The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-09-10 00:00:00

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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

DEAL, Sept. 9.—Wind Eas►.—Came down from the RI.
ver and sailed. the Milford. Taylor for Mogadore; sod
Trinmph. Rose, for St, Übes.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 9.—Wind Fast.—No Arritals Or
sailing..
PLYMOUTH, Sept. B.—Wind East.—Arrived, the Christina.
Hall, from Christina, having been on sh.,re on the Goodwin
Sands.—Sailed the Tom Cork!, Rornes, for Lisbon.—Off the
Port, the Charles, Miln, from Tobago.
FALMOUTH, Sept. B.—Wind East. —Sailed His Majesty's
Ship. Seringapatam, to the Eastward.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. B.—The Lady Robert Williams, and
the Whitehall for Exeter, got on shore yesterdvy. near the
Rock Perch, but was got off again, and came into the
River.
SCARIVIROUGH, Sept. B.—Arrived in these Roads, tbe Esk,
Donlon. from Greenland, with 10 fish.
Cowes, Sept 9—Arrived, the American Bark. Essex,
Wise, from Boston in 28 days for orders; and American
brig, Despatch, Burgess, from Riga.

THE ARMY.
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His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief held a
Levee yesterday morning, at his office in the Horse
Goards, which was attetffied by several Generals and other
Officers.
Istraoven SYSTEM or THE A.RMT.—The Rnles and Re-
gulations with respect to Light Infantry are now under
revision. The improved system will embrace, generally.
the movements and formations of Light Infantry aetachid,
to respective regiments when in line; and the rapid ma,
ncenvres of Light Infantry Companies formed in battalion.l
The 231 (Royal Welch Fusileers) Regiment now on duty
in Dublin, has received orders to prepare for embarkation
at that station for Gibraltar.
The 1124 (or Wiltshire) Regiment of Font, having been
relieved by the 52d Light Infantry, has embarked at Hali-
fax for England.
The 75th Regiment of Foot, now on duty at Gibraltar,
has received orders, when relieved Dv the Royal Welch
Fosileers, to embark at that station for England.
Detachments belonging to the 27th and ti irk Regiments
of Infantry, sailed from Cowes-on the 7th instant for
Gibraltar.
Detachments belonging to several Regiments at Malta
and the lonian Ilan Is, sailed also from Cuwes on the 7th
instant fur the Mediterranean.

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It appears certain, (sir a letter from Amsterdam). that
as %O.sa as the new canal in Nerd' Holland is completed
that tne Staved will he separated from the Znyder Zee by
means of a dam mid sluice. The harbour of Amsterdam,
which every year costs a great deal of money to cleanse,
will then no longer fill np, and the adjacent country will bef
secured against limitation.
We are informed by a person who hes lately hail occasion
to travel over a large part of the Grampians, and other moun-
tainous districts; ltat there is extremely lit le probability of.
-the common heath(erica vat/jurist flowering this season—a
i circumstance, we conceive, n.,t recollected by the oldest per•
son alive. It is well known that the bees usually retract a
very lance portion of their honey from that healthy and odori-
ferous plant, so that the circumstance of its not tiqwerine,
emnbined with other peculiarities of the season. induces us to
believe that honey wilt be imprecedently scarce, and that a law
' propor:i..n of these frogs: insects will perish before the arrival
of another season.—(Montrose Citron.)
Sir John Coxe Hippest'? is awaking experiments at
Cowes, with a large host, which is moved through the
water at the rate of ten miles an hour, by means of six
paddle wheels, worked by a haudewineb, fur the purpose of
priming how far this description of mechanical power is
applicable to use in gaols, in order to do away with the
tread-mill, against which the wotohy Baronet has strone
objections, as being injurious to stealth, particrAtarly is the
case of tetnalee.
The proprietors of the power-loom fictories.have angered
a number of new hands; and the greater part, if not all the
works, will be set en on Monday. A number of men have
been engaged to act as guards for the new workers, and such
other arrangements have been made as will effectually pro-
tect their persmtis, and at the same titne insure She apprehen-
sion of sue desperadoes by whom they may be assailed.--
((lfaxgow Chrom.)
The Provision s tason has partially commenced ; about
200 cow% were 'ultra in the Isla week, rbietly light weights;
the price Is mat, perhaps. fixed, Inv it is understood to be
shout 17s. for 1 cwis. and 9.: 6.11. to 101. for small Beef. It
is said that Butchers have already received orders to pur-
-1 chase Pig. at 225. for I mils. anal 211 s. for Mrs., and that one
Of two houses will bays wine lots in the we..k.--cork
Paper.)
The destrn• tion of fruit this year, by the wasps has been
unusually great ; and so numerous .nd rapaciotts are the
insects, that the bees every where find them a formidable.
and, in too many instances, an overpowering enemy. Honey
has in consequence of this, been alreielY brought' into mar-
ket, it being found adviseahle to rake tile supplies prema-
turely, the wasps having generally ejected the legitimate
tenants of the hives, and devoured the sweets of their
labour.
A Cuatous Farr.—ls a town in Cornwall, not 20 miles
from the river Tamar, reside three innkeepers, who were
all married on the same day. Two of them have 14 chil-
dren each, and the other bas 16; making together 44 chil-
dren, of whom three, one in each family, are nitwits under
six months old. The uoitrd ages of the six parrots do not
exceed 210 year': one of the men is a mason, the other, a
carpenter. and the third, a painter and glazier.
On Saturday last, Patie Stuart, an old man, well known
in West Lothian, had a truly miraeulous escape while
assisting in cleaning out an old well at Humble, in the
parish of liirkliston. After the work was completed,
Palle went down into the wall, which is '23 feet drip, to
ascertain that all was right. when be observed the sides
giviug away; at this critical moment, although 79 rancid'
age. he with the greatest alacrity sand preseuee of mind,
placed himself close to the pump. and, to an in-Lont, the
whole closed upon him. For some Ouse it was conskidered
the man was killed; at length his voice was allartinetly,
beard, directing his fellow workmen to clear away n-ar
the pump. Tilly began to remove the stones and rubbish,'
at 11 A.M., and it was not until 4 P.M. that they got his
head clear. In a few minutes a rope aas.placed r.mtid his
waist to pull him up ; but it was found, after giving him
much pain, that he was still comptetely locked by the legs,
and it required nearly an hone more to extricate him. On
his being taken out, he was put into a hot bath, whiett,
with bleeding, soon brought him to Nu recollection. He
is now aitnest quite recovered, being altle to laugh heartily
on
while
reminded of the many droll oiseivations he ma le
while in his awful place of confinement.—(Edieborgh Ob-
server.)
As Mr. George Testes Hunter, surgeon. of Margate, was
returning on Tuesday evening, from a visit to country pa-
tients. his horse, a very spirited animal. took fright at
Buenos Ayres, and. set off at full speed, when on passing
through Cecil-square, he atnmbled on crowing a gutter,
when the unfortunate gentleman was thrown from his
saddle, falling on his head. He was taken ap senseless,
and it is feared from the violence of the blow, and the
consequent contortion of the brain. that the worst conse-
quences will ensoe.—(Kentish Chronicle.)
Coin Exesitesi, September 10.—Tbe arrivals of Grain
in general are only moderate. Of Oats it is large in pee-
r catizito other articles. There is at present scarcely any
doing is Wheat, and Monday's prices cannot be
' tested. Barley and Beans coatings flail. Oar Oat
boyers parches* scarcely any quantity, and to make sales,
rattier less terms most be submitted to. The top price of
floor is not yet fallen to bus. per sack, as some papers stated
on Monday.

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MR. GRAHAM AND HIS BALLOON.
Mr. Graham, who Made so splendid in ascent with his
Balloon, on Friday last, from Berwick Strebt, Soho. in-
tends, it appears froth an advertisement io another of our
columns, to repeat his daring enterprise on Friday next.—
Though, from his eitablillied "reputation as aniati Of science,
as well as from the success with Which his exkriment last
week was crowned, no doubt could be entertained by intel•
ligent persons that his failure on a previous declaims arose
front neither want of skill or courage, and much less from
a design to take unfair advahtage of the public enriusity;
yet to afford the most convincing evidence of
his integrity sod spirit, lie hat chosen for his next essay
the very spot on which the failure was productive to him of
so much obloquy and eXperise. Wi cannot blame him for
his determination to mime his ground. and to make that'
whirl, was a scene of former disappointment and outrage,)
the place of his future triumph; but we regret that the no-
tice be has given of his intention is so short. The public
cannot have sufficient time to be apptized Of his claims to
their regard, or to make arrangentents on his ascent, for'
testifying their sense of his merits in the way of attehdance
and remuneration.
'ln order that the public should he Well acquainted with
the elrcumetancee which occurred at White Conduit House,
on his previous attempt, we take oceasion to submit the
following accoout, with which Mr. tirahatn presented us
soon after his return with his Balloon from Rochester, hot
• which want of room on Monday prevented ua.prefixing.
•as be wished, to the narrative of his aerial Voyage from
Berwick Street
" Saturday, Sept. 6. 1823.
"1 am well aware that the Public have been waiting
with some impatience fur an account of the failure which
look place on the day of my intended ascent from the
White Conduit House. By the ascent which I made
yesterday in the presence of thousands, all idea of any fraud
Mat, be entirely eradicated: the machine in which I
ascended being precisely the same, without any alteration.
" My friends, it is true, were convinced that I should
succeed, even before I made my second attempt, but the
public mind, being once irritated, naturally requires some
conciliatory explanation ; I, therefore, beg to assure them,
that the failure which took place, was entirely owing to the
erincerrence of fortuitous adverse circumstances, which, as
no arrOnaut could have calculated to encounter with, could
not beveinedied.
" One chief cause of the failure arose from the circum-
stance of a plug escaping from one of the main pipes, when
they were being repaired, duritig the abseueloof the work-
men by•this means several thousand feet of gas escaped,
without my knowied ce. Thisoidiled to the externem (tensity
of the atmosphere, raised by a shower of rain which fell
during Ihe afternoon, rendere i it impossible to fill the
machine ; while at the same time no possible blame could
be attached to any oar on the premise..
" The introduction of so many improper persons into the
.garden', arose from the circumst m rice of the checks being
clandestinely obtained by means of the persons employed
to keep the bar which led to the Check Takers offic • • and
their being thus sold ou•side the entraoce at one shilling
each. °whir also to the impossibility of securing the ha-
mew line of paling on the north side of the gardena, some
persons effected their entrance, and aftervratmla admitted
others for three pence each. This being at lendth disco-
vered by a friend, and roistmatnireted to me, 1 immediately
constiltel Mr. Sadler, Jae. as to the imuineat danger and
'annoyance which the respectable part of the weciators
would be liable to. iron suet, an itit•whiption. snore eve-
-el:sify as the intro hers were becoming clamorous, in order to
atheist 3s. 61., the alleged price of their a l,uisaien. The
result of our deliberation was. that we had better perm't
the machine to ascend slime. In consetpienee of which.
tape woell not permit us to apologise previous to ire aseent,
and the uuespeeted riot which ensued, prevented its Wine
alone theme rde.
"ivrteb. Award to them-monoy which wss taken, the poillic
h sive sir aware. that Meet.* wins reeelloamt aieketsisseesoualy
had the money returned to them, upon their personal implicit-
imn and that the whole of the dilapidations committed on that
day were made givod at my espmice. I siso anxiously sought
after any persons wit.. had suffered personal injury, and made
them ample remuneration Tali, with other •ttemiant ex-
pellees, have so altere.l the ease, that instead of bet ns•
isaiarr, 1 am se:daily optinas thi.iy five pounds, esciusive Of the
coat of the inneoiiir. Certal .Iy, then, ail ideas of cupidity, or
avernpts to :id testi the unwary, must cease to exist iu the
mind of every impartial person.
Tne ascent 1 y -sterilvy made was also another and an ad-
ditional expense, for which Ismail never receive any peceuiary
remuneration."
Thuds far, in vindication of his iliointerestedness, Mr.
Graham speaks of himself; hut in genet al terms. On con-
versing with him we learnt that none of the money paid for
tickets ever reached his hands, as he directed the persons
aho issued these (In the sw.sumt of IV) to retitro it to
those who had poirelissed them. The money taken at the
doors l‘trot defray the repairs ache damage, by 351. • as
111. was returned to the persona who were in the garden.—
'Else repairs of time namaire at White Londuit House amount.
ed to 1161.; and 251, beititeg, were paid hy Mr. Graham to
those who received serious injuries front the assault of the
mob.
If anyotber evilence were wanting to establish the digit'.
terestedness of Mr. Graham's cheracter. the trait we have
to amid most be 'efficient. He conceived the Wes of con-
!erecting and ascending with the bulloon, with a view to
'apply the profits of the ex•iibitiun at White Conduit house
to the Spanish Stihacripti tttt , to which lie had previoudy
been a very spirited and liberal contributor.
Mr. Graham,- from Isis intimate acquaintance with
science and art, in pursuit of which he has been dis
tinguishrd, and from his connection with the Pantheon
within the spacious area of which most if f the
Balloons wnieh have ascended from Lon --been
male, and in the construction of which he d,
was easily led to embark in the entereriee ett
imagination suggested. Having, thrum/ of
Mr. Graham, been informed of the d tails e-
tion of that with which he has ascended, acrd
largest that has been made, we annex from ty
tne following account of its dimensions and cost :
The Balloon whet, inflated is 4i feet, 8 inches diameter;
when al:inflated, 60 feet 6 niches lung.
The quantity of gas required to till it is 35,000 cubic feet,
or nearly as many galloos.
The expense a the gasat White Conduit* House,was 421.;
at Berwick Street. 351.
' The eipense of carrying it to White Conduit House, and
fitting apparatus for tr there. was 151.: that at Berwick
street, iocluiiing the gas, more than 60/.
The cost of the lawn, of which the Balloon is constructed,
was 120/.; the quantity was 1026 yards.
The. varnish' Was composed of 26 gallons of linseed oil ;
121bs. of sugar of lead ; gallons of copal varnialt ; 3 gal-
lons of mastich; and 31be of paint.
In sewing the lawn of which the Balloon was composed,
6lbs. of silk were costumed. and,4o women were lite weeks
employed, besides a tailor and two assistainE
The cost of labour emulated to 1301. The cost of net,
ropes, and other apparatatywas it least 601.
The weight of the balloon is 21cwt. then( the net about,
701bs ; of the car, 3511 m. ; of the ;crippling iron end rope,
201 b. end of the valve hoop, and other apparatus ab rut 101 b.
The weight of 3(10 yards of rope attached to the Balloon
oo its ascent from Berwick-street was about &tbs.; besides
which were 19 bags of ballast of 14.1h5.
'rise weight of %Ir. Graham is lowt. and that of his com-
'-a. Mr. Harris, about t Mem. less.

A few days If., • viosuuti woil put to the bar of the Pollee
Court, Edinburgh, on a charge of being drunk and disorderly.
The Magistrate said. if she would promise to abstain frost
drinking spirits is lettere, he world allow her to go without
panisitieset. To which the replied, with greet ran low—
• 'tweet so, Ira so do that : I've ayteen a drippy whan I
coeld get it—aad Fit do sae yet."