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London, England, 1824-07-21 00:00:00

MR. GRAHAM'S ASCENT PROM BATH.

BATH, AMY 19.
On the evening of Friday, Mr. Graham made his pro-
irked ascent with his balloon from Sydney Gardens.—
The evening was beautiful, and the crowds collected on
the adjacent hills were immense. The company within ,
the gardens was but small, which is nsuch to be re-
gretted, as Mr. Graham generously ascended for the
benefit of the Bath General Hospital. There were a
great number of Ladies in gay equipages waiting near
the place of ascent.
Die scene within was gay and pleasing beyond de-
scription. Two bands of music were playing—small
cannon were fired at intervals—and, to give variety to
the entertainments, the celebrated 11 Diavolo Antonio
displayed his extraordinary feats on the slack-rope. In
the course of the afternoon a young Gentleman offered
20 guineas to ascend with Mr. Graham ; but that ho-
nour (though, perhaps, few would consider it as 'such)
was reserved for a Mr. Adams, of London.
Mr. Graham has very obligingly favoured us with
the following account of the excursion :
"At half-past six we rose with considerable rapidity
horn the earth, and when we had attained a good ele-
vation the view was magnificent and striking beyond all
description. One object on the earth attracted our at-
tention soon afterwards. This object presented the ap-
pearance of a crawling animal, something like a crab,
and afforded considerable merriment both to Mr; Adams
and myself. This extraordinary phenomenon I have
since ascertained to have been nothing less than a horse
with a man on his back ! We floated on an equilibrium
for some time, and then began to ascend. Oar highest
altitude was about three miles; bat the barometer hav-
ing received some injury, I cannot without further exa-
mination determine the exact state of the atmosphere.
The gas did not expand a great deal. After remaining
in the air almost an hour and a half, we began to think
of descending, and I opened the valve for that purpose.
As we approached-terra firma, however, it appeared
very woody ; therefore we threw out ballast (601bs. of
which we took out with us), and continued to float
along at a moderate height. After doing so for twenty
minutes,:we descended, at a goat ter betoreeight, between
two wood's, near ltanibury, Berks, forty-six miles from
Bath, in perfect safety. The place of descent was quite
private, and consequently we had considerable difficulty
in finding our way. Having packed up the machine,
and procured a conveyance, we set off, and arrived at
Sydney Hotel, Bath, at eight o'clock next morning."
DUNDEE, JULY 18.
Stobsmuir Fair, whic washeld on Thursday last,
was attended with many of those scenes of drunkenness
and riot which are the usual accompaniments of fairs
held in the immediate vicinity of populous towns. Two
young men of the name of Allan, masons, employed
at Duntrune, but usually residing here, after conclud-
ing their labours for the day went to the fair, and after
leaving it, on passing the toll, they proposed going in
to wait for some of their companions, whom they ex-
pected to pass that way. Not being admitted into the
toll-house, they bad turned to go away, when they were
violently assailed whit bludgeons and other deadly
weapons, by a party of ruffians who had been en-
gaged in a previous scuffle in the malice, and either
mistook them for some of the persons with whom they
hai formerly differed, or attacked them from a sheer
desire of mischief. John Allan was the object of their
most deadly blows, which were repeated with such
fiendish violence, that he sunk down a victim to their
barbarity, and almost instantly expired. Not content
with this, they now directed their infuriated blows
against the other brother, who likewise sunk under their
vengeance. The body of the unfortunate man was
brought to town at an early hour next morning ; his
sober and exemplary habits had endeared him to many
fiiends and acquaintances, and his melancholy fate is
justly and sincerely regretted. lie was a young man,
and is said to have been unmarried.

PUBLIC SALES.
mn. MITCHELL
Freehold Building Ground, lancl-tax redeemed, formerly part
of the Estate of the late Lord Nelson, Merton, Surrey.—Sundry
plots, having a frontage next the high road of 25 feet, and depth of
190 feet—sold at 48 guineas each.
Sundry Plots in a road adjoining, to be called Nelson's Grove,
frontage 25 feet, depth 135 feet-28 guineas each.
Sundry ditto, same frontage, depth 145 feet-34 guineas each.
MR. HOGGART.
Freeholds.—The Wilderwick Estate, situate in the Parish of
near East Grinstead, Sussex, comprising dwelling-house,
gardens, orchard, and inclosures, containing 1965. Lx. 59r. also
Lady ross and Upper Wilderwick !Farm, tithe-free, and exempt
from land-tax, with cottage,garden, and 181 a. 18r. f arable, pas-
ture, and meadow-land timber to be taken at a valuation-67011.
A Marine Villa, called Veranda, late the residence and property
of W. Gregory, Esq. deceased, near Swansea, Glamorganshlre,
containing seventeen rooms, domestic and detached stabling, coach-
houses, and inclosures of meadow land; in the whole 44 acres;
pew in St. Mary's Church, Swansea, attached to the estate; timber
included in the purchase—X42oo.
MFSSRS. CREED AND GRIFFIN.
CepykokL—An Estate, free of Rectorial Tithes, situate in the
Parish of Abbott's Langley, Hertfordshire, comprising residence
containing ten rooms, domestic apartments, farm-yard, barns, sta-
bles, cow-house, sheds, coach-house, garden, orchard, and inelo-
sures ; together 2o*. IR. 25r. held of the manor of Abbott's Lang-
ley, subject to a customary fine, quit-rent of 7s. per annum, and
no heriotabk tithes, held as freehold, giving purchaser a vote
for the County ; pew in Abbott's Langley Church; land-tax

Xi 6s. 6d.—X160( -
Freehold Freehold and exempt from Rectorial Tithes.—An Estate at Pie-
cot's End, Hemel Ilempsted, lierts ; the house containing eight
rooms, kitchens, brew-house, stable, and farm-yards, chaise-house,
stabling, sheds, gardens, orchard, meadow, and sainfoin inclosures ;
in all twelve acres, the tithes held for three lives, renewable for
ever, without rent, under the Deer► and Chapter of &. Paul's, land-
tax£l ss. 11d.—,61390.—The timber and underwood on these
estates, with the customary. house fixtures, to be taken at a valuation.

Lord BYRON's mother was a lineal descendant of Lady
JApa &roars., daughter of King JAMES 1. of Scotland.
•An infernal machine has been discovered in the Com-
mune of Laroqua, a department of the Arriege, in
France, containing a great quantity of gunpowder. It
seems it was destined for the destruction of a country
house of that commune, by explosion. The owner and
the inhabitants of the house must necessarily have pe-
rished. Justice is in pursuit Of the guilty.
The young Gentleman downed in Loch Catrane,27th
June, turns out to be a Mr. J. 11. IYICIESTEED, son of,
J. WICKSTEED, Esq. of Shiewsbury. He had been
studying at Glasgow the preceding session, and, pre-
vious to his return home for the vacation, made an ex-
cursion to visit the interesting scenery near. Loch Lo-
sr,Ond. when this lamentable accident occurred.
A Mr. GRORG6 TALBOT, whilst, On Saturday last, on
hisway from a Noble Lord's in rortlaod-street to Cavendisb-square,
ares arrested by a Laid' and attendants, on a writ which bore the
• irerue of a different person. tints eaufendeavoured, in vain,to con-
vince then of their mistake. lie was conveyed to a lock-up house
in Oxford-street, where he had to wait for the arrival of his friends
b fore the bailiffs would admit their error, and consent to hie release.

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C RIM. C0N...-4440011AN V. MITCHELL.
The damages were laid at 3,0001. Mr. Wattace
offered to withdraw a Juror, which was not agreed to.
Mr. HAMILTON stated the case. This was ari action
to recover damages for criminal conversation with the
plaintiff's wife. The parties moved in a humble but
respectable line of life, in Which an evil of this bind was
of a more severe nature than in higher ranks, whet e
the wealth of the parties, the dissolltion of the matri-
monial tie, and the probable formation of a new con.
nubial contract, present remedies whith in this class of
society could not be looked for. The plaintiff, eatly in
life, was married to a young lady, Henrietta Tuke, the
daughter of a professor of music, one of the Vicars
Choral of this city, who dying, left his family in corn.
fortable circumstances ; when she was sixteen, plaintiff
married Miss Tuke, at her mother's house, in Hard-
wicke-street. The parties were married by the Rev.
Moore Morgan, in 1809. Mr. M'Gowan obtained
500/. with her on that occasion, and commenced trading
as a wine-merchant For some time they lived upon
the happiest terms s three children were the issue of
the marriage; Mr. M'Gowan failed in business, but the
embarrassments which ensued did not seem to lessen
their happiness. Anxious to obtain the means of sup-
port for his wife and children, Mr. M'Gowan became
the concluding clerk in a Solicitor's office, which office
he has continued to fill from the moment of his failure
to the present time. A Major Blake had occasion to
send a commission for the etamination of witnesses to
the West Indies; the plaintiff was sent on that bosineis.,
Plaintiff and defendant were intimate, and on visiting
terms; but previously to his departure for the West
Indies not the slightest improper intercourse took place
between him and Mrs. M'Gowan. The defendant holds
an employment in the Post-office, where the salaries are
progressive; on going abtoad the plaintiff placed his
wife in the care of most respectable friends and rela-
tives; he left with her a sum of money fully adequate
to her and her children's support during his absence ;
Mrs. M'Gowan lived therefore with her sister. Shortly
after the plaintiff's departure, defendant paid close at-
tention to his friend's wife, and not only prevailed over
her virtue, but obtained from time to time considerable
sums of money for his own expenses. He (Mr. Hamil-
ton) would shew, if rightly instructed, that a criminal
intercourse had taken place between the parties during
Mr. M'Gowan's absence. Early in December,lB2o, plain.
tiff had no reason to suspect his wife, but found her,
as he supposed, pure, chaste, and virtuous; he had the
greatest confidence in her.----he trusted her with the
management of his pecuniary affairs—he entrusted her
on his return with a sum of money for the payment of
a particular debt, which she omitted to diicharge ; and,
if he was rightly instructed, she gave the money to her
paramour. The consequence of which was, that in
1821, Mr. M'Gowan was arrested ana thrown in prison.
While in confinement (for twelve months) nis wife-was
at Richmond, near Dublin, in lodgings, where the cri-
minal intercourse was continued. Mr. M'Gowan sur-
prised the defendant and his wife in a critical situation;
they both denied that any crime had been committed,
and took each an oath to affirm their assertion. Lovers
vows were soon broken, and in June, 1828, the Lady
left her husband's lodgings, and went off with the de-
fendant, leaving her three children, and cohabited with
defendant in several places. These were the facts of the
ease. Mr: Hamilton said he called on the Jury to con-
skier the treachery of the defendant, and the injury
offered to the plaintiff*, in depriving him of every do-
mestic comfort. No pecuniary compensation could
make him amends, for he never could be separated.
from this woman, but must end his dayi a widoseer
who had a wife living—that wife a disgrace to his chil-
dren and to himself. The evidence adduced on the part
of the plaintiff fully sustained the statement. It was a
case of great aggravation.
The Learned JUDGE charged the Jury, who found a
verdict for the plaintiff-2001. damages, and 6d. costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE:

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BOW-STRIZET.
lobo Crepois and W. Richardson, a pair of dusty, weather-beaten,
fustian-jacketed teacart, and W. NiCke/sun a youngster of the same
breed, were brought befoie blisisitin:lgYesterday morning,
under the surveillance of the veteran Tow and John Ander-
' son. ontrof the horse patrol.
The prisoners are what .doeittresa would call " snappers up of
tunconsideted trines" s--fellows who wander about among farms and
Villages with a light cart and borse;picking up any odd thing that
fortune relay place in their way, which pillage they with merry
march bring home to London.
It appeared by the evidence. that they have been observed for se-
veral days past lurking about the neighbourhood of Slough, Dray-
ton, and other places, on the borders Of the Great Western Road.
From several of these ces articles of trilling value have during
that time been - of—some from out-olfices, and some front
in-doors. At length a Gentleman at Drayton, who missed a bronze
candlestick from his fatiour mantle-piece, got into his gig and went
in search of them. On his way be tool up Anderson. the patrol ;
and at SmaUberry-green, they overtook the three prisoners com-
fortably jogging towards town with their cart-load of plunder.
Anderson immediately proceeded to take them into custody ; but
they made such a determined resistance, that had he not been as-
sisted by several persons accidentally passing at the time, he would
not have been able to accomplish it. Gregson, in particular, seemed
resolved not to be taken • and in his attempt to get away, he dragged
Anderson, who had hold-of him, and who is a man of light weight,
a distance of more than forty yards along .the road ; at the same
time threatening, that if he did nut louse his hold, he would stick a
knife into him. Anderson held on, however, and eventually they
were all handcuffed and brought to town in their own cart ; the
contents of which were now produced before the Magistrate. There
were carpets of several sorts and sizes ; pieces of old Boor-cloth, new
and old corn-sacks, a couple of saddles, a portable desk, besides
many other odd nutters, and the identical bronze candlestick above-
mentioned. A very complete set of skeleton keys was found on the
prisoner Gregson ; and ou his companion Richardson there was
found a bundle of phosphorus matches, candle ends, acc...
Several Country Gentlemen attended, and identified some parts
of the property, and the prisoners, who were described by Towns-
end as very old offenders, were committed for further ezarninatic..
on Friday next.

GUILDHALL.
Thomas Binlort, a yaath of twelve years of age, was charged
under Mr. Martin's Act, with cruelty to a horse.
Charles Wheeler deposed, that the cruelty exercised to the
horses for sale on Fridays, in Smithfield, by the furious manner in
which they are rode up and down, to the great danger of those
passing through the market, has become so great a nuisance, as to
call for the intervention of the police. On Friday he was on duty
there, when he saw the prisoner riding a horse furiously up and
down, and beating the animal between the head and ears with a
stick, at the same thne using the spurs with such force, as to cause the
blood to flow from the sides of the poor animal, so much so, that
the boots and spurs of the prisoner were literally covered with
blood ; thinking this a proper case to bring before a Magistrate, he
ordered an officer to take him into custody. At the Compter, the
officers there remarked the state the boots and spurs of the prisoner
were in from the blood.
The prisoner stated that the horse was his father's, and that he
had him in the market for sale, and that at the time Wheeler took
him Into custody, he was only skewing the horse to a person, who,
for that purpose, desired him to ride him up and down quickly; he
only touched him with the spur.
" Yes," said the Alderman, " and that with all your force."
The stick and spurs, the latter completely covered with blood,
were here produced.
The father of the boy denied the case altogether, and said his
child was 4aeApable of the cruelty attributed to him, and to prove
be did not injure the horse, he bad brought him for the inspection
of the Alderman.
This the Alderman declined doing, and said that the case was so
clearly proved, that, to prevent such cruel practices, it only re-
mained foe hies to enforce the penalty, but In consideration of the
boy's age, be would mitigate it from XS to 10e. and the expenses,
which being paid, the boy was discharged.
H Al"ION-G A R DEN.

Boestway AND Rosszay.—.Yeass lionifacr, a respectable looking
young man, was brought up in the custody of Fagan and Cadby,
constables, charged with burglariously breaking into the stable of J.
Rew, of Brunswick-square, Esq. and stealing therefrom a box-coat,
value 51. a pair of breeches, and other articles of wearing apparel,
the property of Mr. Rew, but were for the use of his couffienan.
The °Mere stated, that on hearing of the robbery therms& dili-
gent inquiry for the stolen property amongst the adgbbeesitig
pawnbrokers and clothes sale-shops, and at length apeuended in
finding them exposed for sale at en old clothes shop in Mimmoutig-
street ; and from the description they received of the person who
saki them, they were induced to suspect the prisoner, where, after
coesiderable difficulty, they apprehended at two o'clock that morn-
ing at a house in Plummer-street, Utrroad.
The coachman identified the clothes produced as his master's pro-
perty, and what were stolen. The clothes-salesman identified the
prisoner to be the man of whom he bought them. The prisoner
declined making any defence, and he was fully committed to New-
gate for trial.