Star.
London, England, 1831-09-12 00:00:00

THE BALLOON UN THURSDAY.

Mr. and Mrs. Graham ascended on Thursday
with a magnificent silk balloon, from the top of
Constitution-hill, in the Green Park, in honour of
their Majesties Coronation. The ascent took place
at precisely ten minutes past five o'clock in the af-
ternoon. The balloon rose majestically and slowly
from the Park, amidst the acclamations of the
assembled multitude, the aeronauts bowing and
waving their flags. in a few minutes of they
threw something from the car, which had the ap-
pearance of a flock of pigeons descending to the
earth, but which we have since ascertained to be
printed copies of verses, written expressly for this
purrse, on the occasion of the ascent at Windsor,
on Saturday last.
We subjoin an account of the journey, as given
by Mrs. Graham herself: _ _

At ten minutes put five o'clock we rose from the
Park, being obliged, in consequence of the weight
attached to the balloon and netting, at least one
hundred pounds, by the previous rain, to go with-
out either ballast or grappling-iron. The appear-
ance of the Green and Hyde Parks was astonishing,
presenting to our ;Lily so immense a mass of faces.
We passed slowly over the City at an altitude of
about half a mile, having a distinct view of every
street and avenue, together with vehicles of every
description. the cheers of the people gradually
ascending in gratifying sounds towards us. In
passing over St. Paul's we had a fine view of all
the bridges, the East and West India and St. Ca-
therine's Docks, &c. &c. At twenty minutes be-
fore six o'clock we entered the fret strata of clouds.
which partially concealed the City from our view,
but on the other side we had a fine view of
Epping Forest, which appeared to us scarcely a
quarter of a mile in extent ; also a view of Ilford,
Romford, and the villages adjacent. At this time
the air, caused by the density of the clouds hover-
ing around us, blew excessively cold, and I doubt

not, had we had a thermometer, it woul•l hive
stood at 32 degrees of Fahrenheit. In consequence
of entering different currents of air, the b Indio
and car frequently revolved. We never lost
of the Thames daring our aerial voyage, and, in
fact, at times we were rather nearer than we cared
to be, on account of having no ballast, but we did
not once cross the river. When we attained an
altitude of three miles, Mr. Graham considered it
prudent to allow some portion of the gis to
escape. in order to commence the descent, which
we gradually effected, passing over Brentwood,
and finally landed at Herringale, on the firm of
Mr. Stone, at Herringale-hall, four miles from
Brentwood, 23 miles from Whitechapel Church,
and 28 from the place of starting, precisely at six
o'clock. Mr. Stone himself came to our 34.iit-
anse ; he was the first person who laid hold of the
car; Mrs. Stone and two of her daughters imme-
diately followed, together with several of their
servants, when I alighted from the car, and ac-
companied the ladies to their house. When the
balloon was packed up, Mr. Stone, accompanied
by Mr. Graham, joined us, when we were enter-
tained with true English hospitality, and intro-
duced to several gentlemen who had followed tilt,
course of the balloon. At about 12 o'clock we
safely arrived at our residence in Poland-street,
where several friends were awaiting our return.
SPIRIT, OF TIIIS DAY'S JOURNALS.

HERALD.—Our readers will find, by nor Portsmouth
news, that the Prime Regent, 120 guns, Capt. Dantlas, and
the Asia, 84 guns, Capt. Hyde Puler, sailed from Rata •
mouth for the Tagus on Saturday afternoon, under the cJoi.
mend of Rear-Admiral Parker. The last accounts frosts
Lisbon prepared us for some step of the kind. It is evident
that the property, and even the lives, of British resideres Ire
Lisbon are far property,
being secure under the dominion of the
tyrant, and experience has shown that nothing short of the
actual presence of an armed farce can keep him and his in-
struments, the lowest rabble, in order. If the Girl of
Aberdeen still looks (u he said he did on the last debate
about Portugal) more to the good feeling which other coon
Itries entertain towards England than to the form of Govern-
, mart under which they choose to live themselves, we my
' indulge a hope that even the charms of the Portugues.: des.
IPolism will lose their influence in his Lordshie's mini af,er
such evidence of the feeling of that Government to earls
Englishmen is makes It necessary for the (1 ivernment here
to despatch armaments for their support.
HERA LD.—While the lending Tory politicians in both
Houses of Parliament, assisted by a ou, rtion of the Prow,
impute the most ambitious views to Fiance and accuse her,
by anticipation, of the most serous breaches of faith, there
is nu notice taken by Whig or Tory of the extensive w4r.
like preparations which Pretoria is, and has long beeo,
making in the Rhenish provinces, and the accumuLtion of
her forces gathered upon the frontiers of Belgium, while
she professes the most pacific intentions. Iris agreed on
all sides that the French troops marched into Belgium to
suoirort King Leopold's Government with the concurrence
of the C , as those Powers now call themselves,
which, the exception of Ragland, are better known by
the name of the Holy Allionee. in fact, if France heel not
the sanction of the other Powers to that advance of her
troops upon Belgium, the movement would have been
considered not only a declaration of war, but an *null
oommencement of hostilities. Prussia, therefore, openly
countenanced France in this march into Belgium —at
least her subsequent assent to the proceedings which the
French government adopted on the receipt of King Leo-
pold's letter was equivalent to a previous permission. Yet
there Is great reason to believe that Prussia encouraged the
'noisiest of Belgium by the Dutch, at the very time that
French troops marched, by her consent, to drive hick the
invaders. What woe the object of Prussia in practising
this double-faced policy? We shah see. The invasion of
Belgium by the Dutch has rendered the Belgic questimi
more coosidiested. and more diflcult of adjustment, thAn
before. The very fact of the march of the French troops
excited semigloss that France was taking the first favAtr-
able oppenunky that presented itself far realising her views
of aggrandisement, and taking the brit step towards a new
seep of European mos. In the former revo-
lution Prussia lumidedranee, and miscalculating the
energies and resources of a people wise were strug-
gling for freedom, hoped to restore the ancient les-
CllMby annul de main. Instructed by bitter experience,
Quixofisni agruirut liberty is not now so rampant ; she
mixes more of cautious policy with her deadly hostility to a
'embalm:bed Government. She has shown this in the use
of Poland as well as France. She has not yet taken anus
against eights:lout she has practised a hischisivel:an policy
towards both. The concentration of Prussian forces in the
Rhenish provinces, to the amount of upwards of 200,000
trtsu, well equipped and ready to march at a moment's no.
doe, forebodes, whatever diplomatic assJranceo they may
be to the contrary, that there is little probability of auy
long continuance of the peace of Europe. that Pruratian
soldiers were not prevented from joining in great it:millers
the Dutch invading army of Belgium, seems now to be
placed beyond doubt, although the Prussian Government
managed the matter in such a way as not to be openly or di-
reedy implicated in giving assistance to the King of Hol-
land. The game that Prussia and the other Powers of the
Holy Alliance are now playing, is to lay a train for a war
with France in such a manner as that the English Govern-
Meat shell set fire to that train. They well remember what
, an advantage they hail in having England the paymaster of
their forces during the late war, and they would dearly like
to be subsidised by English gold again. That the four
=have demanded the evacuation of Belgium by every
soldier we are disposed to believe. If the French
Government should refuse, or should be, at present, unable
to obey, on account of the mischief which the ref:BHW the
troops, while the Dutch, backed by the Prussians, are irb-
viousli_PrePartng for new aggressions, might produce at
home, England will be placed in a situation which will com-
pel her to maks common cause with the holy alliance in their
crusade against France, and thus the object of the
projected
policy of Prussia will have been attained. It
is deeply to be regretted that our ministry, who left the
Poles to their fate, should have evinced so little wisdom as
to have Involved this country in the quarrel between Bel-
gium and Holland, in blind submission to the crafty abd
machinations of the Holy Alliossee.
MRS.—What would be the real and substantial state
of the commonwealth, if the House of Lords, as now con-
stituted, were to reject the Bill, or, which is precisely the
same thing, meddle with any one of move important pro.
vitiate? The House of Lords would, in that melancholy
case, be at open war with the King, the Commons, and the
whole people of England. The struggle would not be
for this or that limited, isolated, especial, temporary,
or common-place object. It would be a vital one. The
Lords would strive to withhold from the English na-
tion the Min support, the source and security of all the
rights and political enjoyments, by whirl; freemen
are uistinguished from slaves : one party or the other must
give way: and which party ? The nation ? No, truly.—lt,
therefore, the Lords were only to give way upon compulsion,
what would be the nature of that compulsion ? The cobstitu.
don offers none but aniunlimited creattoo of peers. If there had
sot been objectioes, held insuperable by the existing Go-
vernment, to such a measure, though we cannot divine them,
it would doubtless have been had recourse to before now. But
if the calling up of 40, or AO, or even of 100, eldest sons et
peers, which could eventually work little change, so far as we
can perceive, in the chancier or position of that assembly,
—if that be impracticable, why then it must•be admitted
that within the letter of the existing cons lotion
the Lords cannot be coerced, and that the most grievous
wrong may be inflicted with absolute impunity, and without
the endow, of remedy, by a small number of titled indi-
viduals, upon a nation which calls itself great and free
Then, however, in elite of all lovers of law, and all sticklers
for constitutional forms, a question would arise ,—cud men,
ay, sober and honest citizens maid ask as be
without a constitution, or shall the Lords be made Cu with.
out those powers which enable thew to deprive us ut ie
The question, we repeat, will le naked, and by the na.ten, nn
its own behalf, as contradistinguishesi faun the Peers. It is
a question which we are nut inclined to &flower. But it To.
ties complain of ore putting questions which lie beytn.d i.c
paleof the cosatitutios, 'Naar= that their hope of succeethi.g
to the Government if—whith !leaven avert—a fafvlol
' Ministry should resign, can be rounded, in the soma!
situation of the country, on no conceivabk datum tint Otte—*•
namely, that they wilt themielrell be able to govern Eng-
land, in spite of the Hou e of lenuuons teed the people,

by the army and the House of Lot& alone. That the
hope his been expressed by some of the party, is, we are
omit: d. • fact, of which evidence might he given; that a
Tory Onvernment could practically be conducted on no
other system, is obvious from the nature of things—
every other power in the state, King, Commons, -trid, rople,
being open enemies to the anti-reform faction. Then
it comes to this..-Can the 'I ory leaders govern Enghtne
tqr means of the array and of diet Hausa of Lords?
A isslvEn US, COUNTRYMEN, WILL TOU LE 30 RULED?
VIA, WILL THE TROOPS. WHO ARE ENGLISHMEN. AND
I,CEPLY IMBUED WITH THE SPIRIT OP THEIR FRIENDS
,ctrl PELLOW.CITIZENS, WILL THEY, WHETHER OFF!.
CTRS 01 SOLDIERS, BE MADE THE INSTRUMENTS or
scat A BASE DOMINATION? NEVER! How poorly qua.
rd are the tonjority of the. Lords to carry en a war art
~,!rristeinnem with the nation, may i.c gatkreil from an able
..iraitur; of the generally well-elizpo,ed, but essentially
hortlinst, :tot: passive, order in the state, taken from the
.pltlet to which we have aiready drawn attention. " What
the Lords do ?" If the Lords reject or ntutil.:te the
they are in effect, thout,h imisputably by ei sign,
guilty—first, of throwing the to,pire :nto confusion ; se-
condly. of more than endangering their own existence.
CHRONIC LE.—lt is hardly necessary for us to observe
that tile people. when united, are all.powerful. That they
are united on the quottion of Refcwm is proved by the large
majorities of repot...cry:tires chosen by the perple, in spite
of the oppes:tian I I all thoie :rho were returned to Pailia.
treat thr. ugh sinister infitterc 4.l'hat an idea of
House of Peers would the work' receive. from the spectacle.
of their oppcsing the Commons in a measure for which the
whole nation, %ehh the exception of themselves, were anxi-
ous—the object of which measure bein to prevert the Peer
from positessin:: an irflucnce over eke:ions, v.hich the Con.
stitution never mended titer should hate ! A decision of the
I louse against the nation would hold up the House as
slid the enemy of the nation ; and we need not repeat that, in
these times, no order can exist by any other title ,ban the
Ter,uasion of the people that its existence is bene-
ficial to them. Let the peers only teach the people that
they are opposed to the welfare of the people, and the result
may be anticipated without the gift of prophecy. The peo-
ple of France harem this time their eyes on England. The
quettlton which is about to be presented to the Howe of
Peers, places this body before them in a position in which it
has never yet been placed. The corruption of the House of
Commons has hi. hertn produced an unifortnity between the
two houses, and the Upper liaise has not yet appeare.l to
differ from the Lower, in the latter's being identified with
the ration, and the former's being opposed to ie. I Ipposi-
tion on the great question of questions, which shall
&^k, whither the people of England shall, or
shall not. possess real representatives ;—whether they
shall, or shall not, emancipate themselves from the aye.
tom n!' corruption under which they have long groaned
will call forth—not merely in France, but in nil Europe—
a deadly hatred to all institutions, nut directly emanating
from, and responsible to, the people. The people of Esq.
!and were tine to themselves during the late elections
They must continue true to themselves. They must, by
exertions corresponding is the emergency, secure the nation
against the mischiefs which might result from an improper
decision at this conjuncture. Much evil may be prevented by
the people acting in such a manner at this crisis us shall extin-
guish in the House of Peers all hope of the possibility of sue.
ceding in depriving the nation of the blessin,o which is now in
prospect. Let the people be on their guard, all sorts of devices
will b: resorted to. Tire plunder of the nation is a prize worth
centendini: for. Reform in Parliament is a terminadon to
the red's of plunder. Through it we see gradual atueliora-
thins of all sorts; the fruits of industry secured to the in-
dustrious, an united people, instead of plunderers and plun.
dereil—the coign of true morality and true religion, instead
ot cant and hypocrisy, the spawn of corruption and pecula-
tMn. There arc many honest men in the House of Pecta,
content to lire on their own property—but let the people bear
in mind, that there are also twiny to whom the pillage of
the people is desirable, and who will struggle for it. The
opposition in the House of Commons might, in some in- I
t!: flees. proceed from wrongheadedness. In the House of
Peers, opposition to the Reform of the Commons. for which
tti. Coil mons themselves have declared, can have but one
motive—dr: desire to retain the pillage of thenatito.

COUCETTS REGISTER.—I will now, in the most
ren and plain manner, state the things which I wish to see
accomplished, at.d which, if you send me to the Puha-
mrnt, I will u•e my utmost endeavours to cause to be ac-
complished ; and which things are as follow :
1. Tn put an end to all pensions, sinecures, grants, al-
lowances, half-pay, and all other emoluments now paid oat
of the taxes, except for such public services as, upon a very
scrupulous examination, shall be found fully to merit them ;
and to reduce all salaries to the American standard.

.2. To discharge the standing army, except such part of
the ordnance and artillery as may be nesessary to maintain
the arsenals ut the sea-ports in a state of readiness for war ;
and to abolish the military academies, and dispose of all
barracks and other property now applied to military uses.
5. To make the counties, each according to its whole
number of members of parliament, maintsin and equip a
body of militia, horse as well as foot and artillery, at the
county expense, and to have these bodies, as they are in
America. mustered at stated periods; so that, at any time,
a hundred thousand efficient men may be ready to come
into tbe field, if the defence of the kingdom require it.
4. To abolish tithes of every description ; to leave to the
clergy the churches, the church-yards, the parsonages
Insures, and the ancient glebes; and, for the rest, leave
them to the voluntary contributions of the people.
5. To take all the rest of the property, commonly called
church-property; all the houses, lands, manors, tolls, rents,
and real property of every kind, now possessed by bishops,
chapters, or other ecclesiastical bodies, and all the misap-
piled property of corporate bodies of every sort; and also
all the property called crown-lands, or crown-estates, in-
cluding that ut the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster ; and
Nell them all, and apply the proceeds to the discharge of
the Debt which the late parliaments contracted with the
lundholders.

6. To crass., during the first six months after June,lB32, '
to pay ititere►t on a fourth part of the Debt; second six
month•, to cease to pay interest on another fourth ; and so
on tor the other two fourths ; so that no more interest, or
any pan or the Debt would be paid, after the end of I
two years.
7. To jlavide the proceeds of all the property mentioned
fu paragraph No. 5, and also in paragraph No. 2, in due
pr .puratm, on principles of equity, amongst the owners of
what is calloi stork, or, in other words, the jundhuldere, or
pens.** who lent their money to those who borrowed it in '
virtue of acts of the late parliaments; and to give to the'
furdholdtrs out oh' the Lazes, nothing beyond these proceeds.
8. 10 make an equitable adjustment with respect to th
pecut iary contracts between man and man, and thereby rec. '
tify, as ter as practicable, the wrongs and ruin inflicted on
thousands upon thousands of virtuous families by the as..
binary changes made by acts of the late parliaments, in the
value of the money of the country.
9. To abolish all internal tares (except on the land),
whether direct or indirect, including stamp-taxes of every
des.cription ; and to impose such a postage-charge for letters
as to defray the real expenses of an economical and yet efti.
ulellt posi-oflice establishment, and no more, so that the
postage would be merely a payment for the conveyance of
letters, and not a tax.
10. To lay just as much custom-house duty on import.
firms as shall be tound conducive to the benefit of the navi-
gation. commerce, and manufactures of the kingdom, viewed
as a whole, and nmto lay on one penny more.
11. 'l'o make effectual provision in every department for
the maittunance of a powerful navy; to give such pay and
soolt an allotment of prize money to the seamen as to render
ill l.temmen. wholly unnecessary ; to abolish the odious in-
novation of naval acadetniee, and re-open the door of promo-
tion to skill at d valour, whether found in the heirs of nobles,
or in cat,. ,on,, of the loom or of the plough ; to abolish all
nil:nary orders, and to place the navy next in honour to the
throne Itself.

12. To make a legal, afised, and a generous allowance to
the King, and, through him, to all the branches and mem-
bets tit his family ; to leave to him the unshackled freedom
of appointini, all his servants, whether of his household or of
his public ministry ; to leave to him the full controul over
his palaces, gardens and parks, u land-owners have over
!hell caul!. ; to take can that he be not worried with in.

ttigucs to purloin from him that which the people give him
for his own enjoyment ; so that he may be, in all respects,
tt hat the Chier of a free people ought to be, his name held
in the highest honour, and his person held sacred, as the
great guardian of the people's rights.
13. To make an accurate valuation of all the houses,
lands, mines, and other real property, in each county in the
wtmle kingdom; to impose a tax upon that property, to be
p.ml quarterly, and in every county on the same day, and
at such manner as to cost in the collection, or, ratbet, pay-
ment, not more than 4001. a-year in any one county ; to
make the rate and amount of this tax vary with the wants of
the state, always taking case to be amply provided with

weans in case of war, when war shall be demanded by the
safety. the inter:at, or the honour of the kingdom.
Nt/17, electors of Manche ter, if eau to Patliamcnt by
or. or by any body che, tb.te ali,`Fi I Bill endeavour to
accompli •:t; and, by ter!ument nraescaeble, I am ready
.0 maintain the justice, the expediency, aryl the. cosy pruc.
iica6iiiiy of them all ; art; these I wid w- amain in dr. cedes
of aeiresscs of which this ie the gm. Ti r. e thir.ga done,
ale yearly expouliturc of the kln.'.ett- comes far whhin the
-um of ten winners ; anti I du most -olf-rnnly sr r. 7. you,
At; • if I had no hop:: to sce that result of my efforts, not on:
•is ;,le .lay more of my life the uld b: peg' ed :r tie; rile...!
and stench of this WEN.