The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-06-05 00:00:00

MR. GREEN'S ASCENT.
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Mr. Green hes published an account of his ascent in his
balloon, from the Mermaid, adiackoey,on Tuaday eveni or.
After stating the eats. of the delay. and i.e im?ntience of
the spectators, which was mach allayed by the iaerpositiot)
of Mr. Henry Hunt, Mr. G. Wm preceeds in his 'termite ;
"At seven o;gleek I found that I had obtained an ascending
power, sodas so much impatience had been manifested by
the spectators within the ground, I determined, without te4.
ing either ballast or instruments, to delay my ascent no
longer. Having entered the car. and the baboon being r,-
moved to the west side of the g .rden, I gate the signal f
the ropes to be looset.4; but some perso f, either necidenfelly
or wittully held one of the ropes, and prevented the balloon
from clearing the trees. I threw out my grapple, descended
and received an additional supply of gas, which I wits
arged to by the Committee of the Gas Com-
pany, to enable me to take a sufficient quantity or
ballast to insure a safe desemt.• At a qe r,er be• ore
eight I again entered the car, amidst the cloub's aad
fears of a most respectable and numerous a•semhlagc,
but they were instantly dispelled by my gradual nbrll
in an eastward direction, aim Ist the acclamations ee as.
sembled th insands. I was afraid of coming in con act
wilt the tower in Hackney CJlUrelt-v4rd, which I p oke
within a very few yards, bat avoidCd it by throwing 0.11
a quantity of ballast. Several persons on the top of Val
weer were so very near to me as to put out their Ilan 'a
to shake hands with me. 1 could not possibly rofraia•
from laughing at the circumstance, and tney ceeerel me
loudly as I passed. Al er I vied thrown out the ballast,
I ascended rapidly, and reached an elevation o at least
two miles and a half, where I form I if so intensely cold,
that my fingers were paratyzed. I pawed over the left
of Hackney Wick, the le .d-mills in the marshes, Lay.
tonatone, Barking Side, part of Epping-forest, and to tie
left of Rumford; and I descended in a clover-field belong-
ing to Mr. Staines, at Nitre-hill, 4 miles N. of Rumford.
My fall was so very easy, hat ing checked the accelerated velo-
eityof the descent by the continued discharge of ballast, the: I
COMM to the ground withoat recciving the least shiock or eon-
coasted. The appearances that I witnessed daring my voyage
(it haviug been made at a different time of the day from any
other of my aerial excursions), vary greatly from these l lesi
previotisly ob d. The sun was setting at the time I en-
tered the clouds, and the reflection of its rays vartegatel
them, and gave to some of them the similitude of red va-
pour. The appearance of the river Tnames, which on my
former ascent resembled a sheet of polished metal, now wis
obscured from my view by a mass of clouds or vapour rob-
ing over it ; the lend ott each side of it at the same time
appearing very dist;nct. Epping-forest, as I passed over
one part of it, appeared of a triangular form, and re-
gambled a coppice covering two acres of land, the trees
of which did not appear to my visual organs to be higher
than gooseberry-hushes. I mention this to explain a
statement made by Cai.tain Snowden, who passed over
the same forest with a balloon, in company with M.
, Garnerio, " That although Epping-forest did not appear
target teen a gooseberry-bush. he could distinctly sew
the ruts aid furrows in the fields." I have no doubt bet
that gentleman mistook cross-reads aid lases for rats
and furrows, which any ;mum on a first ascent would,
I be likely to do; and I conceive that his observation st
to the gooseberry-bush referred mutely to the height of
the trees. The &tattles of the various scenes—the di-
versified appearance of the earth, occasioned by the get-
ting of the sun-eand the immense holism which my
sight compassed, surpassed every thing I bad previoesly
witnessed on my furtiv•r ascents at-an earlier period of
the day ; and 1 certainly should lhave gratified myself
by remaining up mull longer, had I not pledged myself
to return, if possible, pa Hackney, the same night ; het
which I was prevented from effecting, by being detained
by Mr. Staines, who, very illiberally, as I conceived,
forcibly seized my bal'oon, because some trilling injury
had been done to his clover by persons who ran into the
field to witnessmy descent, and whose natural curiosity
induced them to witness a close inspection o: the aero-
nautical machine. Bat, notwithstanding the impedi-
ment, I arrived at the Mermaid, at Hackney, at two
o'clock in the following warning. My thanks are doe
to the Magistrates wh h w re present, anti to Mr. (tartan,
the bead officer of Worshia-Areet, by whose extraiodel
am mainly indebted for th.l preservation of the pout,
and the safety of my person aid balloon."

Comma's Neu Rm.—An inquest was held yeaterdttyat
the Grave Maurice, Whileenapei-road, before J. W_
Unwiu, Esq. Coroner, WI Lie body of John Andrews, aged
thirty.
The mother of the decease) stated, that on Wednesday
afternoon last, about three o'clock, she ■nd her son were
walking together, near the Rein Deer, in the Hackney-road,
and the latter was in the act of crossing the corner of a
lane, when he was ksocked dawn by a horse drawing a
chaise sNittiout any person in it. the driver, as site unue-
stood, having been jest thrown out of it ; the horse was
going at full gallop at the time ; the wheels of the civil*
passed over deceased, broke his legs and arm, and produced
other serious bodily injuries. Wttuess had him monrie
conveyed to the London Hospital ; be linens.' until Satur-
day last, *hen he expired.
Another witness, named Ann Stant in, eorro`lo t'sed the
foregoing testimony.
It was stated by the Beadle, that the gentleman who ars
thrown out of the chaise was dangerously hurt; that Is
made the mother of the deceased a handsome preys*, la
promised to pay all tlib expenses attending the funeral.
Verdict—Accidental Death.
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