ens | Meteorological Ressr?, f OGobder 1; 
petition with thofe of Britain. And yet, the works in fteel, in pottery, in the cotton, and in the 
wegilen- manufactures, which it has produced to public notice, fully evince, that, if the career of 
improvement fhould ftand for a few years {till in the arts of Great Britain, the French might pro= 
bably overtake and furpafs us in thofe works which are now the great foundations of our general 
profperity, a 
_ Phe Emperor of Ruffia is fitting out two fhips to make a voyage of trade and difcovery round 
tue world, and to eftablifh on an iffand, contiguous to Japan, a factory or colony which may oper 
a trade with the Japanefe. sie He 
The intereft due forthe laft fix months upon the French 5 per Cent. ftovk, is now in a train of 
Being paid off. ‘The market-price of that flock is now 52 francs So cents. per cent. al 
Our 3 per Cent. Confols are at 69 1-8th. : 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. ' 
Bb ervations an the State of the Weather, from the 25th of Auguff, to the 
2ath of Sept. 1802, imclufive, two miles N. W. of St. Paul's. 
Barometer, Thermometer. 
Highet 30.05, Aug. 29, WindS. W. Higheft 80i° Aug. 30, Wind W, 
Lowelt,,29.35. . Sept. 10,;,Wind W. Lowel 35°  Sept,.13, Wind S. W. 
Betweenthe mor- | - On the goth day of 
ning of the 8th of Auguit the thermome- 
Greatef. 4 30 hun- ‘¥ Septemberandthe Greatett 9 ter ftood as high as 
wariation in \dredths of ~ fame hour of the | variationin ¢ 102? < 803° but-on the next - 
zg hours. day it was not higher 
an inch. }gth, the mercury | 24 hours. 
fell from 29.90 to than 70%. 
29.60. 
THE changes of the denfity of the atmofphere have again been inconfiderable. From the Zgth 
wit..te the 4th inftant, in the morning, the mercury in the barometer funk very gradually : on the 
former day jt ftood as high as 30.05, and on the latter it was no higher than 29.42, fo that during 
the peroid of fix days, it had fallen as many tenths of an inch without any rain. It then began to 
rife, and it was not till the glafs was at 29.65 that the raincame which might be expected in con- 
fequence of the defeent of the mercury. The afcent began on Saturday forenoon; but the rain, 
which was exceedingly violent for fome time, did not come till eight o’clock on Sunday evening. 
On the 8th the mercury began to fubfide again, and on the next day there was rain: the glafy, 
however, continued to fail, till the evening alter, without any more ; fince which the mercury has 
beea very high, and very tteady, fcarcely varying two-tenths in the laft thirteen days, ~ =~? 
Between the rothand 14th the temperature of the atmofphere was very low, the greateft heat 
im thofe days was fcarcely above the temperate ftandard ; fince then it has been feveral times be- 
yond 70°... The three hotteft days fince our laft report were the 28th, 29th, and goth ult. A fevere 
white froft on the Sth inftant cut off agreat variety of tender vegetables that happened to heexpof- 
‘ : oy Bs ¥ Rats ¥ J ‘ . 
ed to the noriherly blaft. . 
With the exception of the ftorm late in the evening of the 5th, we have had twenty-feven days 
without any rain; of thefe twenty-one have been almoft without a cloud, at leaft after ro in the 
morning, till which hour the fogs have been frequent and thick, a circumftance which ufually 
happens in this neighbourhood ai this feafon. Ay % + ae ‘ 
We learn from the fea-coaft, that the want of rain is very much felt ; the wells on the high. 
lands in Kent and Suffex are literally almoft dry; the nights and mornings there are exceedingly 
cold ; but the days fo fcorching, thatthe changeablenefs of the temperature reminds our failors of 
an Eaft Indian climate, in which the heat of day, to an European almoft infufferable, is fucceeded 
by froft and ice at night. 
N.B. The Ancient Egyptian Zodiac contained in Denou's Travels in Egypt, and-which 
«was promifed foouid be given in our prefent Number, could not be prepared im time, 
but it will be given in our Next, accompanied by an Original Difertation. : 
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