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C. Bush, H. Loddon, Norfolk, grocer. [Windus, Bartlett's buildings, Holborn. C. Frost, J. Temple Normanton, Derby, maltster. Scott, O. Manchester-buildings, Cannon-row, Simpson, W. J. Manchester, hosier. [Adlington, Jan: 1.-Abbey, R. Alne, York, miller. [Freame, Abbey, T. Pocklington, York, ironmonger. [Evans, Clark, T. Hammersmith, money-scrivener. [Isaac- White, J. Bletchingley, Surry, farmer. [Welch- Chafer, W. Kingston-upon-Hull, grocer. [Hicks, Coal, T. Burwell, Lincoln, dealer. [Bell, 9, Bow- Gear, J. Nottingham, fishmonger. [Wolston, Gill, W. Scarborough, York, linen-draper. [Hurd, Glover, J. Easthope, Salop, dealer. [Willis, Warn- Hunter, J. Hawkhurst, Kent, corn-dealer. [Greg- Birch, R. Y. Hammersmith, medicine-vender. Hall, J. Watton at Stone, Hertford, cow-dealer. Harrison, R. Coleshill, Warwick, tanner. [Jenkins, New-inn. C. Pinniger, J. Lechlade, Gloucester, wool-mer- Potbury. G. Sidmouth, Devon, cabinet-maker. Jan. 12.-Ambrose, T. Waterloo-place, woollen- Colville, E. D. Charlotte-street, Portland-place, Hoyle, B. Broad-street, Bloomsbury, tailor, [Con- Wardle, Isaac, Worksop, Nottingham, butcher. [Allen, 17, Carlisle-street, Soho-square. C. Wigfall, H. Sheffield, York, file-maker. [Blacklock, Serjeant's-inn, Fleet-street. C. Wootten, J. Windsor, Berks, timber-merchant. [Eyre, Gray's-inn-square. T. Jan.15.-George, J. Park-street, Hanover-square, miliiner. [Fenton, Austin-friars. T. Hext, Simeon, Hardington Mandeville, Somerset, sail-cloth-maker. [Holme, New-inn. C. Mickle, J. Percy-street, Tottenham-court-road, tailor. [Fisher, Furnival's-inn, Holborn. T. Milne, J. Liverpool, painter. [Blackstock, King's Bench-walk, Temple. C. Nunneley, S. Cransley, Northampton,beast-jobber. [Nelson, 7, Barnard's-inn. C. OBSERVATIONS ON THE WEATHER, FOR DECEMBER, 1821. GENERAL REPORT. WE have to record the most dreary mouth that appears in the meteorological history of this country. The rains, winds, temperature, both of the air and spring water, amospherical electricity, lightning, and thunder, have all occurred in very considerable degree, for the most part unparalleled within the British isle, and the pressure of the incumbent atmosphere diminished beyond comparison. Rain fell here, more or less, every day, except on the 6th, 11th, 12th, and 15th, the aggregate amounting to between 7 and 8 inches in depth that is, 1.59 inch more than we have registered in any former monthly period, and almost double the quantity of what we consider as constituting a wet month in this latitude. So copious was its descent on the days and nights of the 24th and 28th, that it amounted to 2.72 inches. The following is the number of hard gales, or days on which they have prevailed this month, viz. 4 from SE., 10 from SW., and 2 from the West. The mean temperature of the air, ten feet above the ground, is 640 higher than the mean of December for many years past, and equal to some of our first spring months, which is in great measure verified by the present forward state of vegetation: nor has the thermometer in the open air, in a northern aspect, once descended to the freezing point within 4°. The maximum Naval Academy, Gosport temperature for the 6th, 7th, 24th, and 28th, occurred in the nights. The mean temperature of spring water is 52° 57', that is, 54° higher than the mean for December, 1820. This also is a proof of the uncommonly high temperature of the ground at this season of the year. At 11 PM. on Christmas-eve, the mercury, in our barometer, and in several other good portable barometers in the neighbourhood, receded 28.10 inches, which is th lower than it fell during the hurricane on the 4th and 5th of March, 1818, and lower than we ever saw it before. The magnetic needle also was singularly affected on some of the most stormy days, having deviated from its diurnal mean state between 30 and 4° towards the north. We had vivid lightning on the 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, and 27th, which was twice accompanied by thunder: and to account for its frequent occurrence at this season, we need only refer to the fact of the unusually high temperature of the ground, and the wet, electric, and violently agitated air, which had oftentimes a turbid aspect. The atmospheric and meteoric phenomena that have come within our observation this month are 1 parhelion, 2 paraselena, 2 solar, and 8 lunar halos, 17 meteors, 6 perfect rainbows, lightning on five different days, and thunder on two. DAILY REMARKS. December 1. A succession of Nimbi, with rain and large hailstones of a transparent appearance. 2. AM. light rain; and fine in the afternoon. A large and a small lunar halo, and two paraselena in the evening, followed by an overcast sky and light rain. 3. Rain all day, and a gale from SW. in the evening: alternately cloudy and clear by night. 4. AM. fine: a solar halo at mid-day in passing beds of Cirrostratus: overcast in the afternoon, and a shower of rain and a strong gale from SW. in the evening. 5. Sunshine and a continuation of the gale in the morning: PM. frequent light showers of rain. 6. A Stratus in the fields and on the water, followed by a fair day and night, and opposite winds, the lower one from the SE. prevailed. A large halo, and a concentric one composed of three rings of colours. The maximum temperature for the last 24 hours occurred in the night. 7. A continuation of the gale, and an overcast sky, followed by light rain after mid-day. The maximum temperature occurred again in the night. 8. A fine temperate day, with prevailing Cirri, and Cirrocumuli in light flocks, nearly all day rain by night. : 9. Overcast and drizzling rain at intervals, with a moderate gale from SW. 10. An overcast sky, except about an hour rain by night, and a gale from SW. 11. A fine cloudless day: Cumuli and Cirrostrati by night, in the latter modification a large faintly coloured halo appeared around the moon. At 20 minutes before 10 PM. a luminous meteor, 6 or 7 inches in apparent diameter, was observed to descend from an altitude of about 15°, between the Dragon and the head of Bootes. It appeared quite circular, of a silvery colour, and to a considerable distance spread a light far brighter than that reflected from the moon, notwithstanding the brilliancy with which she then shone in a cloudless space. Its motion was slow, compared to that of trained and middle sized meteors, and its inclination to the horizon formed an angle of about 10°, inclining to the NW., and in that direction a fresh breeze prevailed, which may have had some power over its course in altering it Observations on the Weather. from a perpendicular descent. The sky 12. Overcast with a veil of Cirrostratus 14. Overcast and light rain at intervals. 15. Cirrostrati interspersed about the sky at sunrise: a fine day and night, and 3 small meteors. 16. As the preceding, with the addition of Cirrocumulus; and both the earth and pavements gave out an unusual quantity of moisture, which was followed by rain in the night. 17. A rainy day and night, and two perfect rainbows. The gale from SW. soon after midnight blew tremendously, with violent squalls at intervals. 18. A continuation of the gale in the morning. Nimbi and showers throughout the day and night, from one of which, at mid-day, lightning and thunder proceeded. Several electrical discharges again from the clouds at night. 19. Forked lightning and long peals of thunder from passing Nimbi, with hail and rain, from 6 till 8 AM. Sunshine between the showers in the day, and lightning again at night. 20. A sunny morning, with passing beds of Cirrostratus, in one of which a large solar halo appeared from 11 till 1 o'clock: PM. rain, with a very strong gale from SW., and a few flashes of lightning to the eastward. 21. AM. a continuation of the gale, with squalls and frequent light showers: PM. fine. Some flashes of lightning from the passing clouds in the evening. 22. At 9 AM. a faint parhelion appeared to the south of the sun, which was soon afterwards succeeded by two large and brilliant rainbows with their proper colours; the last of these was double, by the reflection of the bright colours from the lower one. A series of Nimbi and light showers of rain and hail, with a heavy gale from SW. 23. As the preceding, and 2 rainbows a little before noon. 24. Heavy rain from a turbid-looking sky, and an extremely low barometer, which has sunk gradually since last evening. The wind began to freshen from SE. early in the afternoon, and it increased with the rain to a very hard gale, with hollow sounds resembling distant thunder, till 9 PM., and then abated; but the barometer continued to sink uniformly till 11 o'clock, when it had receded to 28.10 inches, with a temperature of 48°, and several other good -31 portable barometers in the neighbourhood were equally low at that hour. The hands of all the wheel barometers, that we had acbelow the range of their graduated scales of cess to at the same time, were out of, or 3 inches, one ths, another ths, and a On examining the best meteorological jourthird between four and ths of an inch. servers in this country, during 27 years, nals that have been kept by skilful obwe find that the greatest depression of barometers, placed about the same height place at the latter end of January, 1814, from low-water mark as our own, took when the mercury did not recede below 10°; a difference of of an inch higher 28.22 inches, with a temperature under than ours, independent of a lower tempe ture, which always sinks the barometrical column in the proportion of of an inch to about every 30 above the freezing point. 25. AM. sunshine and a grey sky, with afternoon-4 small meteors appeared bea brisk NW. wind; and Cumuli in the tween 9 and 10 PM. followed by rain, and a sinking barometer. when 5 small meteors appeared: the night 26. A rainy day, and a fine evening, as the preceding. 27. A succession of low and extensive hail, and brisk winds from SW., yet the Nimbi, with heavy showers of rain and barometer rose slowly. Some flashes of lightning from the passing clouds in the evening. day, and from SW. by night, with torrents 28. A very hard gale from SE. in the of rain and hail, amounting to 1.65 inch, which is the greatest quantity we have ever registered in 24 hours with a tide 3 feet higher than is usual at the present age of blown violently into Portsmouth harbour; the moon at this season, the wind having and another great depression of the barometer (see the table). At 2 PM. the clouds clouds, Cirrus and Cirrostratus, were obbroke away a little, when two veils of tered portions of Nimbi; also two winds served above the low turbid Scud, or scatcrossing each other from SE. and SW., the lower one eventually gave place to the upper. At this time Venus and the S. by E.; a circumstance rarely to be seen moon were very near each other, about with the naked eye at that hour of the day. 29. Overcast and windy, and passing lus, and Cirrostratus: PM. overcast with weather clouds: misty by night, and rain |