Star.
London, England, 1802-07-01 00:00:00

N. OiMMERIMS ThUR.

M. CARNTRIN and Captain Sowoaw arrived in
town from Cold:titer yclerday morning at three
c'clock. M. GA/tNER IN has f4Jou►cd us v..ith the
following particulars of his journey
M. Gnat:ERIN feels that he owes to the public,
and to the interest expreffed by the great number
of perfons who went yetterciay to the Pantheon to
fee his balloon, an account of his aeri.d jinn ney.
The morning of the 28th (the day of his ascent)
appeared to promife weather diffidently fa vourabic
for the afcent, though it was rainy. At eleven
o'clock, therefore, he began the chytrical opera-
tions necenry for the produdion of the inflamma.
Me gas. The hallon tilled rapidly, though con-
tiderably agitated by the wind.
From one o'clock to half part four, the wind
continued to increafe, and at length, blew lo yin.
lently,that had he made any previnusexperiment in
this country, he fhould have yielded to the earned '
folicitations of the brilliant and numerous company
with which he was honoured, and fhould have de-
ferred his afcent to a period leis tempelluous.
M. G/AItSiERIN, however, though he determined
not to difappoitit the public expeaation himfelf,felt
it to be his duty to:prels Captain Sou Dix not, for
the fake of cutiofity, to expofe himfelf to the pe-
rils attendant upon fueh a journey in Inch weather.
The Captain, however, refilled all there folicita-
tions, and refolved to accompany him. From a
quarter pall four to five fome fhowers of rain fell,
which only allayed the fury of t#►e wind for a fhort
time, for After they had ceased it blew with more
violence than ever.
At five o'clock Me as. GARNIIIIN and Sownes
took their feats, the curds were cut, and the bal-
loon afcended. Each held a flag of the nation to
which he belonged, which he waved to the com-
pany prefent. The balloon Bra made the tour of
the place where the fpeetators hood, and after be-
ing greeted with the loud plaudits and good wither,
of every perfon, afcended majeftically and rapidly
into the regions of the air. The wind blew from
the S. W. The balloon therefore proceeded over
St. James's Park, the Thames, and Wcitminfler
and Blackfriar's Bridges.

M. GAIWIRIN then found that the balloon be-
gan to defcend ; he threw out fome ballad, and it
role immediately with great rapidity, and carried
the travellers over the Cathedral of St. Paul's.

Duffing all this time the whole metropolis was
diaindly ken by the aeronauts, whole balloon was
equally vitible to the inhabitants of the metropolis.
When it was over St. Paul's, M. Ghtlo4 ERIN alked
Captain Sownta how he felt himfelf ? The Cap-
tain replied that he was perfedly enchanted with
his fituation, and with the fuperb expanfe of (ley,
and with the earth, now fall leifening to the view,
and loon to he feen no more.—The temperature
of the atmofphere now began to change very ten-
thly, and to be fifteen degrees colder than when
they began to afceud. It was extremely cold.—
The balloon continued rapidly to afcend ; was loon
above the clouds, and the earth was vi(ible no
more. When the travellers were above the clouds,
the climate became fenfibli milder : the inflam-
mable air began to dilate, and M. GUM tatr4 gave
it all poffible means of vent proper fur their fafety.
They now dined with good appetites, and very
comfortably above the clouds, at an elevation of
upwards of to,ooo feet above the earth. During
the deffert, M. G•awraim told Captain Sowing,
that the plealinteff part of their journey was paired,
and that they mull now prepare for a very die=
agreeable defcent, on account ci' the continued
violence of the wind.
About half an hour had elapfed fince their afcent.
M. GARS ERIN now opened the valve, and the bal.
loon defcended through black and cold clouds ;
they then defciied land again, and alto the feu, to-
wards which their conrfe was fait carrying them :
indeed they were nearly over that arm of it:. into
which the Chelmer empties itfelf.
As loon as they had approached fufficiently near
the earth, they threw out their anchor and cable.—
When the balloon firfi touched the ground, it re-
bounded with confiderable violence ; this rebound
WAS followed by about twenty more, more violent
than the fit a. The gulls of wind dragged them
over fields and hedges, which tore their hands
and clothes ; their anchor touched the ground fe-
veral times, but dragged ; and it was not till Come
minutes had elapfed that it took a heady hold in
a thicket near a hook. Here they conceived them.
hives to be releated from all peril ; hut the inha-
bitants of the hook, alarmed at the balloon,
would not atlill them ; nay, adually offered to
t:e on the adventnrons travellti s. In the mean
time the cable of the anchor broke, and they were
Eirlitged through trees and branches, the balloon
bea.,; agitated to an extreme degree, and rebound-
ing 5:1 y violently. At length they were dyiven
a tree, and Captain SIIIV DE I received a f,..•
ven: blu.w on the back part of his head. The bal.
lona was now torn in the lower part, the cords
brake, the boat broke ; the travellers had hold of
a tree, from which they %acre torn by the violence
el IL:: mind. At lad, a bound which the balloon
11:4.!e, enabLd them to jump out. The balloon,
a..andened w ihelf, and much torn, fell about too
races further.
'l} place where M. GARMERIN and Captain
f,%/2/!>: landed was on common, four miles be-
%,,nd Colchelier, and lilts. miles from Ranelagh.
The time that elapfed front their departure to
larding on the common was three quarters
et an hoar.
?". G.IkNIRIN'S hands are much torn, and his
i!? and thighs confiderably bruited.. Captain
caotiess is much more hurt. He has received a
feveie blow on the back part of his head, and is
1::11 uikal and torn in other parts of his body
tax Wiles and trees againit which they were
Isl.Gtamsaits pays the higheft tribute to the
cN-rage and cooluefs of his companion, who, after
:••"!iailoon firth rebounded,couldfeveral times have
'''taped out of it with great cafe and fafety, but
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