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410 Statement of the Weather at Nottingham in 1810. [June 1; 
Such a society would be productive of 
infinite benefit, and would be supported 
by the good wishes and gratitude of the 
whole public. AMICUS. 
Westminster, May 6, 1811. 
Ceeetite en 
\ For the Monthly Magazine. 
RESULTS of the WEATHER at NOTTING- 
HAM, in 1810, by DR. CLARKE. 
Thermometer, Wind. 
Hicuesr observation, Sept. 2 82° E, 
Lowest observation, Feb. 20 14° N.E. 
Greatest variation in 24 hours, 
Feb. 19-20 16° 
Annual mean - 46? 
Barometer, Wind. 
Highest observation, Dec. 31 30,50 N.E. 
Lowest ebservation, Feb. 19 28,73 S.W. 
Greatest variation in 24 hours, 
May 20 - 1,05 
Annualmean  . = = 29,83 
Weather. Days. 
Fair - - 269 
Wet - =» $6 
365 
Winds. Times. 
N, and N. E. - - 143 
E.andS.E, = .- 79 
S.andS.W. -— = 157 
W.andN.W. -) = &8 
467 
Rain. Inches. 
Greatest.quantity in July - 3,85 
Smallest ditto in September = - 0,62 
Total quantity for the year «2+. '28,15 
The barometer is firmly fixed to a 
standard. wall, on an elevation of 130 
feet ; and the thermometer is placed ina 
garden 140 feet from the level of the sea, 
SET 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
sIR, 
THINK it right to mention a 
rare and beautiful phenomenon. 
About half past eight this fiue evening, 
I was struck with the appearance of 
a luminous arch, extending from south- 
west to westward, about $0° in altitude 
at its vertex, and nearly semicircular, 
It had an uniformly dense white light 
of about half a degree; very. much re- 
sembling. that of the moon, but not so 
vivid, 
. It proceeded to pass north of the west, 
with a very even and apparently gentle 
motion; seeming to gain in altitude as it 
moved toward the northern meridian. 
About five or six minutes after its first 
appearance to me, the eastern extremity 
of it passed under the polar star, 
At the lowest height which ean be as- 
signed to it, its velocity must have been 
very great. And its gaining altitude as 
it passed northward, seems to indicate 
that * was far above our atmosphere. 
T remember a similar white arch, May 
27, 1781; but Edo not recollect that it 
had sucha remarkable, or indeed any, 
apparent motion. 
Its light diminished as it receded north- 
ward, but was great enough even then to be 
seen with my night glass, 
April 22. Caper Lorrr. 
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CRITICAL REMARKS Om SMAKESPEARE. 
Henry V.—Aes. 9. Scene 2, 
** Yet that is but a crush’d necessity 
While that the armed hand doth fight abroad, 
The advised head defends itself at home.” 
HUS the old folio editions: the 
quarto reads * curs’d necessity :” 
Sir Thomas Hanmer, with more than cri- 
tical license, “ not o’course a necessity.” 
Dr. Johnson recommends crude ne- 
cessity;” and Dr. Warburton says posi- 
tively, ** we should read ’scused neces- 
sity.” I imagine every reader would 
wish to be ’scused the necessity of adopt. 
ing any one of these various emendations. 
May we not venture, till something better 
is proposed, to read coward necessity, i. e. 
a necessity which fear only creates; a 
sense perfectly corresponding with the 
scope and spirit of the context, which 
deprecates the idea of being deterred 
from the invasion of France from the ap- 
prehended necessity of guarding against 
the petty incursions of the Scots at home. 
=———-Peace to this meeting wherefore we are 
met, &c. 
The 5th act of this play was apparently 
intended to open with this scene; but 
in vain do we look for the genius of 
Shakespeare in any part of it. The pre- 
ceding dialogue between Pistol and Flu- 
ellin, is certainly genuine; but the re- 
mainder of tlis play, and nearly the 
whole of the next, seem unquestionably 
borrowed from that feeble series of his- 
toric dramas which the stage had beer 
in possession of long hefore the time of 
Shakespeare, and many of which he was 
employed to reconstruct ; net scrupling, 
however, to make great oceasional use 
of the old materials, 
Henry VI.—Part I. 
That the first part of Henry VI. 
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