The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-07-09 00:00:00

COM ii TS.

Comets Imre simmered in all ages of the wori.l; an.l from
the Chi Ottani& wra lu this time about 500 have hers
Amongst the ancients these bullies were always r.:4rdeJ
foretelling same grand event; and even uow, s ...
formed, silty are regarded in Use same 11410, !wing Cos
sOirre.l as lirognustieators of evil. No time ro the somas

of history has heels more remarkable ghats the piessisi rev-
tern and only one ceutury can be mentioned as hasossg hail
so imasty large Comets in so abort a pesiod. This can only,
he-regarded as a remarkable roincidence, fur the heavenly
bodies are guided by lads pet reedy lash-modem of the a-
'Mafioso of empires. In the seventeenth century a goat
today or OK's! Implies were seen, sum that id Idlstl nos per-
haps the best observed of nosy which has yet appeared, mime
In the very meat mid learned astrossumers them bride, dud
also to the knelt of time it was present. This Cutout a.s.
seen by the immortal Newton, and be ealculabd, from so
sear approach to the SIM, that it must have beta healed
2,000 tones batten than red-hot iron. This is fine of licc
very few mins Is urns which astronomers have as yet been
able to form any grounds to predict a return. Its is•
supposed to be 575 years. 111heu near the Sun it bus elira st
the protligiout rate of 880,009 miles ate hour, a rcloras
may be expressed in numbers, lost is actually surosseessatas,
fur in sine second of flute it mutt have trarelled 241
Its 1807 a Cutnet of considerable size was seen, hem.; ilir
first that lima appeared of stay magnitude for man, t..,.
this approached • itliiis el millions of antra slobs- Sfia. its t
rs, 20 millions maser than we are. Its 1511 ria
another Comet, far astrpasaing the last in spleusluiss I:o assi
of this was celeulalsd to be stimut 119 minium' of miles.—
Hence we may form some idea of its immense distaste from
sat, as the tail did out appear to the naked rye to be ,as tr
Iwo yards long. It slid nut come so wear to the Son a. the
focuser, and yet it hail a much greater tail; gloss cis l'In0.11111.!
bas gives rise to some speculatnins retphrtiag th.- loom,
lion of Comets, whirls have only hypothesis for il.:-sr sup
Port. Some small Comets have since been observed—..ar
was discovered in Pegasus by U. Puns, sit Vrosaillet..ma
another on the 3d of November last in Hydra, who h had .1
pale nebulosity, roundish, and about Svc or sot Winne a
is diameter ; it was anuosuced by Ilse French asir ..... ant I S.
approaching 1114 and was 'tweeted to become visible so the
naked eye. Front the situation of Hydra ausl Ilse loos,
there is every reason to suppose that the Comet isow stew is
the same as was aunoutired by M. Posts..

A Comet which has just petard the preambles*, is Now
visible is the cresting; it may 1* sego upon the at.
below the pole, from tea till one, with the naked ep• lor
nucleus is as large and brilliant as a star of the seentel n, •Z•
nitwit., and the tail appears about three &are, sto I. n.
It was first nbierveil here on Thursday night, bets, t•+.
and eleven o'clock ; Out deCillagalle was about 4t J. •
no rib.—.(Nutccasl(e NW.)

The Pritecess Eliza6elh packet, with a mail Lo.I
Malta and Gibraltar, is arrived at Falmouth ; 11.3
from the former port 31st May, and from the latirr
19111 June.