i807.) 
“Seen it in the papers. It appears to me 
that, although there may be some objec- 
tions raised against an interference in 
matters which may be called quite of a 
private nature, and which per haps it may 
be thought that the pulpit rather than the 
legislature should correct, still where 
there is already a legislative interference, 
as isthe case with ‘post-horses, &e. &e. 
the same objections cannot be brought 
forward. it generally would be a fair obL 
ject of such “interference were there a 
law passed to restrict the number of 
miles which a post-horse should go in one 
day. Might not the masters of post- 
horses be liable te lose their licence to 
{et horses for misconduct in hike mariner 
as keepers of public-houses are? 
Quere. When and by whom was the 
annual sermon on Humanity to Anunals, 
which is preached at Southampton, insti- 
tuted? Your’s, &c. 
An occasional CORRESPONDENT. 
gi il 
Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
7 OUR astronomical readers will no 
doubt be highly gratifed by being 
Discovery of a new Planet, by Dr. Olbers. 
439 
informed, that the indefatigable Dr, 
bers, at Bremen, has, on the 29th of 
March last, again discovered another 
new planet, to which he has giver 
the name of Vesta. I have sub- 
joined the observations hitherto made 
of this planet; first by Dr. Olbers him- 
sélf, at Bremen; and those made after- 
wards by the astronomer royal, Professwx 
Bode, at the Royal Observatory, at Ber- 
lin. 
Mr. Bode tells me, that this planet 
was first discovered in the north wing of 
Virgo; that it belonged to that group of 
planets, which revolve round the Sun, 
between Mars and Jupiter; that its size 
_appeared to be that of a star of the sixth 
magnitude, and might be seen with the 
naked eye; that its present place was 
between B, dando, Wp ; that its present 
motion was still retrograde ; but that it 
~ soon would become stationary, and after 
that it would go on forward in its es, 
or orbit. Yours, &c. 
A. F. THoBLbER. 
St. Alban’s-street, Pall- Mall, 
May 18, 1807. 
. Observations on the new Planet, by Dr. Olbers at Bremen. 
1807. Mean time 
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March 29 SU wi a 1 
Apri 4 9 50-0 
BRE eS B 91 37 
----12 8 Re ao 
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1824.9 
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Apparent AR Boreal Declination. { 
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Flt eto C Caaenbboe ee BiG oe if 
1849 7! 47" 119 47” 477. 
183 26 59 12- 4 52 
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34 12 48 $1 
Observations made by Professor Bode at Berlin. 
April 13 aos, 
mn = = 24, 20 
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Senha he PDE 45 
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nyse, 20 
pi 80 23. 38 
May 1 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
REMARKS on the MORGANTE MAGGIORE 
of LUIGI PULCT. 
ITHOUT pursuing our self-created 
knights and their fair companion 
through all the particulars of their pil- 
grimae, (which however is not void of 
sinusement) we will suppose the lady 
180° 57’ 
179 -19 
179 12 
179 
179 
178 
178 
178 
178 
47" 
quietly restored to her father, and that 
Morgante and Margutte, after expe= 
riencing all the hospitality that they had 
imagined to themselves, are again on 
their way in search of Orlando, In the 
course of this journey, the latter of those 
boon companions comes to an eid notvery 
heroical though weil suited to ms former 
dite ; 
