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' My method of Maim and steering the aerostats was,
IMerever, calculated ot4ther on the rarefaction of atmos-
'Pheric air by the betting: of straw and wool, as practised
by Montgolfier, nor on the much lighter inflammable air,
' as It war then catiedobtained from the mixture of vitriolic
acid with filing, of 'goo, zinc, copper, tin, and lead ; but
'On the action off Are bf fossil coal, which procured me
a the same time caloric to reduce the water introduced into,
tha.eollpyinsintoateana. and hydrogen gas, which, if not as
light as the inflammable air, was still sufficiently lighter
than the atmospheric air, to raise at a convenient and mo-
iterate elevation the machine which I denominate a pyro-
.prieumatie aerostat. I submitted in! views, and my pleas
aid calculations on that 'object, to the 'royal academy of
sciences of Paris, to which I was already affiliated (though',
oply. 18 years old) as a corresponding member. My me- ,
mortal, with the drafts accompanying it, was referred to
jri a Committee, who reported, " that my theory was ground-•
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I ad on correct principles of philosophy, and expressed the'
wish that some experiment should be made to ascertain
its practicability.". •
Soon after 1 was sent to England, at mental (Wisp.
don, with the Cotteeittlifonarier, Who replaced fileAterard
de Rayneval es Minister Plenipotentiary from. France to
"the Court of St. James, and my private commission hav-
ing been to collect information preparatory to the conclu-
sion of a treaty of commerce between France and England,
I visited the principal manufacturing places, and particu-
larly Birmingham, where I became acquainted with the
celebrated steam engine manufacturers, Bolton and Watt.
I consulted thereon the practicability of applying a steam to
1 serial navigation, and Mr. Watt, who was one of the most
.Ittofound mathematicians and mechanicians in England,
as well as a scholar of great eminence, having deeply
reflected on that plan, which seemed to please him, gave
fit as his decided opinion, that the idea of forcing forward a
balloon by the immediate impetus and action of steam
against the atmospheric air, was, as the academy of sciences
has already repotted it, ingenious, and cauntenaneed by
the well known experiment of the eolipylus, hut that he
did not consider the simple impetus of item, though very
great, as sufficient to procure, without intermediary, or
without the assistance of machinery, a power adequate to
anefficient reaction on water, and much less on air, against
a invite current. He then entered into the merits of the
circular motion shout a given axis, derived from the steam
power, which he had lately discovered, and would apply
to all sorts of machinery, even to navigation, and he
thought that a very small steam apparatus could be made
to communicate a rotary motion to small and light paddles
affixed to °my pyropueumatie aerostat. 1 enquired what
the expense might be, but the estimates so much exceeded
my mean% and what the French government would in all
rprobabilitv, under the strict economy which they had
adopted after the war, have been willing to appropriate for
aa object of that kind, that 1 concluded to wait until a
flvoribtis Opportunity offered tepromote its execution.
' My Mission to Russia, where I was sent in 1787, by
Louis the XVlth, to replace as charge d'affaires, Count de
Seger, ambassador at that court, seemed to second my
w' 'es. I had beard that the grand duke Paul, since Em-
r,2 was very anxious to see the discovery of the
balloon
progress, that the celebrated geometer, Leonard
Euler, hod made it the subject of his last meditations and
calculations, and had predicted, with several other learned
members of the imperial academy of IPetersborg, that
aerostatic machines might be made to answer the moat
useful purposes, and I had anticipated that my plan,
approved by the French Academy of Sciences, and the
great English engineers above mentioned, would be
warmly adopted in a court, where, whatever was above the
common level, had always met with encouragement ; but
as it has been the case with almost all the great discoveries,
a d.ad calm, a moral stupor had succeeded to the almost
frenetic exaltation which the first aerostatic experiments
had excited. The fashion of balloons was over; Catharine
11. and of coarse all her court, considered them as dan•
gerous play things, of very little importance for science or
of the arts ; and unwilling to expose myself to the ridicule
which would have been attached to the scheme of making
them substitutes for land and water-carriages, I thought
prudent to leave my views on that subject dormant, until
time, aided by the slow, but persevering genius
of philosophy, had raised the aeronautic art to
the high station to which it is entitled to
occupy in the scale of human ingenuity. The French re,
volntion soon revived my hopes: dismissed in my official
capacity from the Court of Petersburg, on account of the
attitude of anger which, Catharine had been prevailed
upon to assume, to frighteathe French nation, I suggested
on my return to France in the year 1792, to citizen Le
Brun, who was at the same time minister of war and of
foreign affairs, the establishment of balloons in the armies
of the republic, to facilitate the discovery of the movements,
situation, and fortifications of the enemies, and 1 urged also
the institution of a laboratory to promote aeronautics, and
the application of aerostatics to several useful arts ; but hav-
ing left France soon after, and my republican friends having
'been all cut off by the traitors and assassins, disguised under
the red cap of Jacobinisisi, I know nothing more about that
institution than what is read in the Edinburgh Encyclopte-
dis, where the English authors admit, with magnanimity,
" That the French, who are ever ready to apply the disco-
veries of science, to objects of practical utility, during. the
first war after the overthrow of monarchy, instituted an
academy for the express purpose of improving the state
of aeronautics; that it had been in a flourishiug condition
under Gallon Aforocatt and other celebrated chemists, and
militarfmen ; that balloons had been usefully constructed
there for the service of the several armies ; but that since
(tinder the government of Bonaparte) it had been entirely
ahan toned." And here it is worthy of remark, that in fact,
the late Emperor of the French, like the great autocra-
tic of all the Ressia., was ept dly prejudiced against the
science of aeronautics. Should it be that their pride was
hurt to see men raise themselves above the regions of
thunder instead of being prostrated at their feet ?

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• The equilibrium and power of ascension of aerostats is
In proportion, Ist. of the weight of the covers; 2d, of the
distneers ; 3d, of the nature of the gas they contain.
The specific levity of inflammable air is with atmospheric
air in the proportion of lit° i, whilst air tarefiedby fire is only
in the proportion of 1-2 to one.
A balloon :?1,0 feet in diameter filled with rarefied air by fire,
and covered with oiled cloth, weigaing 2 ounces per square
lfuet.-would raise a weight of 133,857 pounds. A balloon of
the same diameter, filled with gas and covered with °bed silk,
would raise 301,437 pounds.

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Since my residence in this country, in a private capacity
after having, salt public servant, fallen a victim* to the ex-
alted instructions imposed 'upon' My 'fervent. 'seal for a
cause to.which I have saerith•ed the most brilliant expee-
tationo, partly by disgasty partly by the necessity of strug-
gling against adversity, I had paid but little attention to
the rations philosophical and literary studies which inlay
youth had been my tartrate amusement, when the steam .
boat questions in cnuit of errors and in the legislaturo
at Albany, regenerated once more my hope of giving a start
to aeronautic.. I avempted to persuade the enviable and
wetlinforined Governor Ogden, instead of disputing about
the navigation of our waters, to lake a bolder stop, and to"
navigate the air, for which our liberal legislator° bad not
yet given an exelnsive privilege to an individual or com*
ny ; vre'had a good deal of entertainment on that topic ';but
with Fulton, with whom an affinity of inclioationt soon put
Inc in contract, I went deeper into the scheme,
I 'disclosed to bim,"witifodt reserve, my plans on pyropneu-
matie aerostittion, and had that great man hired, I am con-
fident that she firstexperiment on the applications of steam
to amid navigution Would not be made in England. Yes.
Yukon, tirlltPttls developed and reduced to practice the teas
principleslapou which steam boali should be luilt, would
have eitended the rays of his. genius to the improve-
ment of neronaittics; Mr, to use the words of this eloquent
biographer, Mr. C. P. Colden, "no man possessed to a
higher degree than Fulton the rare union of genius and
science with.piactiral
knowledge." And Fulton had sane.
tioned my plan; he had admitted, on the strength of in-
coaitestible facts, that being in possession of the power of
ascension by the dhsclvery of th.l balloons, and in posses-
sion of the power of propolsion by steam, little more was
wanted to navigate the air than to study the form, con-
struction and mechanism of the various annuals. oil:,
el-rate,lower and propel tlsems-tees in air or water against
the most rapid currents by a self created power, very ink-
, dor to ttepower of steam.
But if Fulton is no more, others may atchievewhat his
'eminent talents have not had time to attend: already oer
Mr. Perkins, iStedueitig to the smallest proportions the
volume and weight of the steam engines while he in-
creases the weer Of Steam, glees a greater probability to
the success of the application of steam to aeronautics:
other engineers of superior talent are the ornaments of
this conntry ; and if an association, liberally patronised.
could he formed to promote aeronautic., the Untied States,
where for the first time the navigable waters have been
subdued by the gigantic power of steam, might also he
the first *to subdue the airy_iltie same means, and by that
double victory,, obtaiiiii el period of a few years,
aggrandize the hingdoni of ;Iconco and the Mock of .ti.
nsafol arts, more extensively than the oldest nations have
done in many centuries.
Prospect Hill, July 4th 1523. .

E. C. GENET.

POINCIT HOUENLODE NOT wax illnetrions
mirarle-monger will derive no ;Widows! reputation from
the Axminster case, mentioned in our last; the fair sufferer
his recovered witheet him. The fart was as• ate ewes!.
The young lady, Miss Karnes, was suddenly depiived of
speech by the terror excited from the • assertidn, Mide In
jest by her companion, that a spider wis •cradillig upon
her. A Wed and instantaneona sdeeteniteneued; *kith wilt
immediately followed by a tote% cessation of the feenlty pf
speech for forte months. It is now ;slow three-Weeks since,
that Miss Eames recovered.—(Tatteon Courier.)
FORTUNATE Esesen.—An accident, which hal neerlv
proved fatal to a young gentlemen, happened • shout twelVe
o'clock on Tuesday night last, in Blackfriars'-road. The
' centre of the read has been for some time excavated fur a
distance of several. hundred yards, for the purpose of
deepening and enlarging the grand sewer. The parish
authorities have done every thing in their power to guard
.egsinst accidents to the public at night, by enclosing the
whole apace with a strong wooden railing, and placing
lamps at abort intervals all round it. At the time above
mentioned, the gentleman in question was riding on horse-
back gently along the road towards the bridge, when the
animal taking fright at the light of the lamps, suddenly
I started off at full speed, and dashing against the railing,
tumbled over with his rider, within about a yard of the
pit, into which had they fallen, both must inevitably have
been killed. As. it was, however, neither received, very
fortunately, any material injury. A dreadful shriek from
the young gentleman when falling brneebt several persons
from the adjoining houses to his assistance.
ACCIDENT.—A Mrs. Swinston, the wife of a respectable
tradesman resident at Hammersmith, last Tuesday was
Induced to yield to the pressing entreaties of one of her
children, a boy about 9 years old, to permit him to h Are a
fire in an up-stairs room, there to play nitit his sisters.
They had not been long there, before the mother was
alarmed by a laud scream for help, and on running towards
the tom with an inf int in her arms she saw her boy
enveloped in flews. In the agony of the moment silts
diapped the infant from her items, winch hastily snatching
up again, she flew to her son, and with a view of extin-
guishing the flames, clasped him to her, and thus romtnu-
pleated them to herself and infant. She screamed and
swooned away. At this awful crisis some neighbours
fortunately. entered, and succeeded in extinguishing the
fire. Surgical assistance was immediately procared. The
mother and infant are doing well ; but we regret to add,
that the boy, after lingering in great agony till yesterday
morning, expired.
Yesterday morning a female servant, in the employ of a
very respectable tradesman residing in Blackfriars' Hoed.
suddenly rnshed frees the kitchen into the street in flatnes,
owing her clothes having caught fire, when they were
immediately
passengers
as to endanger passing
beby,
oegdiately extinguished by m
burn,
life.
rna
A gentlemanithoughr4tso be!ol touch,
we some
understand,e
oging to the office of the Clerk
of the P..pers, Symowl's Chancery-lane, stopping at
the time to render her assistance, was robbed at the moment
by a gan: of thieves who surrounded him, by one of them
cutting a hole at the bottom of his coat, from which they
stole his pocket book, containing a 5/. note, and got clear
off. It is rather extraordinary that these daring thefts are
committed in the open day, whilst oar police uCicera aro
para!tng the very streets.
We copied on Wednesday,•from a Maidstone paper, an
account of an atteutp, at 'warder, upon the person of a Mrs.
Worger, at Ashford, in Kent: We have since heard,. that
Clifford, the unfortunate woman who committed the act,
was sot*? years since attacked by a severe typhus fever,,
and that ever since that. perlisd her senses have been te.
cidedly unsettled, though nothing has previously occurred
'whirl, could have warranted her friends in placin her
under restraint.
Lynx, Om 7.—We hal a good attoodanca to..lay at
market, and a very good supply of Wheat; Imving con.
eiii..rahle demand both by the merchants. and-for seed, it
was taken off briskly at ass adiatece of full 2s. per splatter
on all tieieriptions. Barley was also in good supply, for
which we have more demand ; the whole „as taken off at
an advance of Is. per quarter. Peas in better se , ply, °and
were taken oil at about last week's priers. Oats het few
offering; prices remain.aslast week. -Kap Seed very hula
offering ; prices remain nominal at nor quotatinns., Wheat,
new 405.t0 463. ditto old, Vs. to 525. ; Barley, 21a.
I ir,.v Peas 255. to 275.