Afhenhurft, efq; for acting as fecretary, and for his proper conduct and attention to this affembly. Refolved unanimoufly, That this affembly do now adjourn till Wednelday, the 20th of April next, then to meet in Dublin. To the PEOPLE of IRELAND. WE, the affembly of delegates, for promoting a parliamentary re form, have deliberated with care, and with the warmeft zeal, upon the fubjects referred to our confideration. We have, therefore, contented ourselves for the prefent, with confidering and reducing into fome order the materia's which we have hitherto been able to col let, leaving to a future meeting the probability of affording further lights, confcious at the fame time how much must be referred to parliament, Continue to cherish an affectionate attachment to his majefty, and a reliance on his paternal attention to the liberties of his fubjects, trufting that his majefty's councils. and the wifdom of parliament, will devise some effectual means to gratify the wishes of a peaceable and loyal people. Persevere in a due respect to the authority of the laws, and the dignity of the legislature. Encourage thofe kind fentiments of affection to Great Britain, which already animate this country, and which ought to fubfift between affociates in the caufe of freedom. Turn your attention to thofe, grievances which have called forth the voice, and awakened the exertions of Great Britain; and remember, that this country labours under a more enormous and complicated ufurpation. Your right to a control over your reprefentatives, by frequency of election, has been infringed.-Oaths are multiplied upon electors, whilft the confciences of the elected are left at large. Your counties groan under arifiocratic combinations and, even if they were free, their members compose but a fifth, whilft a few individuals nominate a large majority of the reprefentative body. The freedom of your cities has been undermined by perverfion of their charters; and their independence is oppreffed by a multitude of fraudulent electors. Places and penfions are the rewards of apoftacy. Your boroughs are become the property of individuals, which they notorioufly barter for gain, and a price is thus iet on the rights of a people. If thefe enormities be not corrected, the houfe of commons may in time become fo degraded by venality, and disfigured by innovation, that the beft adminiftration may find corruption a. neceffary engine of government. The rapacity of your reprefentatives may prey upon the earnings of your induftry. The protectors of your rights may receive the wages of treachery. The truflees of the people may become, the partifans of factious nobles. The prerogative of the crown, and the liberty of the fubject, may be equally overwhelm. ed, and the houfe of commons may at length ceafe to be the reprefentative of the people. We conjure you to look back to the glory of your former fucceffes; and we folemnly remind you, that the facred honour of the nation is pledged for the attainment of a parliamentary reform; without that, the accomplishment of this great [1] 4 object, object, your commercial interefts, are infecure, and the independence of your legiflature, but a name Keep therefore, unless you would be the mockery of the world, and would have your triumph of yesterday be-i come the reproach of to-day. 1 W. SHARMAN, Prefident. BJ.T.ASHENHURST, Sec. Particulars relative to the unfortunate Death of M. Pilatre du Refiere, and M. Romain, who perifhed from their Balloon's taking Fire, while they were at the Height of three-fourths of a Mile from the Larth. A BAL 1. ་ Wednesday, June 15th. BALLOON was launched from Boulogne, in France which took up Monfieur Pilatre du Rofiere, and another gentleman, When they were at an amazingo height, the balloon took fire, burnt the cords by which the car was ful pended, and the above gentlemen were dafhed to pieces in a manner too fhocking to mention. 4 You bave fent us to confult upon the means of redrefling your grievances. We have told you the progrefs of our deliberations; we exhort you to recollect, that upon yourfelves depends the completion of your withes. Shun the extremes of temerity and indolence. alive the fpirit, but let prud nee regulate the activity of your zeal. Believe, for you feel it, that patrioiifm, exifts be warned, but not feduced, by the example of thofe, who have ufurped your rights, nor think that the dignity of conftitu. tional affemblies can be degraded by the mockery of men who add infult to oppreflion. Reward with your favour, and encourage with your confidence, thofe who have ftood forward in your caufe, from the threats of unconftitutional pow. er, which endeavours to fubdue the unconquerable fpirit of a free people. Informed of what the laws permit, neither tranfgrefs their bounds, nor diftruft their protec ton, Lawyers may cavil about forms, but your rights are unalienable, and redress is in your power. Cunning, cabal, and violence, are oppofed to prudence, union, and perfeverance. Time fhall lead us to fuccefs, and we thall wear those honours well, which we hall have "At a quarter past seven they obtained by honourable exertions, afcended, and for the first twenty This fruggle for their liberti s will minutes appeared toutake the best inform the minds, and fortify the spotlible direction when, for a few hearts of Irishmen and when they feconds, they appeared ftationary ; shall have obtained, they will have them took a direction to the left: 10fenie to perceive, and refolution towards Portee;then a contrary direepreferve, the bleilings of a tree con biomandati aboarquitrée quarters fiitution. Teach posterity that of a mile's height the whole wasin temper and minets, cap, produce flames, from the fire of the Mont what in other countries has been golfer, and fell withsipcredible ve accomplished by blood. Perfevere, locity on Huitmille Warren, where ་ 1: Extract of a Letter to Mr. Felor, ot Dover, dated Baulogne, June 15, 1785. "As you will naturally be defirous to know the particulars of the unhappy fate of our two aeronauts, who perifhed this morning, you may depend on the following, of which was an eye-witnefs! the ། the two unfortunate adventures were found, inftantly on their fall, Pilatre with his thighs both broke, and a violent contufion on his breaft; he was dead before his defcent, apparently. Romain had both his legs broken, and most of his limbs disjointed, but breathed for fome moments, and uttered the exclamation, O Jefu! and inftantly expired. "Excufe me; the fubject has fo affected me, that I can fay no more. There were faggots and ftaves all round the gallery, and the fire actually blew about the gallery at the moment of their afcenfion. The whole fcene lafted about fifty mi nutes." The unfortunate M. Pilatre de Rofiere, was the perfon that ventured firft to fail through the unexplored fields of air, in company with M. d'Arlande at Paris; it is a miftaken notion that M. Montgolfier firft afcended with a balloon; true it is, that he invented, but did not truft himself with one off terra firma. About three months ago, a new Museum was opened at Paris, under the fanction of the royal family and nobility of France, called Rofiere's Museum, for, independent of his kill in aeroftation, he was a man of extraordinary knowledge and fcience; and his love and ardent defire of improving aeroftation, may be faid to have been the cause of bis death his machine a Carolo Montgolfier, was conftructed in the following method-in order to try a new experiment he made a fmall balloon, filled with inflammable air, which he fixed topmoft, fufpended to which was an enormous Montgolfier (a balloon of rarified air) to upply which, he was obliged to It feems agreed that they came down to the ground alive, notwithftanding the altitude, and the received opinion of the probability of the contrary, for they fell in a perpendicular pofition, as it proved in the dreadful fractures of their legs, from the violent concuffion on the ground. Befides, a man who was working in a field, heard Mont. de Romain fay fomething in his defcent through a fpeaking trumpet, but what, he could not tell. ̄ In the hiftory of human calamities and tragical events, one can scarcely be produced more truly shocking, more awfully impreffive than this Ro fiere's fate is lamented by every one here, as he conciliated the af fections of all by the urbanity and elegance of his manners, he was a fcholar and a scientific character; and high in favour with the king o France. His mutilated remains,' with thofe of his companion, were interred a few hours after the acci- ! dent, at the village near which they loft their lives. A doctrinal leffon in their fate is held out to those who may in future be tempted to fuch ufelefs atchievements, of no benefit to mankind or theinfelves. Let fuch, when they conceive the idea of navigating an element, never intended to be fo by man, remem❤ ber the fate of Icarus and Phaeton, but more fo the real fall of Pilatre de Rofiere! EPITAPHE. Cy git le brave De Rozier, Qui d'un ballon, fut le premier, Diriger M. Pilatre de Rofiere was in England a fortnight ago, and dined at lord Orford's, at Blackheath, in company with Mr. Blanchard, on the King's birth-day, and he left London with the Marquis de la Maifonfort, whom he had promifed fhould accompany him in his expe. dition across the channel; but on his arrival at Boulogne, M. Romain infifted on a prior promife of afcending with him, and thus the Marquis may thank his better ftars that he has escaped this horrible difafter. A monument has been erected by the king of France's order, on the fpot where M. Rofiere defcended in his firft expedition, and we hear another monument is to be erected at Boulogne, in memory of this too cruel catastrophe. M. Pilatre de Rofiere afcended with different balloons in the prefence of the kings of France and Sweden, emperor of Germany, and prince Henry of Pruffia, and it was his intention, on his arrival in England, after croffing the fea, to have made feveral experiments in London. He was a gentleman of con fiderable fortune, and very much efteemed by the fcientific all over Europe. M. Pilatre de Rofiere was born in Franche Compté. He was placed as an apprentice to an apothecary, from whom he foon ran away to Paris, finding his genius fuperior to fo retired a fituation He commenced the ftudy of natural philofophy and phyfic, and, having acquired reputation, became an object of royal attention, and was honoured by the king's commands to make the first afcent in a Montgolfier, conftructed by the order, and at the expence of his majesty.— He fucceeded to his with, and obtained a very hand some penfion, and feveral honourable and lucrative employments. The king having fug gefted a with that he should crois the channel from Boulogne, he repaired to that place in the winter, and conftructed a balloon at his majefty's expence. He had waited at that place feveral months for a favourable wind, and there fell in love with a young lady (a Mifs Dyer, a great fortune in Yorkshire) fent from England to learn the French language, and very lately returned home. His apprehenfion that her charms might produce the fame effect in England induced him immediately to follow her, and he obtained the approbation of her friends, who, on enquiry, finding the connection would be advantageous and honourable, confented it thou'd take place immediately on his return to England. Every tender mind must partake of the diftrefs this poor young lady will feel from fo horrid a catastrophe, when it comes to her knowledge. The unfortunate Pilatre de Rofiere, a few days previous to his late departure departure for France, fat for his portrait to Ruffell, by which circumftance a very ftriking likeness is preferved of that celebrated philofopher. Extracts from Dr. Burney's Account of the Commemoration of Handel, in May 1784. 'A Many of the performers came unfolicited, from the remoteft parts of the kingdom, at their own expence. Foreigners, particularly the French, muft have been aftonished at fo numerous a band, moving in fuch exact measure, without the af T the general rehearsal in the abbey*, more than 500 perfons got admiffion, in fpite of every endeavour to prevent it. This fuggefted the idea of turning the eagerness of the public to fome profitable account for the charity, by fixing the price of admiflion at half a guinea each perfon. The pleasure and aftonishment of the audience at the great effects of this firft experiment, were not without their ufe; for the public in general did not manifeft much eagerness in fecuring tickets until after this rehearfal, Friday May 21, which was reported to have aftonished even the performers themselves. But the undertaking became fo interefting by this favourable rumour, and the demand for tickets fo great, that it was found neceffary to close the fubfcription; which was done fo rigorously, that Dr. Burney, on Monday 24th, could not obtain of the managers tickets of any kind, on any terms, for fome friends, who had neglected to give in their names fooner. So many families and individuals were attracted to the capital, that the town was never fo full fo late in year, except at the coronation. the fiftance of a Coryphæus to beat time. This is the firft inftance of any numerous band performing without the affiftance of a mann-ductor to regulate the meafure. The totality of found feemed to proceed from one voice and one inftrument. Thefe effects with be long remembered by the prefent public, perhaps to the difadvantage of all other choral performances; run the risk of being doubted by all but those who heard them; and the present defcription of being pronounced fabulous, should it furvive the prefent generation. The Five Pe formances. Dr. Burney, in remarking on the firft day's performance, fays, fuch ftillness reigned, as perhaps never happened before in fo large an af *As the commemoration of Handel is now intended to return annually, and as the years 1784 and 5 have fo nearly refembled each other, both with respect to the mufic and the industry of the performers we fhall give this one account as for both. fembly |