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London, England, 1827-05-28 00:00:00

THE KING'S THEATRE.

The performance at this Theatre on Saturday night
commenced with the Second Act of the Opera of Mc;
ciardo e Zeroide, which was prefaced by the Overture Id
.that Opera, and the first Chain " Onto de nevi allori"
and concluded with the First Act of Tancredi. At tbecon.
clusion taf hicciardoe Zoraisk, a new fiallet.einitled La
Hosed kßoutin.oa k Galant Troaradour" w as performed,
and from its merit and the mann:r in which it was re.
ce,ved,it is likely to become a favourite. Tne fourth scene
affords to MaJernoiselle Ba CARD an oppoaunity of
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attraction of the evening,gly good acting. After the
Madame PASTA. She was fetidly greeted on her
trance, but her performance of Tancredi. is so well
known to our Readers that we seed say no more of it
than that it possessed the whole of its accustomed ex.
cellence. In the brilliant Circle we noticed--
Taw Duke and Duchess of Clarence, Duke and Duchess of Glos.
enter, Duchess of Kest, anil Princess Frodure • the Prince and
Princes, Beterhasy, Duke of Beteleugh ; Duchess of Richmond;
Marquises in, Douro, Clauriearde, Hertford, Lothian;
blarchlonteras forr,Aylesbury, Ddwb,hire, Briltol-.-Dywat,
elf Salsbury ; Count Worotrsew, Countess St. Antonio, 8,r00,,,
de 9psedtb ; Lords Wallowert, Gar's/6, A. Hill, Mounneharlet,
Harevrood, Fitzroy, Montague, Wrpnotith. W. Graham, Tulls.
more, Wilton, Worcester, Clare, Binning, John Fitzroy, saminn,
llioonifleld, Fife, Anaa, Howard de Walden, Tankersine,
F. Gower, alativers, Jersey, Lascelles ; Ladles C. Nwiro,
Beckett, Dais, Lontbdri, Mount-Charles, Belfast, Haywood,
Lyndhurst, Farroji Pit Donald, Grabstn, Weymonth, cure, Fitz:
gibbon..Fltherakt, W. Wilson, Mulgrave, Bruce. A. Wentworth,
Owen, Sancho°, Worceoter, Fitiroy Somerset, Binning, litattets
'Anther, Wharncliffe, Westmeath, Tankewille, H. Parka, F.
Gesver, Surrey, Mansers, Jersey; Sirs James he Dortaid,
Graham, 'Doom Vincent •H. Wileen,Etiward PlNti, Ellut4e;
John Burgoyne, Charles &Irvine. Thomas Lawrence, A. Hume.

AEROSTATION.

MR. CHARLIS GROIN'S ACCOUNT Or HIS PIRII.OII

ASCENT TERM NEWBURY.

On the evening of Thursday last Mr. CHAILU
Golsen, the veteran aeronaut, made his 69th ascent is
his splendid balloon, from the town of NewSuiy, is
Berkshire, under the most discouraging circumstances,
He was accompanied by Mr. H. Samosa, a Gentle.
man of Beading, who has been deaf and duaab from
his infancy. The following interesting part culars Of
his tempestuous voyage are thus described by Mr.
Gisgati:-1, My second ascent from this town since I
left London being announced to take place on Thum
day last, all the necessary preparations were made, and
the balloon was inflated early in the day. Notwithstand-
ing the morning being' very squally, a great number
of visitants had assembled in the ground before two
o'clock, at which hour we were visited by a most ire.
mentions storm of hail, rain, and thunder, the wind
at the time blowing a perfect hurl icane, which in a 'eery
few seconds cleafed the ground of the company, sad
threatened inevitable derttructi ,a to the balloon itself,
which could scarcely be kept down although loaded
with two tons weight of iron, and the united exertion
of nearly one hundred individuals holding to the net.
work. This storm continued nearly one hour, when it
partially subsided, and betwixt four and five o'clock
the clouds broke up and dispersed ; but the wind coos
tinned to rage with unabated fury the whole of the
evening. A little before six o'clock, the ground being
filled with company, I entered the car followed by my
compagnon du voyagt, Mr. Simmons, who had once
before ascended with me from Reading ; and hcsing
secured the grappling iron, and all the necessary appa-
ratus, at six o'clock precisely I gave the word " Away."
The moment the machine was disencumbered of in
weights, it was torn, by the violence of the wind, from the
exhausted assistants, who had bees contending with the
combined fury of the elements during the whole day;
and bounded off with the velocity of lightning in a
south-easterly direction, and in a very emu space vi
time attained an elevation of nearly two miles. At this
elevation we perceived two immense bindies of cloud;
operated on by contrary currents of air, until at 'aligt.
they became united : at which moment my ears sere
assailed by the most awful and long-continued peal or
thunder I ever heard. These clouds were a full ee
beneath us; but perceiving other strata fl ating
the same elevation we were sailing, which, It'll
their appearance, I judged to be highly chargel
with electric matter, I considered it prudent to airs.
charge .201 b. of ballast; and we rose nearly hair a
mile above our former elevation, where I considered se
were perfectly safe and beyond their influence. How-
ever awful our situation might have been conside.e,: by
those on earth who witnessed the storm which fulloiccci
it was highly interesting to us, as I had an oppigtuni:y
of observing, amongst other phenomena, that at eve'T
discharge of thunder, all the detached pillars of clouas
within the distance of a mile round, became attracted,
and appeared to concentrate their force with the first
body of clouds alluded to, leaving the atmosphere clear
and calm beneath and around us. With vei y trifling vvria'
tion, we continued the same course until about a quarter
past seven, when I began to make preparations for a
descent ; and having opened the valve, and suffered
a quantity of gas to escape, we reached wi.hin 500 feet
of the earth ; but perceiving from the disturbed surface
of the rivers and lakes beneath us, that a strong went
of air still existed near the earth, we again ascended,
and continued our coarse until upwards of half-pot
seven, when I determined on making a final descent,
which was safely effected in a meadnw field in the
parish of Cranley, in Surrey, situate betaken
fold and Horsham, and fifty-eight miles from Ives
bury ; which stormy, yet in a great degree inte-
testinr voyage, was performed in one hour and
half. Every accommodation and assistance was aff ooled
us, and the balloon and its appendages being roped!
secured, we returned to Newbury on fa iday morrieti.
and received the hearty congratulations of dote s"'
from the effects of the storm be:ovt, had some Jewel'
of our ever reachir g terro.firmo in safety. My WO'
nion appeared highly gratarcl with the novelty of II"
situatioa, and I cannot speak too highly ofhiscon'neo.
aced presence of mind amidst the sus roundi g datiwo.