The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-04 00:00:00

THE THEITRE:

CnVENT•GARDEN.—When such a comedy as
The Inconstant is brought forward most dramatic
authors of the present time may " hide their di=
minished heads." Though it partakes, still in
some parts of the licentiousness of the time when
it was written, -it contains so much genuine wit
and humour,•such a variety of characters, and all
so well sustained, that while it is adequately re-
presented it never can be wholly out of fashion.
The scenes in which Young Mirabel is entrapped
by Lamorce and her ruffians appeals almost as
forcibly to the feelings as the most terrific inci-
dents in tragedy. The. Play was admirably acted
on Saturday. Mr. C. KEMBLE is quite at home
in the airy scenes of Young Mirabel, and he'rnost
powerfully agitated the mind during the whole
of his apprehension of falling by the hands of
the murderers. Mrs. CHATTERLEY was easy and
elegant in Bizarre, and Miss JONES very inte-
resting and affecting is Oriana. Duretete was
rendered by JONES highly intertaining. FARREN
gave the odd humour of Old Mirabel with divert-

ing effect, and Dugard had a more respectable
representative in BAKER than is usually allotted
to the character. The Comedy was throughout
well received.

MR. SADLER.

FURTHER PARTICULARS OF HIS DEATH.

Fox-hill Bank, 30th Sept. 102.4, 4 miles East of Black.
burn, 13 miles south from Bolton-le-Moors.
Mr. EDITOR—It appears that Mr. Sadler, ac-
companied by his servant man, ascended in his balloon, at Bol-
ton-le-Moors, yesterday. The wind blew violently from the
South, and about half-past two o'clock the balloon was seen
rapidly advancing in a southern direction towards this place.
In a few minutes it was observed to descend, and it appears
to have been Mr. Sadler's intention to have alighted on a
fiat level pasture field, about a (platter of a mile South of
us. The balloon, after having touched the ground, rebounded,
in consequence of the quantity of gas which still remained
unexpelled. The wind driving it forward, it descended a
little again, when the car of the balloon came in contact with the
chimney top of a house in Warren Lane. It was here that Mr.
Sadler received his fatal wounds. The balloon, after passing
over the house, ascended a few yards, and Mr. Sadler was
then seen hanging beneath the car, suspended by one of his
feet, in which dreadful situation he remained two. or three
minutes, till he fell to the earth, in a meadow immediately
adjoining the print-works of Messrs. Simpson, Haigh, and Co.
Ile was instantly removed to a public-house, situated abinit •
100 yards from the place where he fell. Surgical aid was
sent for in all directions. His skull was shockingly fractured,
and his body much injured. Barlow, 31.1). from Black-
burn' arrived about five o'clock, and applied the trepan, and
used all the means proper in such cases. Mr. Muir (surgeon),
of Accrington, remained In attendance during the whole of
the night. Mr. Sadler never spoke a word from the moment
of his fall; to the time he expired, which happened at ten
minutes before eight o'clock this morning. From the quan-
tity of gas in the balloon, and the force of the wind, it was
impossible for any one to stop its course, several people hav-
ing laid hold of the rope attached to the car without being able
to bring it down. I understand the balloon finally descended
near a place called Cock Bridge, about four miles north of
this place, where Mr. Sadler's servant got out, having had one
of his arms broken, but no other material injury. 'should hope
that this melancholy affair will deter people in future from ven-
turing up into the air ; we are not birds, and ought to he con-
tent to tread the earth ; besides, none of these adventurous aero-1
mints ever brought down any news worth the risk of fetching
from the clouds. 31r. 131enkinson, the owner of the public-
house near which the accident occurred, was at the time in the
isrdtsanhto,maned; bheuitnwghienn-
‘f'oilrmlagetel °off At
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taanbcoeu, thastwteonemdiltoeswda
lie had arrived within a few hundred yards of the house, he fell
on bis face Id the footpath, and instantly expired without utter-
ing a word ora groan ! lie was a man of some property, and
inue.b.respected by all who knew 1 •
and left •
um las a widow and
four children to mourn his sudden
and
unexpected fate. It
seldom happens, as will be the cane here,that
In-
quests are held upon two gentlemen in the,
same Coroners'h
ouse at the
same time. However, " an in such hour as ye think not, the
Son of man corneal." Your's truly,
SAMUEL THORPE.

_ (From the Liverpool Mercury.)
Mr. Sadler (whose father was also a celebrated aeronaut)
was in the prime of life. He had made 30 successful ascents, anti
was particularly distinguished by his daring intrepidity in being
the only individual who, in a ballikilsi" ever crossed the Irish
Channel. He ascended at Dublin,"libil alighted on the coast
of Wales. As a chemist and ail 'engineer, Mr. Sadler
possessed talents of no ordinary cast ; and he was some years
ago employed by the first Gas Company which was establish-
ed in Liverpool, and contributed to the advancement of that
establishment when in its infancy. On leaving that service,
Mr. Sadler, from his enterprising spirit, and his uniform
success in many perilous aerial voyages, was induced to devote
himself more closely to the hazardous pursuit of aerostation ;
gratifying the inhabitants of this town and neighbourhood by
his frequent, bold, and well managed ascents. Of his skill
and presence of, mind, under circumstances the most threaten..
ing to human life, thousands have borne testimony, as well
as the intrepid adventurers who have 'been the companions
of his excursions. He has almost uniformly alighted with.
out sustaining the slightest personal injury, after voyages
of astonishing rapidity and altitude and the same bal-
loon from which he met his death; Las, uninjured borne
him aloft in his trips on sixteen occasions. He had acquired,
• indeed, facilities in managing the unwieldy bulk of his float.
ing carriage, which even Inspired the otherwise timid to ad-
venture their lives under his pilotage. The fatal catastrophe,
therefore, which has terminated his existence, can but be
deemed one of those accidents which sometimes defy the
foresight of the most skilful and wary. In his death, science
is deprived of a persevering and devoted Professor, whose
studies in the properties and appliances of gases, and in other
branches of chemistry, promised to supply important facts to
the speculative philosopher. Mr. Sadler, some time ago, as
a more solid reliance for the benefit of his family than the
precarious life of an aeronaut could supply, formed in Llano.
ver.atreet, a handsome establishment of warm, medicated,
and vapour baths ; and by his own industry and attention,
together with those of an amiable wife, he had a fair pros-
pect of increasing comfort and easy circumstances. Mrs. Sadler,
who is far advanced in pregnancy, started, on the first inti-
mation of his misfortane, to the spot, in a distracted state
of mind; 'and she is now left with an orphan child, a
disconsolate widow; with peculiar claims pecuuar C. 4.1113 to the sympathy, and,
we fear, to the generosity oe a liberal public.—Mr. Sadler's
sister, an interesting young Lady, is now at his house herehaving arrived only a short time ago, on a visit to her brother,
to whom she was affectionately attached. Her state of mind it
is truly distressing to contemplate. Mr. Saeller was 211 years
of age.

DESCENT OF A YOUNG LADY IN AN AIIt•DAL-
sen
Sussex,sa t iboyn the wll
eecent of a large produced the other
(Liaoyoalit.—egAckfin exeldtraFoairdrlniarn y
bal-
loon in the midst of the crowd assembled at the fete. It being
a great horse and cattle fair, as well as one of amusement, there
was a vast assemblage of persons of all classes, and the
aeronauts, whose names we have not learnt, descended in the
very heart of the fair. The first sensation produced on the
crowd of peasants, many of whom had never seen a balloon be-
fore, was very great, and their astonishment was considerably
increased by seeing an elegant young lady step out of the car.
The parties immediately set off in a post-chaise for London.
We have not yet heard whence the balloon ascended. Going
up in air-balloons has of late become a very fashionable recrea-
tion. It is a remarkable circumstance, that more ladies have
ventured to make this, than almost any other novel experiment,
in which there is certainly some little danger. Upwards of forty-
five female aeronauts may be enumerated, out of which only
two.have met with any accident.—(Tinter.)

ISLE OV WIONT, OUT. 2.—The harvest in this
island is finished, and a more abundant crop of most sorts of
wain, particularly wheat and barley, never was known, and' in
Bart.,
_III.P. for the Borough
general well saved.—Our Correspondent informs us with regret
that Sir L. T. Warsley Holmes,
of Newport, is very ill, at his house in- Newport, Isle of Wight.

DAVIS'S Amphitheatre closed on Saturday last,
after a most successful season. Mr. KlNLocri
delivered an appropriate farewell address.