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at the same time that it affords one of the 

 strongest arguments in favour of a re- 

 montoire, notwithstanding the experi- 

 ment of Arnold, which showed that a 

 sea-chronometer (face up) kept the same 

 rate, when those arcs were greatly va- 

 ried. 



When the balance has been adjusted for 

 position in the vertical situation, it does 

 not follow, as a matter of course, that it 

 will keep the same time with its plane ho- 

 rizontal, or face up and face down. In the 

 former cases, the effect of gravity still ap- 

 pears to be combined with that of elasti- 

 city, though under circumstances of ad- 

 justment ; in the latter, gravity seems to 

 be out of the question. If the rate should 

 demand adjustment with the axis vertical, 

 in order to make it agree with that which 

 obtains when the balance is vertical, it 

 appears necessary, that either the inertia 

 or the elastic force should be altered. 

 The former seems to demand such 

 changes of the screws or weights, as may 

 alter the effective radius of the balance ; 

 the latter requires a change of the spring 

 itself. The artists, with whom the writer 

 of this article has conferred, did not seem 

 to have clear notions of any direct me- 

 thod for effecting the purpose here point- 

 ed out. It appeared, that they have re- 

 course to several expedients ; but that, 

 in general, the rate, face up, of a time- 

 piece, which has been well adjusted in 

 other respects, does not require much ad- 

 ditional adjustment. 



From all these considerations, with 

 others, into which brevity forbids us to 

 enter, together with those which relate 

 to the choice and preparation of materials, 

 and the delicacy and truth of workman- 

 ship, the reader will be able to form some 

 judgment of the intelligence and skill, 

 with which, chiefly under the sanction of 

 the British government, this important 

 manufacture has been pursued, and like- 

 wise of the ample field for improvement, 

 which remains for the exertions of future 

 artists. See PEXDULUM, CLOCK, TRAIN, 

 and WATCH-WORK. 



HOROPTER, in optics, a right line 

 drawn through the point where the two 

 optic axes meet, parallel to that which joins 

 the centres of the two eyes, or the two 

 pupils. 



HOROSCOPE, in astrology, is the de- 

 gree of the ascendant, or the star that ri- 

 ses above the horizon at a certain mo- 

 ment, which is observed in order to pre- 

 dict some future event, as the success of 

 a design, the fortune of a person who was 

 at that instant born, &c. The same name 



is also given to a scheme or figure con- 

 taining the twelve houses, in which are 

 marked the situation of the heavens and 

 stars, in order to form predictions. See 

 HOUSE. 



HOROSCOPE lunar, the point from 

 whence the moon proceeds when the sun 

 is in the ascending point of the east. 



HORS, de son fee, an exception, to avoid 

 an action brought for rent issuing out of 

 certain lands, by him that pretends to be 

 the lord, or from some customs and ser- 

 vices ; for if the defendant can prove the 

 land to be .within the compass of his fee, 

 the action fails. 



HORSE. SeeEacus. 



HORSE dealers. Every person, exercis- 

 ing the trade or business of an horsodeal- 

 er, must take out a. licence from the 

 Stamp Office, for which he shall pay an- 

 nually, if within London, Westminster, 

 the bills of mortality, the parish of St. 

 Pancras, or the borough of Southwark, 

 twenty pounds ; elsewhere, ten pounds. 



Horse-dealers, who shall, after January 

 1, 1796, carry on the said business with- 

 out having obtained a licence under the 

 act of 36 George III. c. 17, shall be liable 

 to be assessed the duties on ricling-horse- 

 es, and shall deliver lists thereof as other 

 persons 



HORSES. It shall be lawful for any per- 

 son, native or foreigner, at any time, to 

 ship, lade, and transport, by way of mer- 

 chandize, horses into any parts beyond the 

 seas, in amity with his majesty, paying for 

 each horse, mare, or gelding, 5s. and no 

 more. 



No person convicted for feloniously 

 stealing a .horse, gelding, or mare, shall 

 have the privilege of clergy. 1 Ed. VI. c. 

 12. And not only all accessaries before 

 such felony done, but also, all accessaries 

 after such felony, shall be deprived and 

 put from all benefit of their clergy, as the 

 principal, by statute heretofore made, 

 is or ought to be. 



If an horse be stolen out of the stable, 

 or other curtilage of a dwelling-house, in 

 the night time, it falls under the denomi- 

 nation of burglary ; if in the day-time, it 

 falls under the denomination of larceny 

 from the house ; and in either case there 

 is a reward of 40/. for convicting. an of- 

 fender, and the prosecutor is entitled to 

 a certificate, which will exempt him from 

 all parish and ward offices, in the parish 

 and ward where the burglary, or larceny, 

 is committed, and which may be once as- 

 signed over, and will give the same ex- 

 emption'to the assignee as to the original 

 proprietor. 



