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nexions with A, B, Lambert, esq. isstrengthened. We wish we could addthatithe style of 
drawing was improved. but the artist continues apparently to make Chinese paper-hangings 
his creat model. If he would en-eayoyr to copy accurately the plant before him, he would 
not so constantly outstep the modesty of nature. If his pictures. were less sirilting 'o0 the 
wulcar eye, chat always de ights in gaudy tints, they would be infinitely more prized by these . 
who know how toappreciate the exceljenctes of the art. ; 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT, : | 
Obsoraations on the State of the Weather, from the Mth of Judy 1810, to the 
24th of August 1840, inclusive, four Miles. N.NLW. of St. Pauls. 
Barometer, Tb 
‘ . aN er Mometere 
Highest, 29°95, Aug.24. Wind N. Wi Hichefty 76° Aug, 24. Wind variable, 
Lowest, 29°26. July 27. S. BE. - Lowest; 489, AugclZanda8- West. 
| Between the'| | | This’ variatios, 
g 17th and 18th I j iflings 
Crkctece ) 1 a t Greatest which is bur trifling: 
aC ARH 3-tenths } ims. the mercury | yariationin & 69%, < Gccurted:threeior four 
ae ices , ofaninth. \rose from 29°55 | ‘oghours. | f times in the course) of 
to, 29°38. r the month. : 
Tue quantity of rain fallen since the last report, is equal to 6:57 inches in depth: At 
one time it was feared the constant rains, which had lasted for ceveral weeks, would have 
materially interfered with the ‘business-of harvest. But the- brilliant-and-very. season 
able weather which has occurred fromthe 16th to the presentiday (27th), has revived the 
hopes of the people, aad we/have now'reason to expect an abundant and well-vollected har- 
vest to crown the expectation of the farmer, and to defeat the predictions of thesé who have 
repeatedly foretold a scarcity that was ‘o have been attended with the most direeffedt:, Sa 
late as the eno of June, indeed, the prospects were/truly gloomy, on account,of a long and 
“very unusual series of dry weather: the rain however came;. the corn-increased beyaged the 
most sanguine hepes of the husbandman, and fair weather is now apparently set in to coms 
plete the blessings of Providence. The second hay-harvest proves to be the most productive 
of any remembered for many years, and the deficiency of the first is said-to.be amply made 
up by the latter. 
‘Une wind has been chiefly in the westerly points: the weather has been remarkably cold 
as well as wet, and during the whole monch the thermometer was but-once as high as 7 6® 
orsummer heat, There have been 10 brilliant days, and on 19° there. has been. rain in 
gredter or less quantities. On one of these we-had a violent: thunder storm, anda considers 
able quantity of hail. The average height of the thermometer is but 60°23 of the baromes 
ter it is equal 29545. 
High rete, June 27,1810, 
| TO OUR READERS. 
AFTER. the observations.of. ovr Correspcodent, who.signs.ComMON SENSE, had been 
printed off at page 109, we received his request that we would add a note, stating, that-¢! He 
has since-fousd that some respectable benkers, friends of his, know nothing of the existence 
af the ‘ New Directory.” They do not know that there may not be such’a Nst circulated 
among certain houses, but it is nct Knows among the bankers at large.” Further informae 
tion ona subject so inte:esting, and at. the ¢ame time so ‘cangerous tou'commescral credit and 
independence, will, no- doubt, be desirable to our readers at large, aswell as to Common 
SENSE. i 
The same Correspondent requests us to add “as a further proof of the inadequate powers of 
man, to conduct a paper currency with due relation to the welfare of the puulic, tnat: the 
Bank Directors have lately been narrowing their discounts,-ar a moment when several- mile 
lons of their notes on the country bankers; to meet the general run, have been diverted vut 
o° old into new channels. These latter,” he says, ‘* have been cbliged 'o drain the mee 
tropolis-of Bank nutes, with which to retire their own notes on their being presented for 
payment; yet the Bullion Report has so bathed, or puzzled, the Bank Directors, thac they 
have fixed on such a moment to narrow their usual! discounts, and thereby cr@te a degred of 
_ pecuniary uiscress never betore known to the coun ry |” 
/ 
Erratum. In the Varieties, page 152, in the sccord line, for “manu 
factuier’s,” read “ manufactures,” 
