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London, England, 1802-08-04 00:00:00

iwo.v.slEuß a d 1119DAAIE GAR.VZRIN.

The eorhifiry of the town was laft night once
mote r.tu.;..1 to wit nets the wonders of aerwtation.
T 1,.„ who boldly Veers a frail bark through
tr.ickiefis ocean, and rentaias undatint.ed amida
;tone, of carnage, fhould venture into the regions
of the a:olotintere, is not, perhaps, very furpri-
ii;;g ; but who could have expetted that the fair
JCL who ale lo unaccullomed to hazardous en-
re:prife, and who shrink from the very idea of
dauvr, would ever have mounted from the earth,
aio ;riven thcinfelves to the mercy of the winds ?
) mush female boldncfs had rarely hitherto been
thiplayed in England ; but Madame Garnerin, re-
-I;ilving to (hare the perils of her hulband, an-
nounced that the was determined to accompany
him in the aerial voyage he was to make yeller-,
(Its. even:pg. Vauxhall was fixed upon as the fpot
from v.hitli they were to afcend. The Gardens
were op.:ned at four o'clock, and notwithflanding
the aiikwardnefs of the hour, we are happy to
state, that before (even a fufficient number had
entered fully to indemnify the Proprietors for the
expence to which they had put themfelves. The
morning was rather doubtful, but the clouds were
wise diipi2rfed, and finer weather it was impollible
fir the mod timornsis aeronaut to defire. The
rvening was not only by far the finca we have had
this feafori, but one of the molt beautiful we are
ever bletßi with in this Northern climate. The
tkv was clear, there was fcarcely a breath of wind,
and there was a grateful frefhnefs in the air, not-
withflanditilkits uncommon warmth.
A circula.. Itage, about 4o feet in diameter, had
been erected in the centre cf the Gardens. Early
in the morning the balloon was placed upon it,
and there lay flat like an oil'cl-cloth ; however,
hiv•vc two dozen of calks flood among the ad-
ioinhg trees ; there were filled with the filings of,
*Ural, ice. and the inflammable air was conveyed
firm them in pipes. The filk foon began to (well,
and by fix o'clock it was completely extended.—
Precifely at feven, M. Garnerin afcended the flage
with Madame Garuerin under Ins arm. The lady
Imiled upon the fpettators in the moll fafcinating
• omer, and every one was (truck with her
d 4lms. Madame Garnerin is rather low in fla-
Lite, and of a flcnder form ; but if the Venue de
..:;-.1;:;1 is the true flandard of beauty, the is not
chtEc'ent in either refpett. She does not feem
to he above 23, and we never law more viva-
city and fweetnefs in any countenance. She
walked round the flage With the fame unconcern
as if :it,bcdy had been within fight of her. Yet
the to was nothing of boldncfs in her looks, as it
vie 11.1 I been accullomed to fubjett herfelf to the
• hazes of the multitude. Every thing being
r,ady, Madame Garnerin Itepped into the boat,
and fluwed the finea limb in the world. Mr.
Ghtfsforsl, a gentleman who engaged to be of this
atmolphei is party, fat down oppofite to her, and
fainturn• took his Ration in the middle. The;
company then gave three cheers. and thole em-
ployed to keep down the balloon let go tjotit hold.
It rofe to about the height of twenty'leet, bu.
immediately defcended. .A land bag was thrown
Out, and it again mounted, but it was in danger
of being entangled among the trees, and M. Gar-
nerin gave orders for it to be pulled down. Ma-
dame Garnerin rethained all the while as cool and
as much at her cafe as if the had been fitting in a
drawing.room. At lilt it went up perpendicu-
lar. She killed her hand repeatedly, and the two
gentlemen waved the flags of their refpetlive na-
tions. The motion of the balloon was very flow
at firft, but grew rapid by degrees—
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Mubilitate viget,vircique a-cquirit cundo.
We are happy, however, that we cannot add, as
we might have done on the two former occafions,
--" Caput inter nutila condit." It wasfeen diftinttly
for fifty-four minutes, during which time, at the
rate of the firft voyage it would have reached Ox-
ford. From the perfeuft calm which prevailed,
people were uncertain what direaion it would take,
and many thought it would remain above the
Gardens. But there was an infenfible current in
the air, and the balloon went to the weftward.—
It loon after wheeled about to the north. It ho-
vered a cons derable while above the River, and
could not then have been lets than 6000 feet high.
Madame Garnerin had carried with her a
(mall balket with a kitten in it, which defcend
ed from the balloon about five minutes after
it rote, and fell in the Gardens belonging to
the Black Eagle public-hot:le near Millbank. It
was attached to a Parachute, which at firft fell
with great velecit7, but when the fpokes were
fully extended, the detcent was eafy and gradual.
In thebafket was a paper written with there words :
" This kitten afcended in a balloon, and whoever
will bring it to Madame Garnerin, N 0.55, Poland-
fleet, (hall receive one guinea reward." The
Balloon afterwards became very low, but tome
banal} being thrown out, it role higher than ever.
M. Gat nerin having done every thing in his
Forcer to gratify the town with a full view of his
wonderful vehicle, withed to defcend as foon as
The balloon croffed the River towards the Ab•
ley about a quarter of an hour after it welt up;
and, as it can:e very low at this time, it was fear-
it would defcend in the water ; but, in a few
narrates more it returned its former elevation, and
'..olonged the plea/tire of the fight for a confider-
.lble time. Garnerin teemed to have the bufincfs
completely at his own difpotal, and to go up and
come down at plcafure. The balloon remained
711;bie in its full fize till the approach of night;
the yalow and green.flripes could.be diihnguilhed
trlr ?tole ;Lan half an hour, and the waving of the
gags nearly as long. It was lien from every par
4,1 London, particularly the well end of the town.
‘)0011 alter 14e parachute dace:nice, it appeared,
fr.,,ir Ora: ing eras, to be immediately
iarve V. ilminter Abbey : it fumed qu;te heady,
alma ilati.boar y, but gradually defeending.—
Niany r,oi down om Charing.erofs, think-
lag to fee the travel era land in Weßruiralcr. A
cntle lrreeaec.n r iedtht Lalloon towards St. James's
`'•tk, into e% hich the populace flocked. It gra-
6a;Wy e:cfc,.neled, till the ilar,s were fern wavino-

that no doubt remained of the intention of the I
travellers to alight infide the rails of St. James's
Park. It was now above the weft end of the
canal ; hundreds leaped the rails, and ran infide,
confident it was coming down, and fearful the
travellers would alight before they, the fpedators,
could come up. Hundreds were running along
the Strand, and other flreets, expeding alto the
balloon to come down in the Park. So low was
the balloon, the perfons in the car, Mr. and Ma.
dame Garnerin, could be dittindly feen ; and le-
veral perfons infide the railing called to them, ex-
peeling an anfwer ! The balloon could not then
be more than a quarter of a mile high. To the
dif:lppointment of thofe who had leaped the rails,
however, the balloon went over the Green Park;
it nearly crolfed over St. James's Palace, the aero-
nauts waving their flags, the populace at the end
of Pall-mall huzzaing. A great crowd out of
the Park ran up St. James's-ftreet ; the balloon
was nearly over the ftreet, a little to the left, now
afccnding gradually, but making very little way
over the ground. It next took a courfe acrofs
Bond-fireet, and many of the fpe&ators made no
doubt Garnerin was going to land at the Pan-
theon, above which he adually arrived ; but the
balloon then took a direct but flow courfe for Wel-
ling's Farm, palling nearly above Lord's Cricket
Ground, and going dire& for Hampftead ; at this
time, eight o'clock, from the darknefs more than
the dillance, fight was loft of it, and it came
down in Lord Rofslyn's grounds, Hampftead,
where the travellers alighted in fafety foon after
eight o'clock. The balloon was in fight of Lon-
don an hour. Mr. James de Marin, the proprietor
of the Panorama, of Paris, was the firft perfon
who affilled the aerial voyagers. Being perfonally
known to
.Monf. Garnerin, he had followed the
balloon from Pi imrofe.hill, where a party of friends
had taken their ftation to fee it defcend. When
Mr. de Marin came within hearing, Motif. Gar-
nerin requefted he would lay lay hold of the rope
affixed at the bottom of the car, which Mr dc
Marin did ; and at the requell of Monf. Garnerin
he got into the car to keep the balloon from again
afcending. By this time g great crowd was cul-
leded, nearly five hundred people, who prellid fo
much on the car that Madame Garnerin nearly
fainted, Several horfcmen fortunately arrived
about this time, and with their whips they made
a ring. Before Madame Garnerin or any other
perfon could get out of the car, it was necelfary
to throw in a quantity of ballaft, it was with fome
difficulty, and after a, lapfe of near a ;loaner of an
hour, a fpade was procured, and a quantity of
earth dug up, which was thrown into the car be-
fore Monf. and Madame Garnerin, and their com-
panion, Mr. Duncan Glafsford, alighted. Mr. De
Marin eonduded Madame Garnerin to the Hamp-
flead Road. On their arrival there, they found a
gentleman's chariot in waiting ; with fome diffi-
culty the coachman agreed to carry them to Lon-
don, but when they got about five hundred yards,
they could not prevail on him to take them furl
then. Fortunately a carriage going to town palled
at the time, in which were three gentlemen, and a
lady; they, on enquiry, politely offered the two
vacant places, which brought them to Tottenham
court-road, where a gentleman of the name of
Williams (who was prefent on horfeback when the
balloon defcended), had provided a hackney-
coach, into which Madame Garnerin, Mr. De
Marin, and Mr. Williams got, and drove to Vaux-
hall gardens, where they arrived at a quarter of
an hour- before ten o'clock. They were accompa-
nied by a crowd all the way, particularly when
they got on the Surrey fide. They were received
by the fpedators without, and the company with-
in the gardens, with the rnoft enthufiaftic joy.—
Madame Garnerin was in high 'Piths, and did not
appear at all agitated in confequence of the jour-
ney. The only inconvenience the fuftained was in
being very wet in the feet, from walking in the
grafs to the puhlic road. This is the ninth afcen-
lion of that lady in a balloon, and twice the has
defcended in a parachute.
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Monf. Garne.rin and Mr. Duncan Glafsford re-
mained on the ground mail the balloon was pack-
ed up ; it was lent to Mr. Godfall's, the coach-
maker's, at Hatnpftcad, and loon after Mr. Gar-
nerin returned to town. He arrived at Vauxhall
Gardens loon after eleven o'clock. The gardens
were then crouded ; above feven thoufand perfons
were prefent ; feveral were of the firft fafhion.—
After the brilliant difplay of fire-works Monf. and
Madame Garnerin publicly appeared in the pro-
menade, • and were received with the utmoft re-
lpeet and cordiality by their numerous admirers,
who all (trove to exprefs how much they were gra-
tified by their great tkill and dexterity.
Mr. Alley, junior, who fo materially girdled
Monfieur Garnerin in the afcenfion of the balloon,
and handed Madame Garnerin into the car, was
to have gone up with them, had Mr. Glafsford
declined. Monlieur Garnerin received, for his
afctitflon, from the Proprietors of Vauxhall 2501.
and a third of laft night's receipts.
This evening feemed to have been purpofely
given to M. Garnerin to console him for the bad
weather which he had experienced in his two for-
mer voyages in this country. The inhabitants of
the town and its environs poured out in vaft
multitudes from every quarter ; and every place,
from which a view could be obtained, was
crowded with them. The ends of the ftreets along
the Strand, which overlook the river, and the
Adelphi T:srac,:, were fide,' with fpedtators.—
Many perfons were on the tops of houfes. Weft-
minfter-hridge was crowded from one end to the
other.—Biackfi iaz s the fame.

The banks of tlic River on both fides, and parti-
cnlaily the Tca-gatdens about Vauxhall, were
thronged. All the aMtot:l;:s about Millbank,
Vauxhall, Lamb-414 and IVeilmintter, were filled
to the very doors. On Milbank, perfons took
their Ilations fo early as four o'clock, fitting down,
that they might fecore places; by the time the
balloon went up, Milibank was cumpletcly covered
and crowded, there was no moving on it. The
Thames was covered with boats for more than a
mile. A palm might almoll have walked acrofs.
M'nv rrentrel.n2rtiA, ,

the North-cart of Vauxhall-Gardens, perron; wer•
admitted for a fhilling each, but the populace
broke in and filled it for nothing.
The public roads, the fields, and furrounding
places, formed one immenfe throng of people.--
Although the multitude occupied every fpace of
ground, the walls, the trees, &c. we licar,l of on-
ly two accidents ; part of an old wall, oppofite
the coach entrance into the gardens, fell dawn,
but providentially no perfon was materially hurt.
The other accident was, the overfetting of a
wherry, near Millbank, from being overloaded.
By the number of boats near, the perfons who
were in the wherry &aped with a ducking. Every
avenue to the Gardens was completely covered
with carriages. Among the fafhionables in the
Gardens, we noticed Lord and Lad} Melbourne,
Mr. Duff, Capt. Sowden, Marquis of Headford,
Mr. Joddrell, Mr. Mellifb, Sir Thomas Turton,
Duchcfs of Devonfhire and a party, Duke of
Queenfbury, and Duchefs of Gordon.
The roads were not only blocked up with car-
riages, but with foot pafrengers, at an early hour,
fo that thofe who came late could not get up with
their carriages; and, impatient to get into the
gardens, for fear of miffing the fight, the cocked
hats, and ladies in full drefs, deferred their car-
riages in crowds, to battle through the crowd.—
But the return to town in the evenini. ;—who can
defeiibe it ?—The crowds which had' ly:en diftri-
buted over different parts, colleiFted in the roads,
and the foot paffengers were actually carried of
theirfed. The carriages were as numerous, and
crowded as at Sir Francis Burdett's proceffion,
and this on the roads to the three bridges; but the
foot pafrengers came in clouds, miles in length.—
Returning along Weltminfler and Blackfriars
bridges, the crowd was as great as in going into
the galleries of the theatres, when Mrs. Siddons,
Mrs. Jordan, or Mrs. Billington perform, after
an abfence. The fleet of boats coming down the
water was equally attonifhing. We may fairly
fay, that on no former occafion were fo many
perfons ever colleded to an exhibition.
The owner of a field dole to Vauxhall Gardens
admitted perfons at a (haling a piece, and he could
not have had lets than a or 3000 perfons who paid
that fum for admiflion.

Several fcaffolds were erected for fpeCtators, but
the recolleltion of what happened to the fcaffold
at Maryla bonne deterred molt people from af-
cending them. A publican, we underftand, had
refufed rol. for the tile of his upper front windows.
He ereeted a fcaffold on a level with the windows
of his firft floor, in expeCtation of making a great
fum. He firft demanded two (billings from each
perfon for admittance—and finding that nobody
would give that furn, he lowered his demand to
one (billing. Yet, notwithflAnding all this, there
were not much more than twenty perfous on the
fcaffold.

The pickpockets were very numerous. a noto-
rious gang was potted on Vauxhall Terrace, where
a very great crowd was colleited ; but we have
not learned that they carried their depredations to
that pitch of violence which was committed at the
time of the afcent from Lord's Cricket ground.

The Parifians, tired of balloons, fquibs, and rock-
ets, are now diverted with water-works, and while
they are gaping to fee how high the water can
'out, the CHIEF CON SU L aroma as high as he pleafes.
SUSSEX Woos. Fain.—On' Monday lall the an-
nual Wool Fair, for the County of Suffix, was
held at Lewes. It was attended by feveral of the
moff confiderable Wool-ftaplers from London,and
from different parts of the country ; and by the
principal Wool-growers of the Eaffern Divifion of
the County. The meeting was fo numerous that
no one houfe could contain them.

Lord SI, EFFIE LD, who had been the principal
founder of the fair, prefided.
The Wool•buyers, as ufual, afferted that wool
was not worth the laft year's price—thcy com-
plained of the deprefflon of our foreign trade—
that they do not get remittances from the Manu-
fadurer ' • and particularly infifted on the large
(Lock of Wool in hand.

Lord SHEFFIELD anfwered, that it was impor.
fible to conceive why fhort wool fhould be a drug
this year, when long wool is higher than it was
ever before known to be ; and when France is en-
deavouring to revive her manufatures of fine wool,
and confequently the price of Spanifh wool will be
high, and a (mailer quantity will come into this
country. In refpat to the fuppofed decreafed de-
mand for Britifh woollen manufactures from
abroad, he obferved, that it was comparatively a
very fmall part of the manufadure which at any
time went to foreign countries; that the export
trade was undoubtedly very advantageous in tak-
ing off our hands all fuperfluity, and confequent-
ly a great encouragement, but that the home
market was infinitely of more confequence, and
confumed much the greater part of the manufac-
ture. The people of -England, Scotland, and Ire-
land, muff be clothed as heretofore, and there-
fore there muff be a great demand for wool, and
the increafing population mutt increafe the de-
mand. He denied that there was no 'export of
woollen manufaCtures. He afferted, that the re-
turn of peace would open to us nearly the fame
' markets as heretofore—that France might vie
with us in certain fuperfine rnanttfadures of wool,
though not in cheapnefs; but would not enter into
competition with us, at the foreign markets, in
the coarfer woollens. He added, that the expec-
tation of a better price had produced a great de-
gree of attention to the growth of wool, and con-
lequently, there was a great Improvement in Eng-
lifh •wool ; and that, confidering the very heavy
poor rates, and other heavy expenses which fall
on farmers, it could not be expeCted that their
wool 'honld be fold ar the fame price as formerly.
Theis arguments were utianfweted, but no wool
was fold on that day.
Sixty !billings per tod, of 321 h. have fince been
offered for lots not of the very belt quality ; and
the general price ;Aced was fixty-four
and it is expeded that price will be obtained for