The Sun.
London, England, 1812-07-03 00:00:00

MR. SADLER AND HiSAIR BALLOON.

This 'Celebrated 'Aeronaut made his twent-thir'd
aerial :excursion,. from Manchester, on Aloud
last. Earlyin the mOrniug crowd's of people fro!n
every part of. the neighbourhood of Mauche:iter
were seen iratening to: town . By eleven. o'clock
it had in, rly doubled itaatf.'.ustomary population;
and soon after every urea ue to Mr. Higginbo,
tharn'.s rope-yard, beearheuncomfortably crowded.
"Every window Which looked towards the:scene of
preparation, no matter whether intervening build-
ings obstructed the Sight or `riot, ca-as taken pos-
session of. Every house-top was croWded witch
adventurous. spectators, who wished, in some de-
gree, to emulate the Aeronaut by getting as near
to the clouds as possible. Men, women, and
Children, were perched aloft, as if all apprehen-
Siod, of danger was laid aside fur the day.
About eleven o'clock the apparatus for 'filling
the balloon was set to work, in Mr. Higgin-
botham's rope-yard, at Shuda-hiii; a place admi-
rably adapted for the purpose, being sufficiently
capacious the purpose, and for the numerous and
highly-respectable company which
,assernbled on
the occasion, and, being walled round, enabled.
Mr. Sadler to secure, in the entrance-money;
something towards a. retnaneration for the great
expence (putting all personal risk out of the ques--
don) which he must necessarily have incurred.---:
We know not what number of persons'wer6 within
the walls, but v.*e apprehend they were not far
short' of two thousand, all .apparently gratified in
seeing the preparation, for what thiitv years w.r0..,
was deenied an impossibility--making invisible
agent subservient to the powers of man, and con-
vey.
hiin through the wide expanse of the vit-:ible.
heavens.- . .

. .
At fifteen minutes past 'One o'clock, P. the
signal gun was fired; et twenty minutes one,
the Pilot. (a small paper balloon)
`ascertain the direction-'of the • wind. This bad
been rather too long. inflated, &god being made of
nothing
.but oiled paper, was easily rent, and a
considerable part of the gas hadescaped before it.,
was liberated, it therefore soon dropped, and was
picked. up in Newton-lane. Meantinie anxiety
ripened almost into impatience, whilst-the great.
balloon, which was " to ride in the bosom .of th
air," between heaven and earth,' was affixed to
the car in which Mr. Sadler was'to commit him-
self to the mercy of the winds. At. last every pr -
parative was accomplished, the extra ballast
moved; his grappling irons, his provision basket;
hi
,barometer and telescope, and flags were load-
ed, and the- veteran voyager, of the skies took his
place in the car. At forty minute's past one, P.M.
the balloon, was loosed by the spectators, Who'hatt
assisted to detain
,it--and it majestically arose
amidst, the shouts of. 'all the .spectators in the
Ropery, echoed by the two hundred tliousand'per-
sons, who arc supposed to have assembled on this
occasiOn, on the outside of the yard. '
'./I.lle balloon took an easterly flight, and nearly
in the direction of that in which, twenty-seven
years ago, Mr. Sadler.lriAe his second assent from
that town. •

About three O'clock the parachute, With a
basket containing a cat, Which, I\lf. Sadler had
dropped from the balloon. on' it's pas'sage, was
brought to.town: It had fallva in the vicinity' of
Fairfield. Poor pusSy was peaectly free-from any
wound whatever, notwithstaudingthe height from
which she had been precipitated.
We are happy to state that the veteran zi*.:Onaut
Col:eluded his---

- I);.ring journey thro' a trackiess space,"
in forty-eight minutes, and•deseended in perfect
safety about six miles Cast of Sheffield.

'As several Officers were lately retuning from
Castle Connel to Limerick, and riding very fast,
Major STODDART, Ci the Enniskillen Dragoons,
was suddenly thrown' from his horse, and frac-.
tared Iris skull; he was, as soon as possible, tre-
panned, hut; without effect. He has left a 'wife
and children to lament his loss.

As Edward Impson; a chiinney-sweeper
charge for felony; was proceeding to Norwich
Gaol, he suddenly sprung upon the .back of a
horse grazing by the side of the road, which in-
stantly set off with him at full-speed, to the great
surprise of the constable and his assistant.
Tuesday morning the body of a new-born finale
child was discovered lying-in the Spa-fields, clerk:.
enwell, wrapped 'iii an Old piece of carpet, 'dead,
and was taken. to the Workhouse for7a Coroner's
Inquest. , _ _

A
A young-man, named GREGORY, who }lt,'S been
employed as a clerk to different merchants at Ply-
mouth, shot himself with a. pistol, about 6 o'clock
on Wednesday morning,,-in the privy belonging to
his residence he had lately been in a very despond-,
ing state,
sand at times rather deranged ; it
therefore concluded the unfortunate suicide corn.-
mittedthe rash act during a fit of insanity.