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5384 _ peer gical: Ovfervation from Mr. Capel Loft 
hope that the comes finner may not be for 
ever caft off, 
, Six years have elapfed, Gentlemen, ince 
the joyous period, wherein, by the, moft 
awful. fenféace inflited. by the law, I was 
retored to the dominion of reafon, and 
brought to-an earneft refle&tion upon the 
Divine Mercy, and upon the awful terrors 
which the fpirit of vanity lad prepared for 
me. But who fhall unfold the myfteries of 
fate ? and who fhall declare misfortune t» be 
In the mortification of the tem- 
poral, J truft that my fpiritual exiftence has 
been, and may continue to be, provided for ; 
and that my debafement before men, may be 
the means of exalting . me before Hint whofe 
name I'dare not méation left I fhould pro- 
phane it. 
Ab, worthy Sirs! ‘Oh, bleffed affociation 
of - the pious! let me heié pray to you by afl 
the facred virtues that adorned your (would 
T could fay our) Immortal Archetype, “to 
remember i in your prayers one that has fallen 
into the abyfs of fin, but fain would rife upon 
the delightful current of repentance. The 
prayers of the jutt will prevail; and your - 
benediétions will .aid my ‘progrefs -to the 
withed for goal of life and happinefs unfading. 
To humane benevolence like yours, a 
fhort narrative of his condition who boldly 
thus.intrudes, may not be difpleafing nor be 
thought izrelevant.—I was placedy in -the 
year 180c, with many others, reduced by 
misfortune felf-created to one level, in the 
fhip Royal Admiral; and, after enduring 
much fatigue of body through ficknefs and 
calamity, arrived in this country: .but re- 
ceived. comfort fuperior to my afflictions, 
heavy as they were, from a number of gen- 
tlemen who came out to Otaheite In the fame 
veffel on a religious miflion, whofe worthy 
memory. I ever thall revere. 
here nearly four yearsg and the whole time, 
happy I am to fay, in the employment, as a 
labouring fervant, to his excellency Gover- 
nor King, a good gentleman ard a humane 
governor 3 and to whoie great mercy, next 
tothat of Him we ali adore). I ewe'an exten- 
fien of clemency; whereby I am made free 
of this colony, by virtue of an a&t of eman- 
Cipation, for whichilet me bealways grateful, 
‘Though poor in circumitances, yet Iam rich 
in a contented mind. The only knowledge 
I afpire to, is that of myfelf, and of umy 
duty.where I owe its and’ the humbienefs of 
my condition adds to my humility,of fpirit ; 
and the meannefs of my outward appearance 
proteéts me from the aflauits of vanity w.thin. 
Good books I “wifh tor, but am conte.t; 
fince that I cannot procure fuch, is neta 
fault of my own, bat that of my inability. 
But certain I am, that could I prefume to 
afk, that want you would redrefs with fym- 
pathetic willingnefs. 
Poor mortal that Iam! 
E yenerate, the’ pious who compofe ir; and, 
I have been * 
sa pears to have its advantages and difad- 
‘vantages ‘compared with this: it’ will, 
; ee fall I re. 
—verence your bleffed Society, and ever fhall 
[July. ts 
whilft I continue to do fo, I fhall hope for 
grace, , and neyer fwerve from the paths of - 
truth and rectitude. —Do think of me—do 
pray for me: and be affured of my lafting 
gratitude, as the only return I can make 
worthy your acceptance. 
i humbly beg permiffion to repeat, that te- 
pentance and spactisst fhall for evermore be 
the ftudy of an unfortunate exiles and of, 
Chiteow : 
Your grateful Servants 
Sydrey, Port Fackjon.. ; j--k. 
— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Ee {OUGH I have poiher: the .leifure, 
the knowledge, nor the inftruments 
necelary, to add much to aftronomical 
knowledge in its prefent: highly adorned 
tite, permit me now, as tormerly, to 
trouble you with fome few remarks. 
Cloche, ou Canon, du Meridien. - 
The meridian inftrument of Mr. Reg- 
nier appears to be very delicate and cu- 
rious: but it reminds me of an inftru- 
ment invented by a perfon who added ele- 
gance and improvement to whatever fub- 
jet he confidered—the cannon of meridian 
of Rovuffeau, which had’ a quadrantal 
areh that elevated or deprefled a lens ac- , 
cording ‘to the declination for the” day. 
This: was adapted to an univerfal dial, 
containing a pan of gunpowder in the 
line of the meridizh, moveable along the 
line in fuch proportion that its focus 
fhould always coincide with the ray paf- 
fing from the lens, :fo as to fet fire to the 
powder when tae fun fhould be on the 
meridian» Mr. Reynier’s: method “ap. 
from the account, indicate the fun’s being, 
on the meridian when the light is fo weak 
as not to give a defined thadow: buf, on 
the other hand, ‘an inftrument regulated — 
by an hair, fo nice in its adjuitment as to 
fap by fo fmall a degree of heat, feems” 
mccain of refitting very fmalb changes” 
of temperature: to moiftute or mae a 
Solgr Spots. " 
The {pots on the fun in March ‘tag, a 
ohferved and defcribed in the Yarmouth . 
Herald, and am gratified that their ap-” 
pearance much éofreiponds with the’ dea 
feription of them given by Lalande. c i 
Whether it would 4 ae according 
to their Phenamena,s to call Ceres, Pat 
lat, and. Suna, fmply Planets, or Afle- - 
roids, or Cometoids. : 
On the planets Ceres, Pallas, and Tasos ’ 
I formerly took. the liberty to remark, 
that°when the term afercids was me 
