded on the 11th insists'. The head spark/sof the tat reairseel of droves@ ustrelmid from Radi pole Barracks fur Richmond, se Wednesday last; another troop of the • toe relimeal marched from Truro GA the same day, use from Plymouth, mad another will march 'from Exeter us Thursday west. A aqu•drun of the 9th I.sht dragoons nee ordered to this district, use troop of which will arrive sod be quartered at Plymouth this day, mid as. other at Truro os Thursday, for the purpose of rusistiss the officers is the suppressioe of seaugglieg. The OW regiment, just arrived is Plymouth gullies, was originally formed from she td balkanise sf the 3d fork or buffs, in 1758, and shortly after ii• formaties proceeded is she island of Guadsloupe. le 1770 the regiment was employed I. the defeat* et Illiewas, who that Islam( was attacked by as army of Preach sad Spesiards, under the command of the Duke de ; sod is 1794, again is she West Indies, when, heeksig soffer. • d outerely, from the *shire of the service is she Arid, Nte corps retail/4rlx* 4tglasd is 1796, to recruit, and on rumoleting it. eatablialwaent, was seat to the Cope of Gooil Dope. la 1801, the regiment embarked at the Cape, cud protruding by the Red Sea, loaded al Seel, is .114ypt, and mareliiiig across the Desert to Gutted Cairo, Snell paused down tlie Nile to Alezaadria. Om the averse. oios of shot isometry by the Freseb army, OW Old regiment woe ordered to Malls. and is 1805 formed a part of the force which, is conjunction with • body of KOMISIIII, landed on the Nrapiifilse territory. la 18061, the carpi »asempluyed is Sicily and Calabria, and tot the latter, ill Sauk companies were engaged with the seamy •t Maida.-- ln Julie, 1809, the lit !Wishes, from Gibraltar, juiced the •rmy of the Duke of Welliegtou ; and it the aegis* which took place shortly afterwards at Talavera, 13 officers soil 250 non-commissioned officers and privates were killed and etkuedid; in the battle 101 fialasiaors 24 officers and 310 •o•4ootanoisioned officers sod privates; and it the last celloli of the peoissolar car, fought near Tooluese is Fiance, the bati•lioe, is the attack of the esemy's enrage of redoubts, bad 19 officers sod about 200 sum commissioned uniferf end privates killed avid monocled. Is addition to the above consecrated general actions , the corps was present et the battles of Branco, the Pyrenees, Antrim, passage of she Rive, and Oakes, besides sometime affairs of posts, Ice. The total loss of the Ist battalion in the peninsular cam. reigns amounted to mot less than 70 office,, sad 1,835 our. reaemisaiosed officers lied privates killed and 'treaded. In 1816 the regiment pemoteded to damasks, to which colts* it leas bee. stationed upwards of Ave years, demitiog by Om sinesll kite, comparatively socials& it ha; somaimed frog the ,furies sr dor climate, the seremitting mulattos 4108444 d towards the health and comfort of the soldier. A private ester from an officer of the 35th regiment, doted St. Kilt's. is the West Indite, March 22, .syn.. • Major Loftus, of the Sib regiment, died of the yelluir fever. after betty taken on shore at Antigua cm the 10th 'cosiest. We sect 27 men out of 50 tole hospital In two days ; two men died the same evening as the Major. We bad so sicker,. eta board after leaving AOl4lll, having - •mberked all the soldiers there, and put them under cam. ears; left A•tigua on the 12th, mud beard of no other • deatos. We are all well, and the garrison healthy at St. R.ti'a." SINGULAR INSTANCI CM LONGEVITY Ar • Hoitsc.—There is now living, and in the popsession • ihe proprietors of the Alersey and 'melt Natio t:a.y where he lies been the most part of his life, • horse 63 years old this grass: lie is perfectly 'wand and free from blemish, and has been in re gular work till within a few years. He is now kept at his ease fur his tow services, which have beeu grew( to so extreure. He is about a mile from War nagion, and any person having the curiosity to see hour, may call at the Black Bear public-house, iu Lutchford.—/ tieerivool Advertiser.) eIIANGE VESIIIOII.—The variatious of fashion ere truly admirable. It would appear that tire good old practice of ealiog is et proorut about to gn out of Gahm's. Accounts from Liverpool state the singular fact of there having been. at the last market. an overflow of the Guest grata, atitkort siva* purchaser. tRELAND. DUBLIN. JUNK 15. Doctor nissett's promotion to the Bishopriek of It.phne, the Chancell..rship of Armagh and the Arehtlesconry of Ross will heroine: vacant. We hear that the Arelideaconry of Kilfenora, vacant by the de;.th of Dr. lievoy, ni given to the Rev. John Whitty, of Tilde; and that the Rev. R. Brew, Curute to Venn Stephenson, at Kit regions, is to succeed Mr. %Vhiety in the living Of Tulle. These appoininieuts have already taken pkce, as we have good Immo to believe.—e(kaisit Chronic* j We are parry t• say, that within the last fora. night, fever has inerein.rd very considerably iu this town rod licighbourhoott.—(Heyle Pipe►.) STATE OF THE COUNTY OF LIMERICK. Ott MOIKINY last Serjraist Torreiss presided at • Sessmiss, under the Insurrection Act, •t the Coun. ty Cowl-house. There were four men tried and acquitted. The Learned Serjeaut also held • Sea men iis the Cu, Court, bat ►w persou appeared foe trial. CORONER'S INQUEST. .44 logoeollaeld at Reath, coooly Kilbeooy, sod Biros, orthook bArooe Cot, Heory Briscoe. sod Edoro.d T. Woe, Euro. Mogistraors, oo the body of James Rowe, opilmo moo slot deed is Ibe moils' of Tboroday, the SOt ioot. lb. Sollooriog whims,* were eramioed Newborgh Regenerates', Medical Astealmat at the Wbiteitborth Dispensary, swore.—Examined she body; found she deceased emote by his death is estierweeses of a ganaelist•roesi, which altered about two label, ostler tbe left shoulder blade, and abort she same distaste from the back hose, sod having perforated the principal Merles of Ilse heart escaped at the right shoulder. Richard t)ooly, of Kilmeekoliver Mills, swors..—arpmed that he was going hunk from Carrick; wee stopped tied do. lased by the military statioad at Search. Deposita drew out his wady sod sold the &direst who was talking to bite, thed it was thee uoly sine o'clock, and that the subject bad lIW ellasiseles law, as the saw set that ranks, obssiffia seksslissgssi eight; that while Whin to the Serjeaat,.Mrs mem pad by riding at one horse, which was cubist as may as was possible for • borne so to; beard IM seatlsel, who an within a few yards of him, cry " Who comes there ?" limed Uo mum to the Gras elialleoge, hot to the steeled bard Me saes answer " A ft iead;" beard 'labia' farther sail ho saw the sentinel rag after them, to the hest of his belief, shoot 38 yards; sew him Ore, ..d saw she two men swish* horse fall; iv sate the aeetioel, if be wished, might bare grilled the hone by she bridle. *mai Lap, publican, swore.—Was standing be hie boas es the evewiug of the 6th, was aim the dour; saw two nes ding by ea ewe hone; shortly after mar • ealeiev with a gilsrand lined Ismael its hie Mad peer in the same direction, ewideitly is permit of said atm; ,immteliateil bawd • shot Magi amain In whist Me meg sad soldier passed; moo seise which his wrailosmant, who was standing et the dace Mess/ In sod said Mom two sees Wen elm; Mot about Usti ma Mew after, eenewrieg to look out, be as. two men Wog es Ms read at ushers theism* etemiagly dead, with some of Mt military shoot them. Jobe Satiety, serjeant 52d rtgimeet, sweeo.--Was to • Gentleman who •as dastard ea she road about the hoer, as be believes, of half-pant also o'clock (the Gash , tam was preseot); beard a Met is she direetios of She pub limbosse, believed it to he, as .early as ha coold gems, or polite the dour; west to she apes, sad saw two toes lyseg ow the road ; retartied to the sestiooksad asked him if be bad reloaded again and was aseweted that he had ; me In the barrack when t he misdeal lekbla poet ; did sat beet Wm challenge ; did wet see him relmego Ms peel, la commemore of the horse the Gentleimso rode Mimi betimes Mtn mid the poblie.bonst. The seders which he reweleed from hie slicer, sad which be delivered is permit to the seabed, William Nelms, was, slat he Amid 41•11mige,sed &Mk envy per son whMover after sine o'clock ; that iv east soda parser or mimes should eat obey am is steppes immediately he was to alarm the goad, ha at ma ammo. whatever to Ire all aa attempt was made to deprive him of his arms; is sore so such attempt was made ; the Met was bred by the soatisel. Samael Aldan, private 6141 rogismist, ewors.....About Mama sioe o'clock in the maim' beard some people cowing ow the road ; called to the seatisel to let him limy it ; beard the medial call " Who anon there ?" imatedi ately maw two toes ridsog me sae hone come to the of the read ',pails the barrack; beard the monad call to them to come back ; heard Them mower it was eat their read ; beard the seatirel ask where they. were going; heard Mese mime, " bowie ;" saw the. slam iho horse and pot hiss to a fell teal; sow the sestina &flew them; heard • voice toy " Fife r sad is two seconds after saw the modal ; immediately mw the two rare fall; raw --. Nel asn, did out haw has sermon, Ire the AM. Mary Haney swum.—ls arrest to Laski Easy, par ting' ; was standing at ben master's doer • little outside; saw two sea oe our horse cumin op the road; said to somebody iaide, " Here are two more who will be taken ;" braid the mama cry, " Who roma there ?" heard so answer; heard the Bestial call to come kis way; heard dram answer It was out their road ; heard the stiattael ask whore They were gabs ; heard them attester they Were Evict home, sod ou "there else ; heard the 'endue' call to 'Lets to stop, or be would shoot them; saw one of them immediately strike the horse sad psi him to a trot; sow the waist! mimeo them, and pile her about sixteen or seventeen yards; saw him Ore, sod when the eremite cleared away saw Iwo Men lying on the grimed, sad • horse euttsoug away; is sere it could not he mere that two or three miaow. after site o'clock, as the roll was called as the barrack, such she heard called; knows it so be exactly at wire; saw the sol diers cossa est iffisiartly, at araials time the shot was tired; heard • voice cry ono, " Fwe knew the malt who rode lest out the horse to be Mr. Val. Cogblao of Cowen, she other she did sot then know, by reason of his back being turned to her, he sitting as wanes usually do ; has foetid risme his Baia was James Howe, the deceased. Verdict..." Willa Alsrder" evilest William Nelms. ?he subscription is Dartmouth few tka suffer* 4risk swienoia Knead) to 901. and will Ire much Increased before it is cloyed. The North Devon stag hounds have, for the lest month, been kept by the Hon. Mr. KNIGHT, at Sisuous-bisth, on Exmoor; cud having been regu larly hunted twice a week, great spurt and amuse meta hays been afforded to the gentlemen in the neighbourhood of the forest. At the opening of the new line of road frame Ito borough Down to Tetietock, a very appropriate cosaplunetit we., paid to the distinguished Noble men who honoured the Committee with his pre sence, rod by whose munificence this greet public improvement has been effected. When the pro melon ■pproechral the new hridgebaht aver the river Wslkham, Mr. Eisen, the Chairman of the Committee, advanced before the Duke of BED. FORD, and his two sous, Lords WRIOTHISLST cud CHARLES BLISSCLL,•ud announced that the b►idge on which he Own stood was thenceforth to be called '6 Bedford Bridge." The tissue was re. ceived with loud cheers, and his Grace appeared to be highly sensible of the compliment thus paid him by the Committee through their excellesat Chairman, whose health he proposed afire dinner, with three times three, prefacnig Ws twist with a very high ealugium on the talent and seal displayed by that Gentleman, from the commencement of the undertaking. the seccessful completion of which be bad that day witnessed with lunette astisbicituu. 1 1 0 THE ',EDITOR O A P THE BRITISH PRESS. fill—The Gleseettet Josreet et the 19th of April cos tal,' t►e folloolog se►ration:— • CONSECRATION OF THE THIRD FOREST CHURCH. 0 Thursday last was a joyful day is many hundreds of the poor, iadastrions,aud loag. aegieeted ishabilattle of the Fo rest of Dela. Their owiaber io the whole Forest ailments to &boot 5,000, aid said within a few years they bare had so •ied Modeler, aor aey church appropriated to their wee; in roissequeoce o! which, deplorable igoorasca and awful reglect of religiose duties hate preirsiled, for they were as sheep without a shepherd. Oar orcis.beloveell sad lade fatigable Dilacesan, who bad previously consecrated two churches no distant parts of Ibis Fewest, and Wag cont..- Plated a third foc • distrielaitatsialag 1,500 souls as yet es. provided for e prormithi ‘semeled soh; by the Pet,. •••• Derek's of commallss. About dews o'clock the ,Itteh°lo pr o ceeded to its Amok. h is bashfully situated I. the 'oleos relieelinst of se iseiesese Forest, 041 so ossisiosee commandiai views cm every heed of sadalstlng slopes of heist 'realm., richly orsisomeled with shady woods. The church is as elegant whim, most substantially built in the Gothic seam Its Waled OM Is octagonal, aid coats's' likings fee 0111 nosess..d I. capable or re. niving about 1,11011, Mae Is aim a bendereme tower at the west end; the whole 4soiling is lielsbed with much lasts, sod would Man mussamt to any se oar siloent tad wore civilised districts. They Who ramsmbered the former deplorable state of these poop foreeters,sei sow beheld them Is den but rustic garb, with healthy taws, eowllleaaweeei lookiug up otitis eagereeso to receive inaiructim front a Christian Bishop, will not moo forget the sole.. teeeseha- ACh as Bishop of war Apostolic Church, surrounded by such a congregatios,ialtink for the first time I. their own mortuary, is prayer sea praise, sad is the hallowed moms of our ',comparable Liturgy, pain's forth hand& seppli. ratios. sad ardeut aspirations to the God of Hearn, pro. seated a seese riblet calls for &rosiest thriaksgivings. His Lordship, with .sch affectioo sad digalty, addressed to them in as impressive discourse frets Psalm midi. I, 9,10. The whole coagregaiim were very still and shuttle., tied after contributing at the door *early 301. towards the com pletion of the work, dilemma. The eye could behold them op they retired shag the wisAitig ways, at intervals omen'. Id by shady groves or bearding oaks. la solemn troops asd sweet societies,' returning homewards, highly 'retitled, and musing en the mentireme this's which had NOW tis psis le their days. We aro the advocates of Cheistiao minions abroad; but we own we feel peealiar deli& ik Morrie( that the Gospel is stow etoi.veyed Mt our owe once rilemitater and almost Pagan fel. low-coastrymeo. We rejoice, too, that ear Apostolic Church hes stretched forth her Mad to administer the bread of life to those ate perishing' for lack of kmairledge. Surely the prophet's deism is berets la part tecemplished. ' The oil. &roma and the solitary place shall be glade and we will therefore venture to adopt the rapturous iavonitioe in the same prophecy, in the review of all that God has wrought foe thie people. 'Slag, ll ye Heaves& ; for the Lord bath doss it. Shoot, ye lower parts of the earth; break forth late sing le', ye mosetaias, 0 forest, and every tree therein, for the Lad hash redeemed his people, sad gloried himself 4 )sreer—lsaish, :lie. 23." New, Mr. Editor, it se happens that I was bees sad ave. tared is this same Forest of Deem; sad, feeling isdigeast at the above lung atrlng of palpable esiseepresestation, 1 offered my remarks to the swevitecia/ papers, whose Editors being safortuustely ionseaced by the same evangelical spirit, they reject my plats olatemest of fed*, sod endeavour to stiße those truths, which I rely es your liberality to bring forward, sad to record in your more (alibied pages. The beildiag of the new diarrhea is the Forest of Dean, marked the period of extreme esirreyreerstalion as to the " deplorable state" of its inhabitants- 4 twesty.lwo thou sand acres, without a place of worship," was a onislatermeal, insidiously offered to the credulity of the kingdoms as large. Smelt were the specious ground* opus which the generosity of the public was implemeit for creeks; the nobk dilcp row dedicated to the Haly. 'trinity. The silence which has hitherto bees observed towards this system of impealtioe has embohlemed others to tread is the mme track, and the foresters are sow represested as a set of Pagaos •' eager for the first time to receive the isstreeties of a Christie. Bishop of our Apostolic Church." Without coterie, Milo the gross absurdities attached to the sadden end atirecnieur improve. meet of these lung-seglected foresters" eo elrikiagly set forth is the advertisessest of the last eamecratios, the public will be enabled to Judge fur themselves as to the es py/Wm of these newly-erected churches, by °hernia( the felloweag feels:—lo the font place, the endowment of each elan* Is inconsiderable—not use of them is erected spots • erg when it is possible to collect a eitogregatioa with out robbing the meighbooriug church or churches ; sad it I. notorious that the use dedicated to the Holy Tilsity is built within a mile and a half of four churches more than large enough to hold twice the population of that side the Forest, and where they, hitherto, had heard the pure sad gesosoe docirion of the Protestant religion. From the nomerous addresses offered to the public, who would suppose that ibis Forest of Dean, " these 22,000 acres" ( 4 where deplorable i(sonace, sad the awful oeitlect of religious duties," have so keg reigned). were for the most part only occupied by trees and shrub.? Who would believe that the boundaries of ibis Forest, rig. Mitchel-Dean, Ruardeas ManuelManuelHope, Coleford, St. Bela. vela, Breams Blakeoey, sod Little Ikea, .were almost the only parts Inhabited, sad that excellent churches (with the eseeptios of Bream, sow soder repair) were appropriated to the use of each, and wader the juriedietios of the pretest . Bishop of the diocese? Who that reads the advertiseasest of the teat cossetratiois .(4,ficressive to the memory of every former Sisk" of this dioerse, so fulsomely adulatory to the pretest liebep, sad so palpably lasolting to every foreseer of Doss) most sot feel the greatest sateeishaseat at the wonderful, the maracskor choose sot ouly is the morals bet eves " ire the ekan and rustic garbs, in the healthy, tawny, countenauers of these pour foresters," all occasioned by the simple eiresnarleiree of their beholding this newly erected educe et " the tiothie order !!" 'rho syrtem of deeeptioa epos t►e politic ►u beta carried oa su Wag, that the rsaf truth is imperatively called fur, and the writer of f bear camel wanton defies the possibility er effloridiction to the futfuwiug statement. That the Forest of Mao, is every part that is inhabited had a church already appropriated to that particular part.—That these furestvis are out is a greater state of igvorauce tud heathenism time ushers of the lower class wt the slaws (indeed, if I appre hended out the lispatatiou of pattialuty, I would deelarerhst • mousy of them moan* latailertaal faculties oldie very highest order). Aid, t►at if there had existed any necessity for far. thee eecommodatims to divine wonbip, the eolsigiag of the - - *other churches would. It..we bees, is twiny respect ouch ears expedient has erecting tom inset 1 so, Mr. Editor, yours, &c. June 6, Int. A FORESTER. NAVAL INTALLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, JUNI 16. Arrive] off the Wiest the Mersey, Beasley, lrioss Barba• does. Sailed the loyal Britoil, Peewit's, fur St. Adm . ', N. 8.; also a aled the Cambridge. VELNOUTN, JUNE 14. Sailed the Merger's of SoHanley packet. Baldoek, for Ja. mama. Arrived off she Pen the Agars, Coolies, from Lisboa. 'VIM I. Arrived the Lady Wellington packet, from t►e Leemaid Islands ; sailed Gam Si. Thomas's on the Bth a May. Sided the Alliance, Amity, fur Demerara ; and the Faatly, Crocumbe, for London. DEAL, JUNE 15. Came down from the Rive► and sailed the Lady Sowing. dun, Holdouts, for New 41.1eaus; Symmetry, Davideue, for De. airfare and Tutuila; Bessrie, fur Geesada Madeira packet, Allem, fur Madeira; and Salacia, Wileoa , forimwalea. Arrived and smiled fat the River the Featured from be South Seam, Ise. ; sad Jaw, Wiley, from loath America.. . .. . . aims 16. Arrived as sight aad sailed for the River, t►e Fame, Her. •iaou, from Jewett's; t►e Nary Amin, Ruse, from ditto; aloe twday t►e Durham, Drycleo, Drum Chanute; and the George, hum Raluideasa. . 400," OAsit ' 11■111M1 • vogPDs. ig With sweeping glories glides along is air. And shakes the sparkles from its idasiog hair." Houltk. Philosophers and astronomers, of all ages, have been much divided in their opinions relative to the MUSIC and use of VOIIIITS. Their strange appear ances have in all ages been matter of terror to the vulgar, who uniformly considered them as evil omens, and forerunners of battles, pestilence, &c. Ideas of this kind, however, are very deservedly turned into ridicule by the best-informed part of 'society: as a moment's reflection muscconvince the mind that as these bodies are visible to the whole globe, they commit be indicative of an evil happening to a particular spot. Kepler, in other respects a very great genius, in dulged the most extravagant conjectures, not only concerning comets, but the whole system of Nature in general. The planets, he imagined, were huge animals swimming round the sun ; and comets monstrous and uncommon animals generated in the celestial spaces. A still more ridiculous opi- Mon, if possible, was that of John Bodin, a learn. ed Frenchman, in the 16th century ; who main tamped that comets " are spirits, which having lived on the earth innumerable ages, and being at last arrived on the confines of death, fele. brats their last triumph. or are recalled to the firmament like shining stersr asc. Mr. Whisk" held it as a probable opinion, with others, that co. mets were appointed by the Almighty as the place of torment for sinners after death. who, from the form of the cometary orbits, would be alternately tormented with the most insupportable heat, when nearest the sun, and, in the opposite point, or aphelion. with the greatest possible degree of cold. The circumstance of condemned sinners suffering the extremes of heat and cold by turns, is thought by same to be founded on Job, xxiv. 19—not as it is in the English translation, but in the vulgar Ls. tin version—" Let him pass to excessive heat from waters of snow." And so Jerom and other cow. mentators understand it. M had feel by tares the Witt dotage Of levee exireamps, extremes by risme were Serer. From beds ef raging,' to starve is bee."—(Maros) Philosophers and mathematicians have. in speak ing of the uses sad effects of comets, observed, re lative to the general deluge, that, as they cross the planetary orbits, so it is not impossible but they pass so near to some particular planet as to involve it in their tails, and that this may be the cause of immoderate and unusual rains ; and they likewise observe, that a comet passing near a planet may raise extraordinary tides. These being swelled by this adventitious force, will break the upper crust of the earth, at►d joined to the forty days' rata, contribute to the forming that muss of waters. which might well cover tl►e tops of the highest hills. The comet of 1680 performs revolutions in about 4048 year.. This is the interval between its ap pearance and the deluge. And this of all comets known, passes the nearest to the annual orbit of the earth. If then it. passed by the earth at ■ proper distance, oa the seventeenth day of the second womb from the autumnal equinox, Ha the 4349th year be fore the Christian era, when "the foundations of the great deep were broken up, Dud the windows of heaven were opened," then Mr. Whiston observes, we have found the true and adequate cause of the deluge. " None bath threatened our earth a nearer ap. pulse than (he c tof 1680. For, by calcula tions. I hod that November l id. lh. 6m. p. es. that comet was not above the semidiaineter of the son to the aortbairard of tile way of the earth. At which time, had the earth been there. the comet would have had a parallax equal to that of the moon, as I take it. This is spoken to astronomers; but what might be the consequence of so near an *pismire, or of con tact ; u► lastly, of • shuck of the celestial bodies (which is by we marls impassibk to MAW to pass) I leave to be discussed by the studios. of physical matters. " Dr. H &LLST." Mr. Whiston also states it probable that a comet. at • future period, though to us unknown, after being thoroughly heated in its passage round the sun. and by • near approach to it, in returning from the sun, may at the divine command strike out earth, and occasion a general conflagration ; the effects of which may easily be conceived to be somewhat similar to those described by an inspired penman, in allusion to this event. This he calls emphatically " the day of the Lord, that will come as ■ thief in the night," suddeirly, and without w g. " in the which the heavens shall pass sway with u great noise, and the elements shall melt with ferveut hest; the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burnt up." 2 Peter, iii. 10. — And he motions the people to he careful in " looking fur and heating unto the consiog of the dry of God. whereits the heavens, beer% on fire. shall be dissolved, sod the elements Wool' melt with fervent heat ; nevertheless, we, *mod iste to lino promise, look foe new litairoult and a !sew earth, wherein dwelleth righteowsoess.'! 14th and 13th swam—Great apprehensions have often arisen from the appearance of these bodies, is case 1 they should strike against the earth; • circum stance which would be productive of the most fatal effects to our globe. Recent discoveries, however, ►hew, that their paths ■re almost all inclined in a great angle to the plane of the ecliptic, so that they cannot interfere, without divine permission. tither with our habitation u, other planets, which. without ►uch • wise disposition of their orbits, they might otherwise have done. The same divine wis dom is manifested in the figure of the eattli. " lu the figure of the earth," asp an ingenious writer, " we may trace the footsteps of 'Arnie power, wisdom, and goodness ! It was created with a protuberance al the equatorial regions. in order to accommodate it to a diurnal rotation. Ilad the torrid sone been placed a little higher, or ■ little lower, it would in the latter case have been over flowed, and in the former have been deserted by the ocean. Or, had the velocity of the earth's diurnal motion, or the time of its rotation, been either great er or leaf. similar effects would have been produced. Who then eau be so blind as not tochscover in these things the e ffects of consummate designs ? Or who can view the harms.) , that exists between the various ports of this vast machine, and not be coastr•iued to exclaim, ' 0 Lord, bow manifold are thy works ! - in wisdom host Iron made them ull'."—Cole's cur. wry Remarks ow St. Pierre. " Let *tepid Atheists boast the atoasstie deuce, Aud call these beauteous worlds t►e week of chaste; Hut nobler minds, front guilt and passion free, Where truth unclouded darts her ►eas'aly ray, Or ea the earth, or in the ethereal road, Surreys the footsteps of a Whig God." NM. ELM. CAI7II. Tilting leave of this digression, it roams difficult to say, what advantages the earth can receive from the consets. Sir Isaac Newton, amongst other pup. poses which lie thinks comets designed to serve, adds, that " the spirit which makes the finest, subtlest, and best part of our air, and which is ab solutely requisite for the life slid being of all things, causes piincipelly from the comets."--Th e u se o f the comet's " /sage rupootr trans" la ----.." Perhaps io shake Regisiog moisture ors the soaseroos orbs Thro b which his (nag elapses grinds; perhaps To lead weir feel to &chola, sass, To tight op worlds rod feed th' eternal tee." Tambov. To conclude, Sir Isaac Newton alleys, " that the atmospheres of comets will furnish vapou► sufficient to form their TAILS;" hence these vs_ pours, by entering into the atmosphere of the earth, may well be supposed to contribute to the renovation of thing., and in particular to sup. ply the diminution caused in the humid ports of the earth, by putrefaction and vegetation s and that the tail• or unmet* have Raise such im portant use is reasonable to suppose. The same philosopher compotes, " that • globe of such air as we breathe in, which shall be only one inch in diameter, if it were carried up to the height but of Gus semi•diameter of the earth, would thereby be. come so ratified, that it would fill the planetary regions- even to the sphere of Saturn, a•d far beyond." MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, alosotT. IYa■ 17. A eeosideraite quantity of last weft's sepal, of Wheat re. Emitted over for ibis isteroiwes sunset , mod we had a sad, rate supply of freak in to-day fns Boors, Beat, aaslllallsk yet prise samples ebtaifted last Monday's pekes; ►et di other descriptions were offered at an abatement .11.1111 a. per quarter, without being able to effect sales at that Mee. tioa. Barky is Is. per quarter dearer, the supply beret 'mall, but Beaus, Pease, sad Oats, ere fell is. pee= cheaper, the late advance ia price of those articles produced large arrivals. CURRENT PRICE OF GRAIN. Wheal, Kest k Essex 301 Sts ..--- Suffolk ..... 30s bOs ---. Norfolk .... 38s 44. Rye . . INN !!a Barley lbs Ills Halt White Pone l4l. 3414 Boilers (Grey Pe 114 1k Small Besse l4l Ille Tick dirt(' ... lk 14. Oats, Petah. Ur kie IPolaud Oats ..., fir 14e Feed Mel, per seek .... 45. Ws Rapeseed. per last .. WI 341 IS LAST WEIII. F. 501; Melt, xo'76; '5O; hear, 86 ; Fleet, IMPORTATIONI Emilie% Wheel. TANI aide, 18,46; itp, . ; 7,0611 meta. GUILDFORD, LDFORD, Jure 15. Wheel, per toad ..... 6l. Os. to la Os Oata, per quarter Ol. I. to U. 50 Barley, per quarter Dew, per u Grey Prue, per quarter ll. 44. to 11. 7. SMITHFIELD, MONDAY, Julie 17. Oar .apply ee.tieuesa►eadaat, yet prime meat fully sop parse its price; het all other sorts were very homy, sad MI 'KT cheap.. la the H ay-esarket se cooties's the sweat last day. The fellookas is a correct statemeut of the price. sed 'umbers.— tisk lb. offal per shame of 31b. OJ. to 3u. 4J.' Hess* of Cattle Ni. lay: lff altos...lts. N. to 39. 04. Beasts .11,0110 150m19...3.. OA. to 41. II I. Wrap sod Lambs— MOM T0a1...93a. N. to 4.. 114. Woos .... 310 Perk 0.1... 39. 44. nip ........... lig HAY-All. Hay Clover Straw. arni. Ha to U. 1 be. 4s. to 41. lb'. 7.. to IL 16.. NRWDATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. • (By the Camas) Beef .... Is 8d hi As 84 Veal .... Is 8.1 to ♦. 0.1 Mottos.. Is 8d to Ss Skil Pork .... 21 Od to 3s t►d PRICES OF U tr. muss's. Hay 3/ 0. 04 10 41 Os 0.1 Sirair 1/11s 41 , 1 toff bs 04 Clover 313 s 04 to 414 s 0,1 Lomb 3. id to 44 4d. ! T AND STRAW. WHITMCKATIM Hay— . 3/ O. 0.1 to 4/ Os Od Clover 3/150.0J to ♦1 Is 04 Straw.. 11 Os OJ to 11100 44 PRICE OF RI NSW 1 Kest ....V 6. to 6/ tos %sort ..V 16. to 3/ 16. Et05ex....31 Os to 41 4. Farokso, Ise, 41.105. to IC Ipps, per Cwt. maw •aes. Kest .... 31 Is to 51 Ss !fosse:.... 21 Its to V Qs Ease: .... 21 IS. to 41 44 t.--8r000d5.21.100.t0 5/. S.. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per atone of Alb. Price by Tallow (as swat by lire 'teilow-aselters), te. Od. RAW HIDES. Rest Heifers & Stern a past. 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