Gentleman's Magazine :

AND

Historical Chronicle.

From JULY to DECEMBER, 1812,

812.

VOLUME LXXXII.

(BEING THE FIFTH OF A NEW SERIES.)

PART THE SECOND.

PRODESSE ET DELECTARE.

E PLURIBUS UNUM.

By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent.

LONDON: Printed by NICHOLS, SON, and BENTLEY

at Cicero's Head, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street ;
where LETTERS are particularly requested to be sent, Post-PAID.

And sold by J. HARRIS (Successor to Mrs. NEWBERY),
at the Corner of St. Paul's Church Yard, Ludgate Streeta 1812.

The following Table, constructed upon a philosophical consideration of the attraction of the Sun and Maon in their several positions
respecting the Earth, and confirmed by the experience of many years actual observation, will, without trouble, suggest to the observer
what kind of Weather will most probably follow the Moon's entrauce into any one of her Quarters; and that so near the truth, that in
very few iаstances it will be found to fail.

If it be a New or Full Moon, or the Moon

enters into the First or Last Quarter,
at the hour of 12 at Noon.

Or between the hours of

2 and
4
6

8

10
Midnight

2

10
Midnight

Very rainy

Snow, or Rain
Changeable

Fair and Mild
Fair

Fair
Fair, if the Wind is N. W.; Rainy, if S. Fair and Frosty, if N. or N. E.; Rain, or
or S. W.

Snow, if S. or Sa W.
Ditto

Ditto
Fair

Fair and Frosty

Hard Frost, unless Wind S. or W.
Cold with frequent Showers

Snow and Stormy
Rain

Ditto
Wind and Rain

Stormy
Changeable

Cold Rain, if W.; Snow, if E.
Frequent Showers

Cold, with high Wind

4
6
8
10
12 at Noon,

Hence the nearer the time of the Moon's Entrance at Full, and Change, and Quarters is to Midnight (that is, within two hours before or
after Midnight), the more fair the weather is in the Summer; but the nearer to Noon, the less fair. Also, the Moon's Entrance at Full,
Change, and Quarters, during six of the Afternoon hours, viz. from 4 to 10, may be followed by fair weather; but this is mostly
dependent on the wind. The same entrance during all the hours after Midnight, except the two first, is unfavourable to fair weather.
The like, nearly, may be observed in the Winter.

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PREFACE

TO THE

SECOND PART OF THE EIGHTY-SECOND VOLUME.

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Dec. 31, 1812. IN

our periodical Addresses to our Friends and Correspondents, it has happened, for a long Series of Years, that our Political Hemisphere has been sadly darkened by storms and tempests, and that but few rays of hope or expectation have at intervals irradiated the horizon. A Star has at length appeared from the North, which bids fair to mark the limit of the most sanguinary ambition, to check the career of as implacable a Tyrant as ever excited the indignation of a suffering world.

Spes virtusque cadunt, trepidaque à mente recedit
Vertere terga pudor, nec leti cura decori,

Sed fugere infixum est, terræque optantur hiatus.”
View the Individual at this moment, who at the distance
of a few short months, led an Army amounting to almost
half a Million of well-accoutred Warriors, accustomed to
conquest, with the aspiring confidence of fixing for ever
the Throne of his Sovereignty over the oppressed, abashed,
desponding Nations of Europe-

“ Shorn of his beams, how is the mighty man fallen!" Surely now, the elasticity of the human heart will be restored to its due confidence in the gracious dispensations of Providence; Surely now, the eyes of Europe will be opened to the proper sense of the relative interests of each and all its Nations; Syrely, high and mighty Potentates who exhibit a long and noble list of Imperial Ancestry, will no longer crouch, and bow the servile knee, to an Upstart and a Despot. The sinews of his arm are paralyzed, his sword is dishonoured, his confidence lost. But why do we so long, and with an earnestness which we are at no pains to soften

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