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[Sept. 1, 
INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, anp DEATHS, 1n anp near LONDON. 
With Biographical Memoirs of diftinguifbed Characters recently deceafed. 
Mr. Garnevins firft Voyage —This aérial 
tour took place from Ranelagh Gardens, on 
Monday, June 28, At eleven 6 *clock, M. 
Garnerin began the chemical operations ne- 
ceflary for the produétion of the inflammable 
gas. At five, he and Captain Sowden took 
their feats, the weather being tempeftucns, 
and fome fits of rain falling, when the 
balloon, firft making the tour of the Gardens, 
afcended majeftically and rapidly into the 
regions of the air, pafling, in an eafterly di- 
rection, over the Cities of Weftminfter and 
London: here the balloon began to defcend ; 
M. Garnerin, therefore, threw out fome bal- 
Jaft, and it rofe immediately with great ra- 
ley and carried the travellers over the Ca- 
thedral of St. Paul. During all this time, 
the whole metropolis was diftinétly feen by 
the acronauts, whefe balloon was equally vi- 
fible to the inhabitants of the metropolis. 
Their defcent was attended by very difazree- 
able circum ftances, on account of the conti- 
nued violence of the wind. About half an 
hour had elapfed fince their afcent, when M. 
Garnerin opened the foupape or fucker of the 
balloon, and defcended through black and cold 
élouds ; their courfe was, at that time, car- 
rying them towards the fea. As foon as 
they had approached fufficiently near the 
earth, they threw out their anchor and cable. 
"The balloon, when it firft touched the ground, 
gebounded with confiderable violence, and the 
gufts of wind dragged them over fields and 
hedges, and drove them againft trees, which 
tore their hands and cloaths, and confiderably 
bruifed them, and it was not until fome mi- 
mutes had elapfed, that it took a fteady hold 
in a thicket, and not until Captain Sowden 
had received a fevere blow on the back part 
ef his head. The balloon, however, was 
mow torn in the lower part, the cords broke, 
and the boat broke. 
Garnerin and Captain Sowden landed was on 
a common, four miles beyond Colchefter, and 
fixty from Ranelagh. 
Garnerin’s fecond Voyage.—M. Garnerin 
again advertifed to afcend in a balloon from 
Lord’s Cricket-ground, on Saturday, July 3, 
and to defcend in a parachite. When the 
day arrived, the weather proved fo boifterous, 
that M. Garnerin was obliged to defer his 
voyage. A confiderable degree of difepproba- 
tion having been expreffed by the multitude 
at M. Garnerin’s not afcending, he, on Sun- 
day, publicly advertifed, that he would afcend 
on Monday, although the weather fhould not 
prove favourable, and although it might be 
impoffible to attempt the defcent by the pa- 
.rachute. About twelve o’clock, the opera- 
ten for Alling the balloon commenced. At 
a 
The place where M, 
half paft three, M. Garnerin arrived on the 
ground, as did likewife, about a quarter patt 
four, the Prince of Wales, with the Duchefs 
of Devonfhire on his right arm, and Lady 
Morpeth on his left, followed by Lord and 
Lady Befoorough, Lord and Lady Cathcart, 
Lord and Lady Cholmondeley, Lord Holland, 
Lord Stanhope, Mr. Erfkine, and other per- 
fons of diftin&tion, &c. &c. About half paft 
four, M. Garnerin dreffed himfelf in a jacket 
in which he always. makes his aerial excur- 
fions; he then took a tumbler of rumand water 
and took his feat, Mr, Locker, his companion 
in this voyage, having juft before taken his. 
About a quarter before five, the laft rope,” 
which held the balloon, was cut, and the 
balloon afcended in a moft fteady and majeftic 
ftyle, taking its courfe towards Highgate—it 
was out of fight in two minutes. The very 
unfavourable weather had induced M. Gar- 
nerin to give up his intention of difplaying 
the promifed experiment of the parachute. 
The motion, though very rapid, was perfect~ 
ly imperceptible to the travellers, and neither 
of them could diftinguifh founds above the 
elevation of three or four thoufand feet. 
After they had been about five minutes on 
their voyage, M. Garnerin propofed to des 
fcend, and accordingly he opened the valve. 
The defcent was very rapid, occafioned by 
the force of the wind, rather than the fpeci- 
fic gravity of the machine, and the re-bound, 
on touching the earth, bore them up again, 
with great velocity, to the height of 150 or 
200 feet, In re-defcending, they ftruck 
againit a tree, the fhock of which gave M. 
Giana a fevere blow on the back: but, 
feveral of the peafantry being at hand, the 
travellers alighted from the car, in perfect 
fafety, in a field belonging to Mr. Qwen, at 
Chingford, in Effex. 
On Tuefday, Auguft 10, the intrepid Gar- 
nerin again afcended from Vauxhall Gardens, 
accompanied by Madame Garnerin and a Mr, 
Glafsford. The balloon was the fame in 
which M. Garnerin made his preceding 
voyage from Lord’s Cricket-ground. With- 
out the Gardens, it is computed, that 300,co@ 
perfons were colleéted, and, atan early hour, 
feveral thoufands could not procure admilffion © 
into the gardens. Scarcely a breath of air. 
moved, and the aéronaute remained at a con- 
Giemble height, nearly over the fpot from 
whence they afcended. In about ten mi- 
nutes, M. Garnerin let fall a {mall parachute, 
to which was fufpendeda cat. At a quarter 
paft eight o’clock, the aéronauts defcended 
in Lord Rofslyn’s Paddock, on the top of 
Hampftead Hill. This defcent of the para- 
chute was gradual, and the cat, with his 
little 
