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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, Oct. 30. Eunmsit eaess.l The Decree issued by the King of Spain for insing the punishment of treasonable and seditious offences, is a shocking instance of the evils of despotism, and the misery of uncertain Ferdinand VII., who is fit only to pass his days hi 4 nursery, is empowered by the French Go vernment to sport with the lives of his wretched subjects. In his idiot rage he has sent forth an Ordinance which would disgrace the most barba rous horde of savages that ever existed. We spoke some time p.go, in strong terms of reproba tio►y, of the atrocious order of the Spanish In teittlant of Police, Rutin° Gonzales ; but that was a document issued only by the head of a depart ment, and wanting the weight and stamp of au thority. Now we have a Royal Decree, prefaced via an hypocritical and disgusting declaration of the King's " natural clemency," and tl►e " bene volence of his heart," directing that all his sub jects, " to whatsoever class, rank, or distinction they may belong," who shall, " since Oct. 1, 1823, have proved themselves, by any acts what ever, to be enemies to the legitimate rights of the shrone,or partisans of the self-cal led Constitution of Cadiz, shall be considered guilty of high treason, and as such subject to the penalty of death !" It, was wisely remarked by Montesquieu, that the vagueness of the laws relating to high treason would alone render a government despotic. We know how anxious, lu all free States, the legis lators have been to define with the utmost clear ness the limits that separate this capital crime from all minor offences against public safety, or the dignity of the throne. But Ferdinand over. throws every safeguard of innocence, and ex poses to the vindictive passions of the infuriated bigots of the Faith, the life and liberty of every individual in Spain, who ►nay, " by any act what ever, have displeased the members of the military commissions. No rule is to fetter their pro ceedings. "It is for the discernment and the equity of the Judges to determine the force of the proofs for or against the accused !" The Free masons, Communeros, and Sectarians, are sub. jetted to the punishment of death and the confis cittioi► of their goods, 46 as guilty of high treason against divine and human laws." It is absolutely frightful to contemplate the situation of Spain, with such a decree in operation through the country. We shudder at the sanguinary enor mities which will follow the promulgation of this horrible ordinance, the worst of all Ferdinand's deeds yet. The Powers of Europe should either insist upon his adopting some settled principles of rational government, or withdraw from abet ting him in his wild outrages upon justice and humanity. His thirst of vengeance grows with indulgence; and if the people of Spain are to be utterly abandoned to his capricious cruelty, we m a y s o o n expect to hear sonic appalling intelli gence of their desperate and frantic efforts to deliver themselves from his intoler►►ble oppres sion. [Tim TIMRI.) The French Journals convey to us another lan . - guinary Decree by the King of Spain. In this production, his Majesty specifies a variety of new cases of high treason, in which cases the punish meat of death, also, by a military .commission (and this is no bug-bear in Spain), is denounced against ate Offerfders. The first article Comprises in the iist of traitors, and subjects to death, " all those . 4 soloi . since October, 1823, have declared or " proved themselves enemies to the legitignitte " rights of the throne, or partisans of the self " styled• Constitution of Cadiz." Now the boun dary of the " legitimate rights" of the throne being always with us matter of dispute, it is probable that could such a decree as that ea which we are speaking pass in England, it would render liable to the punishment of death of all the Whigs, and some part, also, o the more moderif Tories. Article the 9th would comprise all the Dissenters in this country, itild render them liable to suffer death, with con fiscation of property. As a Spanish Freemason differs from one bearing the same appellation in &gland, it is probable that the decree would only direct au English Freemason to be bunged with hit rule and compasses about his neck, and Stiffer the rest of his property to descend to his heirs. This, however, is a sweeping and shocking decree ; and most sincerely do we wish to see justice &le on the guilty. Crimes cannot be said to prosper in Spain, for we have no doubt the Ater author of them is more miserable than Iris victims ; but still they are endured. The King is said to "ham augmented his guard by. three companies of horse artillery, amounting in tile whole to 270 man, with' 20 pieces of cannon. I:tese will serve to perform, or at least help to perform, the military execution denounced by the decree against traitors. We obserVe that the 'Spanish Papers, when speaking of the late King eff'France and his obsequies, call him the " August Chief of the Lloyd House ! " Why is the King '4CFrance called chief rather than the King of 40itin? They are both descended from Louis XI.V. :If the King of France be chief, then would Spain, as belonging to an inferior person, be but an appanage of France. ENEW TtMES.] We have received the Etoik of Thursday, also the Oesterreichitcher Beobachler of the 17th inst., ,the Allte m ei no Z e il ung of the 21st, and various other Papers from different Parts of Europe. The only political news of any consequence relates to Greece end Turkey ; but it presents the same features of unsatisfuctory confusion and obscurity which have long characterized the advices from that part of the world. Much is said of the bravery of the Greeks in their naval contests : an d of this there can be little doubt. ft -letims, however, that all the advantage has not . been on their side : ten or twelve of their fire-. ships and a corvette were destroyed in the en gagement near Stanchio ; and th e last l e tt ers from the Capital) Pacha speak of a au b se . quent contest, in which he asserts the Greeks to have lest thirty vessels, part sunk and part taken. " However," as the Smyrna letter -writer well observes, (( it will be advisable to wait till we hear the Greek version of this story." The Greek Government at Napoli di Romania ap pears to have taken a strong bet not very politic measure, in sending a body of men to Naxos to arrest and bring away as prisoner the Archbishop of that Island, accused of wishing to deliver up the Island to the Turks. The attachment of the Greeks in general to their Prelate is well known, and any violence offered to an Archbishop is likely to produce deep resentment among his flock. • [MORNING HERALD.] PARIS.—The best understanding prevails be. tweeu the French and English Ministry ; as a proof of this, Sir Charles Stuart retains his situa tion as Ambassador at our Court. This arrange ment was managed by our Minister agreeably to the express desire of Charles X. Mr. Canning acceeded with pleasure to the King's suggestions, and the removal of Sir Charles Stuart will not, consequently, take place.—The story you may have heard, respecting the extraordinary con duct of Madame Peyronnet, the wife of the Keeper of the Seals (Li Garde des Sceaux), is mot correct as it is generally related ; it is certain that a leading personage of the Co terie, who is endeavouring, by every possible means, to obtain a place In the Ministry, took advantage of the situation in which Madame Peyronnet is placed, in order to produce a scan dalous uproar. This lady has been for a length of time separated from her husband, and the above-mentioned personages succeeded, by his artful contrivances, in prevailing upon her to leave Bordeaux,- where she resided, and proceeded to Paris ; but the part t h at WWI assigned to her was not played iu the spirit In which it was conceived. It was anticipated by the Ultras that this affair would produce a strong effect, that the capital would have been entertained, during some time, with the scandalous quarrel between man and wife, and every advantage was to be taken in the confusion that was expected to ensue ; but how transitory, how fallacious their hopes ! The sole object of Madame was to obtain money. His Excellency increased her former pension ; she curtsied, retired—the curtail' fell, and thus the farce ended, without the consolation at the conclusion of pluudite. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The Constitutionnel contains a narrative of an attack on Algiers, which we should be glad to see noticed by those who are acquainted with the transaction. The war was, we know, a mystery in this country, but we should be sorry to think that the Consiitutionnel has succeeded in solving it. One of our contemporaries observes—" The following letter from a Gentleman, who has gone on an excursion to Greece and part of Turkey, we received last night. We some short time since inserted his first letter ; the follow ing is the fourth—the second and third, therefore, have been stopped at some of the Continental Post•ollices."---We have to complain of the same grievance. We had made au arrangement for a correspondence from Greece with a Gentleman of distinguished cha racter, to whom we are indebted for the lust verses of Lord Byron, which appeared in the Chronicle of yesterday. lie wrote in all to us six long letters, which were put into the Post office at Corfu. One of these (the second) ar rived in duo time, and was published In the Chronicle; the first came to hand more than a month after the second, having evidently been de tained ; the remaining four we have never yet re ceived. That they were intercepted in the lonian Islands we do not believe. The meanness must be placed to the account of the Austrian Govern ment, which is quite capable of such things. We really do think that Ministers should interfere in some way or other in behalf of the people of this country, whose corresßondence is thus dis turbed in its passage through the Austrian States. There is a broad distinction between au inter ference with Letters to or from the subjects of a State and Letters merely passing through a State. There is no doubt that Austria, if she chooses, may refuse a passage through her domi nions of the English correspondence, but she ought not to steal the letters which she suffers to enter them. It is really a gross insult to our Government to act in the manner she does to the people of this country.—(lbid.) [MORNING resT.l . We received l ast n i g ht, b y Express, French Papers to the iBth instant, and the Elude and Pilots of Thursday. They have brought us fresh proofs of the necessity which exists for the in• terference of the Allied Powers between the in sane Despot whom they have unchained in Spain and the people whom he persecutes, but unfortu nately none of that interference having yet been effectually exerted. On the contrary, Ferdinand seems to display increased violence as he pro proceeds in his career of cruelty and injustice. lie has lately issued a Decree, which we have given hi a preceding column, and which fully equals in infamy the notorious Proclamation of his Superintendant of Police. It even surpasses it in one point, for it unites hypocrisy with blood-thirstiness. The Police Mihister scorned disguise : he did not pretend to be accessible to pity or compunction; lie openly told those who displeased him that ho would take their lives, and that the lightning would not be more prompt than his vengeance. Ile was in fact candidly atrocious. Ferdinand cannot be frank even in his cruelty. Duplicity has been for so many years the ruling virtue of his nature that it needs must mix with every thing he does, even when it is unnecessary and injurious. Thus whilst in the present Decree he erects into of fences, acts hitherto unknown to the Criminal Code, and affixes the penalty of death , to them, he talks of his 44 natural clemency," ,and pro tests that he does " violence to the benevolence of his heart !" Re also pretends to have much regard for the dignity of his character and - - the good opinion of Europe. . Had feelings of such a nature ever found admission to his breast, Spain would not now be a place of pro scription and ruin. Let her internal condition during the Constitutional system be compared ' with the wretched and convulsed state which she now exhibits, and the difference will be seen between that Government which the Holy Al liance thought unfit to exist, though it made the country tranquil and flourishing, and that Moloch reign which devours, not only her institutions, but her happiness, her strength, and her pro sperity. [Till PUBLIC LTDO/11.] We have received the Paris Papers of Wed nesday, with the Etoile and Pilote of Thursday. The Etoile contains a new Decree of the King of Spain, in the introduction to which that ex emplary Sovereign speaks of his extreme aver sion to rigorous measures, and bewails, in the most touching terms, the hard necessity that imposes upon him a task so painful to his sen timents, and so repugnant to his " natural clemency." The hypocrisy of this exordium is only equalled by the ferocious character of the Decree ; and it must be admitted to be a very hard case, that ten millions of rational beings should be subjected to the will of such a Ruler. There is not a man, raised above the very lowest class, on the wide surface of Spain, who does not excel him in every quality by which human nature is distinguished from the brute creation ; and yet unrestricted power is lodged in the hands of a Sovereign, whose ignorance is as proverbial as his cruelty. This anomalous state of things cannot, we presume, last long ; but, while it does last, what a host of victims may be added to the present list! The French Government must have anticipated all this, when it embraced the resolution of invading Spain, for it could not plead ignorance of Ferdinand's character in extenuation of its meditated violence. When the result too corresponded with the expectations of all enlightened men, that Government, instead of expressing contrition for the-calamities which it bad brought on an unoffending nation, spoke of its conduct in terms of unmeasured praise.— Even the late King, with one font in the grave, boasted ofthe co-operation of Heaven; thus adding impiety to injustice, and rendering religion the plaything of human policy. We wait with impa tience to see if the present King of France in tends to repair this wrong ; and our anxiety is the greater, as his determination will decide the na- tore of his professions generally. For the honour of his own reign, he ought to afford the Spaniards some redress for the incalculable mischief they have suffered through French interference; and we have great hopes that he will not disap point this just expectation. The task, we admit, is difficult, and even somewhat hazardous ; but there would be more danger in not attempting it ; and as policy thus seconds the dictates of hu inanity, we think the rumours that prevail on this subject, merit more credit than such speculations can claim in g enerul. It is not probable too that the English Government beholds with indiffe rence the suffering and degraded state of Spain, or the dangers to which it may eventually lead. From all these considerations, we are led to be lieve, that it is intended to procure for that much injured country, if not reparation for her wrongs, ut least some alleviation of her sufferings. THE GULF OF CAMBAY. This terrific Gulf is well described by Capt. SELLY, in his " WONDERS of Er,oaA."—" It is," he says, " full of shifting sands ; and the spring tides rush in from the sea with an incon ceivable force, fury, and noise, than which nothing can be more horrific or alarming. The noise made by the approaching waters in quitting the great deep may be faintly likened to the very , loudest thunder, and it tumbles into this great re servoir at a rate of not less than 8 or 9 miles an hour.* At these awful periods (for it Is at night they rise and rage most furiously) all nature appears heavy, sullen, and silent; not a breeze disturbs the waters in their impetuous and irresist ible course ; the full moon only tends to show the horrors and dangers of the scene; the vessel (Pattamars) will neither steer nor pull; hurried on by one frightful whirlpool into the vortex of another, she whirls about, and is driven along, regardless either of oars or helm. To anchor is impossible ; for she would be buried in the overwhelming mass of waters. To sail is equally impracticable, for want of wind ; and even if there were any, the helm is utterly useless ; and every foot you are im pelled carries you only nearer a sand-bank, which, if you touch, the boat goes over directly ; the soundings in the same minute varying front 14 fathoms to two fathoms. In this state were we, in a boat of about 70 tons, with many native passengers, and a guard of Siphauees, for nearly two nights and a whole day. At last, being in imminent danger and seeing one Patin mar, out of a fl ee t o f fi ve, on a bank, it became necessary to take some precautions, in case of accident. One was, to load two of the Siphauees' muskets, in case of too many people rushing into the small boat, which towed astern ; the next was, to secure my papers: and I intimated, in the best way I could, (and believe me, it was a trying communication, at two in the morning, with a beloved wife and two young children,) to pre pare for an escape, amidst this conflict of waters and sand. I desired my wife to take out of ker boxes two or three valuable shawls, and a box of jewellery t. Her reply to me was, " Never mind that trash; I must look after the goat, and get some wood and a flint, to make a fire, and warm the children's milk." Few women would have shewn so much presence of mind, or more maternal affection, at such a melancholy time. Our servants, male and female, were stupefied with fear, except my Parsee, who very philosophically sat in the stern of the small boat, with a loaded musket, to prevent any one entering without my per mission; a service for which he volunteered ; and there were military objections to thus employing the Siphauees. These furious periods of the title's approach and retreat lasted about the first quarterof each tide, when the violence and noise in some measure subsided ; and we generally got in-shore for a short time before the returning tides commenced their fury , but the strength o f t h e waters abated but little. I have known several persons shipwrecked : Captain Bond, and Lieutenant b e "tang+ Ice. Proceeding by the Gulf of Cambay is a sav ing of nearly :100 miles of journey : it can only be navigated at spring tides.— (Dorset Ch rankle.) • I have see the water of' the Ganger running at 10 knots, and my boat at that time half full of water: this was in a journey from Calcutt a t o B enga l. t Worth about 360/. Surcrbga—On Wednesday morning a young female, only 17 years of age,, named Jesse Snell, servant in the family of Mr. IV. Wills, builder ' North-street, quitted her pa. master's house, and ..-si l ng to , m& South-street, called at th e house of her uncle, an d wrote a note to h er mot h er , couc h ed in the tblloWing terms : " Dear mother,—You will find me in a field , below the Weir drowned." This being communicat e d to her master, Mr. Wills, he went to the spot, and there found her bonnet and shawl lying on the grass, which confirmed their oofnlywhom w as t h e ne arly opposite the pl ace where she threw h ers elf i n . We un. The body was di sco v e red the following day, two witnesses were examined at the Coro ner ' s 1 .t a i o n e r sn t i u c t a i e p sn a ti .i t i d o o n lna s et . person who found the body...-. The verdict returned was, "Found drowned." It is further sta t e d, that the deceased got up earlier than usual In the morn. ing, and In reply to her fellow-servant, who asked her why she rose so won, satd that she was,going down to let the men in for the last time. She had often previously said she would drown herself; and it-was supposed she was pregnant by a young man to whom she had frequently made presents In nioney:—(Bseter Gazette.) FOR THI SUN. THE WHISKERS. Crag Las and Cuaamme were young per sons of high fashion, and inexpressibly ugly without knowing it. At times, perhaps, some suspicion of the sort intruded themselves ; but as both were of happy tempers and moral conduct, they made it a principle to banish all ideas which might make them dissatisfied with their lot. Besides, the most ordinary mortals still possess some favourite feature, or peculiar trait, upon which they found a hope of adrniratiou. So it was with Charlotte and Charles—the one had most delicate eye-brows, and the other neat luxuriant whiskers. The lady, therefore ) always bared her mishapen forehead, in order to shew her eye-brows, and thus looked ten times uglier; while the gentlemen suffered his whiskers to flourish so outrageously, that his appearance be came quite alarming. The first time this amiable couple saw each other was one night at the opera. Charles stood in Fop-alley ; Charlotte sat in a lower hoz. Charles stared at her with astonishment—he wondered how any lady could expose such a forehead for the sake of displaying an arched eye-brow. She, too, stared at Charles with amazement. She could not conceive any young man so weak as to throw off the semblance of a human being, merely because his cheeks were prolific with superfluous hair. They caught each other gazing, but mistook the cause; both thought it arose from admiration at their respec tive embellishments, and every moment, therefore, their mutual glances became more soft and ex pressive. Charlotte began to think that the whiskers were not so very frightful, and Charles fairly expressed that no sacrifice of forehead could be too great for such praiseworthy eye brows. This gazing affair had now been renewed, on every feasible occasion upwards, of a month. It was delightful recreation to both parties, for neither had ever before experienced the trans. ports that result from being stared tenderly out of countenance. At length an opportunity of introduction occurred; they addressed each other with undescribable tumult of soul,aud said things which only wanted handsome mouths to render them infinitely sweet. But love laughs when ugliness grows romantic. Another month saw their courtship at its height ; and the whiskers, which had done so with p re e g r s u o l r e fwe who t o u roe are e m p a e y r f b e e o t a t f r a i glioasss canto nconceive much, were l arger t h an ever. People endowe d physiognomical compliments ; but nothing is m easier ; and, i n f act, C harles had managed the matter so well, th at Ch arlotte began to think men herself than capable A of fortune le Captivating rt to much handsomer about this time confirmed her in the supposition, as a charming fellow, without a sixpence, or even a beard, laid immediate siege to her heart. In short, he carried it ; and she determined to break with Charles, Being, however, of a humane dis position, she thought a quarrel would be by far the most decent and amicable manner of softening down the injury she was about to do hint. One day, therefore., while he sat by her side, saying the finest things in nature, and looking hideously enamored, she told him that men were deceitful creatures, and that she must call upon him for some incontrovertible proof of his regard before she could consent to surrender her liberty. " Name a sacrifice, or an enterprise upon earth," cried he, starting up, " and I fly this instant to perform it. Shull I scale Mount Etua, and dive for Etnpedocle's slipper ? Shall I swim the Hellespont ? Shall I •briug you a fossil ele phant from the icy sea ? Shull I—" 44 I do not ask you to attempt any such pre posterous undertakings," she replied, with the utmost coolness ; " I only ask of you to cut off your whiskers." " My whiskers, Madam !" " rfliat is all, Sir." " All l Oh Heavens: divest myself of what first won your heart !" " Sir, I. consider your honour involved in your obedience." 64 Then, Madam, farewell for ever; aud learn that now-a-days men of any pretentious► to fashio❑ or consequence take a great deal less pains to retain their reputations than to preserve their whiskers." Thus ended the loves of Charles and Charlotte. Price. 34s Od to 42s 3d B , ls Od to 41v 3d COAL MARKET, OCT. 29. Ships at Market. Ships sold 124 Newcastle . 10 0 Sunderland - - COURSE OF EXCHANGE, October 99. Anistmdatn Ditto, at Sight ll 19 Rotterdam II 8 Antwerp l2 8 Hatubnrgli 37 0 Ili Us Altona Paris,B Day's sight Ditto Botirdeaux, ditto 8er1in....... Franklin -too the Main Petei *burgh .. . 9 Vienna Trieste , 10 8 Madrid .. •86 Effective Cadiz ' Bilboa 85 Effective Barcelona ieville Gibraltar Leghorn Geimit , •••.. ....Hi—Venice, Bal. Liv 27 Malta 38a Palermo .. • iS b • • • • Porto •• • 4 . .. Janeiro tia . 49 Witt .... 9 Cork 9 per Caul. BULLION. Portugal Gold,i it Coln / .0 0 0 lets. Os Foreign Gold, i►, Bars S 17 6 New Doubloons New Dollars 0 4 10/ Silvelffitandard in Bars, 0 0 0 Two children, in the neighbourhood of York, lately partook of such a quantity of gin, which bad been left incautiously upon the table after dinner, as to occasion the death of one of them the next day. The other, is with difficulty re. covering.--(Sheffield Iris.) CHRONOMETERS. It is unnecessary to dilate on the importance of the Chronometer in determining the longitude at sea. The variation of a few seconds from mean time, it is well known, might occasion in the navi gator a mistake of some miles, and consequently, on a dangerous coast, or a dark night, render the loss of life and property inevitable. It is there' fore the duty of every Maratime State to give such encouragement to artists as may tend to render this instrument as perfect as possible. England, in commercial pursuits and maratitne power, stands proudly pre-eminent in the rank of nations—and England has set an example worthy of imitation, The Lords of the Admiralty, olives to the importance of the subject, in 1821 liberally offered a premium of 3001. for the best Chronos meter—to be continued annually. Competition was open to all. The pieces were to be forwarded to the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, w here the respective rates of their going were to be observed with the most rigorous astronomical accuracy , and carefully noted in the books of the Obe servatory. With such a reward for exertion It was no wonder that there were many competors-'l many, indeed, who were not practical artists.-" The Scientific Wo r ld is well aware, that o ut of more than seventy Chronometers se nt for trial to Greenwich, a lth oug h b ear ing the name s of g great number of wa t c h- ma kers, few wer e the actual artists engag e d in their constru ction-- ; scarcely more than half a dozen persons —and that those bearin g a n y d eg ree of excellenc e were the performance of less than half that nu mber.-.- Many of th e n om in a l ma k e rs, indeed, lied other pursuits, and some carried on other ex tensive businesses : this, however, does not lessen the. value of the instrument ; and as long ac object be attained, we have no reason to fault with the means pursued in their accomplice' meat. Some have claimed merit to which others are perhaps better entitled ; but without refer ence to unfounded claims on the one hand, or wishing , to eulogise any particular individual on the other, I proceed to speak to facts as ccai nected with the reward offered by the Lords of the Admiralty. that " 111 . ° less that 36 instrum e nts made by the m ost ern ' A Cotempoary Journal has stated, nent watchmakers iu London were sent last y ear Ica approximation to the Observatory at Greenwich • ca approximation of some of them to perfect ace". tt racy," as to their respective rates of going, _ easily be admitted, when we mention that thee", which obtained the prize (Mr. Murray's) did pu,' vary in its mean daily rate snore than one lecca . ti ,, eleven hundred parts of a second for one y ear ; ; the time allotted for trial at the Observatory.. 11'_. few days after, another Journal stated, that ' l b w: . are informed that Mr. Harris has now an Eig • day Chronometer, No. 483, which went a volait . Lima, Guayaquil, and back ; of two years in the East India ship HooglY, James Thos. Lamb, from London to Vall'a r4l , B l•l period did not vary from its mean daily .ra more than one second, which under the vario us changes of climate to which had been subject' • ed, it is believed, exceeds any thing ou recoro flow so perfect a machine as this was I l l a sen d to Greenwich appears incredible. It is /3-teleat to be lamented that it was not subm it ted robe - lot test, whereby the statement might ha" to corroborated, and fame and pro fi t were sur e be awarded to the ingenious artist. --01 1 the first notification of the inten ti on The facts, however, are briefly these : a Ile 1) / (3 i s t s t e r s r 90 1 °.rw i i e t , h t : Board of Admiralty, Messrs. I3arraud Se" t frd Chronometers for trial—Mr. Murray tvrt :i on eo other was declared as nearly one of those made by the former ge n ' d t he was awarded the premium of 30 01 . D t fl iff the same degree of excellence. Mr. drew both of his in the early part of the c°ll 0 10 The following year (1823-4), Mr' Murray, adgim seat two, and was fortunate, having received premium of the second for one --tile other premium year eithe r was withdravvu. As lam not known to to ._,„ of the parties, and as these artists are cereiont'si, unknown to me, except from gener a ' r r er ies and without wishing to derogate from t hem t aber, of the one, or to give undue praise to l e l!: 9 was I am bound in candour to state that 18 -4 .'" I le I ° 4 a year of unprecedented severity, while at the was extremely mild— the theromemeterAereas Observatory never registering below 34. 'V og el (32 is the freezing point). Mr. Ilarris Chronometers both years, but were witted ,„,osioo —he has one this year, which of cours e for trial. ward ° ". Such are the facts as to the actual re- „ qui ". ceived from the Board. I could enumerate ioirbod nometers made by other artists of un tl ., t „stlw . go ,„ - merit—some having received the d moo( molly of Captains Parry and Sabine, an mo o( which are now under trial with the f °r •Oo litl these adventurous voyagers—but having 'to Oa only to facts, and given the mead of prat', • Ad , . successful machine which the Board* of to brat the tuiralty first acknowledged by awarding it fro m premium, I shall for the present refral truding further on yaur valuable pape r--'. 040 9 y keep a watchful eye—(or, as I ought tect i ogr ou.. to say, a good look-out)—and hereafter c ity tie nicate further information, when opPort ° IVA curs, on the progress of a science SO eSt , • the well-being and happiness of thoussone I am, Sir, your obedient Servantdoevg. Edinburgh, Oct. 23, „ T , BIRTH. (ell :1011/16'11041 ttiwi to° On Thursday, at Ruse-hank, Off ' a sun. 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