The Sun. — 1812-07-03 (London, England)

BALLOON.  This 'Celebrated 'Aeronaut made his twent-thir'd aerial :excursion,. from Manchester, on Aloud last. Earlyin the mOrniug crowd's of people fro!n every part of. the neighbourhood of Mauche:iter were seen iratening to: town . By eleven. o'clock it had in, rly doubled itaatf.'.ustomary population; and soon after every urea ue to Mr. Higginbo, tharn'.s rope-yard, beearheuncomfortably crowded. "Every window Which looked towards the:scene of preparation, no matter whether intervening buildings obstructed the Sight or `riot, ca-as taken possession of. Every house-top was croWded witch adventurous. spectators, who wished, in some degree, to emulate the Aeronaut by getting as near to the clouds as possible. Men, women, and Children, were perched aloft, as if all apprehenSiod, of danger was laid aside fur the day. About eleven o'clock the apparatus for 'filling the balloon was set to work, in Mr. Higginbotham's rope-yard, at Shuda-hiii; a place admirably adapted for the purpose, being sufficiently capacious the purpose, and for the numerous and highly-respectable company which ,assernbled on the occasion, and, being walled round, enabled. Mr. Sadler to secure, in the entrance-money; something towards a. retnaneration for the great expence (putting all personal risk out of the ques-don) which he must necessarily have incurred.---: We know not what number of persons'wer6 within the walls, but v.*e apprehend they were not far short' of two thousand, all .apparently gratified in seeing the preparation, for what thiitv years w.r0.., was deenied an impossibility--making invisible agent subservient to the powers of man, and convey. hiin through the wide expanse of the vit-:ible. heavens.- . .  . . At fifteen minutes past 'One o'clock, P. the signal gun was fired; et twenty minutes one, the Pilot. (a small paper balloon) `ascertain the direction-'of the • wind. This bad been rather too long. inflated, &god being made of nothing .but oiled paper, was easily rent, and a considerable part of the gas hadescaped before it., was liberated, it therefore soon dropped, and was picked. up in Newton-lane. Meantinie anxiety ripened almost into impatience, whilst-the great. balloon, which was " to ride in the bosom .of th air," between heaven and earth,' was affixed to the car in which Mr. Sadler was'to commit himself to the mercy of the winds. At. last every pr parative was accomplished, the extra ballast moved; his grappling irons, his provision basket; hi ,barometer and telescope, and flags were loaded, and the- veteran voyager, of the skies took his place in the car. At forty minute's past one, P.M. the balloon, was loosed by the spectators, Who'hatt assisted to detain ,it--and it majestically arose amidst, the shouts of. 'all the .spectators in the Ropery, echoed by the two hundred tliousand'persons, who arc supposed to have assembled on this occasiOn, on the outside of the yard. ' './I.lle balloon took an easterly flight, and nearly in the direction of that in which, twenty-seven years ago, Mr. Sadler.lriAe his second assent from that town. •  About three O'clock the parachute, With a basket containing a cat, Which, I\lf. Sadler had dropped from the balloon. on' it's pas'sage, was brought to.town: It had fallva in the vicinity' of Fairfield. Poor pusSy was peaectly free-from any wound whatever, notwithstaudingthe height from which she had been precipitated. We are happy to state that the veteran zi*.:Onaut Col:eluded his-- - I);.ring journey thro' a trackiess space," in forty-eight minutes, and•deseended in perfect safety about six miles Cast of Sheffield.  'As several Officers were lately retuning from Castle Connel to Limerick, and riding very fast, Major STODDART, Ci the Enniskillen Dragoons, was suddenly thrown' from his horse, and frac-. tared Iris skull; he was, as soon as possible, trepanned, hut; without effect. He has left a 'wife and children to lament his loss.  As Edward Impson; a chiinney-sweeper charge for felony; was proceeding to Norwich Gaol, he suddenly sprung upon the .back of a horse grazing by the side of the road, which instantly set off with him at full-speed, to the great surprise of the constable and his assistant. Tuesday morning the body of a new-born finale child was discovered lying-in the Spa-fields, clerk:. enwell, wrapped 'iii an Old piece of carpet, 'dead, and was taken. to the Workhouse for7a Coroner's Inquest. , _ _  A A young-man, named GREGORY, who }lt,'S been employed as a clerk to different merchants at Plymouth, shot himself with a. pistol, about 6 o'clock on Wednesday morning,,-in the privy belonging to his residence he had lately been in a very despond-, ing state, sand at times rather deranged ; it therefore concluded the unfortunate suicide corn.mittedthe rash act during a fit of insanity.