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Monthly Chronicle.
Harlow Bush Fair , in Essex , great quantities of cattle of every kind were shewn , but few of which were sold , and those at still lower prices than were bid at Barnet the ' week before ; there were many strings of finecart-colts , which sold freely , . and some of them reached as high as forty guineas a-piece . From the great quantities of cheese carried for sale to St . Giles ' s Hill Fair , Hear Winchester , which was held on the i ? th , the price of that necessary article was somewhat lower than at any ofthe late country fairs . Horses were also less Valuable than at the late Magdalen Hill Fair .
SCOTLAND . —Perth , September , 13 . Yesterday the Circuit Court was opened here by Lords Eskgrove and Abercrombie . The Rev . Mr . Fische Palmer , acr cused of writing and circulating a seditious and inflammatory hand-bill , was brought to the bar at eight o ' clock in the morning , and the Court sat till twelve at night . The Jury afterwards inclosed , and returned a verdict this day at two , » J 1 in one voice , finding the panne ! guilty . Lords Eskgrove and Abercrombie , in delivering their opinions on ihe nature
ofthe punishment , spoke very pathetically on the occasion , tending to shew the heinpusness of the offence , aggravated by being committed by a man in Mr , Palmer ' s line of life . The sentence is , transportation beyond the seas for Seven Years . Mr . Palmer , in a short speech , attempted to vindicate himself . The Court was very crowded . Edinburgh . We hear his Majesty has been pleased to increase the number of his Chaplains in Ordinary for Scotland from six tp ten . Dr . Hardie succeeds the late Principal Robertson;— -the four new ones are Dr . Johnston , Dr . Sommerville , Dr . T . Robertson , and Mr . Paul . Dr . Gerard and Dr . Hill , with the tfire . e Deans ( Doctors Grieve , Caclyle , and M'Cormick ) make up the number .
LUNAR OBSERVATIONS . HEKSCHEAL , during the late eclipse of the Sun , ivp understand , made some Important Lunar Observations , tending to establish some former conjectures as to the degree of light , heat , & c . reflected on tliat orb . Pie is ofoplnion that tli . e atmosphere of the Moon is not above 24 or 25 miles high , and that the twilight of morning and evening bears no proportion to that which we enjoy , it
beingnearly a transition from light to darkness . With us , when the earth , by it's rotation , has concealed the Sun from our sight , our atmosphere rising every where 50 piijes above us , moves and reflects to us the light , till the Sun hath descended IS degrees below the horizon , when all that part of the atmosphere above us becomes gradually dark ; but the Moon being of diameter so much smaller , and the atmosphere so considerably more contracted , the deepest darkness almost immediately precedes the rising ofthe Sun , and succeeds it's setting . The establishment of this hypothesishas confirmed the conjecture of the
in-, habitants ofthe Moon not being more than one third the stature ofthe people of tills earth . It is a demonstrative fact , that the pressure of 28 , 224 pounds weight of air , i , s essential for the support of a middle sized man whose surface may be about 14 square feet ; and that a dullness and languor is the consequence of the air beingthicker , and the weight consequently less . —The greater the body of air , the more densed it is towards the surface of the earth , as the lower parts are pressed
hy the weight of air all above them . Consequently if the weight of air sustained iy a square inch on the surface of our globe be 15 pounds , as it has been proved \> y experiments on the air-pumps , and also by the quantity of mercury the air balances in a thermometer , when that weight is accumulated by the condensation of 50 miles of atmosphere , the weight sustained by the same space of surface , 25 miles above us , would not at most be more than five pounds : consequently that t he atmosphere of the Moon is not capable of supporting a man more than tua Jeet high , and of proportionable bvUs .
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Monthly Chronicle.
Harlow Bush Fair , in Essex , great quantities of cattle of every kind were shewn , but few of which were sold , and those at still lower prices than were bid at Barnet the ' week before ; there were many strings of finecart-colts , which sold freely , . and some of them reached as high as forty guineas a-piece . From the great quantities of cheese carried for sale to St . Giles ' s Hill Fair , Hear Winchester , which was held on the i ? th , the price of that necessary article was somewhat lower than at any ofthe late country fairs . Horses were also less Valuable than at the late Magdalen Hill Fair .
SCOTLAND . —Perth , September , 13 . Yesterday the Circuit Court was opened here by Lords Eskgrove and Abercrombie . The Rev . Mr . Fische Palmer , acr cused of writing and circulating a seditious and inflammatory hand-bill , was brought to the bar at eight o ' clock in the morning , and the Court sat till twelve at night . The Jury afterwards inclosed , and returned a verdict this day at two , » J 1 in one voice , finding the panne ! guilty . Lords Eskgrove and Abercrombie , in delivering their opinions on ihe nature
ofthe punishment , spoke very pathetically on the occasion , tending to shew the heinpusness of the offence , aggravated by being committed by a man in Mr , Palmer ' s line of life . The sentence is , transportation beyond the seas for Seven Years . Mr . Palmer , in a short speech , attempted to vindicate himself . The Court was very crowded . Edinburgh . We hear his Majesty has been pleased to increase the number of his Chaplains in Ordinary for Scotland from six tp ten . Dr . Hardie succeeds the late Principal Robertson;— -the four new ones are Dr . Johnston , Dr . Sommerville , Dr . T . Robertson , and Mr . Paul . Dr . Gerard and Dr . Hill , with the tfire . e Deans ( Doctors Grieve , Caclyle , and M'Cormick ) make up the number .
LUNAR OBSERVATIONS . HEKSCHEAL , during the late eclipse of the Sun , ivp understand , made some Important Lunar Observations , tending to establish some former conjectures as to the degree of light , heat , & c . reflected on tliat orb . Pie is ofoplnion that tli . e atmosphere of the Moon is not above 24 or 25 miles high , and that the twilight of morning and evening bears no proportion to that which we enjoy , it
beingnearly a transition from light to darkness . With us , when the earth , by it's rotation , has concealed the Sun from our sight , our atmosphere rising every where 50 piijes above us , moves and reflects to us the light , till the Sun hath descended IS degrees below the horizon , when all that part of the atmosphere above us becomes gradually dark ; but the Moon being of diameter so much smaller , and the atmosphere so considerably more contracted , the deepest darkness almost immediately precedes the rising ofthe Sun , and succeeds it's setting . The establishment of this hypothesishas confirmed the conjecture of the
in-, habitants ofthe Moon not being more than one third the stature ofthe people of tills earth . It is a demonstrative fact , that the pressure of 28 , 224 pounds weight of air , i , s essential for the support of a middle sized man whose surface may be about 14 square feet ; and that a dullness and languor is the consequence of the air beingthicker , and the weight consequently less . —The greater the body of air , the more densed it is towards the surface of the earth , as the lower parts are pressed
hy the weight of air all above them . Consequently if the weight of air sustained iy a square inch on the surface of our globe be 15 pounds , as it has been proved \> y experiments on the air-pumps , and also by the quantity of mercury the air balances in a thermometer , when that weight is accumulated by the condensation of 50 miles of atmosphere , the weight sustained by the same space of surface , 25 miles above us , would not at most be more than five pounds : consequently that t he atmosphere of the Moon is not capable of supporting a man more than tua Jeet high , and of proportionable bvUs .