? 
Q Comparifon of Heat 1803, 1804.—female Labour.  [Feb. 1, 
ings. Let them wait till the load of ob- 
loquy which now prefles upon them is in 
fome meafure transferred to the fhoulders 
of their antagoniits ; an event which the 
abule of power and profperity is pretty 
_fure of bringing about :—not to add, that 
the pref-nt confe-leracy between civil and 
ecclefiaftical eftablifhments ot a!l kinds for 
mutual fupport, can never outlaft their 
common apprehenfions. Tt will not again 
feadily happen, tnet a French Ex-Jetuit 
and a Scotch Prefbyterian fhail jcin to 
hunt down freedom of difcuifion in all 
uarters of the world : the radical dif- 
piunees of feéts will again become as pro- 
minent and aétive as their radical agree- 
ment has been. Philofophy might fay to 
the bigots of dfferént fpecies, in the 
words of Queen Margaret, in Richard 
Ill. :— 
What ! were you fnarling all before I came,’ 
Ready to catch each other by the throat, 
And turn you all your hatred now on me ? 
But fhe may be aflured that this hatred 
will again flow in its ufual chanrel. After 
all, if vo hopes remain of making man- 
kind rational, Philofophy mu wrap her- 
felf in her mantle, and in filence enjoy the 
confcious happinefs refulting frem ‘* a 
large comprehenfive fuul, well purged 
from vulgar fears, and ;erturbations, and 
prejudices.” This fufficed many of the 
wiieft and be& men of antiquity, and we 
are not fo much their fuperiors thet it 
may not fuffice us alfo. Your's, &c. 
SPECTATOR. 
Sie 
For the Meuthly Magazine. 
-COMPARISON of HEAT iz the YEARS” 
1803 Gud 1804. 
} ps 
Thermometervom Fahrenheit’s f{cale, 
kept at Stoke Newington, in the 
open air, with a northern expofure, gave 
the followirg averages af nine o'clock in 
the morning : 
3303 1804. 
January, fe waa EO 6 Atay 
Febsuary, = +. 95-23 « 35-36 
Weare aie elon Ak eO hfe (OOS 
feprily es AG a. Bagi 
Mays Bee naa, BS han, (aR On 
PG re ea 5 SA 63.63 
quite fer fo (DAO 6 Oe 7a 
POON Ra! ea! pay 2on!G. hw) ON 
September, « «© §2. 21 15OLD 
MCTOMET en ABR Te BONG 
November, . 4 41.5 ~ 43.83 
December oF Awe Bde 
FRE Years} ce AERO oe AG BS 
Several circumftances are obfervable on 
this comparifon. In 1803, we fee a re- 
gular increafe of heat from January to 
Jaly, and as regular a diminution from 
that month to December; wheieas in 
1804. the order is much difturbed. In the 
latter year the heat of Jaauary exceeded 
that of the two fubfequent months, and 
fell little thort of that of April, which 
was remarkably low. Th's will account 
for the injury done to the fruit-trees, by 
being fo ear'y pufhed into bud and flower, 
and then feverely checked. In this year 
the violet flowered in January, and the 
peach and nectarine early in March. The 
change from April to May was extremely 
rapid, and the latter month was uncom- 
monly warm. It was, however, much 
furpaffed by June, which turned out the 
hotteft month in the year—a circumftance, 
I fuppofe, {carcely ever before remembered. 
Probably the blight in the corn might be 
owing to this unfeafonable heat fo long-be- 
fore its ripening. Although the diftribu- 
‘tion of heat im the two years was fo diffee 
rent, yet the fum of the three {pring 
months, March, April, May, and of the 
three fummer months, June, July, Au- 
guft, was very nearly equal. That of the 
autumnal months, September, October, 
November, was greater in the latter year 
in the proportion of 15 to 14.3; indeeda 
warmer autumn than the late one has 
rarely been known. The mildneis of the 
winter 1803-4 was almoft unexampled ;— 
the prefent winter, from the average of 
lat December, appears to have begun 
-with feverity. | Your's, &e. i. as 
i ee eee 
To the Eator of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N dipping lazely into Mr. Holcroft’s 
Travels, L was ruck with the fol- 
lowing dialogue between the author and 
the mafter of a Paris hotel._—_-** Where are 
the flicets #°—* I will bring: them. di- 
reétly.” © Why coes net your wife 
come with them ?”—‘ I always fpare my 
wife that trouble.” “* Right; no hufbanas 
on earth are as civil asthe French.” * My 
wife {weeps the yard, I {weep the rooms.” 
Well, thought I, this feems to an Englith. 
mana finguiar divifion of labour ; bat it 
is awhimical cuftom ina whimfical coun- 
fry. i 
It has ever been the praile of England, 
that, as the weaker dex are excluded, 
more ftrictly, perbaps, than in moft other 
European countries, [rom all the walks of 
piofit or honour, an-amends is made to 
them by their being exculed from thefe 
more laborious offices which are neither 
/ fitted 
