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UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF WILTON,
AND
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD FRANCIS EGERTON, M.P.

The PROPRIETORS of the ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL, LONDON, have the honor to announce to the Inhabitants of MANCHESTER and its vicinity, that their ROYAL
VAUXHALL NASSAU
BALLOON 

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 From London to Weiberg, in Germany.]]
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Only 3 [[??]] taken off
 
WILL ASCEND
UNDER THE ABOVE DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE,
FROM THE EXTENSIVE AREA OF
THE SALFORD GAS WORKS, 
MANCHESTER, 
Next Monday 16th Oct, 1837. (By the kind of permission of the Gentlemen of the Committee of the Works,) 
AT HALF-PAST THREE O'CLOCK. 

TO BE CONDUCTED
BY MR. GREEN, 
THE CELEBRATED AERONAUT 
THERE WILL BE 
SEATS IN THE CAR FOR TEN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. 

TERMS:- For a Lady, Ten Guineas.- For a Gentleman, Twenty Guineas. Seats may be secured on application to the Proprietors, at Yates's, Star Hotel, Deansgate. 

The Proprietors are much gratified in adding, that they are honoured by the very kind Permission of MAJOR STUART, of the 86th Regiment, or Royal County Downs, for the BAND OF THAT REGIMENT to attend. 

A variety of Martial and other Airs will be performed during the Inflation. 

The company will have the opportunity of witnessing the whole process of the Inflation of the Balloon. 

ADMISSION, HALF-A-CROWN. 

W. M. JONES, PRINTER, MARKET STREET MANCHESTER.
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On Monday afternoon Mr. Green made an ascent in the Royal Nassau balloon from Salford, Manchester, accompanied by Mr. Taylor, one of the proprietors of the gasworks there. The afternoon was exceedingly fine and clear. The Countess of Wilton, her children, and several friends, Lady Frances Egerton, and many fashionables, were present. A military band was in attendance. Half-past three o'clock was the hour fixed upon, but owing to a scarcity of gas, or the gas not being the best quality for such a purpose, they did not start until past five o'clock, when the rope which held them to the earth was cut, and the balloon with the intrepid aeronauts rose steadily and majestically. The wind being very gentle, they remained in view a considerable time. The persons present to witness this interesting sight were kept in a state of great suspense for a few seconds, owing to one of the workmen being carried up holding by the rope which had just liberated the balloon; whether this was accidental, or whether the man did so for the sake of the trip, we know not, but he certainly was in great danger for a few seconds, when he very adroitly, and with great presence of mind, climbed into the car. The number of persons assembled outside the gates and in the immediate neighbourhood was very considerable, and exceeded any thing of the kind we ever witnessed. The rush afterwards was dreadful, and the shrieks of women and children, and the continual cry of "My child! my child!" were distressing to hear; nevertheless, we are happy to say we have not heard of any accident. The balloon descended at six o'clock, near Poynton Park, the property of Lady Vernon, which is about 14 miles from Manchester. ^[[19 Oct 1837 - handwritten in ink]]
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BALLOONING.
FROM "OUR OWN" CORRESPONDENT, 
We are extremely happy to be enabled to lay before your readers an account of the late grand balloon expedition, from the pen of one of the aeronauts themselves. Our fair correspondent, as well as our readers, will appreciate the motive of our giving the letter untrimmed and un-"edited," which, without further comment we proceed to transcribe. 
"TO THE HEDITER OF THE COURT JOURNALL. 
"SIR,- I am a spireing genus, and ave got a Sole wich to use the expresion of old Luke Last my shew maker is 2 big for my uper lethers. Bee that ass it may, or may not, I allwys hels myself up Very hi and without vannity considderd myself a Cut abuv the Canal (q. Canaille ?). After wat I av sed you wil not be Sirprized to ear off my bean I of Mr Green's party wen he went up a Skylarking the other day in his Sky Bus. Oping Sum accounts of the same wil not be Uninterresting to you and your gentel reders, I now Take up my pen and hink and sheet of bath Post to inform you as folows. 
"Sir, fridy was our Ascenshun Day, bean fixt on by Mr G. on account of Mores allmynack Prog noxticating the wether to be Verry fine, wich its all Verry fine tawking of Mr Moor, but betwene you and me I think ticing pepel out in the Rain in that Ways isent by no means Fair. Owevver to procede to Vox Hall wich I did in a hackny, the coachman litel thinking who he'd got in his Inside. O Mr. Hediter sech a site! it was rely Bewiching. I shood think they was not less than 2 underd thousand umberrellows all up at wunce, without Rekonning parrowsalls and Indy ruber clokes. I never see sech a seen in al my life. Haveing shuk ands with Mr Green and been interduced to the Rest of the party we ajournd to ave a bit of lunsh together wile the baloon was geting its Blow out. Noty beany - take this opertunaty of corekting a poppular eror of imaggineing that baloons is filed with wind Like fat bals to make em go up But find on converseing with Mr Green on the subjik it is no sech thing But quite contrary namely they bean al Lited with gass. This gas from the hight wich it carrys things is cold High-drigin gass. That wich is used for liteing our streets and shops of a heavening is I believe cald Night-rigin gass. 
"Sir, our time bean now cum I was anded into the car by Mr Green, bean Drest in a Ski blew gown made ful all round, a at of Clouded silk, and Baloon sleaves. I was litterrally coverd with flowrs, namely wall flowrs and emmonys in my at, and Creepers in my air. This was a hawfull moment, and wen I ear the signall gun dischargd I began to feal as if I shood like to be Let off myself. And I Bleave betwene you and me Mr Heditor, at Seting off al of us Started. Owevver I soon plukt up my sperrits, bean determind as the saying is to Di game, and in another moment the rope bean ajusted we was Lawnchd into heternity. Their was 9 of us namely 2 females and 7 males, Mr C. Green bean apropriatly drest in Sea green and a Air cap on his hed. The vew at this time was bewtyfull in the xtream the crouds of specktaters Old and yung Gentel and simpl standing Driping under the trees bean rely delitefull. They kep hip hipping us in the most cheering maner wile the gentelmen in the baloon wavd their ats in return and me my Blak velvit ridicule, at wich you wil praps Smile at the idear, but the fact is no laffing mater, namely Having pervided a helegant wite cambrick workt pokit hankycher for the Okasion, but wen I cum to want it found I had bean Pickpokketed of it by sum of the swel mob in the gardins, and 1 thing Leding to another soon diskovered allso mising my gold repeter, spighing glas and chain, oarmolew bracelits, purs ful of sovrins, silver Thimbl, and pensil case, wich Rather dampt my arder for a bit and made me Repent evver bean ingaged in sech a Airum scarum xpedishon. Owevver I wasent going to let Mr Green see my shag green, so goodhumorously jined in the laff again myself, tho I cood hav tore their eyes out. 
"Sir to procede with our viage the whether having now cleered up a litl we prommist usselves much delite from the seenery wich Mr Green sed the vew of London from the Air was the most beutifull thing on erth, and we had all got our
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tellyscopes and hoppera glases in Riddiness but onfortinatly the wind Blowin us up sow east and the smoke seting in in the same direxion we coodent see nothink at al. This put us al in a pother, but Mr G. begd leaf to Asure us that al wood be sattisfactary jest now, and perceded to rite ome by one of the carier piggins, and kindly Offring to frank me a leter tuk this opertunity of Droping a line to Bow street to Inquire after my lost propperty. We was now geting out of the smoke, and Mr Green told us to get our tellyscopes reddy agin wich we did acording, But befour we had time to find the fokus had got among the clouds wear we coodent See our ands befour us - at least Mr G. sed it was the clouds tho I doant Bleave it was no sich thing by nothink in the world but a reglar november fog. At the same time I began to feel myself uncomon downrite chil, for naturally thinking we shood be verry ot in cuming near the sun I had Drest myself in nothink but muslins and gawses, and perwided myself with only parrowsalls and vales and fans and arrowmattik vinnegar, and shood hav bean litterrally starvd to deth if it hadent Bean for Mr Green galantly throing an emty Balast bag over my sholders. Ass it was I cort sech a Dredfull rumatis in my arms and sholders and head and neck and all the way up my bak and all the way down my legs ass I fear I shal nevver be beter if I Live to 100. Mr Green now began to luk verry Blu and seamd quite in a Brown studdy. It was anuff to pervoke him, after thinking to mak sech a Hit and turning out nothink but Mist. Owever he kep up his sperrits ass wel as he cood and tried to inliven us by Relateing annickdotes of cillybrated hairy noughts, as he cald em, going up in baloons and tumbling rite out and breaking their neks again the clouds, or geting drownded in the meddittyrainyan. Mr G. now teling us that we was geting abuv the clouds we agen began to get our spighing glases in order. But bean at mist below and al ski abuv their was nothink to spi at but the sun and haveing onfortynatly neglected to bring smoked glases with us we was soon obliged to giv up from watery eyes and am sory to ad hav ad a weeknes in my site evver sins. Mr G. owevver was verry amewsing and compaird us to eagles, and to say the truth I began to feel verry peckish. In consequents of wich serching for my ridicule baskit wich had fel amung the balast bags am sory to say 1 of em had bust and converted al my bred and beaf into nothink but sand-wiches. In this maner we continued to sale along for a considerable time. But I coodent elp thinking Mr Green was out of his debth and dident no wear he was, tho he pertended to be quite contrayry, and Mrs C. G. who sat next to me wispring that she was afrade we shood nevver get down agen I wisperd in return that I began to think it was al up with us. Mr C. G. asking wat we was thinking about so ernest we told him that being so hi up made us feel rather Down, and perposed returning. upon wich another gentleman puling out his wach sed it was Hi time. So Mr G. kindly giveing his ascent to our descent we proceded to Let ourselves down, and in a verry litel time was within a stones thro of terror firmer. We alited in the most picturesk manner in the midel of a bog near Rochester into wich I was onfortynatly piched by the baloons giving a sudden Bounce on coming in contract with the erth, But geting up found I had Broke no lims, haveing fortynatly fel up to my midl in a quagmire Wich thus ended one of the most hinteresting days of my life. 
"So no more (balooning) at Present
"from Mr Heditor
"your umble to Comand
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"Poscrip - forgot to menshan Mr Greens interesting diskuvrys relating to the currence in the uper regens and the advantiges of wether cocks insted of marriners kumpases in voyaging aboard of baloons Al wich I ope he wil hav a hopertunity of Laying befoar the ous of comons wen the currency question cums before it agen - for wich purpos I beg to Recomend him for the Air burrows. Sir pleas not to Put my real name - Ile never forgiv you if yeu do - as I particklarly wish to preserve my animosity. 
"Yours and setterra."

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