aay I, 
poftulate. The advantages promifed by 
Lord C. will probably be conferred much 
more read:ly than they feem to be accepted, 
-But if, in his turn, Mr. Pitt flrould find 
it neceflary to prove, that ** Great Britain ” 
will be a gainer by the Union,” he need 
only refer to the: financial part of this 
fpeech, where a happy mixture of error 
and contradigtien will furnithh him with 
352 Hiftory of Ajironomy jor 1799, by Lalande. 
' increafe of the public debt in Great Bri- 
{ tain, efpecially of late years, have never 
| been exceeded or even equalled in any other 
country. But according to Lord c. the 
rapidity w.th which [reland increafes her 
gebt is fo much greater, as even to afford 
a firong argument in favour of her umrting 
i with this kingdom ; inthe hope, no doubt, 
i that her former babits of extravagance may 
| he checked and correéted by the example arguments equally fatista€tory on any fide . 
? of Britifh economy | ‘¢ To thew (it is faid) of, the queftion. ; ‘ 
| how much more rapidly Ireland, as a fe- Loudon, April 12, 1800. M. N. 
i parate kingdom, incurred debt than Great —[=a 
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f Britain, at the commencement of the war 
the debt of Great Britain was to Ireland HisTORY of ASTRONOMY for the YEAR 
i as 26 to one, now if is 13 toone.” The 1799. By JEROME LALANDE, : 
‘  Englifa debt ‘amounted in 1792 to (Continued from p.253-) . 
\ £.240,000,000 nearly ; and if the Irifh HE tables of Mars are thofe which’ 
i debt was in the proportion of one to 26, are moft deficient. LeFRANCAIS, © 
i it muft then have been £.9,000,000. At therefore, has been employed on them ~ 
the prefent time the Englith debt has in- for fome months. He has calculated all ~ 
i ereafed to 230 millions nearly; the Irifh the oppofitions and quadratures hitherto — 
ki debt, therefore, being now as one to 13, obferved with accuracy, and the refalt — 
| mug have increafed to 37 millions, fo that will be tables’ more accurate than any ever 
= ee ee 
the addition to the one has been 240 mil- 
lions, and to the other 28 millions. But 
$f tie extravagance of Great Britain had 
kept pace with that’of Ireland, inftead of 
240 millions, the prefent war, according 
to Lord C., muft have added to her former 
debt above 728 millions; and therefore her 
minifter deferves the higheft praife, who, 
during feven years of his adminiftration, 
has only doubled the debt which his pre- 
deceffors had accumulated in a century. 
But whatever may be thought of the mi- 
nifter’s frugality, none can furely com- 
mend his prudence in courting a partner- 
fhip with a fpendthrift, who. is neither 
athamed to own his extravagance, nor the 
ruin of bis affairs which has been the 
conlequence of it. 
«© The charge of the Irith debt 
(is ftated to be) - 
¢¢ The peace eftablifhment - 
making together the {um of £.2,900,000, 
to defray which there is but £.2,300,000, 
leaving an annualdeficiency of £.600,000, 
befides the addition every year of war of 
f.250,000 for payment of intercft on 
loans.” (page 28.)—This is truly a hope- 
ful profpedt ;,and as the burthen is to be 
thrown on “the fhoulders of the Britifh 
minifter,” or rather, I believe, cn the 
fhoulders of the Britith people, his lord- 
fhip may well expoftulate with his country- 
men, againit ‘* being led by wild and 
fenfelefs clamor, to reject fuch advantages 
without difcuffion.”’*—From every appear- 
ance the Britifh minifter, on his part, will 
have no occafion either to foothe or to ex- 
1,400,000 
1,500,000 
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yet given, in which there will be onlya 
few feconds of uncertainty. BURCK- 
HARDT has calculated the perturbations 
of Mars by the action of Jupiter and the — 
earth, which Schubert and Oriani had be- 
fore calculated, and witheut which we — 
could not have hoped to carry our tables 
to that degree of perfeclion. 
The colle&tion of obfervations made at 
Greenwich, by the célebratud Bradley and 
his affiftants between 1750 and 1762, has 
appeared in England, but I have not begn 
able to procure it at prefent. i 
Mifs HerscHet has publifhed a vo- 
Jume on the ftars, not of obfervations, but 
refearches refpecting the grand Britith cas — 
talogue ef Flamftead, and, the cbiervas — 
tions of that celebrated aftronomer ; where 
fhe has found .500 fars which are not im 
the catalogue, as fhe has found many im 
the catalogue which are not in the obiers 
vations. 
-Kramp, Profeffor at Cologne, has pubs 
lifhed an analyfis of aftronomical nefracs 
tions, in whieh he has been able to deters 
mine the refration accurately and alge= 
braically, without employing any hypo- 
thefis or approximation. This work leads 
us one flep farther into this dificult part — 
of aftronomy. It was -proclaimed, with 
the other important works of the year 7¥ 
at the laft exhibition at the Mufeum. 
The academy of Stockholm has dent 
M. SwanBerG to Lapland to find out 
the ftations which ferved in 1736 for mea~ — 
furing a degree under the polar circle. He 
employed himfelf only in difcovering their 
local fituation; but, he fays, he found. 
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