FINE WEATHER.

The influence of pleasant weather on the mind is thus described by Addison:

Fair weather is the joy of my soul; about noon, I behold a blue sky with rapture, and receive great consolation from the rosy dashes of the morning and evening. When I am lost among green trees, I do not envy a great man with a crowd at his levee. I often lay aside thoughts of going to an opera, that I may enjoy the silent pleasure of walking by moon light, or viewing the stars spangle in their azure ground.

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Forty-three years has reduced the whole of the representation in the congress of 1776, to the small number of five, in the following persons, viz:
John Adams, of Massachusetts,
William Ellerly, of Rhode Island,
William Floyd, of New York,
Charles Carroll, of Maryland, and
Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia.
To which we add the name of the venerable Charles Thompson, of Pennsylvania, who signed the declaration of independence as secretary to congress, and which office he held during the whole revolution, and until the organization of the present government.

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The British House of Commons passed a resolution on the 28th June, to allow gen. Boyd, a native of the United States, [late of the army], 6000l. sterling, in consideration of his services in the British army in India, at an early period of his life, when the affairs of that nation, in that quarter, were in a very critical state. Mr. Wilbeforce, who brought forward the resolution, stated that it was very desirable to show the United States, by the proceedings of the British House of Commons, that they do not consider them with any unfriendly feeling, or entertain towards them any prejudices incompatible with the full performance of justice.

[N. Y. E. Post.

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The Quotidienne asserts that all the English officers now at Paris have received orders to return to England. “Different reasons are given for this order - some attribute it to the Cape Of Good Hope, others to the necessity of completing the regiments in Canada, owing to the serious differences which have arisen between the cabinets of St. James’ and Washington. Among other rumors of trouble probably quite as well founded is said that a marked coldness has arisen between the cabinets of Berlin and St. Petersburg, which promises to end in the formation of a close alliance between Austria, Prussia and England.

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