The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-02 00:00:00

AIR BALLOON.

CRI.IEN'S ACCOUNT OF HIS SECOND JERIAL
VOYAUE, W111t.41 TOOK PLACE YESTERDAY,
FRO m THE BELVIDERE TAVERN, PENTON-
VILLE. •
" At about half-past three o'clock the balloon
was removed by my orders to the most favour-
able situation in the ground, to avoid the car
striking against some very elevated buildings ad-
joining. Fortunately, however, there was suffi-
cient power of gas to carry the balloon more than
fifteen feet above the top of the buildings. The.
weather the whole of the day was very unfa-
vourable for the ascent, owing to the haziness of
the atmosphere. Having fastened .the mooring
ropes which held the • balloon to the earth,
mounted the car, and standing upright therein,
with a flag in each hand, I gave the signal for
ascending, and; having made my obeisance'
to the ladies and gentlemen which were
around me, the balloon then ascended to the
atmosphere in • the most majestic manner.-
The delight felt by the thousands who wit-
nessed the grand spectacle was manifested
by the most tremendous shouts of applause,
clapping of hanLls, and waving of handkerchiefs.
The balloon took at first a north easterly direc-
tion. It passed over Hoxton, Hackney, anti
made towards the .Issex coast. Precisely seven
minutes after the balloon left the Belvidere gar-
dens it entered a very dense cloud, and imme-
diately the earth was obscured completely from
my view, though I still heard the, shouts of the
populace at Hackney and in the neighbourhood.
--L-On the balloon entering the cloud it was
twenty-three minutes to four o'clock, and the
-barometer stood at 24 2-10ths. I understand
that. the. balloon remained in the sight of the
spectators at the Belvidere precisely seven
minutes. On passing through the clouds I felt very
chilly, and was covered with dew or mist precisely
the same as if I was in a very thick fog, except
that it did not at all affect the stomach, as fogs
generally do. When the balloon was at its great-
est altitude the thermometer stood at 65. The'
density of the clouds was so very extraordinary-.
that at one period I could scarcely distinguish
the flag that was on the opposite side of the car.
At a quarter to four, having risen very rapidly
after going through the cloud, the glass stood at
l-lOths. This was the utmost height the balloon
reached, and the light and heat was quite oppreS-
sive to me, the former more than the latter;
arid although the clouds were rolling beneath me,
representing to my -view a sea of white down, yet
above me the sun shone with extreme brilliance.
At 15 minutes before four o'cloCk I opened thc
valve to its utmost extremity, and I descended
most rapidly; having passed through the clouds
heard the shouts of persons on the earth, and saw
some riding and others running, in the direction
:which the balloon was taking. At 10minutes be-
!fore 4 o'clock the balloon descended (having been
20 minutes precisely on its voyage, in which 'pe-
riod of time it had travelled about 14 miles) in a 6
acre field belonging to Mr. G rout, a farmer at Tan
.Yard Fat m, Barking side, two miles from Ilford, in
Essex. A number of the peasantry assisted in se-
curing the balloon ; but while in the hurry of de-
taching it front the net that covered the halloon, the
wind 'Wen strong, and it escaped front their
grasp, and again ascended to the atmosphere, to
the height of several thousand feet, but fortu-
nately the vdue was open, and it • desegnded
again within about a mile and half from where it
rose, without sustaining any injury.
"49, Goswell-street. CHARLES • GREEN."
Mr. GIIEEN took a carrier pigeon with hiM, and the moment
he descended he wrote on a paper----" 10 minutes to four,.
descended quite safe, near Barking, Essex." This note he tied
to the foot of the bird, and it arrived in the city road beforc
six o'clock, and the ..ratifying intelligence.was communicated
to Mr. Green's wife, family, and friends. A number of gen.
tlemen paid Mr. Green the roost polite attention on his des,:e;,%
and, in particular, Robert Wesley Hall, Esq., the Sheriff, took
him to l.ts house and treated him in the mosthospitablemanner.
After dinner Mr. Green placed his balloon in a post-chaise at_
Ilford, and the car on the roof, and safely arrived at the Belli-
dere betvecn ten and eleven o'clock, where he was receivz d
with the loudest cheers by a large concourse of peisor2s. lie
.afterwards supped with about 200 gentlemen. Mr. George
Green was in toe chair. A very elegant supper was laid cut
by Mr. Bird, the landlord, and the wines were excellent. The
night was spent with the utmost hilarity.
[For further particulars see the fourth page.]

A congregation of Independent Dissenters in
a town in Devonshire have lately discharged their
pastor, on charge of being inebriated at the
Coronation dinner.—(Shcrborne Ale-rculy.)
There are forty-seven prisoners for trial at the
Winchester Assizes, which commence. on Monday
next at the Castle, most of them for capital of-
fences. Mr. Justice BEST will preside in the
Crown Court, and Mr. Baron GRAII AM on the
Civil side.

Mr. MACHEADY left town after the play on
Tuesday night, for Birmingham, where he com-
mences his provincial engagements for the summer.
Yesterday the whole of the Officers belonging
to the various Police Establishments, were sworn
in afresh by the Magistrates, under the New Po-
lice Act, passed in the last Session.
We learn, with regret, which all true Jer-
syans must experience with us, that his Excel-
lency Lieut.-General GonnoN, . our excellent
Commander-in-Chief, is about to quit this Island
in consequence of promotion. During a residence
of 5 years he has, on all occasions, amply justified
the choice of the K ING as his Representative in
this part of his kingdom.—(Jersey Constitutionnel.)
A considerable 'number of whales of the gram-
pus kind have lately appeared on the coast of Wexford. On
Sunday week no less than fifty-three of them, measuring from
sixteen to twenty-four feet in length, grounded on the strand
at Fathard, left by the tide, and were soon killed by the neigh.
bouring country people. Thirty-one more have been taken on
shore on the Ballygeary strand, near nallyhind. _

The residence of COWPER, the poet, at Olney,
in Buckinghamshire, has long been uninhabited,
and is now in an advanced state of dilapidation.
Some of the neighbours, however, on the day of
the Coronation, procured boughs and flowers from
COWPER'S favourite walk, at Weston-under-
Wood, and decorated the outside of the house
with oak, laurel, and wreaths of flowers, to his
memory.

Wednesday se'nnight a man went into a pub-
lic-house, in Trongate, Glasgow, and called for
a pint of porter, which he had hardly tasted,
when, five minutes after, he dropped clown an 4
almost instantly expired. lie appeared to be
about thirty years of age, and is at present un-
known.

111 E LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.

August 2.

[MORNING POST.]
The French Papers supply no fresh accoants
from Smyrna or Constantinople, but seem to
have turned all their attention towards the atti-
tude and movements' of Austria. On these
indeed, much at this moment depends. If, as it
hae been hitherto asserted, she has determined to
make common cause with Russia in an attempt to
drive the Turks out of Europe, and to establish
an independent kingdom in Greece, her co-opera-
tion may be sufficient without the aid, nay, in
opposition to the will of other powers (if there
be any unchristian enough to oppose sttch a scheme)
to ensure its execution and its success-. If, on the
other hand, she withholds her assent, she is per-
haps the only State which can materially shackle
the operations of Russia. It is not astonishing
therefore that all the attention of the Continent
should be turned towards her. What her conduct
will be, appears to be still involved in considera-
ble obscurity, tho' the accounts received yesterday
seemed to leave no doubtmof her determination to
adopt, in conjunction with Russia, and we trust
with ourselves and the rest of Europe, the same
course which has proved so successful and bene-
ficial with respect to Naples.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
It seems that the intercourse between Baron
Strogonoff at Constantinople and the Ottoman
Government has not given cause of complaint to
the Russian Ambassador alone, but that the Sul-
tan felt himself so much aggrieved by the conduct
of the Baron as to render it expedient in his eyes
to transmit a memorial upon the subject to the
Court of St. Petersburgh. There are many who
believe that the Porte has even deeper cause of
complaint against the Russian Government, and
that the present insurrection within the Ottoman
Empire has been excited by the arts of Russia.—
If this supposition were founded in truth or pro-
bability, why should the Russian army, panting
as it is for service against the Turks, still linger
upon the Turkish confines? or what is there
to prevent the Emperor Alexander from fur-
nishing indirectly to the Insurgents such
means of successfully resisting the power of
the Porte as would in fact render it wholly
unnecessary for him to appear implicated imme-
diately in a quarrel with his once formidable
neighbour. had Russia not publicly disclaimed
the early declarations of Ypsilanti, but satis-
fied herself with offering to the Porte private,
though hypocritical assurances of neutrality,
the army of the Christian insurgents in the
provinces north of the Danube had not moul-
dered away so rapidly as it has done, nor would
its adventurous Chief leave been reduced to the
necessity of wandering without friends or follow-,
ers in the territories of his enemy, or of vainly
seeking from Austria a shelter from his pursuers.
—There -can be no doubt that it has been in
times not long distant the policy and constant
practice of Russia to excite disturbances within
the provinces of Turkey; but Alexander can-
not he insensible how much the relations that
hind him to the other Powers of Europe are
changed since those times to which we allude,
and how impossible it would now be for him
to pursue with safety or effect any designs of
territorial aggrandizement which he might en-
tertain against the Ottoman Empire. He cannot
suppose that the other Powers of Europe, which
have so recently felt the mischief of an unwonted
extent of power in France, and laboured to re-
press the evil, could now so far forget their own
principles, and sacrifice their individual interests,
as to suffer him now to pursue without check or
hindrance a similar career of dangerous ambition ;
his experience must likewise teach him how for-
midable is the united strength of those Powers,
and that they are well capable of appreciating
the benefits o!acting in concert.

[THE TIMES.]

• The talk about- reform and-retrenchment be-
comes every day more specific ; and if the public
had not been often deceived by professions of
this kind before, its confidence would, no doubt,
be stronger. The reduction in the Army will,
it is said, cut off 13,000 men ; and such a diminu-
tion has, it is asserted, received the King's appro-
bation. The species of force to be dispensed
with is not mentioned. The reductions in the
Ordnance department are said to be in train.
Respecting those of the Navy, nothing certain is
known. If we say that these measures are the
result of necessity with Ministers, we must further
explain what kind of necessity we mean. It is
not exclusively and entirely the necessity which
arises from the impoverished state of the na-
tion, and its inability to maintain the present
rate of expenditure : such a necessity as this,
though severe enough, would have been broken
through, and the people yet further distressed.
The necessity under which Ministers now act in
their reductions is the necessity of obeying those
whom they cannot lead; for, can any man show
at:y just cause why the reductions, which it is'
said are to take place next year, might not have
been made in the present yea', last year, or the
year before ? Indeed, we would not suggest
motives for stopping the humane measures now
said to be in the unwilling contemplation of Mi-
nisters ; but it is most remarkable, that after
having maintained an immense military establish-
ment during six years of perfect peace, they are
now forced to 'diminish it, at the very moment
when fresh wars are menaced on the Continent ;
and this is pecisely what we foretold—that if
they continued gradually wearing the nation down
by a vast army during peace, it would not be able
to take or maintain its proper position among the
States of Europe at the opening of fresh contests.
We do not mean to say that we should ne-
cessarily intermingle ourselves in the disputes
between Russia and Turkey, but it is obvious
that we have a very important interest in the
issue of those disputes ; and if Russia were not
disposed to pay too great attention to our medi-
ation under any circumstances, with what con-
tempt will she receive it when she learns that

we are so enfeebled by carrying on an expensive
peace for six years, that we are obliged to lay
down our army at the very moment when we
want it most to give effect to our representations?
Had our affairs been under the direction of such
counsels as ordinarily conduct the affairs of states,
we should, at the conclusion of the last peace,
have placed our establishments upon a peace
footing. The nation would have been relieved
and at ease by this time.

IMORNING CHRONICLE.]
There is a long letter on the subject of the
measure recently adopted by the Cortes of Por-
tugal, with respect to varioas persons who accom-
pani-ed his Majesty on his return from Brazil.
With the reasons which induced the Cortes to
adopt that measure we are unacquainted. That
body had probably good grounds for believing
that the individuals in question were determined
enemies of the new order of things, and there-
fore adopted the measure with a view to the
preservation of the peace of the country. Whe-
ther it was either wise or prudent to adopt it is
another affair. We must always, however, bear
in mind, that the task of the Cortes at the pre-
sent moment is far from an easy one. All those
who are interested in the old system of abuses—
all those who think that the welfare of the many
should be sacrificed to the welfare of the few,
are necessarily their enemies, and will take every
opportunity of calumniating them. Of the spirit
of the letter to which we have alluded, an idea
may be formed from the following accusation:—
" Instead of re-establishing the legitimate and
ancient national representation of the kingdom,
composed of the Nobility, Clergy, and the Re-
presentatives of the People, according to ancient
usage and established laws, they forced a new
sort of popular representation on the country on
the 11th November last, by means of a military
manoeuvre, without adopting for this very as-
semblage of the Representatives of the People a
single form of our excellent national mode of
convocation ; but on the contrary, the military
directed and enjoined the people to choose their
Representatives according to the Spanish mode of
election, and to give them express powers to adopt
the basis of the Spanish Constitution." The answer
to this charge may be easily found. The leaders of
the Portuguese Revolution did not chase to call
the Cortes according to the ancient mode, be-
cause experience had afforded the best proof of
the worthlessness of that mode, in the triumph
which the Crown had so easily and so completely
obtained over it ; and because their object was
not an illusory representation, but such a one as
should really speak the sentiments and wishes of
the Portuguese nation. If their wish had been
to consult the interests of the Nobles and

the Clergy, instead of the interests of the
whole nation, they would have clung to the
old mode of representation.—That great abuses
prevailed in Portugal before the Revolution
is proved by the facility with which the Revo-
lution was effected ; for it may be laid down as
certain, that to overturn an old established Go-
vernment, which is good for any thing, is, of all
undertakings, the most difficult. When men en-
joy a tolerable portion of the advantages which a
Government ought to secure to them, they will
not easily be prevailed on to rise against it. To
talk, therefore, of adhering to the established
constitution and the established laws of a country,
where the most shocking abuses of all kinds pre-
vailed, is, to say the least of it, grossly absurd.