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MR. GARNERIN has the honour of informing the Public, that his ascent into the Air, to the height of Ten Thousand Feet, and his descent by means of a Parachute, will take place at LORD's CRICKET GROUND, Mary-le-Bone, on the 3d of July, at Four o'Clock in the Afternoon.
Admittance to Seats, immediately in the vicinity of the Apparatus, from which the operation of filling the Balloon, &c, may be distinctly seen, 10s. 6d. - Second Places, 5s.
The exhibition of the Balloon and Parachute continues every Day, from Nine o'Clock in the Morning til Five in the Afternoon, at the Pantheon, Oxford Road, where the first People of this Metropolis come to inspect them, as well as the Sphere of the Union of Nations, an Aerostatic Globe, with its Aerial Car, decorated with the Flags of all the Civilised Nations of the Earth, which ascended with four Persons from Paris, the 9th of last November, in the presence of Bonaparte and the Marquis of Cornwallis.
Admission to the Pantheon 1s.
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BALLOON. - STAGES will be erected in the Nursery Grounds of Messrs. Cochran and Jenkins adjoining Lord's Cricked Ground, for the accomodation of Ladies and Gentlemen to see the Balloon go off on Saturday next. Select parties may have places for any number on application at the above Nursery. Admittance 5s. each.
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ASCENSION with a BALLOON, and DESCENT in a PARACHUTE - Mr. GARNERIN has the honour of informing the Public, that his ASCENSION [[? most of line illegible]] will take place (if the weather permits), at LORD'S CRICKET GROUND, New-road, Mary-la-bonne, THIS DAY, the 3d of July at Four o'Clock in the afternoon - Doors open at Twelve. Admission Tickets, for the First Seats, and in the Vicinity of the Apparatus, &c, 10s 6d. - Second Seats, 5s. to be had at No. 31, Conduit-street; at Tom's Coffee-house, Cornhill; at the Globe Tavern, Fleet-street; at Lord's Cricket-ground, New-Road, Mary-la-bonne; and at the Pantheon, Oxford-street; where the Aerostatic Machines are to be seen every day. Admittance, 1s. - N.B. Order to be observed:- Coaches coming to the Ground, with the horses heads toward Paddington.- In case of an unavoidable disappointment, on account of the rain or wind, Mr. G.'s experiments will be postponed till Monday, the 5th instant.
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AERIAL JOURNEY, and DESCENT in a PARACHUTE. - Mr. GARNERIN begs leave to inform the Public, that his Ascent into the Aerian Regions, and his Descent by means of a Parachute, from the height of 10,000 Feet, will irrevocably take place, at LORD's CRICKET GROUND, in the New-road, Mary-la-bonne, on the 3d of July inst. at Three o'Clock in the Afternoon. Mr. Garnerin having obtained the approbation of the Magistrates for the choice and eligibility of the spot, is thus far authorised to announce the precise time of his Ascension, and to assure the Public, that, as the trial of the Parachute requires a fine weather, yet, if his descent was thereby prevented, he would, nevertheless, perform his majestuous Ascension in his Balloon; and moreover pledges himself, that nothing on his part shall be wanting to gratify the curiosity of the Public. On account of the number of distinguished personages who have already applied and promised to honour with their presence, Mr. Garnerin's departure for his Aerial Journey, as well as the crowd which is expected at the doors, it becomes incumbent to him to request, that such Ladies and Gentlemen who wish to be seated in the vicinity of the apparatus, from which the operation of filling the Balloon may be distinctly seen, would send as soon as convenient for Tickets of admission, which may be had, First Seats, 10s. 6d. Second Seats, 5s. at Mr. Carbery's, No 31, Conduit-street, Bond-street; at the Globe Tavern, Fleet-street; at Tom's Coffee-house, Cornhill; at Lord's Cricket Ground, Mary-la-bonne; and at the Pantheon, Oxford-street; where the Exhibition of his Balloons, Parachute, and other Aerostatic Machines continues every Day, but Ascension Days. - Admittance to the Pantheon, 1s.
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THE BALOON. ^[[4 July 1802 - handwritten in ink]]
We are extremely concerned to state that some person or persons were base enough to cut and damage M. Garnerin's baloon (with which he was to have ascended on Saturday) in several places on Thursday evening, at the time it was exhibiting in the Pantheon, and it was only by the great exertions of a number of persons sitting up all Friday night that it was repaired and in a state fit to ascend on Saturday. Some suspicions, it is said, attach to some of M. Garnerin's countrymen. We should rather think that this malicious outrage must have proceeded from another quarter. Early on Saturday morning it was removed, with the parachute, to Lord's Cricket Ground, New Road, Mary-le-bone. Every preparation was made for filling the baloon; between eleven and twelve o'clock M. Garnerin arrived on the ground; it was then blowing a very strong gale at North West, and M. G. expressing some alarm at the appearance of the weather, having suffered so much on his late ascent in consequence of the boisterous weather, his friends pressed him to make up his mind before the doors were opened, as they assured him it was very material to the preservation of order to determine before any money was taken, upon which he begged for a short time to consider of it, and the doors were delayed being opened, and at length he determined not to go. Between twelve and one o'clock he left the ground, accompanied by Captain Sowden, and the populace learning who they were, a great crowd followed them to view their persons.
As soon as possible, after M. Garnerin had made up his mind not to ascend, he sent a very polite letter to Sir Richard Ford, informing him of his determination, in consequence of which Sir Richard sent a letter of dismissal from duty to the Captain of the Guards who were stationed there, but sent instuctions to the Police Officers to remain there till after three o'clock.
M. Garnerin took every possible means to prevent the public from being disappointed, by giving orders for a number of hand and posting bills, informing the public of his having put off his ascent, to be printed and circulated with all possible speed, and with such dispatch were they printed, that they were actually delivering and posted before three o'clock.
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About three o'clock the baloon in a wooden case, the parachute, and all the apparatus, was removed in a cart from the Cricket Ground with an intention of safely lodging them in the Pantheon. An immense concourse of people followed the cart, hissing and groaning all the way. This disapprobation was supposed to arise from M. Garnerin having said in his advertisements which appeared before he ascended from Ranelagh, that he would ascend with the baloon although the weather was not favourable, but not descend in the parachute, the condition of the weather being only as to his descent in the parachute. When the cart arrived at the pantheon the mob had increased to such a number so as to render Oxford-street impassable, and the shop keepers near it were obliged to put up their shutters, and the people became so outrageous that they actually prevented the baloon from being taken into the Pantheon, threatening to tear it to pieces. Information being sent to the Public Office, Marlborough-street, of this daring attack, the Magistrates dispatched a party of Officers, and on their arrival they found several of the mob with knives, &c. about to break open the case which contained the baloon, with an intention of carrying their threats into execution, when Hamilton, the Officer, in the most firm and manly manner fought his way through the mob and got into the cart, and dared any of them to touch the baloon, when, with the assistance of the other Officers, the cart was driven to the Public Office, Marlborough-street, where the baloon, parachute, and all the apparatus were safely lodged in the strong room of the Office. We are extremely sorry that the populace should have betrayed so shameful and outrageous a disposition on this occasion. M. Garnerin has already sufficiently proved himself willing to gratify the people of this country with the spectacle of his aerostatic experiments at the expence of no common danger. The public therefore ought to have relied upon his honour that nothing unfair could be intended. Besides, the populace had no reason to complain. They pay nothing to M. Garnerin for the perilious enterprise to which he exposes himself. It shows too much brutal disposition even to wish that a man should risk almost certain destruction to afford a show to the public. The pleasure of the ascent of the baloon must depend on the fineness of the weather. And the interesting experiment of the parachute cannot be made at all but in a calm. Had M. Garnerin ascended in his baloon it might have been destroyed, nay must have been destroyed, so that the parachute could not have been exhibited to the People of London.
The crowd assembled round the Cricket Ground was beyond calculation. They began to collect between eleven and twelve o'clock, and continued coming till five o'clock, during which time several very heavy showers fell, and such was the rage of public curiosity that they weathered the storms, and many of the fair sex in particular were completely wet to the skin. The morning having been very fine, induced numbers to go out even without umbrellas. The New Road was completely filled with carriages. In addition to the Police Officers and a party of the Guards, a party of the Horse Guards attended, in consequence of an application from Mr. Lord, the proprietor of the Ground, to Lord Cathcart.
In the crowd at the Pantheon a female pick pocket was detected, and we are extremely sorry to say, Connolly's daring gang was as active in committing their depredations upon this as on all other public occasions.
We find, however, that it is settled that Captain Sowden again accompanies M. Garnerin (should the weather be such as to prevent M. G.'s descent with the parachute), and the ascent will certainly take place this day. M. Garnerin, in his bill, expresses his regret that the public should have taken offence at his not ascending on Saturday, but, as we have said, we rather think that he has reason to complain of the unreasonable demands of the populace.
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GARNERIN'S Ascent from Lord's Cricket Ground.
M. Garnerin having, in order to prevent a repetition of the disappointment of Saturday, pledged himself to go up inevitably yesterday, the balloon was accordingly prepared, but the experiment of the parachute was impossible. Notwithstanding the unfavourable appearance of the day, more than one person offered himself as a companion. Captain Sowden having thought it prudent to remain content with the fame which he had already acquired, and to decline his engagement for this day, Mr. Peck, of Oxford-street, was first mentioned, and actually determined to go; but, from some reasons with which we are unacquainted, the place was given to another gentleman, whose name we understand is Brown. Mr. Carbery, son of Mr. Carbery, of Conduit-street, a boy of light weight, was also to have gone up in case more favourable weather had permitted M. Garnerin to take a second companion. The balloon was filled about four, but the additional preparations of tying on the car, which from the boisterousness of the wind, it was necessary to render more secure by one or two rounds of circular cordage through the ropes by which it was suspended to the balloon, took up a considerable time, so that it was near five when the aeronaut was called away to meet his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who having been detained by the press of carriages, now entered the ground, with the Duchess of Devonshire, Lady Besborough, Lord and Lady Morpeth, Lady Harriot Cavendish, Lady Duncannan, &c.
Garnerin now exerted himself in getting through every remaining preparation; he was drest in a tight seaman's jacket, and pantaloons, which, from the length of time he had been on the ground, in a state of continued exertion, wishing to do every thing himself, notwithstanding the most perfect diligence and attention in his attendants, were wet through long before he entered the car. Every thing being prepared, a few minutes before five, after receiving the good wishes of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and his fair and noble companions, the hardy Frenchman approached his aerial vehicle; there was yet some difficulty with respect to the management of the balast, and the Gentleman who was to accompany M. Garnerin rose up to assist in settling it; but Garnerin, who at this moment took his seat, said to him, Ne vous derangez pas Monsieur, and at the same time adjusted every thing himself. The wind having beat with some violence with a most piercing rain now for some hours, the majority of the spectators, as well as the adventurers themselves, were wet through, and there being no shelter to render the same facility of taking the balloon about the ground which the inclosure of Ranelagh afforded, Garnerin ordered the only rope that now held it to be cut, and, without waiting for any of those interesting forms which more favourable weather would permit, he was launched at once into the clouds.
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The balloon was not the same that went up from Ranelagh; it was of an oblong form, and, from the prevalence of a strong and uniform wind during about three hours, which the inflation occupied, its position in the netting was considerably deranged, so that when it got into the air, its appearance was different from the steady majesty and elegant proportion of the balloon of Ranelagh; being extremely irregular and awkward, the car seemed not rightly balanced, and the balloon, while it remained in sight (which was not above three minutes) swung continually round in consequence. But all these disadvantages served only to display the superior courage and determination of Garnerin and his companion, who continued flourishing the united flags of Great Britain and France as long as they remained in sight. A thick cloud, however intervened between the anxious eyes of the immense assemblage, and the interesting object which they pursued, while it was yet near and perfectly distinguishable. Within the ground, the number of persons, chiefly of the first distiction, may be estimated at about one thousand; many more were prevented by the press from coming up in time; a considerable number remained in their carriages in Baker-street, and on the New Road, and some who had got out to make the best of their way were coming in when the ascent took place.
The scene without the gardens remains yet to be described; and it was of such a nature, as has not only never been described, but we will venture to say, never witnessed. The intire space of Baker-street from Portman-square, and above a mile of the New Road, was crowded with coaches and carriages of various descriptions, the passengers in which consoled themselves for the want of a nearer view, in being perfectly secure from the rain. The owners of the nurseries adjoining the Cricket-ground, determining on sharing M. Garnerin's profits, without participating in his expences, had let their scaffolding for half-price, or for any price they could get, while the proprietors of the adjacent fields had their grass trampled to destruction without thinking of demanding any recompence. The vast number of females in the windows, and even on the roofs of all the houses within sight of the ground was extremely interesting: but the most novel and striking scene of all was the vast multitude in the fields and other open spaces; who presented but one prospect of umbrellas, united so as to present a tolerably just idea of the locked shields of the Romans in an assault. We cannot attempt to give an idea of the number of persons collected on this very interesting occasion; but there certainly appeared to be more than even at the ascent at Ranelagh. We are extremely concerned that the gratifications were in any respect inferior, and we must do M. Garnerin and the gentleman who went with him the justice to say, that, at the most eminent hazard of their lives, they shewed their determination to contribute, as much as was in their power, to the pleasures, as well of the more limited number who contributed to the expence of the day, as of the unnumbered multitude, from whom they could expect to derive nothing but praises.
The whole assemblage separated with no other idea on the minds of those who composed it, but admiration for M. Garnerin, and the most earnest wishes for his safety and that of his companion, a safety which it is perhaps, a reproach on the inhabitants of the most enlightened city in the world, to have suffered to be exposed for a momentary gratification.
Previous to his departure, M. Garnerin took the precaution to obtain a cirtificate, signed by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire, and several other noble personages, and also by Sir Richard Ford, recommending him to the friendly attentions of all country gentlemen and farmers, among whom he may happen to land; and we have no doubt, as it is now known that he does not come on electioneering business, that wherever he shall descend, he will be treated with truly British hospitality.
The wind was more southerly than when M. Garnerin made his ascent from Ranelagh, and gave the Balloon a direction apparently more to the Northward, seeming to pass over Highgate.
Before and after the ascention of the Balloon, the most flagrant and atrocious acts of plunder and robbery were committed by gangs of thieves and pickpockets. Their numbers enabled them to carry on their depredations in security, and several instances occurred, where finding it impossible to steal with success, they did not scruple to seize and carry off the property openly and by force.
The breaking down of a scaffold or platform, upon which a great number of persons had taken their stand, produced a most melancholy and affecting catastrophe. By this unfortunate accident seven persons were most dreadfully crushed, a child was killed on the spot, a woman had both her legs broken, a man had a leg broken, and two others their arms. Another had his head and face crushed in so dreadful a manner as to leave little hopes of his recovery.
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BALLOONS. - It is with the utmost concern that Mr. GARNERIN found himself compelled to disappoint the Public in the Ascension he had announced and prepared for Saturday last, 3d instant. The high winds having rendered his experiments utterly impracticable with the Parachute, and being quite unprepared for a simple Ascension with his Balloon, on account of the hardships he experienced in his last excursion (in grounding), Mr Garnerin anxiously and confidently trusts his apology will be acceptable to a liberal and discerning Public, at the shrine of which he pledges himself that nothing will prevent his Ascension taking place (if the weather permits in the Parachute, and in the alternative with his Balloon), at Lord's Cricket Ground THIS AFTERNOON, at Four o'Clock precisely. First Seats 10s 6d. - Second 5s.
N. B. If, by contrary weather, Mr. Garnerin is obliged to give up the idea of ascending in a Parachute, Mr Sowden will most certainly make his second Ascension with Mr. Garnerin and his Balloon.
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