368° 
unsettled weather recordéd in this Journal 
commenced again. 
I have aveertained, that over a tract of 
several hundred miles on the Continent, 
ineluding France, the drought was very 
considerable from the ¥7th of August to 
the 2istof September. On Sunday, the 
14th of September, a violent hurricane 
commenced in France about half past one 
oclock. ‘Lhe city of Paris was involved in 
acloud of dust, carried up by the wind, 
for twenty minutes; this was followed by 
a violent thunder-storm.. This hurricane, 
followed by its shower, seemed to point 
north-east, being a south-west current; 
and it prevailed to a great degree, the en- 
suing night, in England. 
Political Affairs in October. 
[Nov. 15 
The Jate summer lias’ been a-singular one 
in many respects; amongst which may ‘be 
recorded, the unusually high temperature 
of the month of May, as observed at Great 
Yarmouth by Mr. C. G. HARLEY; who, in 
a meteorological journal kept for tweaty-: 
nine years past, has found the average for 
last May to exceed the previous general 
average by 132° of Fahrenheit ; and, what 
is More singular, the sums and averages of 
the journal for the succeeding months of 
July and Angust were almost the same, 
viz.— ‘the dry days nine, and wet days 
twenty-two; the depth of rain, 23 inches ; 
the wind south-west fifteen days, and ne- 
ver was east; the highest temperature 76°; 
and the average heat 65° and 66°, 
POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN OCTOBER. 
—< 
SPAIN, 
HE triumphs of legitimacy in 
Spain ought to be lamented by 
mull people in SACKCLOTH and Asn_es! 
4 When despots and their vile satellites 
rejoice, freemen ought to mourn,— 
ij Whether they happen to be the imme- 
adiate victims or not. Despots consider 
their cause as universal: ought not 
Athat of men to be the same? 
# Behold Ferdinand the Legitimate 
Hoow on his march from Seville to 
4 Madrid; D’Angeuleme on his right 
aand, and A’Court on his left; with 
his confessorand prime ministerriding 
Hon his shoulders, scattering Decrees of 
H proscription and blood, and surround- 
Bed by. mobs of monks and friars, 
Hshouting ‘‘Hallelujahs;” and you 
Mhave a true picture of legitimacy in 
action. 
To enable us to judge of the worthi- 
Maess of the Bourbons to be proprietors 
Mof nations, and the arbiters of the 
mexistence and liberties of mankind, 
awe need only reeur to the facts, that 
athe first act of Ferdinand was {o no- 
@ inate his CoNFEssoR his prime minis- 
ater; and that,in answer to an address 
Hof congratulation to the head of this 
Mrace at Paris, he lately made the 
Fifollowing reply :— 
| ‘° Monsieur,—ZJ sensibly feel what you say. 
a You pass eulogiums on me which I do not 
yieserve. LT repeat it,it is God who has done 
all; let us go and return Him thanks for 
4 Eis mercies; let us go and thank the me- 
Mther of God, the Queen of Angels, who hus 
never abandoned France, and hus never 
ceased to beslow on her marks of her glorious 
Ba proti ction.” 
# ‘This imbecile then went to Notre 
ame, to be present at a Ze Deum 3% 
and an eye-witness thus desc ribes a 
proprietor of nations :— 
‘¢ His former embonpoint-has fallen down 
upon his legs and lower extremities.f 
which are proportionally large and un- 
wieldy. His eyes are sunk, hollow, and§ 
troubled; his cheeks have fallen in, his{ 
lips have lost their roundness and tension, } 
and his whole countenance has an ex-@ 
hansted and cadaverous appearance. Forg 
the last eighteen months he has entirely 
lost the power of moving his lower extre- 
mities. The arm-chair in which he was 
rolled up the nave of the cathedral was 
the same which he had occupied in his 
coach. He had been Jet down from the 
latter without leaving the former, or at 
all changing his first position. A kind of 
slope, covered with carpetting, had been 
formed at the great gate of the church, sof 
that he could be rolled up and down with § 
out the necessity of being lifted over the 
steps. ‘This chair, which was placedg 
within the frame that supported the ca § 
nopy, was so extremely low, that, in pass- 
ing afong the lines of the guards, he was 
looked down upon by them, and by theg 
spectators who stood behind them. His§ 
legs were extended at full Jength, his feet 
were covered with black cloth-shoes, anc} 
both seemed prete:maturally swollen, 
unwieldy, and torpid. Hishands on both 
sides had a firm hold of the arms of the§ 
chair, on which his elbows ‘eaned; hig 
head was a good deal sunk between his 
shoulders, and his whole person without 
life or energy !” 
We now give, as curiosities of 
legitimate morality, some passagesy 
from the discourse of the Arehbishop® 
of Paris, after the performance of the® 
grand Ze Deum :— me 
“Ferdinand VIL. is free, and the Bing 
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