The Sun. — London, England, 1802-09-24 00:00:00

in Ent c had we king bgh, had and GARNBRIN's DESCEND,. ) ...-.1. )WS J they nine ling /cry natn PLC, sing roX ,rte ex. of ight it, lees -ceg, o ld uvvn Wed ingg urth ring 56 4 • s 4 .4 sod . 1 ) fast sacig Frencham Tut experiment of my" 31st ascent, and of my sth descet in a parachute, took place on Tuesday last, on a very fine day, and in the presence of:an immense crowd of spectators, who filled the streets, windows, and houses. It is' necessary, when I undertake the experi, ment of the Parachute, that I should know the state ef . the atmosphere, in order to enable me to judge of the course I am to take; and also to adopt 'the - precautions' proper to ensure success . . About : three in the afternodn, I had . the satisfa6ron of having a-first indication from the agreeable effea o f a Very pretty Montgolfier Balloon, vvhifh4as sent off from the environs of St. George's Parade, and which: took' a direftion over Mary-le-bone.:fields. • - The success of this experiment ought not to pre. vent me horn expressing my opinion of the dangers that may result to the general safety,'fri)in:the daily abuse of those night experiments, which:'afe not. alWays direEted by persons conversant with the sub jetct. One shudders when one thinks, that a ma c hi ne. of this kind may fall, and fall on fire,. upon the cord age of a ship, and thus involve, in one great con flagration, all that constitutes the wealth of one of the first cities in the world. The use of thes e chines was prohibited in France,•and the Consular Goverrobent confided to me alone the diredion of night' balloons, which I conceived and introduced into the National Fetes. Convinced- of the direAion of the wind, I has tened the filling.. of the Balloon, .and at- 5 p, , in. . I filled the Pilot Balloon, which Mrs. SHERIDAN did .me the honour to laundli; - It Seemed to me that I. was conciliatiog the favour of Heaven by the inter ference of the Graces. This Pilot Balloon, ascended quickly, and was soon out of sight, mirking out ruy career towards the north-east. - Whilst the anxious crowd - were - following -the path of nay 'little, Pilot, I suspended the Parachute to the talliion this painful and difficult operation was executed with all possible address, by -the assistance of :the • . most distinguished personages. The Parachute was gradually suspended, and the breeze, which was very gentle, did not produce the least obstacle. At length I hastened to ballast my cylindrical bark, and to place myself in it ; a sight which the public contemplated with deep interest—it seemed at that moment as if every he ar t b eat i n un i son , f or t h oug h 'I have not the advantage of speaking English, every , one understood my signs. I ascertained the height of the barometer, which was .at :of inches. I now pressed the moment of my departure, and the period of my fulfilling any engagements, with the British Public. All the cords were cut ; I rose amidst the most expressive silence, and launching into infinite space, discovered from on high the countless multi tude that sent up their sighs and prayers for my safety.. -My Parachute, in form of a dome over my head, had a majestic .effeet. I quickened my ascending impulse, and rose through light and thin vapours, where' he cold informed me that I was en. tering into the upper region. I followed a ttentie- Iy the route I was taking, and 'perceived I had reached the extremity of the City, and that immense fields and- meadows offered themselves. for my de- Scent. I examined my barometer, which I found fallen to 73, inches—the sky was dear, - the Moment Tifton - table, and threw down my flagoo endeavour • to shew to the people assembled that- I was On the point of cuttipg the-cord that suspended me.between Heaven and Earth. I made everY.necessary dispo_ .. uition, prepared my ballast, and measured with . my eye the vast space that separated the from the 'rest of the human race. I felt my courage confirmed by the certainty that my combinations were ju st . I then took out my knife, and with a hand firm, from a conscience void of reproach, and which had never been lifted against any one but in the field of victory, I cut the cord. My Balloon rose, and I felt myself precipitated with a velocity Which was checked by the sudden unfolding of Ply Parachute. I saw that all nay calcula- lions were just, and my mind remained calm and • ferene: I endeavoured to modulate my gravitation, and the oscillation which I experiepced increased in PropOrtiOn as I approached the breeze that blows.in -- the rtiittate regions ; nearly ten minutes had elapsed, a il.d I felt that the more time I took in descending, the safer I should reach the ground. At length I Perceived thousands of persons, some on horseback, others on foot, following me, all of whom encou . .- . raged me by their wishes, while they opened their arm s to receive me. I came near the earth, and . after one bound, I landed, anti quitted the Para..., Chute, without any shock or accident.- - Aire first Perso n that came to me pressed me in his arms ; but, without losing any time, I employed myself in detaching the principal circle of the Parachute, anxious .to save the instrument that hail so well guaranteed me ; but a crowd soon surrounded me— laid hold of me, and carried me in - triumph,- till an i ndisposition, the consequence and, effea of the o seillation.l had experienced, obliged the proces tinn to stop. I was then, seized with a painful_vo trilling, which I usually experienee for several hours after a descent in a Parachute. The,,interval of a moment, however, permitted me to get on h orseback ; a numerous cavalcade approached to . keep- o ff the crowd, whose enthusiasm and trans- Ports incomitioded me not a li tt le. A t l eng th., after several incidents, all produced by the univer : gal interest with whi c h I was h onoure d, I w irhd re W from the crowd without any other acciSent than that of having had my right foot jammed - between t he hOrse J rode and a horseman who - preSSed tOo !lose to me. My Parachute was preserved as well as Could be expeaed, a few of the cords only were cut. I have just learned that my Balloon. descended, on the 22d Wednesday) at Mr. Abr a ham H ar di ng ' s , !leaf Frefieh a i n Mill, tutee miles beyo n d F arn h a m, ,iiliwiS'arrey,"w..tPere it is in safety, as. appears by the' ong tetier : TO MR. GARNFR 2!•i. I have the Leasure to inform you, of finding the Balloon., 1 :: . 1 the parish of Frencharn, in the County of Surrey, near - tarnharn, on September zz, and to acquaint you, that it shall ce taken tare of till you scud for it. "ABRAHAM HARDING." According to • M CARNERIN's calculation, he had - , -u to neva QI 4154 French-feet on Tuesda'y Sar•r. it. ACTS OF GOVERNMENT. DECREE OF SE 'T. 11. • . . 'IidNAPARTF, first Consul of the French RePhblic, de crees, General BRUNE, Cou,nt;4l.cr..Gl State; is nominated Amb4ssador of the Frenc.ll Republic to the Sublime Porte. • of Foreign Relations is charged with the execution of this Decree. • c , (Signed) a_BONAPARTE By similar,liecrees of the First Consul, the fol lowing Nominations have also taken place: .Citizen L ACUEE, Counsellor of State, to be President of the Se lion of War, in the room of General Bie. UN E. C. Rt c A - 0 b (de St. learpd'Arigeley), Counsellor of State, to be President of the Section or the Interior, in the room of R.:EDER ER, apjaointed a Senator. C. BIGOT FR AEM Es/ EN, to be President of the SeoiOn of Legislation, in the mom of C. Bout Y. 'C. Btit:l, AY. Counsellor of State, is charged with all liti gations reipeaing the National Domains; in the room of C. REGMIER. C. FOURCROY, Counsellor of State, is charged with the care of Public Instruction, in the room of C. RCEDEK ER . • C. PERzGNON, Senator, is appointed Extraordinary Corn, rnissioner, to regulate,. agreeably to the ba ses o f t h e 7t h Ar ticle of the Treaty of Peace, concluded in the year 3 between France and Spain, everything that relates to the Ratification of the Boundaries of the two States towards the Pyrenees. CILAZAL is appointed Prefed of the Department of the Upper Pyrenees. DECREE OF SEPT. 17. The Consuls of the.' Republic, on"the Report of the Minister of the Interior s decree, Art. r; The measnyernent of the meridian of Frahee shall be - continued from Barcelona to the 'Belearic Islands. The Minister of the Interior is char g ed w i t h t h e execu tion of the present Decree. (Signed) BONAP A RT E-. An Arrete of the Consuls, considering that the, .re.establishment of order at St. Domingo, Gnicra-• loupe, and its dependencies, and the .intereit of trade and cultivation, depend principally upon the presence' of the. Proprietors on their property, re-, quires that the said Whiteroprietors should return: thither without delay, under the penalty orre - mauling under..s - equestration.—P ersons. under 18, widows and their d aug h ters , t h e . infirm and the old, soldiers under arms, and public funetionaries, are excepted. No one is„to receive a dispeimation from personal residence, or haye his; sequestration taken 'off", unless represented by` an European Ma nager, capable,of well managing a habitation in Which he shall aetually reside. - Every t'lloprietor is also, in order to have, his fequestration taken off,- to "produce proofs of non.ernigration, erasure or amnesty. AnOther Airke relative to St. Domingo, con_ tains the following Aiticles : 1. 'To the 23d SepteMbei iBo6, Debtors and their Security are forbidden to be prosecuted for the payment of debts anta rior to the rst January 1792, caused by sales of habitations, houses, and negroes, at St. Domingo, ,as *ell as for ad vances made for cultivation in the said Colony. .2. During the same delay, the Creditors of the Colonists of St. Domingo, for every other cause than th'ese specified above, shall not prosecute for the payment of their demands upon property situate in the Colony. 3. In case the Creditors of any Colonial Persoa, for other causes than those expressed in the Ist 'Articleoshall- make demands or institute A6tions against the property of the said persons in France,: the prohibition declared in the said first Article shall be taken oft, and all the Creditors shall exercise jointly their rights upon the property situated in France. The following is ex traEled from a letter by a Gen. demon in Glasgow to his friend in Greenock, dated Augusta. " An affair of so much consequence to mankind as the following, it were criminal in me to conceal ; I therefore request 'of you to make it as piblic as possible among your sea-faring and philosophical friends. " Our mutual friend, before his departure last fall for Philadelphia, construded a machine, appa_ rently simple, but which is infinitely more valuable to navigation than the compass. It was brough t to to me, together with his log-book, by a fellow pas senger homewards, who unluckily had paid no at tention to the use •of the apparatus, which was the more unfortunate, as our, friend died within three leagues of land. " It is a magnetic ball, floating in a i lliason of •quicksilver. The ball is painted all over", to keep ,tlie:quicksilver from penetrating the pores, which might embarrass the evolutions, which coating, I dare not destroy to examine the materials of the ball ; but from its weight it must be metallic, yet it floats high in the fluid. 'Since he took it from this place, I perceive he has marked it with lines of longitude, and latitude, like a geographical sphere. This, I presume,..he has• done on his voyage out `Ward, the journal of which is likely left in America. But this which I possess begins with the exal point of latitude and longitude of Philadelphia, and re ', cords the zenith of every day as 'accurately as if he had. been all along on terra firma. Iu bed he told the Captain his distance from the Coast of Ireland to a:rnintite, by looking at his machine. (6 The properties of magnetism ate not yet suf ficiently known, and they have heretofore been ap plied to use only in the form of the needle. But it appears to possess, beSides its well known polarity, a propensity to retain its native relative position on the'earth ; that is to say, it turns upon an axis like the earth, one point al , vays pointing at the pole star. Beyond the, line, this point upon the ball is below the horizon ; and on the shores of America the longitudinal line, which now is its meridian, was far down the side : so that if he had sailed 'round the earth, his little ball wool(' have made a 'complete revolution upon its axis." At Pontefract Races, on Tuesday se'nnight, the Sweepstakes was run for by three horses, and won by Mr. Croft's bay colt by Traveller. In running for the first heat, at the two-mile turn, the Traveller colt fell, and T. Todd, who rode him, was much s't -- tinued by the fall. As' soon as possible,;.;a:boy, of theiname of Howard (who weighed about 73t. 711).) wa's'sut upon the colt, without eithr whip or spilt., hut having the s t a ble-d oor key in 1 is pocket, used it for a whip. He was, howe'Ver, clistanced about 6o yards above the usual length (240 yards) ; but as neither of the flags were dropped, as is usual against distanced horses, a dispute arose whether he was entitled to start again. The Stewards, after consulting with several Gentlemen, were of opinion, that in consequence of the flags not being dropped, Mr. Croft had a right to start his colt again ; which - he did : won ,the two next heats, received the plate, and the bets were paid accordingly. bLt' BAIL .El'. DAIL''•-•'•-•tfiUR.SDA.Y, SEFT. ij. , Owen Mosi was tried upon an ,indietment, charg. ;no- for that he, being a person: employed by Wil „, ham Philips, in the CaPaCity of a servant; did; by virtue of such emplpyrnent receive, and take into his possession,. of and from one :thews' GrAths, for and in the ; nante,:and on - the account of the said William Philips, the sum of 18s. and did felo niously and fraudulently embezzle; ,Seerete; and make aWay, with the same, against the statute, &c. Mr. KNAPr opened the 'case for the Prosecution, and observed, that by a late AA of. flarliament, the embezzling, of property of a master, by a servant, was made _Felony, and stibieoed the offender, at the discretion of the Court, to transportation forio... teen years. He then .detailed the circumstances of the case, and proceeded to call evidence.., . Ann Philips swore, that she is - the sinter of the' Prosecutor, William Philips. That sometime ago,. he had the misfortUne to break his thigh, and there fore could not attend to his business, and she had the care of it for.him. He is a baker, living in Carnaby-street, Carnaby Market. • She received 'ol die Prisoner the-Money which he colleded . for Mr.' Philips; whose servant he was,: She' had been -in the habit of receiving money. of the Prisoner in this manner for about two months. He never accounted - to her for the suns of 18s. which he received of a gentleman's servant 'of the name of Griffiths ; he ,was a customer of her brother who servedhitn with bread. . She always.gave out the bills to the - .-Pri. soner for him to deliver to the customers and to re ceive the money, and afterwards to account with her for the money. - She delivered to him a'bill to.. be delivered to Mr.- Griffiths. When he receivsti i , money of the customers, he always Wrote paid -up..!' on the bill, which was the only receipt he gqve. She had seed the bill of Mr. Griffiths, and .it_was the same bill whiCh -she delivered to the Prisoner. J. Griffiths produced the bill, and said, that when he paid the Prisoner , 18s. he produced, the bill to the witness, who had kept it ever since, saying to the Prisoner, he should - ofc: - ..rwards pay the whole of it. This was the hill,. it amounted to 11. 6s. Bd., of he paid 18s. Mrs. Philips said that, the Prisoner never accounted . with hit* for these 16s. nor (AO she know of his having receiver it until she was told -so by Mr. Griffiths. Crosi-examined by'Mr, GRAPEY, she said that her brother, she believed, - had abotit koo customers, but she could not tell, without the books, - which' were not_ in Court. There was a book in which the Prisoner entered all the sums of money he re "ceived from hii master's customers, and that book was not in' Court. -The COMMON SERIEAisrr said, that owing to the verytross abuse of the trust reposed in servants by their masters, and their embezzling property so much, the Legislature had, of late, made it extreme ly penal subjectto transportation a t t h e di scret i on of the Cofirt for fourteen years. It was a neces sary security, but being so penal, care should be taken, that it should not operate unless. the •proof was complete ; the law required the best evidence 'the nature of the case would admit—now that best evidence was the book, in which the Prisoner's ac counts were kept ; that book' was s not in Court, there was a possibility, though it was not very pro bable that Mrs. Philips hld made a mistake in this case, but in the absence of the best evidence which the case was capable of, it was the duty of the Jury to pronounce him Not Guilty.—Not Guilty, Edmuird O'Dannel was tried for Bigamy, that is, of marrying and taking to wife, Mary Price, on the 15th of April last, his former wife being then living, against the statute, •&c. Mr. KNAPP opened the Cse,for. the. Prosecution; which he said was instituted by . the brother of the second wife. . No doubt remained upon the fal of the Prisoner having married two women, for the registers of the two marriages ,were•prodliced in Court, and the two women appeared also..' The first marriage took place On the 31st of January I-19-, in the parish church of St. James, 'Westmi'nster, between the pri soner, under the name of Edward, O'Dannel, and Julia Ann Robertson. The.second marriage Noli4 place 'on the i sth of April, 18oz, between the Prisoner under the name of Ethgard O'Thnnel, batchelor, to Mary Price. • • The Prisoner being called upon for his defence, said, that when he married his first wife, he was very young and indiscreet ; he was only 19 years of age : he understood her to be a virtuous young woman, and well conneaed ; but he soon after marriage found out his mistake, and discovered that she had been a kept Mistress, that her morals were very loose, and that she was given to excessive drinking; that her way of life became so expensive that he could not supiort her, he being then only an articled Scrvant at a Arlanufaelory : that she was often in furious passions, so that they led a very unhappy life ; at last, she left him, and for a year and a half he had no other account of her, than that she was said to be dead, upon which he paid his ad dresses to his present wife, and married her, but he had no improper motive in so doing, for that he had. no fortune with her : that he was very happy with his last wife until he was apprehended upon the charge for which he was now about to answer. Souse witnesses were then called to prove the im moral condus of the first wife, but they only gave evidence of her being a little too fond of her glass. The second Wife was called to prove, and she did prove, that he treated her with pure affection, &c. . The COMMON SERJEANTsaid, that this case was very -short, and as clear as it was short. The charge •upon the Prisoner was, that he married Mary Price, on the rsili of April last, his wife Julia Ann'O'Doo'nel'being then alive. This was clearly proved byi , the'Registets (1 the two Mar riages,. and by persons who were present when both took place. This was a serious offence, for it called God to witness to a falsehood at the altar,— bia it was in its nature an offelyce attended with many different shades, in diErent - cases; It was done sometimes from motives of pecuniary i nterest , for the purpose of obtaining possession of the pro perty of a young woman—sometimes to obtain pos session of her person. The Legislature viewing the nature of this crime in a different light from that of former times, had declared it to be a Felony, . , .a and had therefor:l to totirt sof Cr riunniii itizt -,. • • ; power toorder the dfznding patty' to be trinT,• is s ; The jury had, hoihing to co in this c•t , C but to COnsidei, whether this was or itif6 not the mad who - had married these two women, and that they could not doubt, tinless they coild, be satied that all the witnesses Were wilfullY - perjured, withoui interest in so doing. The condw of the fit3lwite; of which there was siiine evidence, Lut'not Much; and of the Prisoner's behaviour to the second, which was clear, had, properly speaking, :nothing :to dcd_ with the issue the Jury had to cry,, but he suffered it to'be. gone into, merely that it s might.givelhe - Prisoner 'the chance of its turning snit, such mig;-,t operate hereafter tioh the Court, vhkh had, in• this case; a discretionary power in ordering the ptOshnent. 'The Learned Serjoant said, he did ri;:r much approve —of-the PriSoner having entered his name 'on the first Marriage Edmund o'l3annel,--on the - second, Edward O'Donnel, Batchelor. 'This locked like a premeditated scheme and trick—hovirever; these were points with Which the Jury had nothing to d0.,-.,G,7iley. The jury'recommended him to thelenity of the Coutti on account of his youth, and, the charatier of his first wife. The COMMON SE R j E ANT, after sortie deliberation, told the Jury their recommendation should \ be tended to, Catharine Kicky, a woman of nearly eighty years of age, and apparently in the lowest degree "of fill; man wretchedness, notwithstanding which she bore evident ma rks'of her having seen far better days . , was charged with stealing, on the 4th of August, a pair : of linen , sheetS, value. 95., the goods of Wm. Gill. The Prosecutor stated, that he is the servant- of 'William Egerton, Esq. of Sr. James's Square, that on the above-mentioned day, he found the hi saner, whose appearance was then comparatively decent, in the.tfousekeeper's room, to which she had got down through the area gate. He suspe6leet her intentions, and proceeding to search her, foutid the sheets in question rolled up in her apron; he accordingly' had her taken to a Magistrate, by. whom he was bound over to prosecute, and he had no doubt of the sheets being the property of his master. ' On clear and positive evidence to this effea, the Jury were constrained to find her Guilty, and Mr. COMMON Silk JEANT inquiring of Mr. 1(11Y, ,then he had any knowledge of the Prisoner before the present occasion, was answered in the negative. William M'Nevin was charged with ,stealing seven shirts, two pair of stockings, a blacking brush and ball, the property of Robert Hayden.- The Prosecutor, it appeared, is a Private in the ,Coldstream Guards, and having obtained a ftirlough, rather unfortunately fell into company with the Prisoner at . a'publie.house.; the articles in question he had with him, economically packed up in his knipsack. Liking the company of the Prisoner, they drank together some time ; he went out occasionally, and having no suspicion of the Prisoner, left his portable wardrobe on the seat 3 however he did this once too often, for on returning after one of his retirements he missed both the Prisoner and his knapsack. Fortune stood the Soldier's friend,, fur it appeared that one of the Witnesses, who was waiting for her husband, observed the Prisoner re move the property, and attempt to conceal it in another part of the room. He then left the place, but the Witness'alluded to very properly communi cated what she had observed to a Watchman, whq . ran after and took the Prisoner into custody. These fads appearing in.evidence, and the Prison.. er's defence not being at all satisfactory, the Jury had no•hesitation in finding a verdict El;zabeth Prosser vas indicted for feloniously steal. ing, on the 26th of July, one shirt, a shift, a dimity petticoat, and cotton gown, goods of John Bradstreet. The , Parties it appeared lodged in the hou . se of a Mr. -Thomas, in Gray's-Inn-Lane. On the above day, Mrs. Bradstreet, wife of rh'e Prosecutor s went out about two o'clock, and locked her apart. went ; as : usual ; about half past four she returned, found her room door broke open by the staple being taken away; and her drawers riled of the articles laid in.the Indiament.—The landlord stated, that between three and four o'clock he saw the Pri. Soner:Coming down from Mrs. Broadstreet's room ; and as soon as he heard what had happened, he went up to the Prisoner's room, which he opened, and found the staple which was on the door of the Prosecutor's apartment on the head of her, the Pri s.oner's bed; the shirt was afterwards traced to a Pawnbroker's in that quarter, who stated that-the Prisoner herself pawned it with him. On Evidence to this effea; which was not in the least shaken by .the-defence, the Jury immediately found the Prisoner Guilty. Mary Callaghan was irdiaed for stealing four live rabbits, and four shillings, the property of John Rowley._ _ It appeared, that the Prosecutor on this- day fortnight missed the rabbits ,and the money from his apartment in a court near Liquorpond-street. On the same day the Prisoner was taken into cus tody on suspicion of having stolen the rabbits, which she.. lead offered - to several persons for sale. The Prosecutor had no sort of•knowledge of the Prisoner, nor could he account for how she came into possession of his property. On being searched, some halfpence were found pinned up in the Pri soner's shift, and (as we could colleftj• as much money about other parts of her person, as made up . the money which the Prosecutor said had been taken out of his room—three of the rabbits, pt being since dead, were produced in' Court and identified by Rowley. The sum of the .Prisoner's defence was, that she had bought the rabbits from a woman, for two shillings, who seemed to be in distress, but of this Person she knew nothing—nor had she any Witnesses in her behalf. Mr. Common Serjeant SYLVESTER add,reFsed the jury.---" Gentlemen, you have heard the story of rabbits—you will dispose of it as you Think prove " The case was rather an intricate one, but what was detailed in Evidence seemed to satisfy the jury—they pronounced the hist:net . Guilty, 5 be •f* an arms to the than :d a pre. rent