Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee

Yeah.

This is Alexander Fraser Tytler.

He was a professor and he said, "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.

It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.

But it was Vincent Lunardi who practically introduced aerostation into Great Britain.

Although Tytler had the precedence by a few days, still his attempts and partial success were all but unknown, whereas Lunardi's experiments excited an enormous amount of enthusiasm in London.

He was secretary to Prince Caramanico, the Neapolitan ambassador, and his published letters to his guardian, the Chevalier Compagnier, written while he was carrying out his project and detailing all the difficulties, etc., he met with as they occurred, give an interesting and vivid account of the whole matter.

His balloon was 33 feet in circumference and was exposed to public view at the Lyceum in the Strand, where it was visited by upwards of 20,000 people.