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 ascent in Mr. Green’s balloon from Hereford, Oct. 1827. In describing his aerial excursion, he says, “A field of sheep looked like so many mites crawling about a cheese; a waggon on the Weobly road reminded me of the vehicle of Queen Mab, ‘in size no bigger than a hazel nut, drawn by a team of little atomies;’ a church like a child’s toy, and other things in similar proportion.” 



son of the Duke of Manchester, late Captain-General and Governor of Jamaica. This officer was born on the 9th July, 1799; made a lieutenant on the 20th Nov. 1818; and advanced to the rank of commander July 19th, 1822. He married, Oct. 8th, in the latter year, the daughter of Lady Olivia Sparrow. 



his examination, at Portsmouth, in the summer of 1810; and was slightly wounded whilst serving as master’s-mate of the Scipion 74, (flag-ship of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Robert Stopford,) and employed on shore at the reduction of Java, in 1811. His first commission bears date Feb. 7th, 1812. In the following year, being then a lieutenant of the Surveillante frigate. Captain Sir George R. Collier, on the north coast of Spain, he was again wounded, in one of the breaching batteries on the Chofre sand-hills, opened against the walls of St. Sebastian. He subsequently joined the Porcupine 22, flag-ship of the late Sir Charles V. Penrose, and was very actively employed in co-operation with Wellington’s army in the neighbourhood of Bayonne and Bourdeaux.

On the 2d April, 1814, the advanced boats of the British