The Sun.
London, England, 1814-10-21 00:00:00

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DE"IONATING BALLS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIN.

Margate, Oet. 20, 1814.

Sir,---on Sunday last I was requested to visit a
little girl (five' years
.otr age.), yvho unfortunately
m staki:tg a _Detonating Bail for Pea, had take!' it
into her iu in, which it exploded : a consi-
derable hremorrhage iminediately arose, and by
f.. 1 or "Znbtiii:-,4:0-4 v,,ittutes utter the
accident) her lips and tr*Kot exctedingly
inflamed and steeled, the former having the ap-
pearance of Ewing scorched. I conclude that she

had bitten the ball with her front tetth,anCii
suspect, if it had been (hole by the grinders, the
consequences woul4l have been fatal. The child's
•..mouth is now fast recovering, but her nervous
system has received such a shock'as will, I fear,
take a long time to remove.
Previous to this accident: I had never seen .one
of the Detonatingßails, and wishing to ascertain
how far the ignition of gunpowder was attribut-
'able " lu accident," as asserted by Mr. BANKS and
others, t made the following experiments :-
Ist, 1 took a small quantity of 'gunpowder, and
rolled it up-in .roc writing paper,' with one of the
. Bails ; upon gilog it pressure with the foot, the
Bill exploded, and the powder was instantly in-
flanied,

2411 y, 1, substitntetl coarse brown paper, instead
of writhig paperi and the result was as in the first
experiment.

3(ily, I laid a sheet of writing paper, on the
floor, on which I placed a Ball, and having co-
veted it with gunpowder, I nfade a pressure with
my foot on tne Bail; it.exploded, and the powder
became Mita Med.

4t iy,
I placed a Ball with. some powder be-
tween two skins of white leather; 1 made pres-
sure with tuv loot on the Bail ; it exploded, and
the powder inflamed. .
sthly, I made use of a silk handkerchief with a
sinti;ar result.

6thly, I loaded a musket with powder, and
-having removed the film substituted a piece of
wood ; one of the bulls was nut into the pan with
the priming, and on pulling the trigger, the piece
was immediately discharged.
It is right to state, that in the Whoie I have ex-
ploded four and twenty balls with gunpowder, and
of that number
,seventeen have inflamed the powder.
' Now, Sir, these facts are so-much at variance
with the statements and opinions, lately detailed
io THE SUN, that 1 have thought it right to make
them public, having no other object in view than
to guard against imaginary security, and to spew
that the construction of the Act of Parliament
as dt-fiiied by .the Magistrates in Queen-square,
Was perfectly `correct.
The balk which limed Were obtained from "Ur.
COOPER. My gunpokver was good, but not ••of
a `` Superior qii3Oity.-
I am Sir, yours, &c.
• DANIEL JARVIS,
Note.—We insert this communicating with Measure, as we
wish to give every facility to the CIISCUS,iOII of a "hjett of
great chemical and 'phdvophical cariosity. . 4 is but justice
tip add, 11,;wevi.,r, that w, have seen-the same experiment: re-
peatedly tried wittn-t igniting I he gunpowdei, and in DO one
instance prmhicing that etrect.—En.

IVe have intuit pleasure in sta:Lg, that tire in-
habitants of LOughborougli have resolved on e*ta-
bli•hing a school in that town, on the Miolras
system, and that a subscriptioir had eady been
v,ry h;wrally cone nenced for that purpose.—(Not-
tiliam. Ga,zoe.)-