The Sun.
London, England, 1804-08-28 00:00:00

SERIAL ASCENSIO

ST. PSTERSBURGH, JULY 17.

The ascension in the air, underfaken
,by the
desire of .the Academy',of Sciences, to. make.ex-
periments, has had the desired effea. - The famous
Chymist, SACHAROFF, and frofeSsor Ron Elt•tHON,
ascended in a fav,:urahle stare of,the weather, from
the Garden-of the Cadet. Corps, at twenty-five
minutes after seven o'clock in the evening. The
Members of this learned .body, who so much in.
terest themselves for the advancement of Sciences,
attended, and -witnessed the ascension, the most
beautiful yet seen in Russia. The three - small
Balloons- sent into the air 'as guides, or to reconpoitre
the wind, went first sto the-South, hut soon after-
wards to the East, and towards the Baltic._ This did
not prevent the JEronauts from ascending!. having
with them several instruments to make experiments.
The Balloon floated over the Baltic Sea for upwatds
of an hour. TWo, different winds were felt blowing
in opposition. , Afterwards they ascended Uglier
and 'highpr, until ten o'clock, when the Balloon
Was entirely lost sight of, even 'by the ipersons"
watching it with the telescopes from the Ob.
servatory. The next day an• expreis brought the
President of the -Academy of Sciences information,
that the /Eronatits had! without any accident,' ar.
rived at Siwaretz, 6o werats, or near 26 leagues
from this capital. They descended at forty-five mi.
nutes past ten, in the English Garden, opposite the
Castle of General DEMI DOPF, who received and en.
tertained the aerial travellers with the greatest hos.
pitality: The result of this ascension, undertakin'
only for. scientific experiments, will soon be pub.,
fished,

Within a few days the following accidents have
happened in the town and neighbourhood of Kirby.
moorside, Yorkshire :—A child of about four years
of age, being at play in the street, a carriage ran
over it with both wheels, by which its legs and
thighs were terribly bruised and wounded, but _it is
now in a fair way of recovery.--=A person fell from
the top of a 'oaten waggon, and injured his back
in such a manner that he only'survived it about
two days.—A farmer's servant driving a team of
horses and oxen, in going over a place.. where there
was, as usual, only a small run of water; thoith a
considerable breadth of sand and gravel, a sudden
great body of water came rushing down, while he
was passing, and' carried the whole away before
The man, after being rolled down with the f1.)0t1
several hundred yards). was cast upon a little islana,
which the 'Water had formed, and waa' thereby pie_
served from perishing. One of the oxen, value•26l.
got disengaged from the yoke, but was taken out
dead, B:lute milts below the rest were saved with
difficulty. •

Yesterday se'nnight a horrid murder was commit.
ted in'a ditch, about two miles northward frchn.
Collercoaty Camp,.Northumbeaand,-oport the bbdy,
of William Todd, of 'Hartley,. Pitman, agcci fifty.
five years, supposed by Thomas Clare, one of the.
privates in the Second Staffordshire Regiment of
Militia, encamped at the former One.' C!are was .
committed to. Morpeth gaol on Wednesday last,
to take his trial at the next ,Assizs for Northuin.
herland.—Thee following are a few of the cii-
cumstaoces accompanying this dreadful transac..
Lion :—The deceased went with one of his sons, on
Saturday evening, to a small public house, near Ears.
don, where he got rather intoxicated, 'and would
not go borne with his son, who having had occa.
sion to go a little further, left his father, and called
again for him about ten o'clock. After the son was
gone, the father got out of the house, and missing
his way, strayed to the fatal spot, (ratheemore than
a mile,) close by the foot. path leading from Hartley
to Whitley, where his remains, horri,ltly mangled,
were found in the morning. It seems some of the
Men from the Unit had of late gilt out early in the
morning:to gather mushfooms. Thomas Clare had
that norning,,,after three o'clock, gone out by him.
self, and 'way followed soon Ater by, another private
of the same Corps, and, two drutn.boys. Thelatter
party spoke to Clare in the fields, and asked him,
if he was going a mushrooming' that morning r.kie
answered he was, and soon left them: A short
afterwards, • they heard a voice screaming
much, and observed to each other, that the farmer
had caught Clare among his pease or beans, (as
they knew such a field' wassnear ;at hand,) and was
chastising him severely. They ran to rescue their
come de from the supposedlartner, but lost the voice,
and heard three heavy knocks !blows. On crossing
a stile, they observed a foraging cap, which a short
time befOre they saw upon Clite's head, lying in the
foot.path, and on approaching it, they saw a.ntan
jump out of the hedge.side ar tew yards Irani it, run
four or five yards, brush over a hedge into a clover
field, and run towards the sea one of them in.
scantly cried out--" There goes Clare.',' They then
approached the spot oehere.clare Set out from, and
found the body of Todd,. warm, but lifeless ; his
head terribly bruised with a stake taken from an ad.
joining gateway, laying near 'the body ; his lips cut,
and someof his teeth broken, with many other mot_
tal bruises ; and his pockets turned inside our.
They soon Metsanother of their comrades, and shew.
ed him the body, when they all set out for the.
Camp, and found Clare bad arrived before them,
with some of the clover.grass sticking in his shoe..
strings, and wrapped in a blanket, as if asleep. fie
was apprehended immediately, and the Coroner's
Jury, after opening the body, and sitting two days
upon the evidence, brought in a verdict
Murder ogaiurt Thomas Clan. ' The prisoner is
about 2 1 years of age, and. was married only about
two months since.

As two Gentlemen were walking about an bun.
dredyards from the Inn door, at. Campo, Northum-
berland, on Sunday sennight, about six o'clock,
they saw a meteor. gradually emerge into light,
which did not proceed from any cloud, till it, equal.
led the planet Venus when in her full brilliancy.—
its direttion formed, to, their best judgment, an
angle of 6o degrees, With the horizon, was of the
cUlour, of the eledric fire, atei when within eig)lt
yardsof the ground, it blirst into small sparks, and
disappeared. This happened
,in the time a person
may count distinctly one, two?