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London, England, 1807-10-22 00:00:00

PARIS, OCTOBER to.

Letter; from Bayonne, dated the zstli of Septem.
ber, metition, that that city feels great benefit iron,
the pretence and good conduit of the troops compo.
fang the Army of Obfervation, and that the -polite-
nefs of their Commander, the Ex Governor of Parte,
is entitled to particular praife.
The enemy are continually before Rochelle. SI.
(hips of the line and a Goop of war contlantly cruise
at the entrance of the channel of Antioche; they are
in fight from time to time. There are always three
or four frigates under fail, or at anchor at the mouth
of the Garonne, and two flqops of war, which 'levet
qni: the fands of Ulonne, or the Whale. They keep
the unfortunate co-afters, which venture to q•fi! the
I ports, in a Date of continual alarm, and often dike
them on Gore.
, sccotto escENstort EY NIP HT 01• St. CARNEPAY.

66 My fecond aerial journey by night will t.ot affold
an opportunity hir the btilliant narratives which I
have had occailt.ti to make in the courfe of my forty
preceding afcenlions. I (hall not have to defcribl
the majeltic appeal ances which nature continually
offers to the eyes of dR aeronaut who alceads in fa.
'Curable weather. I can only give. a narrative ri
an act ial tempefl which was nigh terminating in
fhipwreck.
61 The Gbflacles which the wind caufed to tht
inflation of the balloon fnfficiently apprized me of
the approach of the florm ; and to the difficulties of
the weather was added the tut hulence f a party, by
which I was prevented from placing the cord of the
valve, fo as to regulate the tube, which, in cafe of
eznanflon, was to conduit the gas into a direaiopt
different from the lights which furrounded the bottom
of the balloon.

66 I was to have been accompanied by M. De
Chaffenton ; but the aerial norm, which continually
increafed until the moment of my departure. gate
me reafon to apprehend fuch a difaller as Mr. 114laa.
chard, and another aeronaut, met with in Holland.
M. De Chaflenton was a&ually in the boat.' I ma
bear witnefs to his determination ; for I am convin-
ced that nothing could have made this yotmg man,
remarkable for his merit, quit the boat, if the well
grounded apprehcnfion which I entertained, of feeing
him ezpofed to certain dentuftion, had not fuggefted
to me the idea t.f declaring to him, that the balloon
was not capable of carrying up two perfons.
66 It was thus in the moll adverce weather, and
expofed to the greaten oppofition and the tumuli of
a cabal, the head of which it is eafy to guefs at, that
I afcended frem Tivoli, at half pall ten eclat on
the night of the 210 of September. An unexampled
rapidi:y of afcenlion, but extremely oteeflary to pre.
vent me from corning in contaft with the adjoining
boats, railed me above the clouds, and in a few
minutes carried me to an immenfe height, the extent
of which I cannot precifely afcertain, in account of
the dangers and stobarraffments which Suddenly
affeaed my imagination, and go evented me front
obferving the declenfion of the mercury in the Imo.
meter. Elevated in an instant to the frozen regions,
the balloon became fubjell to a degree of expanfion
which infpited me with the greaten apprehention.---
There was no alternative between certain death and
giving an innant vent to the gas, and this at the rifle
of feting the balloon take fire. I gradually opened
with one hand an orifice of about two feet diameter,
by which the gas efcaped in large volumes, while,
with the other,4 I extinguifhed as many of the light;
as I could. Doting this effort, I feveral times was
near overbalancing myfelf, and falling out of the boat
.1 Deprived of the opportunity of regulating the
valve, my balloon, like a fhip without a rudder,
floated in the air, obeying the influence of the tem•
pet at u re, the winds,and the rain. Whenever the fora
of thefe made me defcend, the norm, which kept
increafing,obliged me to throw out ballast, for them
pole of avoiding it, and efcaping firm imminent Ship.
wreck. At length, at four o'clock in the morning, after
having been almon continually enveloped in thick
clouds. through which I could feldom fee the mooa,
all my means of fupporting mylelf in the air were
exhautied. Whatever (kill I poffeffed was no longer
of ufe to me. My boat feveral times (truck againtt
the ground and rebounded from thence. The tem•
pelt often drove me against the fides and tops of
mountains. Whenever my anchor caught in a tree,
the balloon was fo violently agitated by the wind,
that I experienced all the inconvenience of a violent
fea-ficknefs. Plunged at one time to the bottom of
a precipice, in an inflant after I attended, and EV
quired a new elevation. The violence of the conctS
lions exhaufled ury Itrength, and I lay for a hall-bout
in the boat in a nate of infenlibility. During this
tempell I recovered ; I perceived Mont Tonnerre,
and it was in the midtk of crafhes of thunder, and at
a moment which I fuppofed would be my last, that
I planted upon this celebrated mountain the Eagle of
NAPOLEON joined to that Of ALEXANDER.
66 I was carried away for fume time longer by
guns of wind, but fortunately fume peafants came to
my affinance at the moment that the anchor hooked
in a tree. They took hold of the cords which bung
from the balloon, and landed me in a fora upon the
fide at a mountain, at half pail five in the morning!
feven hours and .a half after my departure, and more
than zoo leagues didant from Paris. They toil me
to Cicufen, in the canton of Waidfifehbach, and de-
partment of Mont Tonnerre. M. Cefar, a mat ti
information, and Mayor of the neighboring to.a•
came and offered me every affidance in his p. wit
and at my requelt drew up a narrative, of which
Cc
gave me a copy.
" 1 was fplendidly entertained the next day at
Deux Ponta by a Society of Friends c'f the AIN
confining of public FutiCtionaries, the OfF, Cit
'1 thn
lath regiment of cuirallicrs, and the Mc: be" itt the
Lodge of Free Mafons. • GANALLIA."

IGENGA.

T.

le name of Labe: the
has been exevirted
him, a brigade of
its of an entire ail-
He broke out of
',ice c•radernned to
luld not have bean
)n which had been
1., neck, in order tn
sof ratitance. He
iffold and r)
terri-
not venture to lay

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the 25th of Septem.
Is great benefit from
)1 tse troops compo.
and that the pnlite-
x Govet nor of Paris,

cl,,re Rochelle. Si.,
war cannouly cruize
Antioche; they are
'ere are always three
anchor at the mouth
; of war, which stevet
e Whale. They keep

venture to q•ti*. the
urn, ant; often chive