EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN JULY, 1791. Days Bank3 perCi 3 per Ct [Ditto 14 per Ct5 per Ct Long Short Stock. reduc. confols. 1726 Confol. Ditto | India India India S. Ser Old New 13 per Ct Ann 1777. 1778. Stock. Ann. Bonds. Stock Aun Ann. 1751 New 13 per Ct4perCt. Excheq Lottery Bills. Tickets. Navy. Scrip. Scrip. 824a 101 23급 82 a 101 24 13 9 888888 90 102 118 102층 2 2 24 24 1024 118 27 94 102 102 118 મેં હૈ. 24 95 24 95 N. B. In the 3 per Cent. Confols. the highest and lowest Price of each Day is given; in the other Stock the highest Price only. LOND.GAZETTE London Chron. London Evening. For AUGUST, 1791. CONTAINING Meteorolog. Diaries for July and Aug. 1791 690 Fête at Gibraltar in Honour of Prince Edward 716 ་་ Printed for D. HENRY by JOHN NICHOLS, Red Lion Pallage, Fleet-treet; 1. Wind fo brifk, as to blow the hay, in loading, over the meadows.-12. A general want of grafs.—13. Gathered first ripe gooseberries.-16. Cobwebs upon the hedge banks, blackberry in bloom, wheat in bloom, vegetation again going forward, the brown hue of the fields fomething changed, grafs fprings a little.-18. About fix o'clock this evening, the wind round the compafs in the course of ten minutes, and with violence.-25. Thunder, and a violent hail-storm, at a village not far diftant.-28. Hay harveft chiefly finished, the crop not fo heavy, but fuperior in quality to the coarfe long grafs of last year. Hay well got. Fall of rain this month, 2.5-10ths of an inch; evaporation, 4-4-13ths. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for August, 1791. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. July о о 27 62 66 59 29,93 rain 12 66 75 28 60 7༠ 55 30, fair 13 66 5 57 29,89 fair 56 19 fair 31 74 64 ,96 fair 68 20, fair 64 29,93 rain 7༠ 57 97 rain 60 55 30,14 fair 34 fair 5630,3 54 4 31 fair 25 fair 21 56 63 498 78 22 fair 22 15 fair 8 77 61 73 67 15 fair 24 ,18 fair 25 68 72 59 ,18 fair 456 63 69 68 26 58 68 6905 in 100 00 69 62 63 77 64 29,91 fair II 63 W. CARY, Mathematical Inftrument-Niaker, opposite Arundel-Street, Strand. 56 97 fair 55 97 fair 193 fair fair 45 fair ›5 fair 932 fair 15 Showery THE 1691 Gentleman's Magazine: For AUGUST, 1791. BEING THE SECOND NUMBER OF VOL. LXI. PART II. The fituation is high, and it was more expofed than any other object in the neighbourhood. It happened about 20 minutes before one o'clock on the morn ing of the 16th inftant. The flash of lightning, and the explosion of the thunder, were noticed at Hinckley at the dif tance of about five feconds of time, which agrees pretty well as to the diftance. The preceding day was hot and fultry. Reaumur's thermometer food at 20°, that is, about 77° of Fahrenheit's. I apprehend the storm was not fo violent at Hinckley as at many other places, for I believe it was very extenfive; but we had a great deal of vivid, pale lightning for many hours. The firft appearance of the ftorm and thunder, I oblerved, came from the South and South-weft, gradually approaching the latter part of the afternoon of the 15th inflant. 1. ROBINSON. Mr. URBAN, Aug. 19. YOUR readinefs to encourage whatever may contribute to the happinefs or welfare of others tempts me to fend to you the following obfervations, which, if put in practice, might, I think, conduce to the health of thofe alluded to in it. Having, fome years ago, had frequent occafions of going into Buckingham hire, in which the manufacture of lace is a conftant employment of the women, [ much lamented their univerfally dif eafed appearance. Their countenances are generally pale, and of a yellowish colour; and not a few of them are de formed in their bodies. It evidently appeared to me that thefe imperfections are brought on by their courfe of life. Reflecting on thefe circumftances, I refolved to try whether thefe bad effects might not, in fome degree, be prevented. While working of lace, they lead a fedentary life; their bodies bent forward over their cushions, which reft on their laps. Their bodies being bent, the lungs have not a free play; whence arife various complaints in their breasts. The liver and bowels being alfo preffed upon, the circulation of the fluids in their feveral veffels is impeded; whence flatulences and obftructions, and confequent pains in the abdomen. The fchools in which the boys and girls are taught are low rooms, kepe. clofe and warm, becaufe their employ does not require the degree of exercile neceffary to create warmth. In fuch rooms grown women generally affociate together. The air in thefe rooms becomes loaded with perfpirable matter, and other efluvia, arifing from their bodies. Their breathing in the confined air renders it unfit for refpiration. It is well known to medical practitioners, that very dangerous fevers, and other difeafes, arife from contined air. boys educated in thefe fchools are foon The called Called forth into the open air, to be varioufly employed in active life; and thus, generally, foon get the better of the bad effects contracted during their education. As there was a fchool in the village to which my business occafionally called me, I refolved to try fuch means as occurred to me to be proper for preventing the abovementioned inconveniences. In order, in the first place, to prevent the bad effects of vitiated, confined air in the fchool, I made an opening in the cieling of the fchool-room, clofe to the chimney flue; and from that opening I caufed a flue to be built, as high as the chimney, the fide of the chimney making one fide of this new flue. The heat of the fire warming the chimney-flue, the motion of the air in the new flue was thereby accelerated; and by the fe means there was a conftant current of air upwards from the fchool in the new flue, especially when the door or win dows were opened: and as the noxious, putrefcent animal particles are known to afcend in the air, they are thus conftantly carried off, and hereby a perpe. tual ventilation is formed, the fchool continuing as warm as before. Such openings a alembly (or other crowded) rooms would be found convenient. To prevent the inconveniences arising from the bent pofture of the body while at work, I caufed a frame to be made, to fupport the pillow to fuch an height as to be at a proper diftance from the eye when the perfon working food upright, and, in order to give them occafional relief, 1 caufed a refting fupport for the feet to be made in the lower part of the frame, when they were inclined to fit on a feat placed behind them. By this means the body was conftantly upright. This kind of relief is found to convenient, that, in many merchants' offices, their writing-defks are of fuch an height as to admit of the clerks ftanding or fitting, thereby occafionally refting themselves. While in the country, I prevailed on a fmart, fenfible girl in the neighbourhood to work at a frame which I had made for her, which pleated her much. I am forry to mention, that, on enquiry, I have not been informed that this practice is followed. S.A. the best and most fashionable I could meet with, and likewife a tea-pot and small parcell of very good tea; all which I freely prefent to you, and beg of you as freely to accept, as a fmall demonftration of my gratitude for your by-past kindneffes and obligations you have heaped upon mee. I have fent them in a little box, in which is also a little booke, which I hope may be acceptable to Jolias and William. Underneath I have fent you the best directions I could get for makeing the chocolet and tea. Pray a line or two of the receipt of the box, and prefent my duty, love, and fervice, as you know is due, from your most obliged and affectionate brother, and moft humble fervant, JON. DAWSON. 3 March, 1687, from my chamber in Bernard's-inn, by a good fire-fide. For makeing the Chocolet. Put into the pot halfe milke and halfe wa ter, and let it boyle well; then put in two ounces of Chocolet, and two ounces of fugar, and stirr it up well together till it be diffolved, and then boyle it well up. Scrape your Checolet well before you put it into the pot. If you make it with all water you must put in three ounces of Chocolet. For Tea. Let a pint of faire water boyle well, and when it boyles take it from the fire, and then put in the fame quantity of tea you will find wrap up in a paper which I have put into then let it ftand neare the fire (but not to the tea-pot, or more if you thinke fitting; boyle) about halfe a quarter of an houre, and then you may drink it. On a Marble in Chesterfield Church, Derbyshire. EDWARD BURTON, attorney at law, in Chesterfield, died April 23, 1782, aged 54 years. A tender husband, and a friend fincere, Confign'd to earth, implores the filent tear. Learn'd in the laws, he never warp'd their Tofhelter vice, or injure innocence; [fenie, But, firm to truth, by no mean intereft mov'd, To all difpens'd that juftice which he lov'd: And Guilt detected fear'd the coming blow. Virtue opprefs'd he taught her rights to know; He fill'd the circle mark'd by Providence, Thus humbly useful, and without offence, In age compleating what his youth began, The nobleft work of God, an honest man*. Thefe lines, Mr. Urban, are melodious enough, and were written by the late Bishop Halifax, whole fifter Mr. Burton had married. But this, however, is a very bad epitaph, as it informs not pol * Pope. terity |