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[[start page]] MR. GREEN's ASCENT in his CORONATION BALLOON, from the Gardens of Stafford House, Chiswick, and Grand Fete Champetre, To-morrow, Aug. 14. Tickets, 2s. 6d.; family tickets, for five persons, 10s; admission on the day, 5s. The entertainments during the progress of inflation will be varied, and the ascent will take place at half past 6 precisely. According to the fashion of the day, Mr. Green will let down an animal in a parachute. 1839 [[end line]] [[start line]] Aug. 14. 1839 On Wednesday last Mr. Green, accompanied by his friend Mr. D. Dulley, made his 273d ascent from Stafford-house, Chiswick, a few minutes past 6 o'clock, and descended between Whestone and Totteridge, after a delightful voyage of half an hour, where they experienced every attention and assistance from the inhabitants. During the journey Mr. Green was confirmed in the opinion he had so often advanced, that in proportion to the elevation the wind would be found to bear more west. The different currents which operated most were as follow:-South by east; due south; south by west; and at the greatest elevation, 7,100 feet, southwest. To show the effect, and explain the principle of the parachute in breaking a fall, Mr. Green exhibited the one used for Cross's celebrated monkey Jacepo (substituting a cat) when he ascended from the Royal Surrey Gardens, and which he considered an improvement on Garnerin's. It distended immediately on its liberation, at the height of 2,000 feet, and descended gracefully, without the slightest rotatory motion, experiencing little or no concussion when it reached the earth. On returning to the grounds the aeronauts found that puss and the parachute has been brought back in safety after an absence of two hours. [[end page]] [[start page]] MR. GREEN'S CORONATION BALLOON ASCENT FROM THE GARDENS OF STAFFORD HOUSE, CHISWICK, AND GRAND FETE CHAMPETRE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14. [[bold line]] Admit [[line]] AND FRIENDS, ON THE PAYMENT OF 2s. 6d. each Person. [[line]] [[bold line]] A Variety of Entertainments will be given during the progress of Inflation, from One o'Clock till Six. Doors open at One o'Clock, Ascent at Half-past Six. [[bold line]] Tickets 2s. 6d. each. Family Tickets for Five, 10s. Admission, without an Order or Ticket, 5s. [[bold line]] Tickets may be had at the EGYPTION HALL, PICCADILLY; at 313, STRAND; Mr. HEWITT, Confectioner, Regent Street; and at STAFFORD HOUSE. [[end page]] [[start page]] Mr. Green, who ascended in his balloon on Wednesday from Stafford House, Chiswick, accompanied by Mr. Dulley, made a safe descent within half an hour in the field between Totteridge and Whetstone. The greatest altitude was 7,000 feet, the balloon passing respectively through currents S.E. due South, and at the highest elevation S.W.; current at the highest elevation to which Mr. Green has ascended being always N.W. At a height of 2,000 feet a parachute, suspended to which was a cat, was liberated, which descended quietly and gently to the earth, the animal sustaining no injury in its aerial voyage. Aug. 15. 1839 [[end page]] [[start page]] [[bold line]] -Mr. Green, accompanied by his friend Mr. D. Dulley, made his 273rd ascent from Stafford House, Chiswick, on Wednesday, and, after reaching an altitude of 7,100 feet, he made a safe descent, within half an hour, at Totteridge, near Whetstone, Middlesex. At a height of 2,000 feet, a parachute, suspended to which was a cat, was liberated: it was observed that the machine descended without the slightest rotary motion, and after two hours absence both arrived safely in the grounds. Aug. 11. 1839 [[end page]] [[start page]] GRAND DAHLIA SHOW AND FETE Champetre, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 21, AT STAFFORD HOUSE, CHISWICK. [[bold line]] DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS! BY Mr. GREEN. August 14, 1839. [[end page]] [[start page]] GRAND DAHLIA SHOW AND FETE Champetre, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 21, AT STAFFORD HOUSE, CHISWICK. [[bold line]] DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS! BY Mr. GREEN. August 14, 1839. [[end page]] [[start page]] MEDAL OF HER MAJESTY. We have seen a splendid medal of the Queen, from the graver of Mr. W. J. Taylor, who executed it for the Metropolitan Society of Florists and Amateurs.- On the obverse, her head without bust, her face is of the most beautiful work, the hair braided. On the reverse, a wreath, composed of oak and laurel, within which it is intended to engrave the name of the successful candidate, it being a prize medal, strictly private: and not otherwise to be procured. Mr. Till has likewise presented to our view a cast from an unfinished die of Mr. GREEN, the celebrated aeronaut, by the same hand. This head, is, as to fidelity of portrait, most extraordinary, it may be termed a speaking likeness. On the reverse it is intended to represent Weilburg,* the seat of the Grand Duke of Nassau, near which he descended after travelling on the 7th & 8th Nov. upwards of five hundred miles in eighteen hours. This view will be taken from a superb piece of china presented to Mr. Green, by the Grand Duchess of Nassau. We would suggest to the Numismatic Society, the propriety of causing to be engraved by Wyon, or Taylor, a medal of their distinguished President, Dr. Lee, either of those gentlemen would do justice to it, and surely a body of men who professedly represent the most eminent Numismatists of the day, would be pleased to possess a medallic portraiture of a gentleman so devoted to its interests. *It is a curious coincidence that the celebrated Blanchard who had ascended at Frankfort, also descended here in 1785. His flag is yet preserved among the archives of the Ducal Palace at Weilburg, in commemoration of the occurrence. Mr. Green, with so good a precedent before him, presented those which he had with him-two old and valued companions which had accompanied him in two hundred and twenty-one voyages-indeed ever since his fifth ascent. Seated at his hospitable board at Highgate, the veteran relates with a zest, peculiarly his own-anecdotes connected with this aerial voyage: such, as the peasants flying on his nearing the earth and afterwards partaking of what they termed 'Himmlischer Schnapps,' i. e. Celestial Dram-in reality foreign brandy. And likewise of the christening of the "Nassau Balloon," by eight young ladies within it,-it being previously inflated with common air. Druids' Magazine, Dec. 1837. This medal by my friend and competitor judges is carried and to be conceet [[guess]] likewise. Charles [[guess]] Green Feb. 4. 1839. [[end page]]
