The Sun.
London, England, 1814-08-01 00:00:00

MR., SADLEk'S BALLOON.

The Balloon, as- we have-already stated,--rose
with great velocity from Barlington-o,mieus.----
19. seven minutes after-the fastenings were roOsen-
ed,Jhe yonng.and adventrous aeronauts, of thorn
Mr. SADLER, the .dexterous pilot of the balloOn,
is only seventeen years of -age, passed through a
cloud which intercepted their view of ,the earth.
In about three minutes they recovered their view
of the earth, but only to lose it entirely until they
descended.. in Essex After passing throug'+ seT
venal !clouds,. Mr. SADLER asked his fair:compa.
nion, to take some wine, -and she readily -joined
him iu drinking to." the /earth of their friends on
the earth."
At 10 minutes beforeifive they were still ascend,
in and must have been- at -a vcr.y A-reat height,
for the water which has been decomposed and was
tirckling down the gas' tithe, frozealatost iustan;
taneously WO icicles of about the sjze of a Lyme
-goose qua, -some of ' which the Lady broke of
_to taste, retwirkiag that though Many of her ter-
reStriar friends might be at that moment regaling
,themselvos' wit h ice ;*yet none of them had en-
joyed sO,elevitted.a situation._
The balloon waf.: at this period 'entirely inflat—
tind' :Mrs.-SOLER thought it ,necess;aryl to
open the valve, which. only affected the-Machine
in -a very sligbt degree., At eight minutes before
Ifire,s having .travelled with'so much velocity, he
began to► tiiiok "of:deseending, and again openfog-
the valve 'solftred. a gre.a(gottiVity of gas to,escape-,
which occasioned them to descend with most un7
,eotionon rapidity, for nt veySr• considerable time-,
'without seeing theetnalt; so greatimtee ; a as their
rapidity of descent, that he foiwal it proper to
throw out some ballast, some .of which not sink-
ing so fast as themselves, :Act wards fell into the
car, and upon the paper whereon Mks THompsoN
was writiog, her observations.. They came sud-
denly be.lov the clouds, and obtained a distinct
but gloOMy view of the country beneath them; as
not ev=en a light shadow from the sun had pierced
through the density of.the vapour which they had
just left behind them. It was a fortunate cireion-
stance that fir. S. had determined on descending,
as in about eight minutes more the balloon.wOnld
have been riding over the ocean. .
_ Mr. S. made -choice of a corn-field to alight
;upon.- The grapling irons 'took' effect - upon
hedge, but their cord breaking, the balloon drag-
ged the car a little distance, till, from a total- ex-
pansion Of gas, it stopped 'itself. They had
scarcely :got out of the car, when a gentleman
reached skein- on horseback,' (Mr. GEORGE WILL-
sur,R, Surgeon,. of Finchingfield), and almost int-
'inediately afterwards. some in, a one horte
.chaise. They ow.ed this sudden 'and seasonable
attention to the party having seen them descentk
lug from their garden, who ordered their carriage
:and horses ready to greet their descent.
Mr. Wur-suER states, that he distinctly and
powerfully smelt. the hydrogen.gas that escaped
while the ballOon'was.descendiug, at the' distance
of. )calf -ti Mire. The. circumstance-is extremely
remarkable, that the aeronauts met with no (Levitt-
of current even at their utmost height, htit
continued a regular North-easterly course through-
Out the whO!e of it.

The :jaw-tants experien'ced every possible at-
tention flow' the whole party,aiul "erg' hOspitably
received ,at Mr. WILL.snEIC (junior) house,
Great Tey, near CoggeshalLa distance of 49 miles,,
which they had travelled in the short space of 4111
minutes.

Mr. 8. was furnish-ed-with a horse ti; procnre
a ost:chaise,' but he' rude about from town to
town for the space of twenty;four miles, from six
o'clock in the evening till near three o'clock in the
-morning. Miss, TuoratasoN had just 'laid down
wheirtreh?ise arrived, and she got into it directly.
to shorten' Abe anxiety cif her friends. They bait
only trarelledabottrthree
,miles when, it is stip.
:i.osed from the bost7hoy having fallen asleep,
the chaise was overturned; the travellers were
•not materially bruised, and proceeded , with-
Out turther-interritption until they. arrived' in the
~,crri'pblts,
Where the greetings and:coneoursc of
the people, increased to such a. degree, tliat they
could 'scarcely get through the streets.. .Mr.
1..E11, describes , the conduct_ of his fair'companion
to have been firm, composed, :ind':Cheerluf, en-
joyi-ng, instead of fearing, her atslal flight. Mr.
.SADLER, sen. and Miss I'. will leave town in 4..
fow clays for York, to ascend '.from there clarinz •
the Races.

Letters were received' in town on :•aturday from
'Nottingham, which state that the .7..uddits are at
work again, and that several frames I.re been
btoken.._