Star.
London, England, 1824-10-27 00:00:00

MR. GREEN'S ARIAL EXCURSION.

•
In the StAn of yesterday we gave an account of Ni,
dreen's balloon ascent from Portsmouth. We
give some farther particulars, with an account ot
descent, with which we have been obligingly fai,(,(l,,d
by a Correspondent:

POR.TiIfOIUTtI, OCT.
Yesterday the public were gratified by the sigh ,
balloon ascension. Mr. Green, the aeronaut, tar
advertised to ascend in his balloon the week preitiou.,;wm
prevented on-that occasion by the wind, which blew
rectly towards the Channel on that occasion. An im.
mense concourse of people had assembled to witue.sbis
ascension, bnt in consequence of the wind being fn m
the quarter in which it then was, lie was prevailed on
to put off his intended excur,ion for another day. Ye:-
terday was fixed on; it blew a bi isk gale in the direction
of E.N.E. but the sky was clear, and the day otherwise
favourable. Preparations were made in the early part of
it for the event; and the people in the immediate neigh:
bourhood were made acquainted with his determination
to ascend. About one o'clock, a numerous and respect-
able assemblage of people collected round the Duke of
York's Bastion, on the ramparts of Portsea, from which
they es itnessed the process of inflating the balloon. At
three o'clock all was ready, and Mr. Green stepped into
the car, followed by Mr. Gandy, R.N. a Gentleman
who has recently fallen into a large fortune. Mr.
Green was observed to be extremely busy in making
the necessary preparations for his aerial voyage, adjust-
ing the ropes, and balancing the car with the greatest
nicety. At ten minutes past
,three the bign,al gun ft,r
the ascension was fired, and in a few seconds the .beau-
tiful machine ascended from the earth, and rose majes-
tically a considerable height bet Ore the wind took effect
on it ; immediately that it did, it took an E. N.E.sourse,
and travelled at a very. rapid rate, in view of tile spec-
tators a considerable time.

Mr. Green descended ai Heyshott, two miles beyond
Midhurst, in Sussex. He cast out the grappling-iron
on the brow of a hill, but it failed in catching hold of
anything, and the balloon was driven at a very rapid
rate towards the church of that village, and would
have come in contact with it and endangered the.lives
of the voyagers, had not an extraordinary but fortunate
accident prevented it ; the grappling-iron caught the
breecloes of a labouring man, who was staring v.itl, asto-
nishment at the balloon; and the • check which this oc-
casioned, changed in a slight degree the course it was
taking, and it passed the church, the man still entangled;
it then struck against a poplar tree, and the ro;:es be-
coming entangled in its branches, it was secured, and
the voya,,ers landed safely. The balloon sustained no
injury. Mr. Green reached Portsea between nine and•
ten o'clock at night, and was welcomed by his Ci,m-
, mister., who drank his and his companion's health in•
nine times nine. This ascent is considered to have been
one of the grandest ever accomplished.

t . •
COURT OF ALDERMEN-iIk:FA UNTIfEROY

The LORD MAYOR wished to call the attention of the
Cour4 to a matter which he conceited affected the pri-
vileges of the City. He had imagined that the proceed-
ings of the Magistrates of Middle.ex, in the case of Mr.
Fauntleroy, had been in consequence of some offence
committed in Middlesex ; but to his surprise, he found
by the commitment, a copy of u hich he heid in his
hand, and which he should request the Town Clerk to
read, that the commitment was for an offence in the
city of London, and his case stood in the calendar to
be tried by a London Jury. How far they had a right
he would not say, but certainly it t as contrary to cour-
tesy. He had no recollection of any case since he had
been in the Magistracy where such an occurrence had
taken place; and he believed the City Magistrates inva-
riably sent all perions charged with offences in Middle.-
sex to the Magistrates there ; and in a recent case, a
robbery of great -extent—he meant Earl Cowper's—.
although the whole was detected in the City, and through
the vigilance of their own officers, be had sent the pri-
soners to the Magistrates at Hertford for investigation.
The Court would naturally feel that, occupied as he
constantly was, it would be highly desirable for him to
be relieved from trouble; but he conceives that the
Magistrates of the City ought not to shrink from any
trouble where the privileges of the City were concerned.
He, therefore, felt it his duty to state the circumstance,
and to leave it to the Court to act as they thought proper.
The commitment was then read as follows:
" Police-office, Great Marlborough-street.
" TO Till Xl/Pla OF HIS MAMMY'S GAOL OF SIVIGASS, OA HIS
DMITT.
" Middlesex to wit,—Receive into your custody the body of
Henry Fauntkroy, herewith sent you, brought before me, Jobs
Edward Conant, Esquire, one of his laajesky's Justices of the Peace
in and for the said county, by Samuel Plank, and charged before
me the said Justice, upon the oath of James Kirby and others, with
feloniously uttering and publishing as true, in the city of London, a
certain false, forged, and counterfeited letter of attorney, for the salt
of the sum of five hundred pounds interest or share l the Long
Annuities, in the capital or joint stock of the Governor and Company
of the Bank of England, well knowing the same to be false, forded.
and counterfeited, with intent to defraud the said Governor and
Company of the Bank of England ; against the peace and statute, &c.
Him therefore safely keep in your said custody., until be shall be
discharged by due course of law ; and for so doing this AO be your
ANI

►arrant.

4, Given under any band and seal this 21st, day
m eci
ofOntstaberdT:,
1.824.
(Signed) ,
Sir JAMES SHAW said, that he did not know how far
the Middlesex Magistrates had the right, but it ap-
peared to him that it was highly improper, and that in
courtesy it ought to have been sent to the City Mag,
strates. As the individual was about being tried, he.
thought it would be better not to come to any imme•
diate conclusion, but he should move that it be re-
felled to a Committee of Privileges.
Mr. Alderman WOOD thought it highly improper: it
had formerly been attempted, and remonstrated against.
At least, as a matter of courtesy, they ought to have
sent the case to the City ; the City Magistrates always
did so with respect to them, and if in little petty cases
they did so, he really thought it worthy the consident•
tion of the Court,
Sir J. PERRINe concurred I and after some furtbcs
consideration, it was agreed to confer with the Magi•
straw on the 'rota, and-Recorder and Common-Serjeant,
at the ensuing-Sessions. .
The 1, ri s

.ast leiters lions tiMriltar announce the depar:-
iure from that port of allthe Spanish revolutionists tvtLA
had taken tehige there; some are gone to Tangiers,
'ome t ; E•1;;1.t; J, and the greater number to America.

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