Balloons

In one of your early numbers you mention the *History of Ringwood*, &c. Many years since I sent to a periodical (I cannot recollect which) a circumstance connected with that town, which I never heard or read of anywhere, and which, as it is rather of importance, I forward to you in hopes that some of your correspondents may be able to throw some light upon it. When my father was in the Artillery Ground at the ascension of Lunardi's balloon, he remarked to several persons present, "This is no novelty to *me*; I remember well, when I was at school in Ringwood [about the year 1757], an apothecary…