The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-01-24 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

POUTSMOVTII, JAK 22.
Arrived the Eclipse, Winter, from the Downs, for the Isle
of Fraore.

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ILNOUTII, JAN. 21.
Ai rived the Prince Ernest packet, with 31ails fruin Lisbon,
in eight days.
, Dem., JAN. 22.

Sailed last night the Marsh, Richter, fur Jamaica; Bar.
Widnes Packet, Ralston, fur Rarbadues ; John and Ann,
Rubinson, fur Havannah—and have come back this morning.
Came Mown truni the River, the John, Vatix, fur Jamaica ;
SiireesH, Mem', for Sicna Leone; and the Ocean, —,
fur Gibraltar.

tivratnot, JAY. 11.

The Prince of Wales, of London, was boarded by Captain
Reid, of the Charles, uu the Ist inst. about forty miles west
of St. Mary's. The vi %set was abauil d, dismasted, and
serest feet water in her bold—cargo mahogany.
GRAVLSVIIIIIN JAN. 2?.
Arrived the Neptune, Hunter, from the Canary Islands;
Wellington, Davis, bum Romer, rurtione, Riggers', 111.11,
FlllO Doke of Wellington, Mattis), front Ostend; and Ad-
miral Griffith, Cleith, from Philadelphia.
SAI LA the Mrs miey. Flint, from Vise:fiats; Percy, Smith, for
damiica ; Lady Furil,Strung, fin Lislitin ; and OA, Wriest.,
fur Lisbon.

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Au able astronomical writer, in au investigation
of the cause of Easter being appointed to be cele-
brated on a wrong day, plainly thews, that unless
the present system of computation shall be abolish-
ed, greater errors must ensue. lie gives a short
but clear detail of the manner in which the Church
Chronology was settled. The grand Ecclesiastical
Council of Nice, in ,f 2.5, appointed Easter to be On
the Sunday after the first full moon that follows the
venial equinox. The full lull in that year hap-
pencil on the _lst March, therefore Sunday the
(t2d was Easter. Hut the Fathers took the cal-
culatioa of MUTON as their guide, who had stated
the year to be .165 days, tj hours. instead of 305 it.
51i, 4$ in. 57 s. So that Pope Gays:emit found in
z,5.2, the rettol equinox set down by the tables for
the I ith March. The Holy Father restored it to
the .21st March, by tejectiog 19 days from the
Calendar, which lie slid by calling the sth October,
1582, the 15th ; and lie further suppressed three
days out of the Julian account in every 400 years
by cancelling the intercalary day at thy end of
the century. It would have been a more efficient
adjustment, says the author of the investigation,
if he hail omitted three days in every 391 years
of the Julian reckouing, which would have made
the calendar tally vet y nearly with the solar motion;
and the equinoxes would then hate been fixed to
the same day of the month for ever, as long as the
Johan Calendar is used. Ile proceeds to silos by
an examination of the solar and lunar cycles, that
there is a lunar excess of one day in 221 years nearly.
To correct the daily growing evil, he suggests the
simple and practicable remedy of calculating the
new and full moons for a reasonable length of time
to come, and let Easter Day be at once appointed
to its proper day of the month. It is singular that
so well-informed an astronomer should cull the pre-
sent the 19th year of the loth cetottrt, nearad of
the 1:911 year.