The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-19 00:00:00

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. • Txtraiewellgrand assemblage of 'coMpany at this
place was held at KIDDMAN'S Prdinenade, ' which
was so full, that it might he supposed -the Meridian
of the Season. There were at least five hundred
persons at a shilling a.head. But the cruel Hays
begin to rob us of all our Beauty and Fashion, at
least, that part of it, which comes from the East side
of Temple-Bar. The Beaux and the Belles of the
middle order depart fifty, sixty, and a htindred and
twenty at a time, in the aquatic vehicle, so thdt we
shall soon have nothing, but the sea.breeies to re-
vive and cheer us.

KIDIDNIAN'S Ball on Monday evening (the Pro,
menade was the night before) glimmered with the
departing beams of Gaiety.
The Theatre on Tuesday announced the sanfiion
of Lady ELlzras rut ViLLIERS, daughter of Lady
JERSEY, to the benefit of Mr. and Mrs. BARTLEY.
The Dramatic Performances were, The Point of
Honour-, and The Liar. There was a very indiffer-
ent House.

A heavy gloom overspread DANDELION on the
Wednesday morning. In the evening, Lady FANNY
VuLt ERS, another daughter of Lady JERSEY, pa-
tronized the Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. LEE. The
111)steries of the Castle, The Purse, and Robinson
Crusoe, "were represented on this occasion. The
amiable Patroness of the evening, sums to be about
twelve years of age, 'and there was an interesting
anxiety to see the Theatre well-attended, very ho.
nourable to her feelings.
On. Thursday evening, KT 1)524/lAN'S Ball condi-
ed ail the Company we have left.
Lady MOUNTFORT, on Friday gave her counte-
nance to the Benefit of MISS: FITZG RALD. The
play , was The Stranger, and the Farce Fortutre's
Frolic. FORTUNE is a fickle jade, and she did not
chose to sport her frolics at the Theatre on this oc-
casion.

The last public breakfast at DANDELION took
place on Saturday. It exhibited a very'forlorn ap-
pearance compared with its previous success. The
Company indeed were hardly enough to be at sixes
and sevens.

MELPOMENE and THALIA are expelled to leave
us for this season on Wednesday next, and as there
are still as many visitors at Margate as generally
remain at this time of the year; it is to be hoped
for the honour of Old Tx ESP ts, that. his followers
will not, when the curtain rises, have the Mortifi-
cation of viewing " A beggarly account of empty
boxes."

BARR ETT' s BALLOON.

SWANSEA, OCT. ss.—About a fortnight ago
Mr. BARRETT intended ascending in his Balloon,
but not being then furnished with sufficient mate..
rials to inflate it, he deferred it till a future period,
being in hopes, through the liberality of the Pub-
lic, who had never witnessed any thing of the
kind in this part of the country, to obtain every
necessary article : individual exertion and the sup_
port of the Public- were not wanting; and Mr.
BARRETT, through these means, about eight o'clock
this morning, began to inflate his balloon ; but
although the inflation continued from that time
till four in the evening, it was not above half full.
The casks were supplied with every necessary
ticle, and the inflammable air seemed to be con-
' veyed in an abundant quantity through the tubes,
and yet the balloon continued in an imperfed state :
there was no doubt a fault in the machine itself,
for the gass must have escaped, owing to the silk
being badly connected. A few minutes after four,
the car being attached to the balloon, every spec_
tutor was filled with anxious expedation, and the
surrounding hills were covered with multitudes,
when the Aeronaut took his seat. The signal was
given to set it at liberty, but it had no inclination to
ascend; Mr. BAxitsrr then threw out a quantity
of ballast, and at last the whole. The Balloon then
ascended, but with no 'rapidity, and not going
above twenty yards in, height, he descended among
a row of trees. Through ‘the exertion of the po-
pulace, the Aeronaut aniyhis Balloon were drawn
again into the plain, and it had a fair opportunity
of re-ascending ; but it still came down, and Mr.
BARRETT, evidently. despairing of success, at last
quitted his seat, and set the Balloon off itself. It
then ascended to a very considerable height, and
after remaining up nearly an hour, descended about
four miles from this place, where it was taken up
by twulakurers, who, thinking they could make a
better use of it than Mr. BARRETT, went through
the simple operation of cutting it in two, each
taking his half.
This is the third rime Mr. BARRETT has failed
in his attempt in the science of Aerostation.

On Sunday night, a young man of the name of
Stewart, of Union_street, Blackfriars, returning
from Brompton to town, was stopped and robbed
by two footpads, who also beat hiM unmercifully.
with their bludgeons.
On Friday morning last, about eleven o'clock, a
Lady, with a child in her hand, walking along the
fields from Church-street, Stoke Newington, to
Newington Green, was stopped by a man in a
sailor's dress, who presenting a pistol to her breast,
robbed her of about 'twenty-five shillings, and then
made off over the hedge towards the Palatine
Houses. A Gentleman at a short distance off saw
the transaction, but not suspeding the robbery,
(till 'explained by the Lady, whom he shortly over-
took) the villain unfortunately made his escape.
On Saturday a child of two • years of age was
killed on the Hampstead Road, by the wheels of a
timber cart, the driver of which was riding on the
shaft, passing'over its head.
Friday evening, about five o'clock, as John Foxley
was coming from Stoney-Stra tford • to-Denskanger,
he was met by two men near Puxley, who derna.nd_
ed his money, and robbed him of about eight pounds
in cash and notes, and. a metal watch t they after:.
wards made off into an adjoining wood. •
Burglaries are become extremely frequent in the
vicinity of the. Metropolis, and in none more fre-
quent than in the villages of Peckham, Camberwell,
Newington, and Deptford. Scarcely a night passes,
but either an outhouse, a garden ground, or a house
is robbed.