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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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Untitled Article 1
LONDON: Article 1
TO OUR READERS. Article 2
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 3
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE: OR, GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY. Article 4
A CHARGE, Article 8
THE CHARGE. Article 9
TO THE PRINTER OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 15
A NARRATIVE OF THE SUFFERINGS OF LIEUTENANT GEORGE SPEARING, Article 15
ON THE IMPRESSION OF REALITY ATTENDING DRAMATIC REPRESENTATIONS. Article 21
TWO CURIOUS PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS. WRITTEN BY Dr. FRANKLIN, Article 27
No. II. Article 30
ON THE PRISONS OF THE METROPOLIS. Article 32
FURTHER PARTICULARS IN ADDITION TO OUR ACCOUNT OF THE EARL OF MOIRA. Article 34
INSTANCES OF COWARDICE AND COURAGE IN THE SAME PERSONS. Article 36
FLORIO; OR, THE ABUSE OF RICHES. Article 39
ON THE TITLE OF ESQUIRE. Article 41
AN ORIENTAL FABLE. Article 45
ANECDOTES OF DR. GOLDSMITH. Article 48
THE WOODEN LEG: AN HELVETIC TALE. Article 54
ANECDOTE ON MR. ADDISON. Article 56
TO THE PRINTER OF THE FREEMASON'S MAGAZINE. Article 57
THE LOYAL AND AFFECTIONATE ADDRESS OF THE FREEMASONS OF CORNWALL. Article 57
CHARLES II. AND VOSSIUS. Article 58
TALE OF A NUMIDIAN CHIEF. Article 59
ON AFFECTATION. Article 60
HAIL AND THUNDER STORMS IN CHESHIRE, Article 62
CHARACTERS IN HARRY THE EIGHTH's TIME. Article 64
LA FAYETTE's STATEMENT OF HIS OWN CONDUCT. Article 66
FRENCH BRAVERY. Article 69
TO THE PRINTER OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 70
Untitled Article 70
PHILIP OF MACEDON. Article 71
ON EDUCATION. Article 72
SKETCHES OF FOREIGN LITERATURE. Article 75
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 78
POETRY. Article 79
NOBLEMAN's SEAT IN CORNWALL. Article 80
THE CHELSEA PENSIONER. Article 82
A MORAL SKETCH, Article 83
EXPECTANCY. Article 84
THE MOSS ROSE BUD. Article 84
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 85
Untitled Article 88
Untitled Article 88
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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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