150 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



posal of his produce by the easy 

 communication thus opened with 

 the market of Guildford. 



Mr. Sadler's account of his as- 

 cent at Cork : — ' ' 1 ascended at 

 •20 minutes before five o'clock, 

 with the wind moderately from 

 the N.W.N. The balloon on first 

 rising had an unpleasant mot on j 

 but soon became steady, being 

 no*" nearly perpendicular over 

 Cork. I detached a parachute, 

 and being too far distant to be 

 observed waving my hat, I took 

 my banner and waved a last fare- 

 well to the shouting crowds. At 

 ten minutes before five, the bal- 

 loon entered a thick cloud, when 

 the city and the adjacent country 

 became obscured from me. The 

 balloon now was completely in- 

 flated ; and the gas rushing out 

 through the safety tube, plainly 

 shewed to me my continued rapid 

 ascent. From my wish that the 

 many fi iends whom 1 had so few 

 minutes before left should be fur- 

 ther gratified, I determined to de- 

 scend, and having opened the 

 valve and allowed sufficient gas 

 to escape, the balloon rapidly de- 

 scended, when the city and coast 

 extending toward?* IJantry to the 

 West, and that of Waterford to 

 the East, I distinctly perceived, 

 whilst the hai hour of Cork and 

 the interior country, with its va- 

 rious mountains, was a view sub- 

 lime in the extreme. In order 

 further to gratify the spectators 

 and show the power of the ma- 

 chine, I re-ascended and entered 

 a second cloud at five minutes 

 past five o'clock. I had previ- 

 ously determined not to remain 

 long, but to effect my landing 

 about Ringabella ; I now there- 



fore began to make preparations 

 for my descent, by placing my 

 various things in secure places to | 

 prevent their being thrown out ' 

 by the concussion of the car, and 

 at twelve minutes past five I 

 opened the valve, and began gra- 

 dually to descend. The car first 

 struck in a grass enclosure, and 

 rebounded into the adjoining field ; 

 the wind being mild, and the 

 grappling irons having well se- 

 cured themselves in the hedge, 

 the balloon soon became secured. 

 The first person who appeared 

 was, I believe, the owner of the 

 farm, who was not a little alarm- 

 ed ; for, although he had run in 

 a direction towards it, he made a 

 full stop at some distance, in- 

 quiring whence I came from, and 

 it was not without a great deal 

 of exeitiun on my part in calling 

 that he was induced to come near. 

 A servant of Mr. Hodder's came 

 up next, foUovved by numbers 

 of other persons, made himself 

 known to me, and said, tliat if 

 the apparatus was taken to his 

 master's house, it should be taken 

 care of. I was kindly invited to 

 Mr. Foote's, where I partook of 

 refreshment, and was provided 

 with a horse to Mr. Hodder's, 

 where a bed was prepaied and 

 every accommodation rendered 

 that 1 could require." 



OCTOBER. 



1. The New Custom-house for 

 the port of London, erected upon 

 the site of the old building, de- 

 stroyed by fire, now assumes the 

 appearance of a jjublic edifice of 

 Cfinsiderable importmce. It is a 

 quadrangular 



