Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-11-17
ARRIVAL EXTRAORDINARY

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ARRIVAL EXTRAORDINARY
Arrived at Bozrab. Connecticut
the - inst. the Balloon SKI scron,
Mons. Guile commander. From ssn
raj extracts from her log book, publish
ed in the Connecticut Gazette, we t,L
the following:-
Spoke Barque Undsrsronr,
Symmes master, who informed us
had been out Zoe days on a voyage
discovery--that he had proved b
Theory, and come out of the tran da
at the North Pole-that he was nn
bound to the South pole, where he i
tended to say" Open Sesame" enter
return to the place OH departure-d
so informed US that he was short hank
ed, as three Of his crew had desertedi
the subterraneau passage, and had e.
gagged to blow the bellows Of Volcsn
furnace, and two were at work in /,
Earthquake Factory.
(Obserration-great encourageme7
given to domestic manufactures in h
country.)--Gave US a jar of picked d
cles and keg Of birthstone water,
exchange for few bottles of ightni4
drops and agallipot of moon GREASE
him We learn that the expedition to ID
North pole had sailed and the people
that quarter were very much disappoin1I
ed. as many wished TO go to Englal +
to hear orator hunt, sc. gave us a +
Of Spitzbergen papers---parted in
squall. x
A late Liverpool paper announces b
the safe return of Messrs. Liyingst}
and sadIer, from their AERIAL excursio
The account of their voyage, which
copied below, will be read with ID
terest.
RETURN OF MEssRs. LIVINGSTON An
sADLER.
No certain intelligence having reaci
ed the Town of the fate of these intrepi
aronauts as late as thursday evening
the public were beginning TO be SOM
what uneasy; but their anxiety was sou
relieved by the receipt of severa! lettet|
from Stockton. upon Tees. in the cOuI
ty of Durham, near to which plaa|
Messrs. Livingston and Sadler alighI
ed on the day of their departure frul
hence. Yesterday, at half past 10, N
public were delighted to see them driN|
into tho town i'm a chaise and four ID,
Positions decorated with white ribbOBl|
and the car tied to the top of the chais
They drove through Church-st. LOI!
street, easiest. and Dale st. to the q
flee of the Gas-Ligbt Company, When
they met several gentlemen of the con
mittee appointed to conduct the the al
cent. to whom they gave a short a
count of their long and perilous voyag|
At three O'Clock they came in the sau|
chaise to the Exchange, where they 4
lighted and went into the Exchar5
Ncws-room, amidst an immense crow
of the merchants and gentlemen, thai
assembled, by whom they were receirsl
with three cheers. They here gave
short account of their expedition a1
adventures, after which, they ascendA
into the Underwriters room, wht'
4, they were greeted with the same col
! diaIity. i collection was immediasl
made, which amounted to considers
bic sum.
We torbear from giving any detalsI
/ account Of this very interesting ezcu'
sion, at the request Of the committr
under whose auspices minute narrl
tive of the whole will soon be pubIisbsd
for the benefit of the parties ccncernsd
who are well entitled to every incids'
tai advantage which can be deri5a
from it, not only on account Of the toll
and hazards they have undergone, b
from the loss they are likely to SUI
tain.
Thisis the longest aerial voyage e''
made in Great Britain. The balls"
ascended from Liverpool at quart
past two O'Clock, and alighted at p
nutes past five, at the distance of ab0'
a mile and a half from the town
Stockton. In a space Of two hours ID
fifty minutes, therefore, they travers'