The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-15 00:00:00

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This morning Fita.stots CoNyi-, Esq. (tita-4,'
,Cltairmatt) for the County of
.Middlesex, stip-
ported by Sir Rzcit+ato BIRNIE, Mr• 8AL4.14'
TYNE, Mr. SEETCHLEY, the_ Rey. WILLIAM
LEMON, &c. &Et:, AllielllblEd at the Sanctuary at
Westminsterlifoi. thepurpose of holding a Gene-
Jai Quarter Session for the County. After the
business of the Court had been opened by THOS.
STIRLING, Esq,, the Deputy Clerk of the Peace,
the Grand Jury to be holden on Monday
next, at Hick's Hall, ClerUnwell, was swore in,,
as were also a number of Aigii 'Constables, Head-
boroughs, and other petty pllicers for the County.
The Court then adjournettuittil to-morrow, when
the Chairman will commence the business of the
Westminster Sessions, in disposing of Traverie
cases, and offences of felotties,misdemeanours,&c.
[Another Account.]—The calendar of offences
for the Petit•Jury is considered considerable,
and the Sessions will, it is expected, be pro-
longed beyond the usual time.—The Report
of the State of fields .13ridewell was
put in, it was considered satisfactory, and
some conversation arose on the expediency
of making alterations. Mr. JA E, the High
Constable, presented the usual returns re-
lative to the public peace, and a variety of other
busines of a line' nature was transacted. The
,Court then proceeded to the trial of appeals and.
cases of nuisances. To-morrow the trials of
thefts and atsaults will come on.

Afr.COBBETTandtheTOLIYCOLLECTORS.

Betwi.STnEET—(This Day).-,One of the Col.
lectort'this day appeared at thil.ollice with a
letter', and' wished to have the'l oaring of the'
formatiewpreferred against them at the instance:
of Mr; CunnErr, for taking more than the legal
toll fronythe market carts, which stood for to-
morrow, put off for the purpose. of taking legal
advice.

Mr. Muyintmr, said it could only', be done by.
paying the costs of the thtf, but, 4(ter some
consideration observed that Mr. Perry shotiii
accompany the aPplicaut to the house of Mr.
'Cobbett, who probably would consent to' the
postponement.
The applicant declared that be would not go
C‘• Cobbett," adding, " I'd do'any thing, :Sir,
'radial:lllon ask a• favour of Cobbett—l'd rather
go Without legal advice"
• Mr. Mitisuur.t.—:4t:Well, than, you shall not
go to.Cobbett ; he'shaltbe written to, and you
shall be informed of the result Will that satisfy
u
Applicant.--" Sir, thank', you ; but I'd
do any thing rather than ask a favour.,froti
Cobbett ?"

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

COWES, OCT. l4.—.Arrivedihe Genctuus Planter, Wood-
ward, ftoiti Qu'ibec. On the 17th ult. observed some people
on St. Paul's Island,'ln the entrance of the Gulf of St. Law.
rence, and on sending a bOat:found twenty.five poor creatures ;
among them several women ittritchildren, who had been three •
days on that island without oloaths or shelter, •or other Nos
tenance than the berries that grow on the'place. Captain W.
took them on board of his ship and admintifered every assist. . -
ance in his Power. It appears that on the 14th the brig Mo. * '
nara, of Aberdeen, Alex. Martin masta, bound to Quebec, '
ran against this island' in a thick fog and sunk in deep water '
the boat was got' out in time to save twenty-tive, but we lament
to say that 'five passengers were drowned. On the 17th, fell in
with the Sir James Kempf, from Cork to Quebec, Who receivel
the twenty-five shipwrecked persons on board to take than to
their. Origintl destination. 'On the 21st, the Loyalist, front
Quebec, boitna t& l4ewcastle, took the master, mate, and a b/1,
of the Monarch, to convey them home.
•
DEMI, OCT. 14.—Wind W.N.W.—Came down from the.
River Kral sailed, the tinity, Curtis, for Lisbon. Arrived and
Sailed, for the River, the Prince of Waterloo, Oray,; from
Quebec. , Several vessels have passed through front the Wyer,
names unknown. The whole of the outward-I)o4nd are round
.the South Foreland. Herman his Majesty's ship
• l'on•rsmobrm, OCT. Easterly..—Saih4 the., •
Valiant,
,Crosbie, for Jamaica; and his Majesty's ship
for Chatham.
mnu'fit,sou.r.l3.--AVlnti W.S.W.--."tailed the It al'
Merchant, 11rowth •Ifor Madras; tVilliamt and Iletuk,l:for •
Jamaica; and the George, for Virginia.. ,
FALMOUTH, ()CT. N.W..--Snilcd the /Min,
Way, and Cumberland, \Valli, for Seville; Fanny; Ottild;•
for Lisbon; Qordelia, Bully, for Gibraltar; .Montaitue,
packet, for America.

On Saturday morning, about halfpast eight, the Swedish
brig Amphiorr, Appelberg, master, bound front Stockholm to
Havre do (irate f with a cargo of deals and iron, was driven
asliore between the'Circular lietioubt and Pymehtirch, haviog
p.trted front War anchor 'during the very heavy gale front the
south-went, then in some degree subsided ; and almost Warne— •
diately fell ppon her beam' ends, in a terrible surf. The crew
cunsigted, of eight person;) , with one pasienger, who placed
inselVei on the vessel's aide'
the; imploring that assistance
Which it appeared almost ,impossible to bestow with totlitient
promptitude.. The officers and men of the Coast Itioeltstle
got a boat front a station at some distance; sand, at the most"
imminent peril of their' lives, front the tremendous surf, Lieu.,
tenant of the Royal Navy, aceortrpaniall by four
man, put off ,t,u the vessel, which they were not tilde ma'am.
nately to rhtehOhe boat having been it'pset at some etitiaider:.
able' distance. P The' spectators to the number of tbrty,' htad.
eti by Mr. firootpan, 11,1 r. Gilson, &e. of the Coast Blociltadei.,
Bolted their hands together, and thus entering the surf,Jug. ,
teedediti gettibg the 14ieutenant and his brave ftilows
whither the boat tens driven some time afterwartle;•whervkilegt.,,
Dyball having been disabled by a severe contusion an kof }'fight
side (struck by the boat in etcpsizing) his place was taken by Mr.
Collins, Admiralty 'Midshipman, who fiad just 'stidcredtti in
reaching the vessel, whin a tremendous sea took the' boat, la,.
ried away three of their four oars, and dashed them ainitist the,.
breakers, to the leeward of their object; here ate seamanship
and coolness of Mr. Collins excited the highest udiniration
he deliberately tore up a waste hoard of the bont, and using it
as a paddle, assisted by the mac remaining oar, brought the .
boat out of the breakers safely on shore. By dills time
rat seafaring people from Sand gate had arrived at the spar,; .1""
who, assisted by 111 r. Knott, of , Ilythe, with a wagp,on ankt
horses, procured a galley from that place, arid on its arrival it
was immediately manned by six able hands of Santlgate,
(Greve, Richards, Fisher, Overton, Cock, and —) tUr
Blockade Ism was again most plainly manned by My
lies and nien, and put off at the same time. The superiority
in size of the Saridgate boat enabled them tint to ,reteh the
vessel, and they safely brought ashore through the surf, storm ' •
of tile nine persons,. and Mr. Collins quickly &Bowed, with the
remaining two. amidst the plaudits of a great number offer-
sons there colleCted, who alone can only estimat: the dangeut
braved, and the devoted gallantry of their conduct. The'
Swede* were conveyed to the Swart Inn, Hythe, where every
kindness anti attention was manifested tawards them. ' The,
cargo has been since discharged, hitt the vessel is completely a'
wreck, her side being totally bilged.,--4 Kollist4 Ginefte,
14.)

CORN EXCHANGE, OCT. 15.
The arrivals of Grain to this day's market aro small—Wheat
1700, Barley 1100 quarters, Maur 100 sacks. Moto roeaey
i demanded for goq4 sonpies of Witsat, but very little butt-
neva doing. fetnains as (pit-nett on Monday. Beams
and Pct Are Other dearer. Oats obtain rather Mews Weds,
A'ool4lloqtto43 that; koine 1.40101 is,ll vw4.4#):

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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

• f•iPt DAIIX'
ExfAits from the 1i10ri4,4 Papers,' oClober 15.

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LMORNINCr CHRONIC:IE"
The holders of Spanish Bonds have been,
thrown into" consternation by a document. in the
Etale of gunday, which leaveS them utterly
hopeless. The first use Ferdinand bus made of
his absolutism is to issue a Decree; declaring all
the'acts of the Covermneat called Constitutional,
of whatever id:id and dw;criptien they may be,
null and veld, and approving Of every thing
-which has been decreed and ordered by the
Provitional 3 milli of Goverment and by the
gency. This'doeument is to be found in our 'ex.,'
tracts from the Paris Papers.—This Decree can-
not be, an nnadvised act, It is dated Port St.
Mary, was issued in the midst of French bayo-
nets, and was of course approved of by his au-
gust and well-beloved Cousin. It is an echo too
of the language of the French King's Speech
-44 I approve' of every thing decreed by the
Junta and Regency," ,he says, " waiting mean-
while until selliciently informed as to the wants of
my, people, I may be.able to bestow those laws
and adopt those measures which shall be best
calculated to seeure their real prosperity and
welfare,'the constant object of all my wishes."
This liberality, however, is a little at variance
with what he says immediately before, in th©
introductory part of the document, for he there
obsdrves, ",.My subjects were accustomed to'
live under wise and moderate laws, and such as
were Vonforntable to their manners and customs,
and which during sweetly ages constituted the, wel-
fare of their ancestors."—Why does hp speak of
wants of his people, bestowing laws and adopting
measures which shall be best calculated to secure
their prosperity end welfare ? Has he not told
us that they were well and happy, and prosper-
ous under the laws Which existed prior to the
Revolution of Ino ? What; more can men want
than the belog well, happy; and prosperous ?
All the acts of Ake Government Constitu-
tional are null and void. Then the Convention, on-
tered into with Englaod, published in The Gazelle
of Saturday, is null and void. Then Mr. Canning
might have saved the country the expellee of fitting
up an office for his Commissioners in N0.1'2, Man-
chester-bulklino, and the salaries tif Mr. E. J.
Dawkins and Robert Alb. Cox„, end the heard.
wages of Senores Diego Colon and Justo de Ma-
chado. ' After waiting so many months with
praise•wortby patience for, the liberation of King
Ferdinand, he might surely have kept the Gen-
vehtion ;his pocket for 4. day 'or wo longer, to
wait the. pleaenre of our faithful ,ekly:,,,,The FO,
reign Secretary may go to Manchester-buildings
when he pleasetohnt up the rare; and take the
key with Um in his pocket.

[MORNI NG: •
'The most important intelligenee in the French
Papers, is a Decree communicated by the Etoiln
and given in another column. It. was issued on
theist. inst. immediately after, the arrival: of For-
rlitutudart Port Mary's, and forms:a disgust,
ing.montonent of undisgoisect cowardiee, itypo-
critiy, and perjury.. The .hot is indeed. unblush-
ingly put forwaOns the-sole excess for the last.
Every oath, however solemnly sworn, is violated,
and violated on the debasing ground of having
been exterted through compulsion: as though fear
should be (tit excuse for a King's doing, that,
width as an example to his people he should
rather die. than consent to, if he thought it un
just, injurious, or infamous. But the object of
this Decree is not only to inveigh against the
Constitution, to annoonce the resumption of 'un-
limited despotism, and to intimidate approaching
vhsitations of Royal 'tv rit lit Rilt vengeance--it
takes a more extensive sweep, and declares all
the Acts of the Government Constite-
tioeal, of whatever kind and description they
nosy be, frot:l the ith of March, 18'20, to,the
elst. of Septenther,lB23;null and Void." Athongst
these the treaty concluded with. our. Government
for indemnify Mit our merchants for the losses in.
ffiCtedupon.thern by ..ipanisli privateers,is of course
comprised ; audit would seem butt onr interests,
'would thus come into immediate contact with the
measures 'of the restored Despot:' Before this
can be the however,, it most be
,seen whe-
ther Ferdinand will not renew in 1118 own name
a treaty which he has annulled only as the work'
of the Cortes. Having once, under the compul-
sion of his own resentful spirit, through K the re.
presentations of the 'lute Regency, or under
the dictateit.of `l iii conquerors, adopted the im-
politic and unjustifiable resolution:of recognizing
nothing done by 'theConstitntional Government,
though signed with :his hand and guaranteed
with his word, be 'could possibly Make no ex.
ceptlon. 'Put it would, be an insult to common
.sense to suppose, that at the lune when hp wants
roost her forbearance, 'he should wantonly incur
the danger. of a difference :with England. It is
far more likelyir-and more consonant with his
usual iltudetleeo'frati he should he eager to con-
elude a OCR, art'alfgetiilillt with us :on the same
basis as the. last ; and we should not even be Bur.
prised to 4311.14 that an intimation to that effect
had been counnunicated to our Ambassador, to-
gether with the Decree announcing that the ori.
ginat treaty .was ennelled. On these grounds,
therefore, we are convinced that uti alarm need
be entertained,and that the same union of temper,
ifrinneits, and 'Wisdom which has hitherto pre-
served the blessings of peace to this country, will
continue to watch over her interests with patriotic
jealousy, to remove every obstacle that could
cheek her increasing prosperity, and ,to maintain
the brilliancy of her national honour untarnished,

[TUB TIMES.]
We publish (row the Dale of Sunday last a
decree, and that decree the first by the King of
Spin, since his liberation. The document is a
most importent one, and accords most unhappily
with the character of the man to whom it Is
ascribed—with the character of one whom even
adversity cannot teach moderation. It consists
two ,parts : the first, which is introductory,
Dada the Constitutionalists with every species or
claims divine right for the King; and Affects

to consider the impaiition Of any restriction on'
his absolute power as disloyalty, treason, and sa-
crilege. The second part, Which is enactive, clears
the way in its first article for its own•operations,
by rescinding and declaring null every aat of the
Ccinstitutional
,government, from the month of
March, 1810: and, in' the second article, it ap-
proves of all that has been done by, the French
flaigency, and the preceding little self-created
innta acting in behalf of despotism and super-
stition, till hel—King Ferdinand himself, ac-
queinted with the wants of his people, can
give theM better laws.—Now, in some of the
Apse which his Majesty bestows so lavishly
upon his, enemies, we cannot, help, to a certain
degree, concurring. We do not reproach them,
certainly, for those causes, or for those qualities, by
which they have provoked his Majesty's Wig-
nation : but speaking of the leading patriots (if we
may so profane the word) of Spain, we must say,
with some few exceptions, that they have dis-
graced themselves by the most revolting stupidity,
imbecility, and sloth ; and that their equals are
hardly to be found even in the climate of the South
of Italy. The Neapolitans, indeed, let their King
go and join the Austrians; but he went out oa a
false pretence that he was going to negociate their
independence,and procure the guarantee of the new
constitution; The Cortes suffered Ferdinand, whose
treacherous character was so well known, to join
the French unconditionally, and upon no other
pretence than that his late gaolers might be at
his mercy, and that he might, by the aid of fo.
reign bayonets, assume a despotic sway over his
country. , He may be moderate if he pleases,
or he may be tyrannical, as this decree repre-
sents him ; the Cortes will have all the odium
of his tyranny—for they have opposed no
manly resistance to its establishment: and
he will have all the merit of his modera-
tion—for it is clear that he has little to fear
in such enemies us the defenders of Cadiz.—
They seem, indeed, to have been men formed
exactly,for such a Generalissimo as Prince Hilt
to conquer, and that not by his arm, but by the
very terror of his name. When he was made a
Commander, chance or fate found him a foe
worthy of his valour. Good God !
abounding in provisions, and possessing a zealous
and feirless population, surrendered withouta
blow !—The enactive part of the Decree will ma-
terially affect this country, if the havoc which it
occasions be not repaid by subsequent mea-
sures. It rescinds all the acts of the Con-
stitutional Government since March, 1820. But
we have treated with that Government while
the King was apparently at its, head, and whilst,
at least, by our treating, we recognized the Go-
vernment as legal : this sentence, therefore, of
nullity upon acts in which we were one half par-
takers, is abrupt and unceremonious enough. As
to Spain itself, however treated by the liberated
Ferdinand, and its present masters, the French,
both he and they may rest assured that the coun-
try cannot revert to itS former state. They may
frighten cowards, but they cannot confront
events. The separation of the trans-Atlantic
States is of itself a revolution in the mother
country, the letter has no resources of.
commerce to repair so vast H. lost.

[MORNING IXEILALD.]
.fit seems that King Ferdinand scarcely allow.
ed himself time to breathe after his liberation
from Cadiz and his arrival at Port St. Mary,
when he 'promulgated his sentiments respecting
the state of duress in which 'he had been held for
upwards of three years; and gave vent to his
feelings of reprobation towards those who had in-
fringed upon the exercise of his Regal power.
The Decree which he published on the ist of
this month, and in which these sentiments are con.
voyed, will be found in another part of this Paper.
--(See another column of Tao Sun.)—This
document was no doubt prepared by other hands,
and only waited for his signature the moment
he' readied the head.quarters of the Duke d'An.
liouteme ; for it is kardly possible to soppose
he would have launched out into such invec-
tives as those with which the decree coin.
mences, against men who treated him with much
more respect and kindness than any set of
revolutionists ever before observed towards
a Monarch whose power they had forciblY
taken away. The revolntion of March, 1820,
arose as a matter of necessity out of the impove-
rished state of Spain, whose finances had become
1404111apidated, that the revenue was not even
sufficient to pay the interest of the Public Debt.
The amount of the interest was six millioUs an-
nually ; while that of the Revenue was only five
millions; so that there was an annual deficit of
one million, even as it respected die 'payment of
the interest of the Debt. Therefore nothing Ives
left to pay the Arrriy, the Navy, the clerks
in public offices, or any other public servauts.
—All these, of course, instead of being at-
tached to, must have become enemies to the Mo-
narchy, and if they were not openly the authors
of the revolution, they countenanced, by not op.
posing it. Such having been the state of things in
Spain prior to the year 1821, and the people
being probubly taxed beyond their ability to
pay, the machinery of the' Groveilunent could not
go on, and a convulsion similar to that which
took place in France from similar causes, in 1789,
was the natural consequence.

(NEW TIMES.]
Our letters from France state that the bust of
the Duke d'Angouleme was carried in triumph
through the streets of Paris by the people, with
shouts of Vim le Roi I As to any idea of hosti-
lity to England being to be inferred from King
feerdinand's Decree (even if genuine), we think
such a notion sufficiently refuted by referring to
the tone and spirit of a serni-official article in the
Journal des Dobai: 'on the Spanish War. This
article, which is a remarkable one, begins by
citing the expressions of the King of France, in
his speech or the 28th of January last, when his
Majesty said that hostilities -should cease as soon
as King Ferdinand should be free. It then
briefly, but' clearly, details the plan of the cam.
paign,which in less than six months led the French
army., without a single reverse, from the Banks of
the fildasseailo' the Bay of Cadiz, the General's..
'simo proceeding Straight through the middle, of ,

the Kingdom, and the two wings of his army
sweepingits Eastern and Western Provinces.—
This campaign (says the writer) has been at-
tended with several remarkable and most im-
portant circumstances. It has shewu that Louis
XVIII. possesses a faithful army. It has con-
sequently placed his Government among the
Great Military. Powers of Europe. It has for
the first time .in history shown France carryings
on war under a constitutionally organized Go-
vernment, and in presence of the LibertY of the
Press. It has connected her victories with the sen-
timents of order and moderation—it has she wn her
'soldiers at once brave, orderly, and religious, and
their Princely Leader intrepid, generous, humane.
Here are invaders, who cost nothing to the coun-
try which they come to liberate,
,and who instead
of being a terror to its inhabitants, are looked up
to as protectors and safeguards by its contending
parties. Finally, the French army is about to
retire from its conquests, carrying away nothing,
demanding nothing, but the love of the people
whom it has saved : and the Prince leaves be•
hind him nothing but a venerated memory, and
counsels of moderation and prudence.

[BRITISH, PRESS.]
'At length we have 44 the idolized Ferdinand's"
decree, issued at Port St. Mary's before he set
out far Madrid ; declaring by one swee'ping article,
"mull and void all the acts of the Constitutional
Government from the 7th of March, 1820,aintil
the 21. st of October, 1823." In, this memorable
article, he proclaims " that during the whole of that
period he was deprived of his liberty ; obliged to
sanction laws, and authorise orders, decrees, and
regulations, which the Constitutional Government
framed and executed, as he alleges, against his
will." The second article of the tyrant sanctions
every act of the Provisional Junta and the Re.
gency—those acts which have unsettled all, pros
perty, warred with all liberal institutions, end
carried terror and proscription into every Province
of Spain. Thus, as we anticipated, the moment the
Royal tiger was unloosed, he turned on hia
keepers. There is now an end of liberty in Spain ;
the followers of the Constitution have fought and
died in vain; the Constitution is trampled by the
perfidious Ferdinand in the very dust,and all its acts
annihilated at a blow. There is no exception
whatever in this Decree ; every treaty made, and
loan negociated, for the last three years, is an.
nulled, though the Signature of the unprincipled
despot himself was attached to them all. This
sweeping proscription includes the treaty nego-
ciated by Sir William A'Court with the Minister
San Miguel,on the benefits of which Mr. Canning,
in his speech on the foreign policy, dwelt so
much. This is the first blow levelled against
the interests and commerce of this country
it comes from no common hand, and will be fol.
lowed by others. Our influence is now no more,
either in Portugal or Spain. Ilyde de Neuviii,
was dispatched to undermine one, mid An-
geuleme Talaru will effectually destroy the
other. Thus all that has occurred since March,
1820, is no more. No Constitution—no Cortes
—no Representative Delegation—no purchases
of church lands recognized—the 2fio sup.
pressed monasteries restored, and the Inquisition
again dominant,—all this is the result of Ferdi-
nand's decree. Thi; stood things In Spain pre.
vious to the proclamation of the Constitution.—
Riego's fate will soon show how far the tyrant is
inclined to wade in proscription and blood : if he
falls, it will he the signal for wide-spread denun-
ciation. Ferdinand has publicly denounced the
Cortes and Constitution ; he has not declared an
amnesty : but do his followers think This is the
mode to raise Spain from her present. state of
misery ? Is a violation of all faith the way to re.
cruit her finances.? Will new loans be taken
where the old ones have been wiped out with a
sponge ? Can any Government the Spanish, tyrant
may institute go on in bankruptcy and destitu-
tion of all means ? Can it exist., without
finances, or raise those finances without public
credit of any sort? And if the recent oblige.
tions or the country are violated, can that
credit possibly exist,? In the same way, no
form of Government can continue amid a pro-
tracted ci vi 1 war ; peace throughout the
Provinces will be essential to its maintenance ;
neither taxes ner duties can be raised without that
peace. But will proscription: unsure such a calm ?
will the fortresses, now field by the Constitutional
Chiefs, open their gates, but on an amnesty—the
promise of which Ferdinand whispered, on his
leaving Cadiz, but has since withheld ? The coun.
try cennot he saved by the rabble of Madrid, or
Cordova, or Seville, however pure awl disinterest-
ed their royalism Muy be : we look for nothing from
them, and their patron Ferdinand, that is to-
lerant, but from absolute necessity. When
settled in Madrid he will find, unless the expec-
tations of the country are fulfilled, that the Con-
stitutionalists will not disarm ; that no taxes
can be raised, And that his treasury will be
"mlPlelelY emiity. Let him, then, at once, in
his own words, 44 bestow those laws, and
adopt those measures heal calculated to secure
the real prosperity and welfare of Spain"---4
path he has never yet pursued. Despotism will
not now work in Spain ; even French bayonets
will not be able to prop it : nothing but liberal
and conciliatory measures will pacify that coupe
try ; and if the perfidious Ferdinand wishes to
preserve his throne, he must be just and merciful
in despite 'of himself. Confiscation and proscrip-
tion will not fill his treasury, or enable him to
dispense with his French' Allies ; for, the hour
Ithey are gone, he would cease to reign.

The Members of the Independent Church at
Brighton have presented their late Pastor, the
Rev. Dr. STYLES, with a silver waiter, of the
value of fifty guineas, as a parting token of their
esteem and affection. The Rev. Gentleman will
in future reside at Kennington, where an ele.
gaut place of worship, called Holland Chapel,
has been newly erected for
hinLthat they ascend.
aerMiaelsysors)aBgkentraßsaaVe eßvijetling returned
from
t their
ad, without any accident. The balloon dropt
near Stewpory, in the neighbourhood of Stour.
Mort, Staffordshire . the distance from Bimini/.
ham is abgut 17 miles.