royal 8vo, 1795; Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the Laws of England, intended to be delivered in pursuance of an order of the Society of Lincoln's Inn, in their hall, 1796, 8vo; A Treatise on the Laws of England for the Settlement and Relief of the Poor, 2 vols. 8vo, 1805, 2d edit., with considerable Additions, 1808. London at Midnight. The following passages are from a poem under this title by Robert Montgomery, author of the Omnipresence of the Deity:' The fret and fever of the day are o'er, And London slumbers, but with murmurs faint, When passions sink, and man surveys the heavens, O'er all a sad sublimity is spread The dimming smile of night, amid the air, * How noiseless are the streets! a few hours gone, And all was fierce commotion; car and hoof, And bick'ring wheel, and crackling stone, and throats Immingled in the stir of life; but now A deadness mantles round the midnight scene: And frowned her myriads into sleep!-'Tis hushed! 'That roll them into silence. Beauteous look 1 St. Paul's. The Past!-Oh! who on London stones can tread, Whose world-illuming minds, like quenchless stars, In dismal majesty from out the tomb! And who shall paint the midnight scenes of life Some weary wrecks of woe are lapped in sleep, Of agonising thoughts and ghostly fears; The famished wanderer dies:-no voice to sound And shall this city-queen-this peerless mass Of pillared domes, and gray-worn towers sublime, Be blotted from the world, and forests wave Where once the second Rome was seen? Oh! say, Will rank grass grow on England's royal streets, And wild beasts howl where Commerce stalked supreme? Alas! let Mem'ry dart her eagle-glance Down vanished time, till summoned ages rise With ruined empires on their wings! Thought weeps With patriot truth, to own a funeral day, Heart of the universe! shall visit thee, When round thy wreck some lonely man shall roam, But, hark! again the heavy bell has pealed Then let me home, and Heaven protect my thoughts! Astronomical Occurrences In FEBRUARY 1829. Surely there is a language in the sky- As the tossed bark, amidst the ocean's foam, Hails, through the gloom, the beacon o'er the wave; THE Sun enters Pisces at 24 m. past 8 in the evening of the 18th of this month; and he rises and sets, during the same period, as in the following TABLE Of the Sun's Rising and Setting for every fifth Day. February 1st, Sun rises 27 m. after 7, sets 33 m. after 4 ...... 6th 18 ...... 7 42 .... One of the easiest ways of regulating a clock, for those who have not the means of observing the transit of the Sun, is to observe the time by the clock when it is exactly 12 by a good sun dial, and then to correct that hour for the equation of time, which will give the precise moment which ought to be indicated by the clock, and consequently show how much it is too fast or too slow. TABLE Of the Equation of Time for every fifth Day. m. s. Sunday, February 1st, to the time by the dial add 13 58 Friday... ...... Wednesday ......11th. 6th. 14 28 14 37 14 26 13 57 13 12 LUNAR PHENOMENA. Phases of the Moon. ........ 7 at night New Moon.... 4th day, at 31 m. past 2 in the morning ........20. 8 Moon's Passage over the Meridian. The Moon will pass the first meridian at the following times during this month, which will afford good opportunities for observing her transit, if the weather prove favourable; viz. February 8th, at 58 m. after 3 in the afternoon 9th 50 14th 2 The breadth and brightness of the illuminated disk of this planet is constantly varying, like that of the Moon; and the following is the proportion between the light and dark parts at this time: February 1st{Dluminated part = 10-72161 Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites. The following are the eclipses of the first and second of these small bodies that are visible this month. There will be more than twenty others, but they cannot be seen in this country. Immersions. First Satellite...14th day, at 27 m. 15 s. past 4 in the morning Second Satellite, 11th ...... 46..41............ 5.... Conjunction of the Moon with the Planets and Stars. February 3d, with 8 in Capricorn, at 5 in the morning Mars. 9 Taurus..... 7 in the evening .28 Taurus .7 Taurus..... at midnight 8th 11th 12th 4 in the morning 5 4 in the afternoon. Other Phenomena. Mercury will attain his greatest elongation on the 12th. Venus will be in conjunction with Georgium Sidus at 6 in the morning of the 16th. Mercury will be stationary on the 19th; and in his inferior conjunction at a quarter past 3 in the afternoon of the 28th. Some of the journals, particularly the foreign ones, having excited considerable attention to the re-appearance of the comet which is expected to pay its periodic visit to our system in the course of four or five years, we are induced to insert the following interesting observations, from the Literary Gazette. THE COMET. Yet, yet, With every coming night the terrible star COMET OF 1832, 3, or 4.-To shew our friends who may have been infected with the terrors excited in the Parisians by the inflammable forebodings' of those astronomers who, according to our correspondent at the French capital, predict the destruction of our world by a comet, in 1832,-to show our friends the grounds of this, not absolutely visionary alarm, we have been induced to give a slight sketch of the history of that baleful star, which is now winging its way earthward, till, in the year 1832, 3, |