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At Cadewell, Devon, the lady of Sir John Louis, Bart. a daughter.

29. In Gower-street, the lady of Colonel O'Connor, of the 73d Regt. a son.

30. At Truro, in Cornwall, the lady of Capt. Pengally, RN. a son.

Dec. 1. The lady of the Rev. Dr. E. D. Clarke, of Cambridge, a daughter.

At Bryn, Glamorganshire, the Hon. Lady Morris, a daughter.

2. In Grosvenor-square, Lady Elizabeth Belgrave, a daughter.

At Greendown-cottage, the lady of Sir F. Ford,

a son.

3. At South Stoneham-house, Hants, the lady of John Flemming, Esq. MP. for that county, a daughter.

5. At Kensington, the lady of Wm. Wilberforce, Esq. a son a d heir.

7. Lady Cochrane, a daughter.

9. In Grosvenor-place, the Countess of Uxbridge, a son and heir.

11. At Brighton, the lady of Capt. Lempriere, RA. a daughter.

12. In Guilford-street, Russell-square, the lady of Robt. Espinasse, Esq. a daughter.

15. In Duke-street, Portland-place, the lady of Sir Rich. Paul Jodrell, Bart. a daughter.

At Woburn Abbey, her Grace the Duchess of Bedford, a son.

16. At Brompton, Mrs. Horsley, wife of Win. Horsley, Mus. Bac. Oxon, twins.

IN SCOTLAND.

At Edinburgh, Lady Elizabeth Hope Vere, a daughter.

IN IRELAND.

At Marino, near Cork, the lady of Thos. G. French, Esq. and daughter of Pascoe Grenfell, Esq. MP. a daughter.

At Cork, the Rt. Hon. Lady Audley, a son.

At Dublin, at the house of her father, Sir James Galbraith, Bart, the lady of Capt. Charles Geo. Stanhope, a son.

ABROAD.

At Leghorn, the lady of Major-Gen. Sir Patrick Ross, KC. MG. a son.

MARRIAGES.

Nov. 22. At Kenilworth, John Rob. Browne Cave, Esq. eldest son of Sir Wm. Browne Cave, Bart. of Stretton, Derbyshire, to Catherine Penelope, youngest daughter and co-beiress of the late W. Mills, Esq. of Barlaston.

24. At Marylebone-church, by the Bishop of Llandaff, Wm. Rob. Keith Douglas, Esq. MP. youngest brother of the Marquess of Queensberry, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Walter Irvine, Esq. of Luddington-house, Surry. 25. At Whitehaven, Wm. Macready, Esq. Manager of the Bristol and Whitehaven theatres, to Miss Desmond.

27. At Sudbury, John Eaton, jun. Eaq. banker, Shrewsbury, to Mary, second daughter of Sir Lachlan Maclean, MD. of the former place. 29. At St. Margaret's, Westminster, Astley Paston Cooper, Esq. of Cheverell's, Herts, nephew and heir to Sir Astley Paston Cooper, Bart. to Elizabeth, only child of Wm. Rickford, Esq. MP. for Aylesbury.

At Huyton-church, near Knowsley-park, the Earl of Wilton, to Lady Mary Stanley, daughter of the Earl of Derby. The ceremony was performed in presence of the principal members of the noble houses of Grovesnor and Derby. Dec. 1. At Weymouth, George Steed, Esq. Surg. ́of the Roy, Dragocus, to Georgiana, youngest

daughter of the late Richard Barwell, Esq. of Stanstead. Sussex.

2. At Kensington, Lieut. George Bague, of the Roy. Navy, and of the Folly-house, Ipswich, to Miss Yarrow, of Jermyn-street.

4. At St. George's, Hanover-square, by the Bishop of Llandaff, Edward Stanley, Esq. of Ponsonbyhall, Cumberland, to Mary, second daughter of the late William Douglas, Esq. formerly Judge of the Court of Adawlyt at Dacca, in the Hon. East India Service, in Bengal.

-The Rev. S. H. Alderson, Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, to Miss Bennet, only daughter of Phil. Bennet, Esq. of Rongham-hall, Suffolk. 5. At Marylebone-church, James Wadmore, Esq. of Chapel-street, Paddington, to Miss Henrietta Robinson, of Maida-place.

8. At Streatham, Robert Whitmore, Esq. of Lincoin's-inu, to Eliza, fourth daughter of Joseph Kaye, Esq. of Wandsworth-common and New Bank-buildings.

10. At Lamport, Northamptonshire, Lieut.-Col. Packe, of the Grenadier Guards, to Eliza, only daughter of the Rev. Vere Isham.

11. At Osmaston, near Derby, Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq. of Beesthorpe-hall, near Newark, Notts, and of Tw; ford, near Derby, to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Samuel Fox, Esq. of Osmaston-ball.

12. By Special Licence, at the residence of the Rt. Hon. Lord Stewart, at Wynyard, by the Rt. Hon. and Rev. Lord Viscount Barrington, Sir Henry Harding, KCB. and one of the Representatives of the City of Durham, to Lady Emily Jane James, sister of the Most Noble the Marquess of Londonderry.

13. At St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, by the Rev. R. Scott, Capt. James Arthur Murray, RN. son of the Rt. Hon. Lord Wm. Murray, and nephew to his Grace the Duke of Athol, to Harriet, voungest daughter of the late Wm. Coupland, Esq. of that town.

14. At Penrice, Glamorganshire, by the Hon. and Rev. Charles Strangeways, John Nicholl, Esq. of Merthyrmawr, only son of the Rt. Hon. Sír John Nicholl, to Jane Harriot, second daughter of the late Thos. Mansell Talbot, Esq. of Margam and Peurice Castle, in the same county. At Lympstone, William Sykes, Esq. only brother of Sir Francis Sykes, Bart. of Basildon-park, Herts, to Miss Gattey, daughter of Edward Gattey, Esq. of Exeter.

IN SCOTLAND.

John Viscount Glenorchy, only son of the Earl of Breadalbane, to Eliza, eldest daughter of George Baillie, Esq. of Jerviswoode.

IRELAND.

Wm. Gun, Esq. of Fort-lodge, county Kerry, nephew to Lord Ventry, to Margaret, second daughter of Thos. M'Kenny, Esq. of Fitzwilliamstreet, Dublin, and one of the Aldermen of that city.

ABROAD.

At Madras, Lieut.-Col. Marshall, Paymaster of the Presidency, to Maria Letitia, second daughter of Evelyn J. Gascoigne, Esq. Deputy-master-altendant.

DEATHS.

Lately at Larkbear-house, near Exeter, Margaret. youngest daughter of the late Bennet Langton, Esq. and the Dowager Countess of Rothes.

Nov. 22. At his house, in Tenterden-street, Hanoversquare, in his 56th year, Janies Wilson, Esq. FRS. Professor of Anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons, and many years lecturer in the Hunterian school of Windmill-street. -At his seat at Eardistou, Worcester, in his 76th year, Sir Wm. Smith, Bart. many years an active Magistrate of that county. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by his only surviving son now Sir Sydney Smith.

23. At Falmouth, Mrs. Pellew, the lady of S. Pellew, Esq. Collector of his Majesty's Customs

at that Port.

- Lately at Horton-lodge, near Epsom, aged 88, the Hon. Louisa Browning, widow of J. Browning. Esq. eldest daughter and only surviving child of the late Rt. Hon. Chas. Calvert, Lord Baltimore, and sister to Sir Frederic Calvert, the last Lord Baltimore.

-At Ashton-under-Lyne, aged 84, Mr. James Newton. This very eccentric character lived quite a solitary being, rarely admitting any one within his house. His property, which was originally considerable, gradually decreased through his neglect. About three years since his house was broken open, since which event he never went to bed, but always slept upon a sofa with six wax lights burning in the room, both summer and winter.

25. In Old Burlington-street, the lady of Thomas Corkayne, Esq. three weeks after child-birth.

At Necton, at the house of his son-in-law, W. Mason, Esq. the Rev. Paul Columbine, DD. Rector of Little Plumstead with Witton and Brundale annexed, Rector of Thuriton, and perpetual Curate of Hardley, all in Norfolk; also Rector of Chilton in Suffolk. He had been 64 years the incumbent of Thurlton and Hardley, and was in the 92d year of his age. 28. At Woodcot-house, near Reading, Ann, the wife of Thos. Fraser, Esq. late High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, after a long and severe illness. -At Twickenham, in her 96th year, Mrs. Sarah D'Oyly, the widow of Christopher D'Oyly, Esq. and sister of the late Hans Stanley, Esq. and Lady Mendip, and grand-daughter of Sir Haus Sloane.

29. At his house, in Wellington-crescent, Ramsgate, the Rev. Archdeacon Vince, MA. FRS. Pluvian Professor of Astronomy to the University of Cambridge, Rector of Kirby Bedon, and Vicar of South Creak, Norfolk. The Professor was a native of Fressingfield in Suffolk; his pa rents were in very humble circumstances, and were unable to do much towards educating him, yet he discovered at a very early age an aptitude for mathematical studies, which fortunately obtained for him the notice of the late Mr. Tilney, and through him the assistance of more opulent patrons. By their aid he was sent to the University of Cambridge, where he ultimately obtained the highest mathematical honours. Besides his large work on Astronomy, he was author of several other Mathematical publications.

30. At St. Paul's Cray, Mrs. Chittock, daughter of the late Dr. Stebbing, Preacher of Gray's-inn and Chancellor of the Diocese of Sarum. Dec. 1. At Clifton, after a lingering illness, Lieut.General John Lee.

-At Newton-house, the seat of the Earl of Darlington, in her 20th year. Miss Russel, niece to the Countess of Darlington. This unfortunate young lady was killed in her bed, by the falling of a stack of chimneys through the ceiling of her apartment, during a violent gale, between 3 and 4 in the morning. For some time hopes were entertained of her resuscitation, as there were no marks of serious injury on her person. 2. At Cholmondley-house, Piccadilly, Colonel Seymour, son-in-law of the Marquis of Cholmondley, in consequence of a disease contracted when on duty with his regiment, 3d Guards, at

Walcheren.

Richard Henry Lloyd, Esq. one of the Aldermen of Winchester, aged 61.

-At Ripley, Surrey, in his 80th year, Robert Harrison, Esq. formerly of Mansion-housestreet, Banker.

3. Miss Poulter, daughter of the Rev. E. Poulter, Prebendary of Winchester Cathedral. -At his house, Upper Cadogan-place, aged 33, Lieut.-Colonel Andrew Hamilton. This officer had been 18 years in the service of his country, and had been repeatedly wounded in different engagements under the Duke of Wellington. He was also Military Secretary at Ceylon, from which Island he returned under the influence of diseases of the climate, which terminated in his death.

4. At Stratford, in his 70th year, the Right Hon. Lord Henniker, LLD. FRS. &c. who is succeeded in his title and estate by his nephew, John Minet Henniker, Esq. of Lincoln's-inn, and of Stratford-green, Essex. His remains were interred in the family vault at Thornbam, Suffolk, on the 15th.

5. At Brighton, in his 65th year, James Perry, Esq. the Editor and Proprietor of the Morning Chronicle. Mr. Perry was a native of Aberdeen, where he was born, Oct. 14th, 1756, and in 1771, was entered at the University of that

city. He afterwards studied the Scots Law under Dr. A. D. Fordyce, intending to follow the Legal Profession; but in consequence of some unsuccessful speculations of his father, who was a builder, he was compelled to relinquish this design; and, in 1777, he came to London, where he was recommended to Mr. Urquhart, one of the Propietors of the General Advertiser. About this period he published some poems and political pamphlets; afterwards (1782) he commenced the European Magazine, which Journa!, however, he conducted only twelve months, being then chosen Editor of the Gazetteer. At the commencement of the French Revolution he became the Chief Proprietor, as well as Editor, of the Morning Chronicle. lu 1798 he married Miss Anne Hill. The character of this gentleman, as a Public Journalist. is well known, and the rectitude of his political principles were admitted, even by those who espoused a different party. His remains were interred, on the 12th, in his family vault, at Wimbledon; the funeral, in compliance with his wish, was strictly private, there being present only his executors, his two sons, Mr. William and Mr. Thomas Erskine Perry, and a few friends.

7. At Taunton, in her 76th year, Mary Anne, Dowager Baroness de Paravicini, relict of Jean Baptiste, Baron de Paravicini, formerly Lieut.Colonel Commandant of the regiment de Vergiers Swisse, in the service of Louis 16th. Madame de Paravicini was a native of Oakhampton, Devonshire.

-- Of apoplexy, aged 69, John Ring, Esq. Surgeon, Hanover-street, Hanover-square.

8. At Bishton, Staffordshire, in his 85th year. John Sparrow, Esq. late chairman of the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, and one of the oldest Magistrates of that county.

9. In her 71st year, Mary, the wife of Charles Lloyd, Esq. Banker, of Birmingham.

11. At her house in Queen Ann-street, aged 82, the Honourable Mrs. Anson, relict to the late George Anson, Esq. of Shuckborough, in the county of Stafford. She was daughter of George Venables, first Lord Vernon, and mother to the late, and grand-mother to the present Viscount Anson.

-At his house in Mansfield-street, Sir Martin Browne Folkes, Bart. of Hillington-hall, in the county of Norfolk, MP. for the borough of King's Lynn, in the same county, and FRS. He was created a Baronet, 1774; served the office of High Sheriff for the county, 1783; and, in 1790, was chosen Member for Lyun, which borough he continued to represent till the time of his death. Sir Martin married Fanny, one of the daughters, and co-heiresses of Sir John Turner, Bart. of Warham, Norfolk, by whom he has left one son.

14. In Gloucester-place, Portman-square, the Hon. Mrs. Fitzgerald, widow of the fate Lieut.Colonel Fitzgerald, of the 2d Life Guards, who fell at Waterloo.

15. In Devonshire-street, Portland-place, aged 27, Anu, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel Wilby.

IN IRELAND.

At Dublin, in her 53d year, Mrs. Matilda Wolselev, only sister of Sir Wm. Wolseley, Bart. of Mount Wolseley, in the county of Carlow. Aged 15, Mr. Leunon, the eldest son of Major Lennon, of Grange cottage, Queen's county. This young gentleman went to call upon a friend a few years older than himself, and being wrapped up in a Portuguese cloak, most imprudently determined upon surprising him, and concealing his face, and assuming a feigned voice, accosted him as a robber. The effects of his levity proved most fatal, for the other snatching up a blunderbuss, wounded Mr. Lennon in the face and head so horribly, that he died the next morning.

At Dublin, Mrs. Aylmer, relict of the late Capt. Richard Aylmer, of the 17th regiment of foot, and grand-daughter to the late Sir John Norris, Vice-Admiral of England, and Admiral and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Fleets.

ABROAD.

At Valencia, in South America, of his wounds received in the battle of Carabobo, July 17th, Thomas Ilderton Ferriar, Esq. eldest son of the

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At Chupra, in Bengal, in his 22d year, William
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Civil Service, cldest son of N. Hankey Smith,
Esq. of Deerbotts, Suffolk.

On his passage home from Grenada, John Ogle,
Esq. Capt. of the 9th regiment of foot, and son of
the late Robert Ogle. Esq. of Eglingham, in the
county of Northampton.

At Florence, suddenly, the Countess of Besborough, wife of the Earl of Besborough, and sister of the late Duchess of Devonshire and of Earl Spencer.

AL Paris, the relict of the late Hon. Thomas Walpole.

At Geneva, Bryan Cook, Esq. of Owstop, in the county of York, in his 66th year.

At the Cape of Good Hope, Dr. Hussey, who had resided there 14 years, as Inspector of the Military Hospitals.

At Paramaribo, in his 27th year, Thomas Sherrard Wale, Esq. eldest son of Lient.-General Sir C. Wale, KCB. of Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire. At Paris, after a few days illness, the celebrated sportsman, Colonel Thornton, late of Thornville Royal, Yorkshire.

At Malta, where he went for the benefit of his health, Sir James Ormsby, Bart. in his 25th year.

LONGEVITY.

At Liverpool, Edward Simon, aged 104 years and 22 days, a labourer in the Docks. This instance of longevity seems to have been hereditary, for his mother had attained the unusually great age of 105 years at the time of her death.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS, &c.

The Rev. William Wilkinson, MA. of the University of Oxford, to the Living of Sowerby, near Thirk, Yorkshire. Patron the Archbishop of York. -A Dispensation has passed the Great Seal, enabling the Rev. G. F. L. Ni olav, MA. Domestic Chaplain to H.R.H. the Duke of York, to hold the Vicarage of Little Marlow, Bucks, with the Rectory of St. Michael and St. Martin Vintrs, in the city of London.-The Rev. Charles Penrice, to the Rectory of Little Plumstead with Witton and Brandale annexed, vacant by the death of Dr. Columbine. The Rev. J. T. Hurlock, DD. Prebend of Salisbury Cathedral.-The Rev. Edward Day, AB. instituted to the Rectory of Kirby Bedon, Norfolk, vacated by the death of Professor Vince, of Cambridge.

OXFORD.-The Rev. Henry Hart Milman, AM. of Brazenose College, elected Professor of Poetry in the room of the Rev. John Josias Conaybeare, resigned.-The following subjects chosen for the Chancellor's Prizes, the ensuing year, viz. Latin Verses; Alpes ab Annibale superatæ. English Essay; On the Study of Moral Evidence.

Latin Essay; An re vera prævaluerit apud Eruditiores Antiquorum Polytheismus ? Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize, for the best composition in English Verse of 50 lines, by an under Graduate-Palmyra.

CAMBRIDGE-The Pluvian Professorship be ing vacant by the death of Archdeacon Vince, the Vice-Chancellor has appointed the 3d of January for the election of a new Professor.-At a Congregation, held on the 5th of December, the following degrees were conferred:

Honorary Master of Arts.-Lord Hervey, of Tri. nity College, eldest son of the Earl of Bristol. Master of Arts.-The Rev. R. Skinner, of St. College.

Bachelor in Civil Law.-The Rev. Charles Burton, of St. John's.

TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.-The subjects for the Vice-Chancellor's Prize, at the next Spring Commencemeut, are, for Graduates; Elizabeth receiving the account of the Death of her Sister, Queen Mary. For under Graduates; The Reply of Hippocrates to King Artaxerxes.

OBSERVATIONS ON THE WEATHER,
FOR NOVEMBER, 1821.

GENERAL REPORT.

THIS month has been very wet and windy, and the temperature of the air was high for the season. In the course of the month, rather more than 6 inches of rain fell here; a depth unprecedented in any monthly period during the last seven years, and of which about 4 inches were received in the pluviameter in five days, namely; on the 3d, 0.63 inch; 11th, 1.42 inch; 16th, 0.90 inch; 17th, 0.74 inch; and on the 30th, 0.30 inch. So copious and frequent have the rains been since the Autumnal Equinox, particularly in the western parts of the country, that the lowest lands have long lain under water. It has rained, more or less, on 23 days (or 10 whole days and nights) this month; and the strong southerly and south-westerly gales with which it has been accompanied, have had their usual effects upon houses, trees, and shipping. To show the perturbed state of

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the air, it is only necessary to mention, that the barometer has undergone 29 changes in 30 days: and the number of gales, or the days on which they have prevailed, is as follows:-1 from SE., 5 from S., 12 from SW., 2. from W., and 1 from NW.: so that 21 days have presented a melancholy aspect of the weather.

The mean temperature of the air is 44° higher than the average temperature of November for the last seven years; and having had but two slight frosts this month, the temperature of spring-water falls very slowly. The atmospheric and meteoric phenomena that have come within our observation this month, are, I anthelion, 1 parhelion, 1 paraselene, 5 solar and 4 lunar halos, 15 meteors, 2 perfect rainbows, lightning 2, thunder 1, and 21 gales of wind.

DAILY REMARKS.

November 1. An overcast sky, with drizzling rain at intervals, and a strong gale from SW.

2. As the preceding day: a wet night, and the gale from the same quarter more boisterous.

3. A continuation of the gale, with almost incessant rain; and violent squalls in the night.

4. A fine day, with the exception of a few passing Nimbi and light showers: a clear frosty night; the ice, for the first time

this autumn, on the leads of the Observatory, being as thick as a dollar.

5. Fair, with Cumuli at mid-day, which passed to Cumulostrati; between two of these clouds, at a quarter past 3 PM. the planet Venus presented herself to the naked eye; she was about 10° to the westward of the meridian at that time. Large and small coloured halos, a close corona, and a burr around the moon in the evening, caused by the different altitudes of the passing cirrostrative clouds.

6. Hoar-frost and a Stratus early, followed by a fair morning: PM. overcast, and two winds almost opposite to each other.

7. Overcast and a fresh gale from SE. A large lunar halo in the evening.

8. Cirri and Cirrostrati in the day; and passing Cirrocumuli in flocks by night, with an increased temperature.

9. Overcast and a brisk wind. A halo in the evening 45° in diameter.

10. A wet mist in the morning, which terminated in light rain : PM. cloudy and fine, and a brisk gale from the South.

11. AM. overcast with several Strata of clouds, and a continuation of the gale: PM. steady and almost incessant rain and wind.

12. Calm and fine, but a humid air with Strata in the morning and evening. A solar halo at mid-day in a bed of attenuated Cirrus; and a lunar halo with a faint paraselene at half past 8 in the evening in a similar modification the dew collected in the rain-guage in the night amounted to between 2 and of an inch.

13. An overcast sky and a brisk wind all day: a rainy night.

14. Overcast and drizzling, with gleams of sunshine at intervals, and a fresh gale from the south. Venus was seen here again with the naked eye at half past 3 PM., when she was about 43° distant from the sun.

15. Overcast, except an hour at noon. Groups of thunder clouds were wafted from the southward in the afternoon by a stiff gale, followed by rain, and one small meteor in the evening.

16. A strong gale with showers of rain -2 perfect rainbows at mid-day, and very vivid lightning throughout the night (which first came from SW. at 8 PM.) accompanied with thunder, heavy rain and hail, and a hard gale from that quarter.

17. The lighter modifications of clouds, a solar halo, and a parhelion on the east side of the sun in the morning: PM. heavy rain, particularly in the night..

18. Overcast with Cumulostratus, and a heavy gale from the SW. by night.

19. AM. wet and windy: PM. fine, and a copious dew in the night.

20. Overcast in the day; and rain by night.

21. A fine dry day: overcast with an attenuated veil of Cirrostratus in the evening, followed by rain.

22. AM. rain and a strong gale from SW. PM. cloudy and fine, and a gale from the W.

23. Cloudy, and a continuation of the gale till mid-day, when a smart shower of rain descended from an extensive Nimbus: PM. fine-a gale from NW. in the afternoon, and 6 small meteors in the evening.

24. After a shower of rain, a fine morn ing: PM. cloudy and windy.

25. AM. plumose and linear Cirri and Cirrocumuli in small round flocks, suc➡ ceeded by beds of Cirrostratus: PM. an overcast sky, light rain, and a hard gale from the SW. An anthelion of several colours appeared in the forenoon for two minutes only, in a narrow cirrocumulative cloud. It was about 125° distant from, opposite to, and of the same altitude as the sun, and of a degree in diameter. It was different, both in colour and distance from the sun, from the anthelia which we have hitherto seen, as it had much the appearance of a beautifully coloured parhelion rather irregularly shaped, the colours not having exhibited a circular form.

26. AM. overcast, and a continuation of the gale: PM. rain and wind.

27. A fine day and night, and a dry NW. breeze. The clouds were tinged with several colours at sunset, and 4 small meteors appeared near the polar star in the evening.

28. Light rain nearly all day and night, and a strong gale from SW.

29. AM. as the preceding: PM. fine. The planet Venus was 45° 10' distant from the sun's centre when on the meridian a few minutes past 3 PM., and sufficiently bright at that time to be measured with a sextant. The unilluminated part of the moon's disc was of a dull red colour in the evening, for the first time this autumn, and the upper cusp remarkably blunt compared with the lower one. Lightning towards the NW. from 8 till 11 PM., followed by low black clouds, 2 small meteors, rain, and a very hard gale from SW.

30. AM. fine, with beds of Cirrocumulus of a sponge-like appearance, floating beneath linear Cirrus and dense Cirrostratus: PM. rain, and a very hard gale from SW., which increased so much in violence towards midnight, as to become almost a hurricane, and appears to have been generally felt throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland: indeed, the damage sustained by shipping and houses, with the loss of many valuable lives, in the course of a few hours, seems almost incredible.

Kept at the Observatory of the Naval Academy, Gosport.

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RESULTS.

BAROMETER
( Maximum...... 30-32 Nov. 6th, Wind E.
Minimum...... 29:28 Do. 26th, Do. SW.
Range of the Mercury... 1.04
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