I or any one befide, to difcriminate accurately between the effufions of enthufiafm, and the fuggeftions of party. Tuis much however appears certain, that the fuccefs was by no means adequate to the fanguine expectations of the projectors; and indeed, if we recollect how rapidly the effect of fire decreases in proportion to the increase of the diftances; and that in this inftance affuming the effect of the fire at the diftance of one foot to be as unit, it could at the top of the balJoon, when diftended, be no more than one 15876ths of that unit, we fhall not be surprised at the difficulties that offered, nor at the fudden descent after the globe had reached a cold and Tarified flratum of the atmosphere (even though there had been no rent) in which the neceffary dilatation of the internal air would have required a fire much more intenfe than would have been compatible with the safety of the apparatus. X. In the next experiment we have to defcribe, an apparatus was to be applied to a gas balloon for fleering it both horizontally and vertically, and even against a current of air. M. Blanchard, an artist of Paris, had fome years fince announced that he was preparing wings with which he meant foon to take a fight. The late difcovery feemed to hafen the execution of his project. He conftru&ted a globe fimilar to that of Charles (No. II.) only two feet more in diameter, i. e. fourteen feet two inches. To this he fufpended a car; and between the globe and the car he fixed an umbrella twelve feet in diameter, the intention of which was to break the fall in cafe of an accident; it was hence called parachute. To the car were adapted four wings, two on each fide, and behind a rudder, all made of taffeta, diftended by means of whale bone ribs. All this was to be worked by a machinery of M. Blanchard's invention. He was to afcend himself for the purpofe of navigating the machine, and Dom Pech, a Benedictine, was to accompany him, with a view of making various aerological obfervations and experiments. Every thing was ready on the 2d of March, in the Champ de Mars. A party of M. Blanchard's friends had repaired to a certain country-house where he had promifed to meet them through the air. The navigators were embarked, and ready to foar, when behold a young man, a pupil of the Ecole Militaire, rufhed from among the crowd, threw himself into the car, and infifted upon fha ing in the expedition. Remonftrance availed nothing, force was ufed; but be drew his word, and in the cutie wounded Blanchard in the nand de. froyed the parachute and the wick and thus defeated the purpose of the experiment. At length he was overpowered and secured. Notwithflanding this cruel difap. pointment, the two adventurers determined to take a chance flight. They rofe, but their power of afcenfion was not fufficient to carry them to any height; they therefore foon landed. Don Pech alighted, and Blanchard immediately afcended very rapidly. The wind being eaft, he was carried to the weftward. The account he gives of his navigation is, that he rofe about two thoufand toifes (we prefume this to be much exaggerated) that be found himself at times ftationary in a perfe& calm, during which the heat of the fun was fcorching; that he at different times felt currents of air in different directions, in fome of which the cold was intenfe. That during thefe cold intervals, he felt. an almoft unconquerable defire to fleep; that clouds collected under his feet, and that it appeared to him that he was at different times carried towards different parts of the compass. He continued in the air about one hour and a quarter; after which he landed fafely near Seve, on the road to Verfailles, about five miles from the fpot whence he afcended. The failure of this experiment hath, we hear, by no means diícouraged M Blanchard from farther attempts; and indeed we learn that he is already conftructing another machine on the fame principle, in which he, and an affiftant, M. Affier Perica, are afcend as foon as it can be got ready. This profpe&t hath induced us to be more particular in our account of the prefent experiment than its fuccefs to may We may perhaps feem to juftify. may probably have occafion to refer tot hereafter. It may be neceffary to apprize the perambulators of St. James's Park, that M. Charles is fad to be actually,.. by order and at the expence of the King of France, conftructing a gis balloon forty feet in diameter, which is to confit of three coits, the firft. of lamafkin, and the other two of glazed taffeta That it is to be launched, with fix navigators, on the 15th of April next, from the great Terrace of St. Cloud; and that it is to land in St. James's Park, in order (as the wag who has inferted this article ina public French paper fays) to obtain the premium offered by George III: to the firft bold Frenchman who fhall: venture through the air across the Streights of Calais. Befides this project, a part of which is faid to be true, the Abbe Miolan, Profeffor of Experimental Philofophy, and M. Jininet, an artist, bothof Paris, propofe making a gas balloon, 70 feet in diameter, with which they mean to afcend to a great height, in order to made experiments on the acceleration of the fall of bodies, on the denfities of different ftrata of air, the Aurora Borealis,the declination of the magnetic needle, befides trying a method for fteering the machine. A very moderate proficient in philofophy mu perceive, that few of these experiments can fucced. Mr. Dillier, of the Hague, is endeavouring to apply balloons to the buoying up large fhips, in order to facilitate their entrance into the harbour of Amfterdam. And M.Champ. mas of Paris gave notice, that he fhould fend off an aerial d ligence on Friday the 12th of March. Of this laft we hardly expect any farther ac count. In our next, we shall exhibit the defcent of the Balloon with the confternation it occafioned, and continue our extracts from the Review. ! וי What tho' no mournfu! kindred stand No coftly Oak, adorn'd with art, Yet hear, ye great ones! hear ye this, Aud Innocence my shroud. My name unknown, obfcure my birth, No funeral rites are given; And tho' deny'd God's House on Earth, I tread his Courts in Heaven. The Poet's Lamentation for the ous tongue; She purr'd in metre, and the mew'd in rhyme, Lofs of his Cat, which he used Her purrs and mews fo evenly kept to call his Mufe. Felis quædam Delicium erat cujusdam Adolefcentis. IESOP. OPPRESS'D with grief, in heavy I mourn The beft Coffins in the country. are ufually made with oak, finely and curiously ornamented. time. But when my dulnefs has too stubborn prov❜d, Nor could, by Pufs's mufic, be re mov'd, Oft to the well known volumes have Alone I fit, and unaffifted write: Look often round (O! greatest cause of pain) And view the num'rous labours of my brain; Thofe quires of words array'd in pom. pous rhime, Which brav'd the jaws of all devour. ing time, Now undefended, and unwatch'd by Cats, VI. Tab begins to milk her cows, O'er the far extending plain, Now the glow-worm's lucid blaze, IX. Are doom'd a victim to the teeth of On the Death of the late Rev. rats. EVENING. the fetting behold! Dr. ELIOT. [By a LADY.] NSweet appears the mottled weft, WHEN fol, emerging from the Now the clouds are ting'd with gold, Phoebus gilds the lovely fcene, Blithfome on each verdant spray, The fun has set behind the hill, Now the foaring night-hawk flies, M. Charles, in the Air Balloon, faw the fun fet twice in the fame day, which (though no man ever beheld before) any Night-Hawk may de when he chaples Kkk The leffer orbs confefs their feeble (way, Loft in the fplendor of meridian day. But when his chearing beams withdraw their light, And gathering fhades portend approaching night, The clouds diftill their dew, and weep to find, Their borrow'd luftre with his rays declin'd: Thus ELIOT rose, thus reach'd the We gaz'd with rapture, heard with glad furprize, That mortals could to fuch perfe&ion rife, His bright example fhone unrival'd here, And long adorn'd our northern hemifphere; But when this fun had fet, and difappear'd, We |