The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-02 00:00:00

SUPPLEMENT TO THE GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY NIGHT.

4. LADY'S ACCOUNT OF A NOC-
TlitiNAL BALLOON ASCENT.
The following account of Mr. Green's aerial .voyage
from Vauxhall Gardens, on Monday last, is from one
of the female passengers :
•° Dear Sit—Agreeably to your desire, and not with-
out considsrable reluctance, I sit down to endeavour
to give an account of our delightful voyage, but deeply
regretting that my power of pen will produce but a
feeble portrait (I am speaking as a portrait-painter) of
all that was calculated to command our admiration of
usiture through the medium of art, and of one so well
adopted to effect such an object as that stupendous
Jae:whine, the Nassau Balloon. In pursuing my narra:
tie e, you will excuse me, if, as the gentlemen of the
peese, I assume their privilege of writing in the phis
rality of persons by using the monosyllable we. The'
evening was delighfully calm, the heavens beautifully
a Teae, and of that lovely blue which the Italian masters
hive so delighted in transferring from their own sunny
s's :es, speckled over with numeroas light and fleecy clouds,
i;.:rl scarcely a breath of wing stirred. By veterans in
eiefial voyages it was' considered that a more favourable
evesling for a trip could not have been selected. From
teen & misureierstanding, however, the inflation was but
partially performed. It certainly robbed the balloon
6; a great portion of its majestic appearance ; but,
sves.her from parsimony, or for other reasons, it matters
Tlo*, k did not rob Mr. Green of his skill, so that he
e4sid not hoer up and rise above the difficulties thrown
in his wiry. At ten minutes past settee Mr. Green com-
pleeed tge act of separation front our friends, and we
eseberked, impressed with loftier views, and every
prospect of a pleasing voyage, taking a north-easterly
diseetten, 'shish current, with but little variation, bore
throughouT. It is utterly impoetsilale for persons on
their first adventure, to give expression to their feelings.
'thee* is something vetiy awful in the very novelty of
siiettion thaet, to a great degree, paralyses the
langnar of desaiption ; and yet the awe may be con-
sWered infaginary; for the balloon that Benjamin Frank-
lin recognised, as a boy; appears to have reached its
menhool. On leaving the Gardens, we were somewhat
flattered by the cheers of those we left behind us, and
the; changed notes in proportion as we towered over
the lanes and thoroughfares adjoining. The motion of
the machine was so knperceptible that it seemed not to
us six if we were leaving ' the gardens, but as if the
gardens left us. The first blush of observation pre-
sented to us something like a school-boy map—every-
thing fiat, diminished in dimensions, and curiously
compact. The motion of heads and the turning up of
faces, partly indicating animation, but more especially
reminding us of bas-relief sculpture. We soon tri-
umphantly o'ertopped the orientalists of the metropo-
lis, and then the scene changed shades, and assumed a
different shape. The River Thames became like an ani-
mated reptile, of ponderous growth, serpentining alone,
and seeming to encircle in its
.coils the mighty ace,
"tee mistreNe7of the world. crossing the river between
the Ton-er and Blackwell, and surveying the scene we
were passing from, the lights sprinter up in rapid suc-
cession like glow-worms in the twilight. The ob-
jects became more compact, and the bridges bore the
semblance of beautiful and sparkling fillets, encircling
here and there an immense boa-constrictor, and fet
tered, as it were, or controlled, by white and riband-
looking roads, the inlets and outlets of the great city.
ser Shortly after this we attained our highest altitude—six
thousand two hundred feet, or nearly two miles and a
quarter. We had expected, from what we had often
heard, that some difficulty of respiration would have been
experienced, but, so far from this, we fancied that it was
mare free than usual, added to a buoyancy of feeling per-
fectly delicious, and instead of the cold usually resulting
from a great elevation and a rarified atmosphere, the
heat was unusually oppressive. We next passed over the
forest of Epping. We now commenced rapidly to des-
cend, till within 2,300 feet of the earth, as indicated by
the barometer. For the first time we became sensible of
the motion of the balloon, our gradual approach to °b-
leats enabling us by comparison to form a judgment of
the swiftness of our course. The most sublime object
that accompanied us throughout our trip, when night had
set in, was the moon and its effects on the scene beneath.
The reflection of the moonbeams upon the river—now
bursting upon the vision, note coquettishly dis-
appeering—leaving this in darkness, and suddenly
presenting the same appearance in a thousand different
quarters—rescuing solitary scraps or sheets of water
front obscurity, rather as if it were artificially pro-
duced, than the mere result of accident. As an artist,
I was delighted with the light and shade of the
scene ; and one of the most prominent objects attracting
our attention, from its uniqueness of character, was the
moon's reflection on the bell, and the mighty shadow of
the latter upon the earth. Although at the great eleva-
tion at which we then were, we were much surprised to
find with what exceeding and clear distinctness we could
hear the voices and distinguish the words of those who,
attracted by the novelty of the object, were assembled
beneath, the conversation, mundane and celestial, if not
very edifying, was at least highly amusing. Mr. Green
now became anxious to descend—but finding from in-
formation afforded by the good folks below that the
vowed was not well adapted for his purpose, we rose
coivaidembly, but still in the same direction, until we
found a fitter spot, at least as well as the obscurity
etiableg Mr. Green to judge, being witaigiut the guide-
line. Ours par oompany had been so ereeedingly plea-
sant that it was not without regret we heard of his in-
teenion so- descend. Captain Curry, who is a veteran
worm*, this being his thirty-third ascent, delighted
the company with the fesourite ballad of The jolly
young waterman,' With maay other little flashes of
tuaueement, which he called sky-larking. We had nec-
tar and ambrosia' iln abundanue. allow to the descent.
Me. Green's anxiety suspended all these pleasing, pas-
times, and having arrived at a place that he thought
would be suitable, he encountered a difficulty from the
sudden spring up of a ground breeze. The grappling
iron was thrown, but, from the nature of the surface a
hold Could not be retained, until after two or three at-
tempts. when, with the assistance of the country people,.
the iron was properly planted, and we owed especial
thanks to sundry little urchins, who bounded over hedge
and ditch tt our assistance. We were sorry to find the
balloon considerably injured, from having been for a
short time entangled in the embraces of a solitary. ash
tree. Our descent was, however, effected scatheless,
barring sundry bumps and thumps, which fortunately
formed but a slight alloy to the pleasures of our trip.
The gentlemen of the party then assisted us to alight,
precisely at twenty minutes to nine, having been in the
air exactly an hour and ten minutes. We were now on
terra firma at Knavestock, near Brentwood, in Essex,
twenty-three miles from Vauxhall. We here kindly
invited to the house of Mr. J. Crouchman, by his good
ledy, who was attracted to the ground, and to her
kindness, and the efficient services of her husband, we
were much indebted. . Finding we were in a part of the
country abounding in cross-roads, and the cattle being
eneaged in the harvest, it was three hours before a
conveNatice for the balloon could be obtained. A very
unpleasant incident occurred after landing, some one
having abstracted the ornamental drapery of the car ;
but, through the vie'ilaate of the police, a fins young fel-
low was presented to us manacled as the thief. Mc.
Green had previously handsomely rewarded him, and
to share with his fellows. It was our own opinion that
t, s: poor fellow did not wish so much to take it for its
,e lie, as to obtain a relic. Then comes the price of
: ',entre. There were Mrs. Green and myself, Dr.
eock, Captain Curry, Mr. Daily, a gentleman whose
melee we did not learn, and Mr. Green, driven to
our wits' end. We called a council of expediency. We
foetid ourselves six miles from any post-house. The
gentlemen were capable of walking six miles ; this
was, ho vever, rather too great a distance for two ladies,
esei, by direction, we sought shelter at a house a mile
Biel a half distant, where, we regret to say—through a
female oracle, we suppose the landlady— admission was
refused the party, benighted as we were ; showing not
°illy a want of coinmon courtesy, but a complete lack of
humanity, and more especially to those of her own sex.
Deified in this reasonable appeal, we retraced our steps
to the hospitable cottage of Mr. Alexander Doddington,
a cow minutes walk, whose whole family vied with each
other in ministering to our wishes. One of his sons was
immediately despatched on horseback to furnish us with
sash stares its he was hhnelf deficient in. Our eventful
career was finished in comfort, before a blazing fire.
lighted for oar especial benefit, and every other accom-
lie-elation was at our service. It is pleasing to, contrast
elre warm-hearted kindness of this worthy family with
the untie reng bruthlity of the other. A post-chaise -was
*wed Alertly afterwards, and we reached toes .1 in the
venture
uli (t)lri
mrseseieg, between nine and tea o'clock, •-h
a
elfetireion, nothing- the worse for
tw'), and looking- forward with mucte
pleasure to our next
tPip to the Isle of Sky.'
"I have the honour to remain, yours, &c.,
" BlooinebutcY." "JOANNA FORREST,

[A,Livr.ATIVOIENT..I
AOLLOPfAIf.B OINTMENT AND PILLS.—
•*" 1,0 GO LAUF; Dtke, Esq., retired
t,,ioitor, residing at No. 20, Merrow-street, Valworth,
144 i confined to his house for fottr years by the erysipelas
gotling in both his lags. On his left anele there were
three old ulcers. Three months ago he had the advice
of ono of the great London -surgeons, w:no, after attend-
ing him for six weeks, declared that 'llls case was ineurr.-
blot. He has just been cured
a the oiatment and pills. •
'1 nineteen days by the use
rhese medicines when used
tovther almost
Pwr..,rtd miracles. Sold at Professor
Holloway's I:3ta.."'
dsoment, 244, Strand, where advice
may be h"....1 gratis, and by every respectable chemist
tiluotifitoift the kingdom in pots and boxes, at Is. lid.,
4s. 4d., 11s., :Zs., and 335. each.
To E. Solomons and Co., Opticians, &c., S 6,
Did Itond.street, and 1, Old Jewry, City.—" Major Blair has had
twelvemonth's personal experience of the superior effioacy of E.
Solentens and Co.'s Spectacles. They are soft and easy to the
sight, give swat relief and con tbrt when vision is exerted by any
minute occupation, by lamp or candlelight. Major Blair has used
the ordinary glasses for years, but never. experienced such perm-
neat ease as he now enjoys; he therefore feels no hesitation in
sOins them his unqualified approbation, and In recommending
their use id all whose sight may require assistance.-5, Parliament-
street, Ilith August, 1841." E. Solomons and Co.'s Patent
Spectacles have been patronized by the Royal Family, his Royal
Menses the Duke of Sum*, his Grace the Duke of Wellington,
the Duke of Newcastle, the late Duke of Buckingham, the Duchess
of Richmond, the Marquis of Wellesley, the Marquis of Thomond,
the Marquis of Tavistock, as &c. Testimonials to the superior
warts* of their Spectacles are also In their possession, from Sir
Beailmin Brodie, Bart., F. R. S. ; the late Sir Anthony Cailisie,
P. R.C.B. ; Sir James E. Anderson, M.D., 11, New Bur-
linstomitreet ; Jame Johnson, Esq., M.D., Physieian Extraor-
dinary to the late ring; Bransty 13. Cooper, Esq., F R.S., Surgeon
ts. Guy's Hospital, 2, New-street, Spring Gardens; Martin Wass,
Prsp, OculiSt. New Bridge-street; E. W. Duffin, Esq., ALD., 14,
listretiarnplace ; C. Aston Key, Esq., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital.
Solomons and Co.'s Voice Conductors, when placed is the Ears,
cannot be seen, and enable deaf persons to distinguish the faintest
lorlections of a distant speaker. Being in no way connected with
any other houses in London, and having occasion to guard the pub.
lip against mistakes, which a similarity of names, (aided by various
„chases reso:lid to by empirics) hay, in several instances occa.
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TREASURY WARRANT.
Whereas by. an Act, passed in the 3d and 4th years of
the rein of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for
the reeulation of the duties of postage," power is given
to the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, from
time to time, by warrant under their hands, to
and fix any of the rates of British postage. or inland
postage, payable by law on the transmission by the
post of foreign or colonial letters or newspapers, or
of any other printed papers; and to subject the same
to rates of postage according to the weight thereof, and
a scale of weight to be contained in such warrants , and
from time to time, by warrant as aforesaid, to alter or re-
peal altered rates, and make and establish any new or
other rates in lieu thereof ; and from time to time, by
warrants as aforesaid, to appoint at what time the rates
that may be payable are to be paid • and it is provided,
that the power thereby given should extend to any in-
crease or reduction or remission of postage.
And whereas by a warrant, dated the Ist day of Sep-
tember, 184 n, under the hands of three of the Commis-
sioners of her Majesty's Treasury, the said Commissioners,
in exercise of the power for such purpose vested iz them
by the said Act, directed (amongst other things) that
on every letter, not exceeding half an ounce in weight,
transmitted by the post, passing between Germany (not
via France), Denmark, Sweden, or other parts of the
North of Europe, or any other country through Bel-
gium, or Holland, or Germany, and any of the coun-
tries or places mentioned in the third schedule thereto,
through the United Kingdom, there should be charged and
taken the rate of British postage set opposite the name of
every such country or place in such schedule; and further,
that on every letter, not exceeding half an ounce in
weight, passing through the United Kingdom between
foreign countries, of between any foreign country
and her Majesty's colonies, which should be for-
warded to the United Kingdom by packet boat, and
from the United Kingdom by private ship, or for-
warded to the United Kingdom by private ship, and
from the United Kingdom by packet boat, there
should be charged and taken for the conveyance of
every such letter by private ship, an uniform rate of
eightpence ; and for the conveyance thereof by packet
boat, the rate payable on such letter under the said
Act ; and further, that on every letter transmitted
as mentioned in such warrant, exceeding half an
ounce in weight, there should be charged and taken
progressive and additional rates of postage, according
to the scale of weight and number of rates in the
said Act contained, as to letters estimating and
charging each additional rate at the sum which any such
letter would be charged with under the said warrant,
if not exceeding half an ounce in weight ; and power
was thereby reserved to the Commissioners, for the
time being of her Majesty's Treasury, or any three
of them, by warrant under their hands, at any time
thereafter, to alter or repeal any of the rates thereby
altered, or the regulations thereby made, and to make
and establish any new or other rates or regulations in lieu
thereof ; and, from time to time, to appoint at what time
the rates that might be payable were to bo paid.
And whereas, in consequence of a communication
opened with the Post-otfice at Bremen, it is con-
sidered expedient to alter the rates of postage
payable under the said Act, on letters conveyed by
packet boat or private ship, between the United
Kingdom and Bremen, either direct or via Hamburgh,
or Cuxhaven and Hanover ; and also the rates payable
under the said warrant on letters posted in or addressed
to Bremen, conveyed by packet boat or private ship, be-
tween the United Kingdom and Bremen direct or via
Hamburgh, or Cuxhaven and Hanover, and passing
through the United Kingdom to or from the British
colonies or foreign countries.
Now we, the undersigned, being three of the Com-
missioners of her Majesty's Treasury, do, in exercise of
the power or authority in us for such purpose vested
and by the said recited Act and warrant, direct, that on
every letter, not exceeding half an ounce in weight,
posted in or addressed to Bremen, transmitted between
any part of the United Kingdom and Bremen, conveyed
direct between the United Kingdom and Bremen, by
packet boat or private ship, or via Hamburgh, or Cux-
haven and Hanover (conveyed direct by packet boat or
private ship between the United Kingdom and Ham-
burgh, Cuxhaven, or Hanover), there shall be charged
and taken, in lieu of the rates of postage payable on such
letters under the said Act, an uniform rate of British
postage of sixpence.
And that on every letter, not exceeding half an
ounce in weight, posted in or addressed to Bremen,
transmitted by the post between Bremen and any
of the countries or places mentioned in the sche-
dule hereto, through the United Kingdom, conveyed
direct by packet boat or private ship, between the United
Kingdom and Bremen, or Hamburgh, Cuxhaven, or
Hanover, there shall be charged and taken, in lieu of the
rates of postage payable on such letters under the laid
recited warrant, the rate of British postage set opposite
the name of every such country or place in such
schedule.
And that on every letter, not exceeding half an
ounce in weight, posted in or addressed to Bremen,
transmitted by the post between Bremen and any
other country or place beyond the seas, through the
United Kingdom, conveyed direct by packet boat or
private ship, between the United Kingdom and Bremen,
or Hamburgh, Cuxhaven, or Hanover, and conveyed
from or to, the United Kingdom to or from any other
other country or place beyond the seas by private ship,
`there shall be charged and taken an uniform rate of
British postage of one shilling and twopence.
And we further direct, that on every letter
transmitted as• is mentioned in this warrant, ex-
ceeding half an ounce in weight, there shall be
charged and taken progressive and additional rates of
postage, according to the scale of weight and num-
ber rates in the said Act contained as to letters
estimating and charging each additional rate at the sum
which any such letter would be charged with under this
warrant, if not exceeding half an ounce in weight.
And we further direct, that the terms and expressions
used in this present warrant shall be construed to have
the like meaning, in all respects, as they would haVe had
if 'inserted in the said Act.
And we further direct that this warrant shall come
into operation on the 11th day of October, 1841.
Provided lastly, and we hereby declare and direct,
that it shall be lawful for the Commissioners, for the
time being, of her Majesty's Treasury, or any three of
them, by warrant under their hands, at any time here-
after to alter or repeal any of the rates hereby altered, or
the regulations hereby made, and to make and establish
any new or other rates or regulations in lieu thereof,
and, from time to time, to appoint at what time the rates
that may be payable are to be paid.
SCHEDULE.
Spain (via Falmouth)
Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick,
Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia (the
port and town of Halifax excepted) 1 8
Newfoundland, Bermuda, the port and town of
Halifax (in Nova Scotia), and the United States
of America
Gibraltar, Malta, lonian, Islands, and East Indies
(via Falmouth) 1 6
Greece, Syria, and Egypt (via Falmouth)
Portugal
Madeira
Brazil
Buenos Ayres, Chili, and Peru
Mexico, Columbia, and Cuba l• 2 7
St. Domingo and Foreign West India Islands 1 g
Jamaica and British West Indies 1 6
1 4

France .

Spain (via France) ,.... 2 I
Malta, lonian Islands, Greece, Syria, and 767,ypt
(via France) 1 4
Italy, Sicily, Venetian Lombardy, Turkey, the
Levant, and the Archipelago (via France) • 2 1
Switzerland (via France)
East Indies (via France)
Whitehall, Treasary Chambers, dat.;.d this 31st day
of August. 1841. T: BARING.
THOS. WYSE.
E. HORSMAN.

Whereas 1) TRF.a SUM' WARRANT.
.•
of the r":- jan act, passed in the third and fourth years
for . - ' ,grl of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act
•ne regulation of the duties of postage," power is given
to the Postmaster. General to charge on all letters con-
veyed by the post, between places within any of her Ma-
jesty's colonies, or conveyed by packet-boats between
1 one part of her Majesty's dominions and:. another
part of the same dominions, .., or between. her
Majesty's dominions and foreign parts, - or between one .
pert in any foreign country, and another port in the same,
or any other foreign country, where, post cummunica-
dons- shall be establiShed, and where rates. of postage
have not hitherto, been authorized by law, and also to
charge on all letters conveyed by any Yessels to or from
any of the colonies, or between any of the colonies, or
between any of the colonies and a foreign port ; and
on all lottera which shall be brought by the master of
any vessel to the post-office in any of the colonies, such
1 rates of postage as the Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury, by warrant, under their hands, shall from time
to time direct.

And whereas it is expedient that the rate of postage
to bo taken in the Colony of New Zealand should be fu-
rl and settled.

Now we, the undersigned, being three of the-
Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, do, in
exercise of the power or authority in us for such
purpose vested, in and by the said Act, direct that all
letters transmitted by the post between places within
the said Colony of New Zealand shall be charged by
weight, according to the following scale, and that the
several numbers of rates of postage hereinafter set forth
shall be charged and paid on letters transmitted by the
post between places within the said colony (that is to say);
On every letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight,
one rate of postage.
On every letter exceeding half an ounce, and not ex-
ceeding one ounce in weight, two rateS of postage.
On every letter exceeding one ounce, and not exceed-
ing two ounces in weight, four rates of postage.
On. every letter exceeding two entices, and not ex-
ceeding three ounces in weight, six rates of postage.
And on every letter exceeding three ounces, and not
exceeding four ounces in weight, eight rates of postagn.
And for every ounce in weight above the weight of
four ounces, there shall be charged and taken two addi •
tional rates of postage, and every fraction of an ounce
above the weight of four ounces shall be charged as one
additional ounce.
And that no letter exceeding sixteen ounces in weight
shall be forwarded by the post between I)laces within.
the said colony, except deeds, law proceedings, and la*
papers posted at such places within such hours, and under
all such regulation as the Yostniaster-General, or his
deputy in the said colony shall appoint; and also except
letters to and from places beyond the sea, and letters to
and from the Governor, or any of the Government
offices or departments.
And we further direct that the - following rates of
peat agy okall bo cha> ad mid paid lettea. trausuaitted