Star.
London, England, 1821-10-04 00:00:00

Bftzwiroxr OCTOBER 2.

FIFTH ASCENSION OF TIM AERONAUT, GREEN•
By advertisement, the above intrepid aeronaut was
to ascend in his Coronation Balloon, from the Gas-
ometer inclosure, in Blackrock-bottom, at noon this
day. Ftom eleven to twelve o'clock, therefore, al-
most the collective population of the town were
verging towards that point, and the roads and Downs I
were numerously interspersed with temporary visitants '
from other quarters. Soon after the latter period.
the assemblage at Black Rock was immense, and
animated was the scene presented on the contiguous
Downs. The display of carriages was imposing—
equestrians were in scores, but those on foot were far
beyond all count. The picture, altogether, was as
lively as can be imagined, fur the weather was bril-
liantly adapted to the occasion. Soon after noon at
least 30,000 persons were assembled, and these, for
two hours, were kept on the stretch of expectation
for the desired result. At five minutes after two
o'clock precisely the balloon was released from the
ropes, and ascended from the Gasometer to about
the vertical distance of sixty yards, when it more
steadily descended, and its intended aerial flight by
many was regarded as impossible. The wind blew
fresh, West by North, but that could not prevent its
declension; it reached the earth in the midst of
anxious thousands, all rapidly resolving themselves,
as it were, into a solid body on the spot where the
car had struck. This unlooked for change, how-
ever, was but of short continuance—the car was
speedily lightened of part of it. ballast, and the
balloon once more cook a direction for the regions
above. Mr. GREEN waved his hat as he ascended,
and loud and simultaneous were the cheers below.
The ballast, when a progress of mi,es had been made
in the legions of airy space, was farther reduced ; it
consisted of sand, slid. for a considerable time
continued its suspension, assuming the shape of clouds,
between earth and sky. The balloon now made rapid
way, in a direction E. by S. with the world of waters
beneath it, and eventually, in some.hing better than
twenty minutes from the commencement of its ascen-
sion, having reached a measureless distance among
the clouds. it entirely disappeared. Curiosity was
now satiated, and the countless crowd, like a moun-
tain torrent, resistless in its course, streamed for the
town. and branched off for neighbouring parts. The
race days, in animated confusion, produced nothing
equal to it. Anxiety now has superseded curiosity,
and that some account of the descent and Mr. GREEN

may reach us in the course of the night, is the pre-
valent hope. Our fishing-boats are numerous and
active in the Channel. Six o'Clock, r. X.

An account has just arrived that Mr. GREEN and
his balloon had been picked up at sea, between three
and four o'clock, off Seaford Cliffs, between New-
haven and Eastbourne, about three leagues from the
shore. It was a providential escape. One of the
packets froth Dieppe, the Unity . Capt. CLEAR, having
been driven out of her direct course by the wind, was
off Seaford Cliffs, and observed the balloon and Mr.
GREEN drip into the sea. The packet's boat was in-
stantly put off, and Mr. GREEN was first taken on
board, and then the balloon.

Nine o'clock, 7.x.

Mr. Gam); has descended in the Channel, off Sea-
ford ; he was assisted by the packet belonging to
Capt. CLEAR, and he and his balloon, therefore, are
once more in safety.

FEMALE Asitonour.—Sunday, the 9th ult. Made-
moiselle Ceett.in ascended in a balloon at Marseilles.
The event very 'nearly proved fatal to the intrepid
heroine. The ballOnn having struck aping a mast
became entangled; and having lost its power to
ascend, it could not clear a neighbouring house with-
out beating hard against a balcony. Mlle. CECILIA
received a violent contusion on her side, and a severe
injury to her hand. She was indebted for her safety
to her unshaken courage: aware of the full extent of
the danger, and that she must be precipitated from
roof to roof, she determined to throw out the ballast ;
but having caught hold imperfectly with her wounded
hand of a sand-bag, its contents fell into the boat :
her courage enabled her to despise this new accident.
The balloon, after much exertion, was extricated from
the mast and the house, and taking a sudden spring,
mounted majestically to the height of 1500 wises.—
The gas escaping in the ascent through an aperture,
the Lady came down sooner than she expected, at the
distance of a league from the town.

bias. SARAH Boso.—The death of this eccentric
woman, which we lately announced, has created a
great sensation in the neighbourhood where she lived,
among such of her own sex as now and then could
get a bird's-eye glimpse of her while living : one la-
ments that she was not so fortunate as to have prof-
fered her services; another that she had not offered
to make her bed, and assist her in her domestic ar-
rangements, &c. so as to have a clone of coming in
for some part of her immense wealth. None of these
kind services would probably have been requited in
the way these people anticipate, for she always pro-
fessed a most determined dislike to both sexes., The
men she called " beads," and the women " much
worse:' It is rather singular that this woman, who
died last Sunday se'nnight (eleven days ago), hould
still remain unburied ! The body has been placed in
a leaden coffin, and the report is, that no interment
can take place until the approbation of the LORD
CHANCELLOR is obtained. In the year 1812, it is
said she had £20,000 in the funds, and in the same
year she had £15,000 left her : at that time she had
sunk £12,000 for a proportionate life annuity. Living
in so abstemious a manner, no doubt the interest and
'compound interest of all her money bas ever since
been accumulating. Every endeavour has been used
to trace her connections, but all have been for the pre-
sent unavailing.

A COMMON SCOLD.—PHILADELPHIA, SAFI% B.
Yesterday, Catherine Fields was indicted and con-
victed for being a common scold. The trial was ex-
cessively amusing, from the variety of testimony, and
the diversified manner in which this Xantippe pursued
her virulent propensities. " Ruder than March wind,
she blew a humcane ;" and it was given in evidence,
that after having scolded the family individually, the
bipeds and quadrupeds, the neighbours, hogs, poultry,
and geese, she would throw the window open at
night to scold the watchman. Her countenance was
an index to her temper—sharp, peaked, sallow, and
small ern. nee Sentence was not pronounced.