The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-10-10 00:00:00

/*AN a.cou_( l e ~..11 f;.:-,:•:. ": ''' "' , *- 7 , .?". : ,•....... 1 -+.104...5a .4- . . 'l , ..I . • 1 / 4. .1.• : • - . " * LSONOON, Rik VAN la* as .laa/a • , (let 0 ift io, ' 14A. 6.40 3,4 • .'6 . ` 3 _" ~,. s% * '4 ~' " J . : _.,, r ._ NA~IPp~ dicd .va. f/s•Sc*JWd j" e en •: 'Wm. Raciiini NEW WORK. . . le :A & ISii DON is pall.iebeti, In Vargo vols. Price If. 94. Y RADITIQN OF TPECASTLt: or Scenes is the Ewe p4 . ~ rild rile. by Regina Maria ROche. . ,• Printed for A. K. NICWSIXN and Co. London, ,•, 4i • Where may he had by the swag Author. _, '. llVlStnarsr or THE ABBEY, 9th edit. 4 vols. U. 4s. e Ifgartsa e4iTTAEM Roy. 4 vols. 11. 1;18. t AID or Top HAMLET, SA edit. 9 vols. 10s. 15 aleicin by I.knsbotvg. 3d edit. st cots. 10s. s :Taggrtatirk.Bowitt, or Lady of the West, S Vols.. 10s. arms or Unix AND ALMERIA, QE convect or St, Ildefonso, 4 ; It. R 4..."17 ,1, -, - 1 - 1, eye' 1 r. ; t ineti Rosatily of Yrs ' O,;;Df as arrastat dr balloon 57 feet in elev.*. tiara sad 41 Ii er,•raised by the pure speci fi c levity of air rarefied t i lt % butting of 30 ponotlsof straw and 5 of wool, whicb,luvity'veas with the atmospheric 'air in the proportion of Only mot half to one, and was still sufficient ao raise at a teat alevatien a weight of 800 pounds.* It stria me inmost!y that if fire, which in that infant stage ,of the disoovery,atas the only agent used by Montgollier, amid procure a degree of rarefaction 'efficient to swell the 'balloon and taus* its swollen, the same agent • could be applied simultaseously and with more durability to the production of steam rushing out of an eolipylus, which ng with impetuosity against the resisting atmosphere, , 1101 RIO apply time means of steering the aerostatin any ditiaon. The " Tally Ho," Coventry Li& Pest D 4 boac., Marnia&at :eqesrtee beferb 7 o'clock, throogh Reetharn, . stnble,SteneyStrstford,Toweester, Wooden, Dittmar'', t Dithdhnrch to Wiielek nod Leamington. Tide " ixpren." to •York, 'Startnreough, Whilhy, Skid Swederland, Newcastle and Sdisibwrgit, a New Light Poi J. Laid* Post-Coach, with a Guard throughout ; et* 1 eYery Aforttirt§, by way of Newark,' Reiford, D r IPererbridge, 'fadeastir t Darasgton. North Durham, Morpeth, and Berwick, and arrives.at Y next Morning, AT REDUCED FARKS.—Driven thro Jo 4 cOadiatei only. -Prisirelsoeri fi nding themselves r wiping, on the. journey,, may rest what time they please, and thins proceed without asy additional fare. . • ' Alart6nronyk alai Sagami Pour Inside Day Coach, Ara' AMIN/arm. Reading; Lambours, Parton, LydingtoS,' Pewsey, Wootton Bann, .Basubury, linwerford, Nnit. and itlaldeishead,:-rbriven through with one cowli ngs oily • I : ' • • • The New . il .., Paled .11fail, Rogan. and Louth. a . 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Bollon,• ClOeky, Orassids*, , .and • Garstang Light Post Coackee,- 1 . oner_g Morniag and 4,fterapan. The " Royal Eipress. New Light Font-Inside Post to Liverpool, in 519 Haws only, thro' Warrington, Prescot. Conklin', Lawton. Newcastle. Thidgly. Karts ford, Stone, Stafford and Litchfield. (only One Night on Oe Road,) every Afternoon; arrives at the Saracen's Bead Inn, Dale-street, Liverpool, next Evening. • The adrantages to Travellers who honour this coach with 100,445. their preftreneearefisrmsperior to any other ox this Rom,. ~ the ."Royal Evens" .ie drives throng/ l okt with 4 coach- Men only (3 less than any other coach to Liverpool) —a sa ng to Passengers too evident to require muses/ ; besides 7vi the additional «drainage, especially to commercial inter ests, If reforming the journey is lees time Win any ether wadi ; and. notwithstanding its cheapness and expedition, the Proprietors pledge Amadeu that for safety and ac wasmodation it is equalled by few and shall be surpassed byNene. Iltsifordshire Potteries, a new Light very fast Coach. every Afternoon, to Lanand, Stoke, Shelton, Burslese. 'roontekl. Lawton, Itanly and Holmes Chapel. This Is the only Coach direct to the Potteries. Wakefield 4-Inside Poet Coaches, every Morning and Afternoon, or inoucto PARES. 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Its. • • The above f4nr_bniatill_been reprinted from American Editions, and .roust give se 0 very high opioi,on o f th e w ee k s of our traol-Attantioltrettine: . Y . . . ' My method of Maim and steering the aerostats was, IMerever, calculated ot4ther on the rarefaction of atmos 'Pheric air by the betting: of straw and wool, as practised by Montgolfier, nor on the much lighter inflammable air, ' as It war then catiedobtained from the mixture of vitriolic acid with filing, of 'goo, zinc, copper, tin, and lead ; but 'On the action off Are bf fossil coal, which procured me a the same time caloric to reduce the water introduced into, tha.eollpyinsintoateana. and hydrogen gas, which, if not as light as the inflammable air, was still sufficiently lighter than the atmospheric air, to raise at a convenient and mo iterate elevation the machine which I denominate a pyro .prieumatie aerostat. I submitted in! views, and my pleas aid calculations on that 'object, to the 'royal academy of sciences of Paris, to which I was already affiliated (though' , oply . 18 years old) as a corresponding member. My me- , mortal, with the drafts accompanying it, was referred to j r i a Committee, who reported, " that my theory was gr o u nd - • 1 I ad on correct principles of philosophy, and expressed the' wish that some experiment should be made to ascertain its practicability.". • Soon after 1 was sent to England, at mental (Wisp. don, with the Cotteeittlifonarier, Who replaced fileAterard de Rayneval es Minister Plenipotentiary from. France to "the Court of St. James, and my private commission hav ing been to collect information preparatory to the conclu sion of a treaty of commerce between France and England, I visited the principal manufacturing places, and particu larly Birmingham, where I became acquainted with the celebrated steam engine manufacturers, Bolton and Watt. I consulted thereon the practicability of applying a steam to 1 serial navigation, and Mr. Watt, who was one of the most .Ittofound mathematicians and mechanicians in England, as well as a scholar of great eminence, having dee ply reflected on that plan, which seemed to please him, gave fit as his decided opinion, that the idea of forcing forward a balloon by the immediate impetus and action of steam against the atmospheric air, was, as the academy of sciences has already repotted it, ingenious, and cauntenaneed by the well known experiment of the eolipylus, hut that he did not consider the simple impetus of item, though very great, as sufficient to procure, without intermediary, or without the assistance of machinery, a power adequate to anefficient reaction on water, and much less on air, against a invite current. He then entered into the merits of the circular motion shout a given axis, derived from the steam power, which he had lately discovered, and would apply to all sorts of machinery, even to navigation, and he thought that a very small steam apparatus could be made to communicate a rotary motion to small and light paddles affixed to °my pyropueumatie aerostat. 1 enquired what the expense might be, but the estimates so much exceeded my mean% and what the French government would in all r probabilitv, under the strict economy which they had adopted after the war, have been willing to appropriate for aa object of that kind, that 1 concluded to wait until a flvoribtis Opportunity offered tepromote its execution. ' My Mission to Russia, where I was sent in 1787, by Louis the XVlth, to replace as charge d'affaires, Count de Seger, ambassador at that court, seemed to second my w' 'es. I had beard that the grand duke Paul, since Em r,2 was very anxious to see the discovery of the balloon progress, that the celebrated geometer, Leonard Euler, hod made it the subject of his last meditations and calculations, and had predicted, with several other learned members of the imperial academy of IPetersborg, that aerostatic machines might be made to answer the moat useful purposes, and I had anticipated that my plan, approved by the French Academy of Sciences, and the great English engineers above mentioned, would be warmly adopted in a court, where, whatever was above the common level, had always met with encouragement ; but as it has been the case with almost all the great discoveries, a d.ad calm, a moral stupor had succeeded to the almost frenetic exaltation which the first aerostatic experiments had excited. The fashion of balloons was over; Catharine 11. and of coarse all her court, considered them as dan• gerous play things, of very little importance for science or of the arts ; and unwilling to expose myself to the ridicule which would have been attached to the scheme of making them substitutes for land and water-carriages, I thought prudent to leave my views on that subject dormant, until time, aided by the slow, but persevering genius of philosophy, had raised the aeronautic art to the high station to which it is entitled to occupy in the scale of human ingenuity. The French re, volntion soon revived my hopes: dismissed in my official capacity from the Court of Petersburg, on account of the attitude of anger which, Catharine had been prevailed upon to assume, to frighteathe French nation, I suggested on my return to France in the year 1792, to citizen Le Brun, who was at the same time minister of war and of foreign affairs, the establishment of balloons in the armies of the republic, to facilitate the discovery of the movements, situation, and fortifications of the enemies, and 1 urged also the institution of a laboratory to promote aeronautics, and the application of aerostatics to several useful arts ; but hav ing left France soon after, and my republican friends having 'been all cut off by the traitors and assassins, disguised under the red cap of Jacobinisisi, I know nothing more about that institution than what is read in the Edinburgh Encyclopte dis, where the English authors admit, with magnanimity, " That the French, who are ever ready to apply the disco veries of science, to objects of practical utility, during. the first war after the overthrow of monarchy, instituted an academy for the express purpose of improving the state of aeronautics; that it had been in a flourishiug condition under Gallon Aforocatt and other celebrated chemists, and militarfmen ; that balloons had been usefully constructed there for the service of the several armies ; but that since (tinder the government of Bonaparte) it had been entirely a han toned." And here it is worthy of remark, that in fact, the late Emperor of the French, like the great autocra tic of all the Ressia., was ept dly prejudiced against the science of aeronautics. Should it be that their pride was hurt to see men raise themselves above the regions of thunder instead of being prostrated at their feet ? __ . .. . . , 'lila Day is published, Pric41,16.41. SoIAM RSPORT 6f . the TRIAL . VOW LIDEL, * sx r. 111_, I ncisza. at the Prosecution of SirAliszatuler Wilson, il' Mr. Justice Burrough, and a Special Jury, at the Lam - sei:Assites. at Bristol, Augoet IS, 1023. ~ A 49 iditr *diet g. son for saying. hell; i cowird! good Illod ! it makes my blood boil when I thick of it! What! in Mittsielintry *Mee, froth One end of it to the Other, through the *optima qt our, siottiteesand Onr.sailors, contains individuals 'that, go where you will, from the, highrstxsok to the most sub ibrdlaitedelitldn; you eao go no *here but you meet with men. Itt•ProTrd, WO. and Washable, courige,the fooisders ere* own tame, and, the Se doors of their countryi glean-rf Irk' 'Muse etaidtes-7 gieik at those saifors--did you 'vs,. ear . Au indOttoent . brought by. one of 'thein..fOr , ten .attadk le si ' ' 'angry newspaper on their courage! ! !"—Mr. Sergeant Psirs Speech fbr the Defence. gallica; printed for T. j. hianelice, ClarMstreet, and gold lilyall:Booksellers. .. . ... •t h . and J. sjvgwgiqwr i ltsring already Hold the hlgtriost • Prize drawn this Lottery, No. .42k10,000/. in one • ' end fourteen liXtginths, hope tO'have the same good .d4Wll,lwf with the, feamtining great ;Prisms,-belng Threw of 10.000i. due of 10,000/. Two of 900 N. &c, die. The Third Day of Drawing is on THURSDAY - NEXIP, lath inst. when the above may be Drawn, lill none are flied for particular days. Undrawn Tickets and Shares are en .eale at their old end FerternittCoMees, ST, Cornhlll,, 3S, Haymarket, and 11, Holbor.,Add &m it age nts in most principal towns. ... VERY PAST TRAVELLING • • To Doren, DUAL. Ri IISGATE, MAAGATIC AND VANITERNIaT, Four Inside COlChes:and keep good time, by S. A. MOUNTAIN and Co. SARACEN'S HEAD INN, SKINNER-STREET, • 11110/11111LL. LONDON: HE foiAowing LIGHT POST COACHES, Stalls,' ij &c. set out from the above Inn 3 The " BoyalTelegrayh," Darer, Deal, Mimes*, Margate, , 'Broad ROW, Canterbury, revershans, and ,Srandwiely new 'Otipcifor fait Coach, every morning at a 1 past 7 (Moils. —lre conieqssenee of the decided pre,fer eneesirew to the Te legraph Cataik, the Proprietors are determined no expense ykall be spared to render it the first conveyance on the Kest Road.. • : Brampton, Chatham. Rochester, Gravesend. Stroud. .tsittingbosanse, Rainhans 4. °syringe, Morning, quarter Past 7. . The "Tally Ho," Ilirniingimos very fast Day Coach. Mor n• big at 1 before 7 o'clock, through Redburn, Market Street, Dunstabli, Brickhill, Fenny; Stratford, Stoney Stratford, Tow easter, Weedon, Daventry,'Dtinchurch, Coventry, and Stone Bridge, to the Castle Hotel, end St. George's Tavern, High Street, Birmingham. to Shifnall, Wellington, Bridgenortb, Shelton, Shrewsbury, Salop, Oswestry, Nantwich, Bangor, Tarporley, Chester and Holyhead. Driven through with 2 Coachmen only. In consequence of the decided preference given to the Tally Ho Coach, the Proprietors are determined no expense shall be spared to render it the Ars , conveyance on the Birmingham Road The " Sovereign," New light fast Coach to Falmouth, Ply mouth, Exeter, Tram, Bodmin, Penryn. Ashburton. Totness. Dirtmouth . ly,imouth. Dorchester, and Salisbury, every Morning at 7,. through Houiton, Axminster. Bridport, Blend 'ford, StoCkwidge,. Sutton, Basingstoke, Hartford Bridge, 'iliackwate and Ragshot. The .nly Day Coach to Weymouth. (driven tlirotOn milb fro coachmen only , ) through Itagshol, Black-deer, • B ai potoke, Overton, Ighitehureh, Andover, ipodyeats, c a ,onorc. Salfsbory. - Blandford 4. Dorchester at a guar- ti past 5 o'clock in the morning. Packets. (rota Weymouth to Guernsey. Y, Cherbourg, St. Haloes. tyc. every Wednesday saturday Afternoon ot 2 &clock. The " Union," Soulkarjgon, I, tai Winchester, Basingstoke Hartford-bridge, Blaekwater, and Boyshol new jaw inside Coach. every morning at o'clock; arrives at Ate Coach and horses, and Vine Inn, Seuthaniptgn, by Fire O'clock. This is a most delightful conveyance •to the Isle of IVight, Jersey. Guernsey, St. Haloes, {Mere de Grace, Chcrbury, 4e.-71rie Proprietors of the above Coach hope to receive a continuance of that support (thick has hitherto been experienced since the Com- Istencesient of the " Won." New Light, day Coach to Dorchester in 14 hours only, thronyli Bu shot, Blacka'atcr, Basingstoke. Operbon, .Whit church, Andover, 'Salisbury, Woodyeals. Cashmere and • 116(nOord. at a ipast Sand 7 o'clock in the morning. Bath and Bristol Post Coaches, through Chippenliam, Caine, Marlborough, !lunges - ford, Newbury and' Beading, every Afternoon at One; arrive at the Greyhound Inn, Rath, the London Tavern, Thomas Street, and Swan, Bristol, early next morning. Coaches to Wells, Bridgeirater,Taunton,and Plymouth, I at redurgd Fares. The Umpire," a new Liverpool light Coach, only One Night on the Road, carrying Four insiee, sets out Daily at One ; arrives at Lirerpool next Afternoon at 5, thro' Woburn, Lathbury. Northampton, Welford, Lutterworth. Hinckley. Atherstone, Litchfield, Stone, Neweastle,-Knnts ford. Warrington and Prescot. Oirewsbury, Wellington and Sklrnal Light Post Coaches, every Morning and .41,ternoon. Guarded. Barnstaple, South:notion, and C'rediton New Light fast Coach,every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, at eClock. The " Rockingham," Leeds Light Post Coach, sets out every Afternoon at Two; and passes through ilatdock. Bloglestreac, Eaton, Bockden, Stilton, Wansford, Stam ford. (: reetliam, Grantham, Newark. TurfOrd; Markham, inoor, lt:•tfy rd. Baxley, Doncaster, and Ferry-bridge, ar rives at the Golden Lion Inn. Leeds, next Afternoon, at '3 o'docfr: iti'tinic for the Bradford, Halifax. ,skiptox and Huddersfield Coaches, at redweed *Fares.—Driven through Wit/spur eoarlituesi only.Litiggage and Packages only 2d. per Iti.—Notwlthstond log the niaeomnion expedition-of this Coach, it is allowed to be the most agreeable and ,eossplate • public conreyanee on the North Roado being unequalled by any °lncr. Harrosegate and Ripon New Light Post Coaches every Afternoon, al 2.4. s in the 3lorniny. Glasgow, rongtors. Gretna-Green, Annan, Dumfries, Brownian, Thornhill, Sanguhar Kiln, Canmoek, Kings. well, and all Parts of Siottand, a Light 4-hiside Pod. Coach Daily. Bridgenorth, Walsal, Shrewsbury, Sidon, and•Holgheacl New Liyist fast Couthrs, every Morning and Afternoon. 14 RES. MOIII44IIeI " Express. Umpire and Tally Ho," lo Masi cluster, Winslow. Comities, Nerocastk, Walsal. 'Falser hamplon Knutrford , New Four Inside Post Coaches, Three Times a Day. Only One Night on the Road. Shejield and Rotherham new Four Inside Post Coaches every Morning. called " The Express," and also_ " The Rockingham," every Afternoon, AT 111CDUCED pi AM The " Royal Express. ' sari Birmingham Light Fast Night Coach, in 15 hours, sets out every afternoon, carrying 4 inside only, passes through Warreck, Leamington. Southam, Weedon, Darentry, Stoney .Stratford. and Tomes:ter, to the Saracen's !lead, Bull Street, Birmingham', early eh." next inerafwg.—Driven through with two coachmen mil?. The " Express" a New Light Post Coach to Hull, Lin- cobs, Northeast., Hoarders and Doncaster at eight o'clock to the Cross re y s . Market' ' every morning, Place, Hull, and also the " Rockingham" 4+ the afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Hertford, Wme, Hoddesdon and Clieskunt Coach. Tottenham anti Edmonton Coaches daily at eleven, hal f past two, fire. ..led eight o'clock. ;minced Fares, to Leeds, York, and Doncaster; *V At L ogris o and Packages at only two-pence per lb. o. A. MOUNTAIN and Co. respectfully acquaint their rriends and the Public, that they will not be accountable for any Parcels, Passengers' Luggsee, Writings, Plate, &c. of more than Five Pounds value, if lost, stolen, or damaged, unless entered as such. and the Insurance paid for afford- Ingly, at the Saracen's Head Inn, Skinner-street, Soca London. • The equilibrium and power of ascension of aerostats is In proportion, Ist. of the weight of the covers; 2d, of the distneers ; 3d, of the nature of the gas they contain. The specific levity of inflammable air is with atmospheric air in the proportion of lit° i, whilst air tarefiedby fire is only in the proportion of 1-2 to one. A balloon :?1,0 feet in diameter filled with rarefied air by fire, and covered with oiled cloth, weigaing 2 ounces per square lfuet.-would raise a weight of 133,857 pounds. A balloon of the same diameter, filled with gas and covered with °bed silk, would raise 301,437 pounds. c. •:.,, , ~....., -, ... k • traol °4-- • % ' C'' - 1---4 '.'• . 4 ; ... , N .,... ..... , . _,..., oat , • ••‘• • i ' f le - 1 . , 1 . -- . --,.. Jo • • • • 1 ! 3 . . . • , , •') 1 1 . a: ,,,, ••• . ~.... .. 4t . .. .:,.:.,;.•.2.,).. ~ • < . , . • ... . . . . . .....,,,,, . • •. • . --r • ..*, )! • - - _~ .. .fir. f?F 141 •1 • • '•' rPRICR NEyr.v,, . . Since my residence in this country, in a private capacity after having, salt public servant, fallen a victim* to the ex alted instructions imposed 'upon' My 'fervent. 'seal for a cause to.which I have saerith•ed the most brilliant expee tationo, partly by disgasty partly by the necessity of strug gling against adversity, I had paid but little attention to the rations philosophical and literary studies which inlay youth had been my tartrate amusement, when the steam . boat questions in cnuit of errors and in the legislaturo at Albany, regenerated once more my hope of giving a start to aeronautic.. I avempted to persuade the enviable and wetlinforined Governor O g d en , instead of disputing about the navigation of our waters, to lake a bolder stop, and to" navigate the air, for whic h our liberal legislator° bad not yet given an exelnsive pr ivilege to an individual or com* ny ; vre'had a good deal of entert a i nmen t on th a t topic ';but with Fulton, with whom an affinity of inclioationt soon put Inc in contract, I went deeper into the scheme, I 'disclosed to bim,"witifodt reserve, my plans on pyropneu matie aerostittion, and had that great man hired, I am con fident that she firstexperiment on the applications of steam to amid navigution Would not be made in England. Yes. Yukon, tirlltPttls developed and reduced to practice the teas principleslapou which steam boali should be luilt, would have eitended the rays of his. genius to the improve ment of neronaittics; Mr, to use the words of this eloquent biographer, Mr. C. P. Colden, "no man possessed to a higher degree than Fulton the rare union of genius and science with . piactiral knowledge." And Fulton had sane. tioned my plan; he had admitted, on the strength of in coaitestible facts, that being in possession of the power of ascension by the dhsclvery of th.l balloons, and in posses sion of the power of propolsion by steam, little more was wanted to navigate the air than to study the form, con struction and mechanism of the various annuals. oil:, el-rate,lower and propel tlsems-tees in air or water against the most rapid currents by a self created power, very ink , dor to ttepower of steam. But if Fulton is no more, others may atchievewhat his 'eminent talents have not had time to attend: already oer Mr. Perkins, iStedueitig to the smallest proportions the volume and weight of the steam engines while he in creases the weer Of Steam, glees a greater probability to the success of the application of steam to aeronautics: other engineers of superior talent are the ornaments of this conntry ; and if an association, liberally patronised. could he formed to promote aeronautic., the Untied States, where for the first time the navigable waters have been subdued by the gigantic p o wer of steam, might also he the first *to subdue the ai ry_il t ie same means, and by that double victory, , obtaiiiii e l period of a few years, aggrandize the hingdoni of ;Iconco and the Mock of .ti. nsafol arts, more extensively than the oldest nations have done in many centuries. Prospect Hill, July 4th 1523. . E. C. GENET. POINCIT HOUENLODE NOT wax illnetrions mirarle-monger will derive no ;Widows! reputation from the Axminster case, mentioned in our last; the fair sufferer his recovered witheet him. The fart was as• ate ewes!. The young lady, Miss Karnes, was suddenly depiived of speech by the terror excited from the • assertidn, Mide In jest by her companion, that a spider wis •cradillig upon her. A Wed and instantaneona sdeeteniteneued; *kith wilt immediately followed by a tote% cessation of the feenlty pf speech for forte months. It is now ;slow three-Weeks since, that Miss Eames recovered.—(Tatteon Courier.) FORTUNATE Esesen.—An accident, which hal neerlv proved fatal to a young gentlemen, happened • shout twelVe o'clock on Tuesday night last, in Blackfriars'-road. The ' centre of the read has been for some time excavated fur a distance of several. hundred yards, for the purpose of deepening and enlarging the grand sewer. The parish authorities have done every thing in their power to guard .egsinst accidents to the public at night, by enclosing the whole apace with a strong wooden railing, and placing lamps at abort intervals all round it. At the time above mentioned, the gentleman in question was riding on horse back gently along the road towards the bridge, when the animal taking fright at the light of the lamps, suddenly I started off at full speed, and dashing against the railing, tumbled over with his rider, within about a yard of the pit, into which had they fallen, both must inevitably have been killed. As. it was, however, neither received, very fortunately, any material injury. A dreadful shriek from the young gentleman when falling brneebt several persons from the adjoining houses to his assistance. ACCIDENT.—A Mrs. Swinston, the wife of a respectable tradesman resident at Hammersmith, last Tuesday was Induced to yield to the pressing entreaties of one of her children, a boy about 9 years old, to permit him to h Are a fire in an up-stairs room, there to play nitit his sisters. They had not been long there, before the mother was alarmed by a laud scream for help, and on running towards the tom with an inf int in her arms she saw her boy enveloped in flews. In the agony of the moment silts diapped the infant from her items, winch hastily snatching up again, she flew to her son, and with a view of extin guishing the flames, clasped him to her, and thus romtnu pleated them to herself and infant. She screamed and swooned away. At this awful crisis some neighbours fortunately . entered, and succeeded in extinguishing the fire. Surgical assistance was immediately procared. The mother and infant are doing well ; but we regret to add, that the boy, after lingering in great agony till yesterday morning, expired. Yesterday morning a female servant, in the employ of a very respectable tradesman residing in Blackfriars' Hoed. suddenly rnshed frees the kitchen into the street in flatnes, owing her clothes having caught fire , when they were immediately passengers as to endange r passing be by, o e g diately extinguished by m burn, life. rna A gentleman ithoughr4tso be!ol touch, we so m e understand,e oging to the office of the Clerk of the P..pers, Symowl's Chancery-lane, stopping at the time to render her assistance, was robbed at the moment by a gan: of thieves who surrounded him, by one of them cutting a hole at the bottom of his coat, from which they stole his pocket book, containing a 5/. note, and got clear off. It is rather extraordinary that these daring thefts are committed in the open day, whilst oar police uCicera aro para!tng the very streets. We copied on Wednesday,•from a Maidstone paper, an account of an atteutp , at 'warder, upon the person of a Mrs. Worger, at Ashford, in Kent: We have since heard,. that Clifford, the unfortunate woman who committed the act, was sot*? years since attacked by a severe typhus fever,, and that ever since that. perlisd her senses have been te. cidedly unsettled, though nothing has previously occurred 'whirl, could have warranted her friends in placin her under restraint. Lynx, Om 7.—We hal a good attoodanca to..lay at market, and a very good supply of Wheat; Imving con. e i i i.. ra hle demand both by the merchants. and-for seed, it was taken off briskly at ass adiatece of full 2s. per splatter on all tieieriptions. Barley was also in good supply, for which we have more demand ; the whole „as taken off at an advance of Is. per quarter. Peas in better se , ply, °and were taken oil at about last week's priers. Oats het few offering; prices remain.aslast week. -Kap Seed very hula offering ; prices remain nominal at nor quotatinns. , Wheat, new 405.t0 463. ditto old, Vs. to 525. ; Barley, 21a. I ir,.v Peas 255. to 275. NOTES AND VIEWS ON AERONAUTICS_ Addressed to the Philosophicil Society, and the Society for the promotion of Useful Arts, of the State of New York, by Edmond C. Genet, member of these societies, of the lostitute of France, and the Royal Society of London. I was industriously engaged in agricultural pursuits of a primary importance for the support of a large family when an interesting communication on the subject of aerostation and of Mr. Allen!, experiment made at Albany 'appeared in the Daily Advertiser, mentioning me, as having the idea of applying the power of steam to the art of steering balloons, without which their utility has been considered as problematical. I had, when that publication was made, neither the leisure nor the inclination to illus. trate what its unknown author had already obser red, and to demonstrate that, however extravagant and visionary the philosophical speculation. with justice attributed to me, might appear, it was grounded on correct principles of aerostatics, and had received the concureent anprob won of the most scientific men, from the year 1753, when I first conceived it, to the present period. indeed, satisfied that none but profitable speculations would meet with patronage in a new country, whose welfare requires the most prudent application of active capitals, I had almost concluded in my mind to rest on what bad been imperfectly reported of my theory, when I was informed that the idea of pro pelling balloons by stettn was taken up in England with considerable attention and interest. I have rejoiced to'find that one of the plans which had frequently drawn upon me the sneer of ignorance me the jests of the sociable table, was going to be seriously attended in an enlightened and wealthy country, and I cannot retrain from expressing pols• licly my ardent wi•lies'for the:complete success of a noble undertaking, whether predicted on the views and calcula• thins conceived and recorOd by me forty years ago, or whether the a aural cansemieoce of the progress of know ledge will have, when perfecte I. an incalculable effect ou the concerns of man on• this globe. r, More ambitious however for my adopted country. alien for myself, I only regret thatlheUoited States sh•mlii not secure the glory of that additional conquest on theelements. I have endeavoured to procuce them that honour, but the following narrative Will show by what untortanwe events have been so unsuccessful in that attempt, as I had pievi ously beep. fur the same purpose in France and in Russia . . : I was present at theesperitnent made at Versailles the 19th of September, 1753, by the celebrated Montgolfier l is the inventor of balloons, before the King and the KOpii 110th ad Irish Md 14'i .vas M+ !~ ~~;