Star.
London, England, 1823-09-08 00:00:00

ASCENT OF MR. OREF.N AT LEEDS.

This Gentleman, who has the honour of having
first ascended with the cheap gas made from coal,
and thus reducgd the heavy expense of an aerial
voyage, ascended on Friday afternoon, at twenty Mi-
nutes to four, from the yard of the White Cloth-
hall, Leeis, with a magnificent balloon, thirty-seven
feet in height. From the calmness of the day, he was
enabled to fill the machine with ease, and the pro-
cess of inflation was completed within one hour and
five minutes. Mr. Green had given notice of his in-
tention to ascend at three o'clock ; but the company
continuing to flow in till half-past, it was that time
when he sent off the last pilot balloon, and gave the
signal of ascent. Being favoured with a calm and
almost cloudless day, and having in consequence
completely filled his balloon, the ascent was much
more imposing than 'that of Mr. Sadler. It was, in-
deed, as magnificent as anything of this nature can
be, though Mr. Green's car had few ornaments. The
balloon soared, in a nearly perpendicular direction,
steadily and majestically towards the heavens; the
aeronaut, in the meanwhile, with perfect self-posses-
sion and cheerfulness, standing erect on the sides of
his car, and waving his hand above his head, in an-
swer to the loud acclaim of the admiring multitude.
The crowds who had assembled both far and near
were immense—on buildings, Church-steeples, hill-
sides, and open spaces of ground to a great distance.
The whole country seemed to have poure I out its dense
population to witness this magnificent spectacle. After
standing two or three minutes Mr. Green sat down, and
waved his flag out of the balloon for some time.—
He afterwards. let out a rope from-the car, which
continued 'to hang suspended, far the purpose of pre-
venting the rotatory motion which the balloon has a
tendency to assume. In a few minutes he shot a bag
of ballast out of the car, and for twenty minutes
afterwards discharged columns of sand at intervals.°
He rose a considerable height, and, from the ex-
traordinary clearness of the day, the balloon was ;
distinctly seen with the naked eye for upwards of
twenty-five minutes after the ascent. It was then in
the direction of Pontefract, but rather more to the
south-west, and certainly at a much greater distance
than that place.
After a fine voyage he descended in the neighbour-
hood
of Exey, nine miles northward of Gainsbo-
rough, twelve front Doncaster, and about forty
from Leeds. Here he found the lower current of
the atmosphere blowing a hurricane. On descending
to the earth, he threw out the grappling iron in a fal-
low field, where, after dragging for some distance, the
car struck violently against a rail, and stunned Mr.
Green with the shock; the grappling-iron then caught
firmly hold of the rail, and from the velocity of the
balloon, snapped the cable, and threw the aeronaut
from a small height to the ground. Re was coni-
pletely stunned by the fall, and severely •bruised. The
balloon, lightened of all its weight and ballast,
though containing only a small quantity of gas, in-
stantly sprung aloft, and in 20 minutes vanished from
the sight. From the vast elevation which it seemed
to attain after the accident, and the great velocity
with which it flew, all hope of securing by following
it was lost.
Mr. Green, though suffering considerble pain, im-
mediately set out, and arrived in Leeds at a quar-
ter to two o'clock this morning. He stles that his
voyage was extremely delightful, and the elevation
he attained upwards of two miles: the thermometer
then stood at 28, being four degrees below the freez-
ing point, and the barometer at 18 inches and a half.
Mr. Green offers a reward" of ten pounds to any
one who.shall restore iris balloon, without its having
sustained very material injury ; but it is thought that
it has gone out to sea, in which case there is no hope
of saving it except it should have reached the coast
of Hollatid.

ASCENT OF MR. SADLER AT LEEDS.
Thursday morning, Mr. Sadler gave notice that he
would ascend at five in the afternoon, and the pro-
cess of inflation was soon after commenced. The ar-
rangements for maintaining order both inside and
outside the Cloth-hall gates were good, and all went
on•well. The wind, however, was still too high for
the easy inflation of the balloon, which was blown
about so as materially to retard the entrance of the
gas. At five o'clock the balloon was not half filled,
and soon after, by the pressure of several persons
against a rope attached to the valve, the spring of
the valve was unfortunately strained, and the gas be-
an visibly to escape in the form of vapour. Mr.
Sadler, who had during the whole afternoon been
busily and anxiously engaged, now perceived that it
would be impossible, from the state of the wind, to take
up the canopy, the flags, or any of the car trappings.
At half-past six, the balloon being little more than
half filled, he resolved immediately to ascend. The
car was attached to the net work of the balloon, bal-
last was taken in, and the whole machine was re-
moved into the middle of the yard. Even yet the
Gentleman who was to accompany him entertained
hopes that it would be possible for him to ascend,
and he took his seat, opposite Mr. Sadler, in the bal-
loon, in high spirits. But when the cords were all
extended to their greatest length, and the balloon
waved high above their heads (the top being not less
The following is the present distribution of the 40th Regi-
than eighty feet above the car), it was found not to meat : Lieutenant Low, with a detachment, sailed from Ports
have sufficient buoyancy to carry both Gentlemen, mnuth.in the Albion, with convicts, in May last; Capt. Sisnor,
abt‘hiela early
afewpardtaof August;ietauit;
together with such a quantity of ballast as prudence fLoinw, froolowmichc:
iii
lethi th the
Aarls
in
regliirati to be taken. The savant, therefore, of ne-
.L
HUMUS and Enosvign, n
WILLIAMS, from Sheerness, in the Sir Cay,s
since. Lfiod.l
cessity, quitted the balloon. Mr. Sadler now ended- trey Webster, about the tith ult. ; Lieut. THORNHILL, from Ports-
voured to proportion his ballast to circumstances, mouth, in the Guildford. Lieut. GANG and Ensign coma%
while the higher part of the balloon, which, from its with Assistant-SurgeonshCOLlLMAN.hricvetdi ae
it,oCore
s ais fee:weal;
upwai d pressure, had drawn the net work into a re-
ago, Cove dalliaey,cttotroeca:ive conv)ic.ts. Lieutaaenint-Colonel atirove
gular and beautiful shape, was blown by the wind in and his family, with Lieutenant Ricitaansost, go out in her. The
circles over the head of the aeronaut, oscillating and detachments each consist of thirty privates, with a proportion of
waving like the mast of a ship in a storm. I Non-Commissioned Officers, sonic ships two officers, and others
At length the word was given to the men who
qt.), one. Each ship takes from 180 to 200 convicts. The Bead-
were holding the car, to "let go which the did quarters, with the remainder of the Regiment, are still at,Chst-
y ;
ham. Several other ships are expected to go out with convicts
but the quantity of ballast was so great that the ma- ,i„,„, the rttd of the year. It is therefore probable that the whole
chine did not ascend, but drew the car along just of the Regiment will be out of England before twat spring.
above the surface of the ground. It was soon seized ! It is pleasant to observe, that all the. Scottish, Irish
by a number of persons ia the yard (amongst the first and Provincial Newspapers agree as to the favourable
by Mr. Green), and brought hick to its former posi- effects produced by the happy change of the weather,
don, when a considerable quantity of ballast being in respect to the pending harvest.

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