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If nodirections are gipen with an ad - veiuisement9 ii 4^ PQ$M3ST1C.* , CLIMAfli OT THE V. S I ATLS. H is well knowfl that the clitnate of the souHteru ?c central ports of Europe has not, for sprpe centuries, been the fame that it waft trv^he da^a of the old Romans. In deed there is some reaspn to believe that the whole of it has changed, and that the parts ofAfrica^adJaceWto h haft changed also. Not only did snow fall in Italy* abun dantly, in its seson, wtare .none falls now, buteveh the deKgbtfw region of Crimea was described as having % climate like iba( of Siberia at the present day, The warmeat provinces of Frfcacc WC re thought too cold, for comfortable living, and Carthage was then th t garden t>f the world. whether these changes from cold to warm may be permpneifff it ii impossible to say? It is evenL very questionable* ;lt seems ihai some places have been colder for the Ia*t fifty years than they had bten previously. With' regard to our own country it has been observed by ibe most catfless obser ver, that since 1812, the seasons have bean very unlike what they had formerly been. # i We do not pretend evtn to conjectM?|M to (he duration of the cauq?S that produce this weather? our present business is to epP quire what changelfus takcgi jwace, what, are its present elects, and mn be the pro bable consequence of its ctovitt nuance* This summer has hitherto bean extremely cold.; with the exception of a very few days that extrefnel? waritu The |iir has bten overcharged with vapors for the principal part oftbe tb%l?|tt;OS rain ha* been felt almost every wherf* but,pariicu laiiy in the central parts < f P:ntuy\vania and through the great range of ^ppal achUn mountains. Tins is evidently owing to the dullness which has ret Allied nature's great process ofevaporation/Wld depreq*cdt? the ran^e of the clpuds. m. As to colt!, I should imagine'that anaw* in June and frosta -pr <July might ' well be lP>atterof remark* At Quebec, in the be ginning of June, the papera h}d just time to announce the appq^rance of summer weather/*nd inform ur that ort account of the backwardness of ve^etatfois, t WW lalt frosts ha<} done little damage^ when* ?**odfr bepran on the 6th of that month, whictj^f|fc? tinued to- fall, at jsttrV^W three and lefttfre to the depth of a foot and upwat|)* in some places. Great numbers of birds fled from the forests to the houaes, and in'|$tgtbec many were found dead in * he streets. Some kinds of -trees shed their leaves which were then only about *ha*f grown . The eropa were pro tected by snow from the very severe frosts that followed}' fend the orchard (reel tvete ? little affected as their bud* tad herd)/ been opened ; but the wild fruit treea which *ere in blossom* as wtU aa several kinds of gar defoliants, suffered severely# The Cana dfarts remak that the last summer was very brf^kwurd, bat that the present is the oold estj^at they have ever seen. In thJLilistrict of Maine* very heavy ^o>m dmein and snoWcame from N. N. W. at ? same those (6th of June.) and waft tucEveded by frosta every night until the Lit h. It it supposed that the snow would have been about si* inches deep had it not tfecffl Aieltcd by the rsln that fell at the same time. The corn which had been planted wW totally destroyed. The swal lows and marttn birds were Sound froaen on their nests^ jfrl ^ven of the sheep that had been ehoils frtahy petisftrd, though ? they we*n*<p<*4Rr heuees. Vhe cuctrmbera,* me lons attd most of Jhe garden p'ants were lest- In some places the ice whh half an inch thick; and it wns observed generally, that the oldest in habitants had never seen ?o cokl and backward a spring. i In Vermont the sno* of the 6th melted |* it fell, but on the 7th and Sth it fell in such quantities that some of tfc paptn ?y I it lay eighteen inches ^leep in tome- parts | of the country, yet by the 9th it appei Era to have been all gone except on the mountains. In Massachusetts the snow began on the 8th; and tH?; Boston papers remark, thai from the 1st of June until the 12th. there had been eight nights of frost. On the 5th the thermometer stood 82 at Boston and Boston to 53, and at Salem to 43. At the latter-place it waa 93 on the ? efd (June), 10 1 on the 23d* 100 on tlie 24td and 6 ? on 35th. Such changes have' probably neirmr be out been witnessed* It does not appear that any snow fell near the city of New- York during the pe riod 1 bate mentioned but frcoi #*Mioftced in many places, and in the western end of the state, Ssno w fell to the depth "of seve ral inches* I cannot discover k extended further southward than to the neighbor hood of Pittsburg, and there appears to have been very tittle in Pennsylvania cast of the mountains. ?? What seems rather strange, a totter Irora Erie dated the !4ih of June, makes no mention of snow there, but says" the season has been dry and froa tyibr weeks together, it appear* asif we should have no crops in these partsathe corn has been all killed by the frost of the navigable for the ' ?.We have seen no mention made of the cold any further south than in North-Caro 4 na, for in the southern states the general |: complaint has been the want of rain, which ; though it has , been cause of alarmed over the United ^statea^ sppeers TwiSv been felt meet severely in bouth Carolini Georgia and Ixiuisiana. This stat? 1 (fttfeland) while it has been little aifoeti&i! byme cold, haaupe believe sustained but litUe damage from the drought* The co? pious rains thai fcH in most places towards the end of June and in the beginning of July, hate given great relief, particularly in the eastern states** Considerable quan txirMba of hail felliri' several parti of Peitnsy vania on the 2d ami 4th of Julju At West Chester it is reported to have rained sfttne k.nd of meteoric \mrt qftmrtx And frid fifiar.ffte hy\\ Was an large as common heirs' eggs fit many places, and near Pittsburg it fell in afctfo quantities that it was carried into the City, ^a distance of three and evenfofer lor ?ihe purpose of making pun<;li; * 1 here is an aeco*A*?$f * v severe hail .storm av Richmond on ttte 2fth of July, accompanied *wtth wind, which* it tl feared, 'has dene much damage to their wbaceo, and com, I The fconsecquences of the unusual wea ther we b*W egnerienoed bev* beeervei f i various isilBtftl plsct^ but in general they have bee# injurions. In LoriftiKil* i appearances Were very alarming during itjb??4ttt pa* 4T July, but Uid crdbi ?r#l Istnted to be as good a* ustUO in theirs t of ( the southern states^? ?la this stttil the ;?rihi4ei*w*k good and fruit plentiful. _ In Pennsylvania, among the niudeihW*! they will have very little grain and vet#] imlsitiL hr ihe wetter** part, the wTMil is generally not good, but Hi Washington 1 county, on some farms^t is much better than usual* Cori appears rttf utt favorably Muh toM very deficient, Especially towards fthe Mes* In tlie< 10mm part of thftt shge liwl nefltrstand tirat rtje crops are thin. I Jn kM the aistcife state* the crops of i," wheat and rye are reported^ to be as good vas usual : potatoes generally look well, but Hkheve is little bay? and tbeif corn looke un promising. We believe there irllttle fruit to the northward c&Pennsytvania* % With regan) to Hie effect v upon the hu man aystem that have rettilted Horn the changes we have noticed, it to tte observed that the low nervous fever (Typhus mil lor or febris inerritativa) a disease hardly known in former years, has now became common amongst us; and not only so, but 'almost every disease is now liable to as sume a typhus cast-? a depression of pulse and prostration of power often taking piece in cases that had never heretofore ^beeh thought liable to such symptoms* We cannot conceive a more complete proof of the change of climate than the' fact th*t the S. physicians of the United States have been ' compelled to adopt a new practice* The typhus fever first made its appearance in the New England states, in the course of a long period of unusually cold damp I weather. !t cxtenriferi itself gardually west | ward along the northern parts of Nejr )ial toil or elitnato, of one bodies be ckn it ??**? Bf thU mn MM*. This doe*. InB^mtick inru lRHttAiw it feeths at l^st to have pervaded K % v-"-, \ ,??? ? ' tQh'?|nfr*t thfeSCSr on? .. n , ; 9T bat. Mi is foolish to be positive about any opinion in a question of Um kind. We think the alteration tdok pike before the spots were observed, and tnst potsibty it was produced by the bt e cart bq? takes i tor it is perfectly uuderstood in South America that those natural convulsions always p o y f- v - duce effects on the weather.* salutary ones in that Climate* whatever they might be here. With the following extiact on that subject we shall conclude. > THE ALT I RATIO** OF THE SK4SON*. ' * ' ? "? [fiy Lofd Drrgho^n.] J. . It is long since many, of whom "1 was fcne, have maintained, that the seatont are i a He red? that it is not so hot now in sum mer as when we were boys. Others laugh' Sethis, and Sa? that the supposed alteration proceeds frortrart alteration in ourselves? rWom our having become older and conse quently colder* In 1784, in the course of a conversation I had m my brtwet, who is very intelligent and eminent in Ms Way, he maintained that tftt alteration had bken place# This ob^Ntion ho matt* ^vrfsJLSsrsErar attends rain, the tiflmtion in the hours of labour at the time of sowing barley, which a great many years ago was a work per for med* very early in the morning, on account of tae intensedess of heat after the sun had been np sometime. He 'added, that for many years past, the barley did nbt malt as formerly, and the period he fixed upon fees the year in which the earth^pake at Lisbon *Pwas much stt?pris*d*tH|jihtf ^ i v^tion, and did not pay mudh attention to it till last summer, when I happened to <j^ad 44 Lea Aannales Politique*," of Linguet, a ?try scarci book, which I was sure rtjj breWer neircr reed? for ^iere? to my Ml ishment, )1 (bund the very same opinion, with this additional fact, that in Champagpe (where be Was born) they have not b*en able, since that &rthduak*f tn make the same wine* tie says too that he has sfcen 4he tHWsdeed^f ?svenA>fvtatcS mPicarrlv which prttagl that at that time, theyMiad i iirambet 6f excellent vineyards, t>u* now no Huch crop can be rearyl tber^ *He alto attempts to account philosophical' J^feMhat - * Tj*te ai Foreign JYewa. . my mm |li .^.u .?? i ,4m , uw ?4<?i T?? aioisTaa. A report has been received at PI#!.1 York, rUl Msdrid and Cadis, that Russia fhad declared War against Prussia. There ^cannot be any tryth m it* Yet we -so??e* .times think the tefko* of Europe will bo , distuibed ? tfnr British papers talk iAuch*| about the emfe'tfai of jftpefa V because, wo suppose, her emperor has molved toetw icouraget^e n^anufaciures of hisownfso-t l?r*T j 4 '-.* ? **>' * '*% Spain b fi ting out a squadron; against 4 Algiers. ?. ' , erfirditum to Atgirr #. The British government seem completely ronserl at the condflct of Algiers, and determined to qutet the piratical barbarians* We wish her the g1+ry of this*? it will be a happy exercise of the vasfc ^ower she has attain ed ; and p.obably, save ui the trouble and expence of battering dowji th^frr cities. A very heavy squadron of seven sail of the line* with many smblter Vessels. bomb ships, kc. were about to leave England un der lord Exmouth, at our last accounts. His flag ah n is the Queen Charlotte of 1 10 guns* 6ne of the gnfffesscls is caJK ed the B t lee bub ? her greatest mortal is 4 feet long* 13 inches calibre, with an ex treme breadth at the muzzle of a feet i 1 inches, and requires 24 H*u of powder for a charge. ' The expedition was fitting out collar service H desHmed - for, and can J ooess. IF& said toe DuUh tittflM shall end ^be pinriN^ 'if ? ^ef it w? in? ^ 1,1 " **> Of frhfeh are and 1 5 ooo men* A kodoiMM' M 4rt Julfi UtatHe-famxHng^ On kMd fcfcmouth s visit t< harangued the ^rews of the ahipa *fc*t ? longrtHn^ hild^ not %e them two months additional pay, ln^ their immediate dia* Charge after Uty hnt^iiaTshed the Alfe* rinea, ' hk* C MuntetffsMa found m the wfctotoftta t, and i aElw'frifc Wjhi ? of the Boyne observed to hit lordship, 44 that if the A1|?rinN were to be pnlbhetft it might have been done during the tfcvfen day a the Btftt lay bcfcwll."1 it la ait* lattcboly to observe such a general disguat amongtl our beate imi beso vitally interesting to thte-?Otm? try ha a parliamentary inquiry into the general management of our nitty ? ,??'* A private letter (HattS Mfc following anecdote .* On lord Fxn the palace of the 13ey he had concluded the tvni^ fated the emtfbctpation of the ch^fatitnT slaves and the afeoHtfcn el the sytem, and had neatly readied th M beach on hie retnir# m huaSr aidpi Uiu mMwiv . goawl? 1 Kb 'f , it the piPtpaiwoTn* befog emitted tfc indulge funher in theiraccuqomed and Hi human atrocities, conferred with eaA other fetidta* they tlwoM tiWliiiaiTiii on our gillttot. chief* We party dte faing immediately audi eooflict would 4pWd the fattventeance bf on their devoted beads* *L?rd E*mouth wa4 howeV^rf, happily able to take fcfartf ofcthis sanguinary council with' hit head >n tta right flat* f 4 'j#'#; f a 'I fade and cthMfffr* V roof alt parts of Euiopfe we hear, the most grievous com plaints of the difficulties and sUgnaUotl of trade and copj^erOe* BpihW^oPSat gj perty is said to be /Wort# ??a great deal L !' invary and -?rziLsfclS 6?"~ ? pro f.jjned Smyrna* &x *y* captive t r l>r a l) fa m If lU^faiil td at Madrxu, and been aent.lo IWh <*tr , Thia U no m?Uer?-a neap thing of infor mation r but whan the royal family at waa defiortetil W|t an outc MT %(j bud! Na?im4*tMrtt tnt Hrftocrtiy of ?? fetf gitinmt^" " ? Alexander of RumU i* iaidtw have or dered Ms ambasaadut at QuamamtmcMe to. deliver a note to th?wtivafi, ?*nrutuv? 6t? hi. pacillc #i-?he?? he had no .kaire but to > tee fctirupe at peace, after hat violent. *{1 tattona. T?7-T^ , 'applfaratba" thT^^na^^^'utelf D?et with e**rae*dlnar)r tucitu In Eimeo, ; an island adjacent to (Xtkm.1 The^b* ;Krt\2^e2SrhTveh"b rtt}ounced - \\L u!^r,vK , t nt tTllMS V* ?trOyrO ..?vimi'i wmHanaMr* ) rd the altsinypnhd cooked their dinners with Mhf tnatertJilr Mom than 000' persona, chiefly adujts, attend the school* of the > missionaries for instruction. ,M V ^ Srfertl vessel# l ave recently been met % with hi the Mediterranean without any per sons on board? aupphsed to have been tap ^ tured by the Ba? barf pirates. E ' Hiots# with rlotptm proceedings^ of A greater or less extent, abound In England (or wsrtt of^ employment for the people. ^ British toleration seems among their ar t icles for exportation They raited up and | %npi>ort catholic kings in foreign coUtyUies, and call upon the people to rally round their u holy religion," l?eing the cttfhnic-? which they condemn at home as inintfcal 14 Cion and good government ! * V 4 1 he French poiic^has directed thoJour nalists of Fans " to compoAn aHirl^ <>n and (he plactd.* The emperor Alex^nd^r haa mucle thO Russian bibie society association a present _ >m \ t|ie great tnnquility of K' urn i vailed ptosperity in which