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TABLE, shewing the Monthly Results of a Meteorological Journal kept at Nottingham by Dr Clarke.

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April,

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January, 531735.29 14 30.05 28.65 29.44 1.13
February, 54 3043.00 14 30.33 28.68 29.62 0.74
March, 623044.00 10 30.38 29.00 29.99 0.40
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May,

773857.61 9

30.26 29.23 29.84 0.43

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June,

July,

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August, 764860.69 8 29.97 29.23 29.64 0.45

Nov.

Dec.

723450.46 12 29.87 29.05 29.46 0.63
67 3052.00 10 30.25 29.77 30.09 0.38
642642.10 1130.41 29.03 29.89 0.77
533340.12 13 30.00 28.25 29.45 0.90 |

744557.71 18 30.45 29.27 29.84 0.62
7846 59.64 10 30.12 29.39 29.88 0.24

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Scotland.

TABLE, shewing the Quantity of Rain that fell in different Parts of England and Scotland in the Year 1809.

1809.

England.

Jan.

May,

June,

2.91 8.44 5.22 3.50 1.57 3.98 2.67 4.66 6.58 0.77 1.80 2.76 2.085 1.560 1.435 2.121 1.22
Feb.
1.86 4.31 3.29 2.59 2.94 2.58 1.96 3.11 4.53
1.69 3.16 3.204 2.865 2.820 4.697 1.25
March, 0.94 0.00 0.44 0.82 0.48 0.43 0.35 0.53 1.13 0.72 0.75 0.21 0.694 0.339 0.360 2.981 0.86
April, 3.46 3.95 1.70 2.10 3.05 2.11 0.96 4.59 2.20 2.30 2.15 2.01 1.240 0.785 0.386 1.751 2.23
0.86 1.07 1.83 1.59 0.45 2.96 3.42 3.39 3.85|
1.80 2.14 2.076 2.935 2.379 2.806 1.44
1.20 2.38 2.06 2.24 3.24 2.01 2.45 3.10 4.26 2.45 2.45 3.02 2.525 1.846 2.379 2.956 2.40
3.58 3.45 2.00 2.87 2.38 2.28 1.79 4.00 3.45 1.44 1.44 2.39 2.324 1.545 2.245 1.8292.83
2.64 3.70 4.38 4.53 5.88 4.61 3.85 6.12 7.25 3.75 4.50 5.56 6.502 4.470 5.283 6.298 3.92
2.90 3.34 4.13 3.90 3.10 4.29 4.22 4.75 5.57 2.60 3.13 2.94 3.476 2.788 2.825 2.025 2.34
0.22 0.60 0.28 0.75 0.56 1.41 0.61 0.87 1.66 0.35 0.31 1.19 0.406 0.950 1.442 2.220 1.21
1.38 1.30 1.91 1.70 1.90 2.25 2.14 3.87 2.80 1.33 1.18 0.87 1.445 1.175 0.925 2.410.1.67
3.00 5.53 2.67 1.79 2.42 2.74 4.68 5.74 7.08 1.84 1.81 3.24 2.575 3.190| 3.153|6.535| 3.11
Total, 24.95 38.07 29.91 28.38 27.97 31.65 29.10 41.73 50.36 17.55 23.01 29.49 28.552 24.440 25.132 40.624 24.48

July,

Aug.
Sept.

Oct

Nov.

Dec.

GENERAL RESULTS.

Inches.

LONDON, greatest quantity of rain fell in July,............3.58
CHICHESTER,...............Ditto.......................January,......8.44
CHATSWORTH,
.............Ditto...................... January,......5.22
HORNCASTLE, ............Ditto...................... August,
August,.......4.53
FERRIBY, ...................Ditto................. August,.......5.88

HEATH,

.......7.25

......................Ditto.................
August,.......4.61
MANCHESTER, ............Ditto...................... December, ...4.68
LANCASTER, ..........
...............Ditto......................August, .......6.12
DALTON, ..................Ditto...................... August,
WEST BRIDGFORD, ......Ditto......................August, .......3.75'
NOTTINGHAM, .......
............Ditto................ August,.......4.50
EDINBURGH, ................Ditto......................August.......5.56
DALKEITH, ................Ditto................ .August,.......6.502
BOTHWELL CASTLE, ...Ditto...................... August,.......4.470
GLASGOW, .................. Ditto............ August,.......5.283
..Ditto.....................December, ...6.535
GORDON CASTLE, .......Ditte.....................August.......3.92

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VOL. II. PART II.

SOME ACCOUNT

Of an Attempt made by Mr Balman a Hanoverian, and Mr Francis Huger an American, to liberate M. de la Fayette from his Confinement in the Castle of Olmutz, 1794.

[This interesting narrative was drawn up by the writer from personal communica tions with Mr Huger. We pledge ourselves for its authenticity. The brief ac count, contained in the Appendix to Segur's History of Frederick William II., is very inaccurate.]

AMONGST the many extraordinary characters which the eventful times we live in have produced to the notice of the world, no man has undergone greater vicissitudes of fortune than La Fayette. At one time we behold him tearing himself from the fascinations of the most licentious court in Europe, braving the elements in search of the bubble reputation, and combating for the cause of liberty under the banners of Washington; at another, sowing the seeds of confusion in his native country, idolized by an enthusiastic populace, and raised to the chief command of his emancipated countrymen; then proscribed and hunted by those associates who no longer stood in need of his assistance; a fugitive in a foreign land, obliged to seek an asylum amongst his enemies; and lastly, sei

zed as a traitor, and delivered up to the Emperor of Germany; who, re garding him as one of the chief instruments of the insulting degrada tion and subsequent death of the royal family of France, ordered him into close confinement in the castle at Ol mutz. Compassion for his fate drew petitions from all quarters for his re lease. The emperor was inexorable, and Fayette had dragged on two miserable years in his solitary prison, when a stranger and a foreigner step ped forwards from pure motives of compassion, and an anxious wish to be of service to a man who had so signalized himself in the cause of i berty. Balman was a Hanoverian by birth, young, active, intrepid, and intelligent. He repaired alone and on foot to Olmutz to gain such infor mation as might enable him to judge

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