Star. — London, England, 1802-08-04 00:00:00

iwo.v.slEuß a d 1119DAAIE GAR.VZRIN. Th e eor h i firy of the town was laft night once m ote r.tu . ;..1 to wit nets the wonders of aerwtation. T 1,.„ who boldly Veers a frail bark through tr.ickiefis ocean, and rentaias undatint.ed amida ;t o ne, of carnage, fhould venture into the regions of the a:olotintere, is not, perhaps, very furpri ii;;g ; but who could have expetted that the fair JCL who ale lo unaccullomed to hazardous en re:prife, and who shrink from the very idea of dauvr, would ever have mounted from the earth, aio ;r iven thcinfelves to the mercy of the winds ? ) mush female boldncfs had rarely hitherto been thiplayed in England ; but Madame Garnerin, re -I;ilving to (hare the perils of her hulband, an nounced that the was determined to accompany him in the aerial voyage he was to make yeller-, (Its. even:pg. Vauxhall was fixed upon as the fpot from v.hitli they were to afcend. The Gardens were op.:ned at four o'clock, and notwithflanding the aiikwardnefs of the hour, we are happy to state, that before (even a fufficient number had entered fully to indemnify the Proprietors for the expence to which they had put themfelves. The morning was rather doubtful, but the clouds were wise diipi2rfed, and finer weather it was impollible fir the mod timornsis aeronaut to defire. The rvening was not only by far the finca we have had this feafori, but one of the molt beautiful we are e ver bletßi with in this Northern climate. The tkv was clear, there was fcarcely a breath of wind, and there was a grateful frefhnefs in the air, not withflanditilkits uncommon warmth. A circula.. Itage, about 4o feet in diameter, had been erected in the centre cf the Gardens. Early in the morning the balloon was placed upon it, and there lay flat like an oil'cl-cloth ; however, hiv•vc two dozen of calks flood among the ad ioinhg trees ; there were filled with the filings of, *Ural, ice. and the inflammable air was conveyed firm them in pipes. The filk foon began to (well, and by fix o'clock it was completely extended.— Precifely at feven, M. Garnerin afcended the flage with Madame Garuerin under Ins arm. The lady Imiled upon the fpettators in the moll fafcinating • omer, and every one was (truck with her d 4lms. Madame Garnerin is rather low in fla- Lite, and of a flcnder form ; but if the Venue de ..:;-.1;:;1 is the true flandard of beauty, the is not chtEc'ent in either refpett. She does not feem to he above 23, and we never law more viva city and fweetnefs in any countenance. She walked round the flage With the fame unconcern as if :it,bcdy had been within fight of her. Yet the to was nothing of boldncfs in her looks, as it vie 11.1 I been accullomed to fubjett herfelf to the • hazes of the multitude. Every thing being r , ady, Madame Garnerin Itepped into the boat, and fluwed the finea limb in the world. Mr. Ghtfsforsl, a gentleman who engaged to be of this atmolphei is party, fat down oppofite to her, and fainturn• took his Ration in the middle. The; company then gave three cheers. and thole em ployed to keep down the balloon let go tjotit hold. It rofe to about the height of twenty'leet, bu. immediately defcended. .A land bag was thrown Out, and it again mounted, but it was in danger of being entangled among the trees, and M. Gar nerin gave orders for it to be pulled down. Ma dame Garnerin rethained all the while as cool and as much at her cafe as if the had been fitting in a drawing.room. At lilt it went up perpendicu lar. She killed her hand repeatedly, and the two gentlemen waved the flags of their refpetlive na tions. The motion of the balloon was very flow at firft, but grew rapid by degrees— .. .... . Mubilitate viget,vircique a - cquirit cundo. We are happy, however, that we cannot add, as we might have done on the two former occafions, --" Caput inter nutila condit." It wasfeen diftinttly for fifty-four minutes, during which time, at the rate of the firft voyage it would have reached Ox ford. From the per feuft calm which prevailed, people were uncertain what direaion it would take, and many thought it would remain above the Gardens. But there was an infenfible current in the air, and the balloon went to the weftward.— It loon after wheeled about to the north. It ho vered a cons derable while above the River, and could not then have been lets than 6000 feet high. Madame Garnerin had carried with her a (mall balket with a kitten in it, which defcend ed from the balloon about five minutes after it rote, and fell in the Gardens belonging to the Black Eagle public-hot:le near Millbank. It was attached to a Parachute, which at firft fell with great velecit7, but when the fpokes were fully extended, the detcent was eafy and gradual. In thebafket was a paper written with there words : " This kitten afcended in a balloon, and whoever will bring it to Madame Garnerin, N 0.55, Poland fleet, (hall receive one guinea reward." The Balloon afterwards became very low, but tome banal} being thrown out, it role higher than ever. M. Gat nerin having done every thing in his Forcer to gratify the town with a full view of his wonderful vehicle, withed to defcend as foon as The balloon croffed the River towards the Ab• ley about a quarter of an hour after it welt up; and, as it can:e very low at this time, it was fear it would defcend in the water ; but, in a few narrates more it returned its former elevation, and '..olonged the plea/tire of the fight for a confider .lble time. Garnerin teemed to have the bufincfs completely at his own difpotal, and to go up and come down at plcafure. The balloon remained 7 11;bie in its full fize till the approach of night; the yalow and green.flripes could.be diihnguilhed trlr ?tol e ;Lan half an hour, and the waving of the gags nearly as long. It was lien from every par 4 , 1 London, particularly the well end of the town. ‘)0011 alter 14e parachute dace:nice, it appeared, fr., , ir Ora: ing eras, to be immediately iarve V. ilminter Abbey : it fumed qu;te heady, alma ilati.boar y, but gradually defeending.— Niany r, oi down om Charing.erofs, think lag to fee the travel era land in Weßruiralcr. A cntle lrreeaec.n r iedtht Lalloon towards St. J ames's `'•tk, into e% hich th e populace fl oc k e d. It gra 6a;Wy e:cfc , .neled, till the ilar , s were fern wavino that no doubt remained of the intention of the I travellers to alight infide the rails of St. James's Park. It was now above the weft end of the canal ; hundreds leaped the rails, and ran infide, confident it was coming down, and fearful the travellers would alight before they, the fpedators, could come up. Hundreds were running along the Strand, and other flreets, expeding alto the balloon to come down in the Park. So low was the balloon, the perfons in the car, Mr. and Ma. dame Garnerin, could be dittindly feen ; and le veral perfons infide the railing called to them, ex peeling an anfwer ! The balloon could not then be more than a quarter of a mile high. To the dif:lppointment of thofe who had leaped the rails, however, the balloon went over the Green Park; it nearly crolfed over St. James's Palace, the aero nauts waving their flags, the populace at the end of Pall-mall huzzaing. A great crowd out of the Park ran up St. James's-ftreet ; the balloon was nearly over the ftreet, a little to the left, now afccnding gradually, but making very little way over the ground. It next took a courfe acrofs Bond-fireet, and many of the fpe&ators made no doubt Garnerin was going to land at the Pan theon, above which he adually arrived ; but the balloon then took a direct but flow courfe for Wel ling's Farm, palling nearly above Lord's Cricket Ground, and going dire& for Hampftead ; at this time, eight o'clock, from the darknefs more than the dillance, fight was loft of it, and it came down in Lord Rofslyn's grounds, Hampftead, where the travellers alighted in fafety foon after eight o'clock. The balloon was in fight of Lon don an hour. Mr. James de Marin, the proprietor of the Panorama, of Paris, was the firft perfon who affilled the aerial voyagers. Being perfonally known to . Monf. Garnerin, he had followed the balloon from Pi imrofe.hill, where a party of friends had taken their ftation to fee it defcend. When Mr. de Marin came within hearing, Motif. Gar nerin requefted he would lay lay hold of the rope affixed at the bottom of the car, which Mr dc Marin did ; and at the requell of Monf. Garnerin he got into the car to keep the balloon from again afcending. By this time g great crowd was cul leded, nearly five hundred people, who prellid fo much on the car that Madame Garnerin nearly fainted, Several horfcmen fortunately arrived about this time, and with their whips they made a ring. Before Madame Garnerin or any other perfon could get out of the car, it was necelfary to throw in a quantity of ballaft, it was with fome difficulty, and after a, lapfe of near a ;loaner of an hour, a fpade was procured, and a quantity of earth dug up, which was thrown into the car be fore Monf. and Madame Garnerin, and their com panion, Mr. Duncan Glafsford, alighted. Mr. De Marin eonduded Madame Garnerin to the Hamp flead Road. On their arrival there, they found a gentleman's chariot in waiting ; with fome diffi culty the coachman agreed to carry them to Lon don, but when they got about five hundred yards, they could not prevail on him to take them furl then. Fortunately a carriage going to town palled at the time, in which were three gentlemen, and a lady; they, on enquiry, politely offered the two vacant places, which brought them to Tottenham court-road, where a gentleman of the name of Williams (who was prefent on horfeback when the balloon defcended), had provided a hackney coach, into which Madame Garnerin, Mr. De Marin, and Mr. Williams got, and drove to Vaux hall gardens, where they arrived at a quarter of an ho ur - before ten o'clock. They were accompa nied by a crowd all the way, particularly when they got on the Surrey fide. They were received by the fpedators without, and the company with in the gardens, with the rnoft enthufiaftic joy.— Madame Garnerin was in high 'Piths, and did not appear at all agitated in confequence of the jour ney. The only inconvenience the fuftained was in being very wet in the feet, from walking in the grafs to the puhlic road. This is the ninth afcen lion of that lady in a balloon, and twice the has defcended in a parachute. _ _ _ Monf. Garne . rin and Mr. Duncan Glafsford re mained on the ground mail the balloon was pack ed up ; it was lent to Mr. Godfall's, the coach maker's, at Hatnpftcad, and loon after Mr. Gar nerin returned to town. He arrived at Vauxhall Gardens loon after eleven o'clock. The gardens were then crouded ; above feven thoufand perfons were prefent ; feveral were of the firft fafhion.— After the brilliant difplay of fire-works Monf. and Madame Garnerin publicly appeared in the pro menade, • and were received with the utmoft re lpeet and cordiality by their numerous admirers, who all (trove to exprefs how much they were gra tified by their great tkill and dexterity. Mr. Alley, junior, who fo materially girdled Monfieur Garnerin in the afcenfion of the balloon, and handed Madame Garnerin into the car, was to have gone up with them, had Mr. Glafsford declined. Monlieur Garnerin received, for his afctitflon, from the Proprietors of Vauxhall 2501. and a third of laft night's receipts. This evening feemed to have been purpofely given to M. Garnerin to console him for the bad weather which he had experienced in his two for mer voyages in this country. The inhabitants of the town and its environs poured out in vaft multitudes from every quarter ; and every place, from which a view could be obtained, was crowded with them. The ends of the ftreets along the Strand, which overlook the river, and the Adelphi T:srac,:, were fide,' with fpedtators.— Many perfons were on the tops of houfes. Weft minfter-hridge was crowded from one end to the other.—Biackfi iaz s the fame. The banks of tlic River on both fides, and parti cnlaily the Tca-gatdens about Vauxhall, were thronged. All the aMtot:l;:s about Millbank, Vauxhall, Lamb-414 and IVeilmintter, were filled to the very doors. On Milbank, perfons took their Ilations fo early as four o'clock, fitting down, that they might fecore places; by the time the balloon went up, Milibank was cumpletcly covered and crowded, there was no moving on it. The Thames was covered with boats for more than a mile. A palm might almoll have walked acrofs. M'nv rrentrel.n2rtiA , , the North-cart of Vauxhall-Gardens, perron; wer• admitted for a fhilling each, but the populace broke in and filled it for nothing. The public roads, the fields, and furrounding places, formed one immenfe throng of people.-- Although the multitude occupied every fpace of ground, the walls, the trees, &c. we licar,l of on ly two accidents ; part of an old wall, oppofite the coach entrance into the gardens, fell dawn, but providentially no perfon was materially hurt. The other accident was, the overfetting of a wherry, near Millbank, from being overloaded. By the number of boats near, the perfons who were in the wherry &aped with a ducking. Every avenue to the Gardens was completely covered with carriages. Among the fafhionables in the Gardens, we noticed Lord and Lad} Melbourne, Mr. Duff, Capt. Sowden, Marquis of Headford, Mr. Joddrell, Mr. Mellifb, Sir Thomas Turton, Duchcfs of Devonfhire and a party, Duke of Queenfbury, and Duchefs of Gordon. The roads were not only blocked up with car riages, but with foot pafrengers, at an early hour, fo that thofe who came late could not get up with their carriages; and, impatient to get into the gardens, for fear of miffing the fight, the cocked hats, and ladies in full drefs, deferred their car riages in crowds, to battle through the crowd.— But the return to town in the evenini. ; — w h o can defeiibe it ?—The crowds whi c h had' ly:en diftri buted over different parts, colleiFted in the roads, and the foot paffengers were actually carried of theirfed. The carriages were as numerous, and crowded as at Sir Francis Burdett's proceffion, and this on the roads to the three bridges; but the foot pafrengers came in clouds, miles in length.— Returning along Weltminfler and Blackfriars bridges, the crowd was as great as in going into the galleries of the theatres, when Mrs. Siddons, Mrs. Jordan, or Mrs. Billington perform, after an abfence. The fleet of boats coming down the water was equally attonifhing. We may fairly fay, that on no former occafion were fo many perfons ever colleded to an exhibition. The owner of a field dole to Vauxhall Gardens admitted perfons at a (haling a piece, and he could not have had lets than a or 3000 perfons who paid that fum for admiflion. Several fcaffolds were erected for fpeCtators, but the recolleltion of what happened to the fcaffold at Maryla bonne deterred molt people from af cending them. A publican, we underftand, had refufed rol. for the tile of his upper front windows. He ereeted a fcaffold on a level with the windows of his firft floor, in expeCtation of making a great fum. He firft demanded two (billings from each perfon for admittance—and finding that nobody would give that furn, he lowered his demand to one (billing. Yet, notwithflAnding all this, there were not much more than twenty perfous on the fcaffold. The pickpockets were very numerous. a noto rious gang was potted on Vauxhall Terrace, where a very great crowd was colleited ; but we have not learned that they carried their depredations to that pitch of violence which was committed at the time of the afcent from Lord's Cricket ground. The Parifians, tired of balloons, fquibs, and rock ets, are now diverted with water-works, and while they are gaping to fee how high the water can 'out, the CHIEF CON SU L aroma as high as he pleafes. SUSSEX Woos. Fain.—On' Monday lall the an nual Wool Fair, for the County of Suffix, was held at Lewes. It was attended by feveral of the moff confiderable Wool-ftaplers from London,and from different parts of the country ; and by the principal Wool-growers of the Eaffern Divifion of the County. The meeting was fo numerous that no one houfe could contain them. Lord SI, EFFIE LD, who had been the principal founder of the fair, prefided. The Wool•buyers, as ufual, afferted that wool was not worth the laft year's price—thcy com plained of the deprefflon of our foreign trade— that they do not get remittances from the Manu fadurer ' • and particularly infifted on the large (Lock of Wool in hand. Lord SHEFFIELD anfwered, that it was impor. fible to conceive why fhort wool fhould be a drug this year, when long wool is higher than it was ever before known to be ; and when France is en deavouring to revive her manufatures of fine wool, and confequently the price of Spanifh wool will be high, and a (mailer quantity will come into this country. In refpat to the fuppofed decreafed de mand for Britifh woollen manufactures from abroad, he obferved, that it was comparatively a very fmall part of the manufadure which at any time went to foreign countries; that the export trade was undoubtedly very advantageous in tak ing off our hands all fuperfluity, and confequent ly a great encouragement, but that the home market was infinitely of more confequence, and confumed much the greater part of the manufac ture. The people of - England, Scotland, and Ire land, muff be clothed as heretofore, and there fore there muff be a great demand for wool, and the increafing population mutt increafe the de mand. He denied that there was no 'export of woollen manufaCtures. He afferted, that the re turn of peace would open to us nearly the fame ' markets as heretofore—that France might vie with us in certain fuperfine rnanttfadures of wool, though not in cheapnefs; but would not enter into competition with us, at the foreign markets, in the coarfer woollens. He added, that the expec tation of a better price had produced a great de gree of attention to the growth of wool, and con lequently, there was a great Improvement in Eng lifh •wool ; and that, confidering the very heavy poor rates, and other heavy expenses which fall on farmers, it could not be expeCted that their wool 'honld be fold ar the fame price as formerly. Theis arguments were utianfweted, but no wool was fold on that day. Sixty !billings per tod, of 321 h. have fince been offered for lots not of the very belt quality ; and the general price ;Aced was fixty-four and it is expeded that price will be obtained for CORN' I.T. • MARK.I.ANF, t;r:l.7ST'4. Wheat 3s. loaner—Bcans and Oats near zs. cheaper ; and.all other articles lock &wi t : THE ASSIZE cr Bp.r.tn.—Yellcrlty the LORD MAYOR ordered bread to hzraifed Halt - an A ilize, or One Pznny in the NJ: Loaf, to t:;k: place , to mnrro. The Price of the (,)jtarrein Wheaten, will then be TLa-peace Halfpenny, and Houlzhold, Nine pence. IVErmourli, AUGUST 1. Lad night their Mal snits and the PCINIriFS walked on the Efplanade, and faw the Light DI a. goons and Firft Guards parade before Gloncetier. Lodge. They marched before the KING in open order, hie band playing ; after which their Majef ties vifitcd Stacie's Room, the Band belonging to the lira Regiment playing during their flay, with which they were highly pleafed. Afrer breakfaft this morning the Roy A I. FAMILY went on board the Royal Charlotte Yacht. Sir R. FORD and Sir JoHN and Lady SMITH ar rived here LW night. BRAE/TON, 4UG'237* 2. Our Races terminated this day. There was' not much fport ; only a Handicap Plate of s:.l. which was won contrary to expeaa , ion by NIT-. Harris's G. Chipp.vhain WAS the ftvoutite at Ratting. After the firft heat, 3 tot againft penbam; even betting and s to 4on Gig. The weather was unfavourable, and the company not very numerous. The PRINCE was on the groand diffufing life throughout the fccne. Among our . molt dialling falltionahles, are Lady WM. RUSSELL and Mrs. MosrEas; LordCuaaLEs SOMERSET, Lord W. RUSSELL, SiEIOHN SHELLY, Lord MILSINGTON, (and Mrs. JACKSON). Mr. MONTGOMERY has alto his there anzie. We have feveral Parifian Belles, of the molt [hiking clafs for their dreffes and a difplay of their charms. The promenade on the Steine encreafes in numbers. The frail lifierhood are making their appearance from London. Several failing patties have been made lately. Though the races. were not well attended this morning, it is expelled that a brilliant difplay will be made at the Race Ball tu-night. In the grand Cricket Match played here, the profdfors, fuch as WALKER and Haststosn, have gained every thing; the amateurs, fuch as Laid MILSINGTON, the Hon. A. UPTON, and General, LENNOX, Very little; but Leinsux the mod. The match is not yet decided. DUBLIN, JULY 31. A few nights agn.a (tore houfe on Tarbert belonging to Mr. MAHER, contractor for fop. plying the Artillery there with fuel, &c.and which flood within a fhort dillance of the magazine, was malicioufly fet on fire by tome perfon or perfons unknown, whereby, notwithfianding the exertions of the Of and privates of the det ichment of the 46th regiment quartered there, it was entirely confumed. On Tuefday lak, Thom: Kirsch was taken into cuftody by Mr. Juaice GREENSHIELDS. being charged as one of the party concerned in the mur der of Thomas Ryan, in Kevin-fireet, on the 14th inhant.—Sheilr, alto implicated in this murder, has been apprehended in Navan. Yellerday, we had one of the heavieff (powers of rain and hail in this city, that has been teen for Tome time pall ; but we underhand the rain that has fallen lately has not been general ; more has been in this metropolis, and within a few miles of it, than in other parts of Ireland, thereff , re the mifchievous confequences which fume predicted to the crops, will not take place. The audience at Margate were die-appointed of COOKS lag week, who was to have ailed, but fent word he was confined by hoarfeneti; in London. The annual grand ball, in commemoration of Lord NeLsoN's victory, was given lalt night ac the Affembly-Rooms, at Watford, At -the watering•places, it is faid, the Brariet are deferted fine ral;ing has been prohibited. It is plain what the company vilited the litraries for. Prefton Guild, which is held only once in twenty years (for the renewal of the charters of the incorporated bodies of that borough) will com mence on the morning of Monday the 3oth of Auguß. This guild is perhaps one of the molt complete jubilees in the kingdom, and a fucceffion of plays, mafquerades, alemblies, proceffions, promenades, and almolt every other fpecies of amufement, follow each other in rapid fucceffion for a whole fortnight. caution to Haymaker. —On Wednefday fen night, as fome people were making hay in a field at Balmburgh Friars, in defccndiug from a pike, Mary Steele, a refpedable young woman, came upon a fork, left incautiotilly (landing by the fide of it, which entered her body, and wounded her in fo dreadful a manner, that the languillied in great agony till Monday lag, when the expired. Cnicarr.—A grand match of Cricket was played on Saturday, at Hampftead, be tween ele ven Gentlemen of Hampßead and eleven Gentle men of Highgate, for five hundred guineas, which was won by the latter by twenty runs. PORTSDOWN FAIR --Began on Monday fe'nnight and ended on Thurfday: new cheefe fold from sc.n. to S6s. old ditto from 765. to Bos. and fome prime went as high as 84s. There was a remarkable good thaw of horfes, which fold tolerably cheap. The fair was attended as ufual with a number of prickers in the belt, and other sharpers of the inferior order. Farmer Lewer, of Wimering, fent in a wagon load of thsfe reentry for exar01....,: II