Star.
London, England, 1829-07-21 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY SWIMMING PEAT.

Dr. Bedsit, of whom most of our readers will have heard, as
having accomplished several difficult feats of swimming, undertook
on Thursday last, for a wager of 20f. to swim 300 yards in sixty
strokes, in a pond at Holt Town. Before commencing his
swimming feat, the Doctor had his fret tied together, and a stick
four feet long, with a flag at one end, put into each band. In this
state be was rowed in a boat into the middle of the pond, and
thrown into the water, where he floated. A weight of four pounds
was then put upon his chest, and he had intended to have floated
to the 'bore in that way, but the necessary motion of his arms sty
propel him to the shore dislodged the weight, and it sunk. It bad
' remained, however, long enough to convince the spectators that he
could have borne it. After be had boated to the shore, be com-
menced his task of swimming 300 yards its tiO strokes ; and to the
astonishment of the spectators, who loudly cheered him as he came
in, he accomplished it with gre.st ease in 31 strokes, notwitbsontl-
log the disadvantage of very shallow water..—Afenckester Ginn/ten.

Mr. C. Green, jun. son of Mr. C. Green, the veteran
aeronaut, accompanied by Lieutenant Greetham, of the 60th
regiment, made an aerial voyage from the Duke of York's Bas-
tion, oear the Gas Works, Portsea, on Wednesday. The wea-
ther having been highly favourable for the occasion, so early as
ten o'clock in the morning, the number, congregated to view did,
unusual spectacle was great, and the immense concourse of persens
assembled (probably nut ks. than thirty thousand) on the ramparts,
glade, and ton every spot in the vicinity from which a sight could
be obtained, lung before the balloon Irk the earth, produced a splen-
did effect. The balloon having been sufficiently loaned at shout
a quarter to el: o'clock, Mr. Green took his seat in the cat, and
was immediately followed by Lieut. Grreth..m, both observing au
air of the greaten coolness and indiretence to danger. It was then
relieved from its confin-ment, and rose in the most majestic'
amidst the cheers of the dense crowd below. The cu e *h:th
the balloon first took was North Hag. After attaining an akitesie
of a mile and a half, the wind veered. and carried the balloon
South East direction, tolvards. the sea, and, when over the mouth .
of Langotone Harbour, it was a mile and three quarters from.
the earth. Here %Ir. Greet) suffered the gat to escape, when
be dropped into a current of air, by which he regained the cower
which the balloon took in' the first instance iulaiod, and, atter
a voyage of three quarters of an hoer, be descended, without the
slightest injury to himself, his compenion, er to the bal ono. in a
Irk! at Swabia*, between Havant and ftowland's Castle. where
'ready 'habitant, was afforded. Although 1,000 cubit fees of gas
were required to AU the ballooo berme it left 'the earthohe yste7
faction was Inch at its bighescelevatioe, that it w* tetei.ieteiV In-
flated, and sew ps was let out, topetraeot in tenpleoldit/enaitist.
Not any pereeydbleoffseetwo was Mt In the teesperuttlte of the
atmosphere by the aeronaut, ftent•thr date the b.liats nabigsdosi to
its descent. Mr. Greco speaks in. the highest terms of the eel%
blued manner clitettheet of Larist:Ottetaint, and of the sialtniaci •
allestied by bias. • .
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