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Postace
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Catherine-street
Reformist hopes in a fractured public sense in 1839
In this constitutionalist commentary from December 1839 the authors rally against aristocratic power and Chartist tactics, defend reformers, and urge unity between middle classes and laborers. They condemn demagogues, praise rational democrats like O’Connors and Vincents, and warn that only coordinated, skilled leadership can advance liberal reform against oligarchy.
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Radical Party
England
Popular Party
O'Connors and
Vincents
Oastler
Unite the Classes for Reform and Brotherhood
A call to end class division and unite laboring men with middle classes. The author urges action over wishful thinking, condemns oligarchy, cites Napoleon’s divide and conquer as a lesson, and insists on solidarity to carry the banner of Reform against Aristocracy.
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Italy
Bludgeonism and Bourbonism in 1840s politics
A critical letter contrasts the Birmingham Blacksmith’s inflammatory Chartist rhetoric with its perceived class basis. It criticizes violence talk, warns against physical force, and denounces Bourbonist policies including a growing Home Office police state and a dictator Home Secretary with a standing army, arguing such measures intimidate the public and burden taxpayers.
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Birmingham
Bose
Billingsgate
Monmouthshire
Bourbon
Home Department
Birmingham Opposition to Police Act Sparks Civic Defiance
In a Birmingham meeting chaired by the Mayor, critics denounce the Police Act as violent to constitutional rights and accuse the Home Secretary of appointing a Commissioner to control constables. They warn against centralization and espionage, praising local resolve to resist changes to English law.
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Canada
India
Birmingham
Empire
Home Department
Home Secretary
Sturge
Sidmouth
Richmonds
England
Sturge Speech in Birmingham Praises Leaders for Liberty
A Birmingham report extols Mr Sturge as a manly, passionate advocate for Reform. It lauds his speech as galvanizing and urges deeper political engagement, calling for real leaders over mere demagogues, and noting his humanitarian zeal and commitment to liberty. References to Portugal misrule and Spain’s unrest frame broader liberal struggles.
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Stugee
Birmingham
Sturge
Deaira
Farraroy
Howard de Walden
John Bull
Europe
Spain
Carlos
Louis Philippe
Coté Gauche
France
England
Belgium
Portugal
Court of Exchequer
Sutton
Boz
Lengthy names and tiny debts haunt a Yankee dwarf
The text notes a company with an overly long name failed to pay debts, likening it to a diminutive Yankee figure who likewise forgets to pay bills. It suggests that opposite causes both lead to financial oblivion.
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Gant
Augmentation of the Army and depot service details
A Horse Guards circular outlines the establishment of service and depot companies for infantry regiments abroad and at home, naming personnel composition, tenure of posts, and rostering rules. It lists fusilier and rifle regiments by number and notes the Scots Guards’ rank exception. Rail accidents on Liverpool and Great Western lines are reported, with safety calls and a Canterbury feature on political religious commentary.
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Australis
East Indies
Fusiliers
Rifle Corps
5Th
Northumberland Fusiliers
7Th
Royal Fusiliers
21St
Royal North British Fusiliers
23D
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
87Th
Royal Irish Fusiliers
60Th
King’s Royal Rifle Regiment
Rifle Brigade
Scots Fusilier Guards
Infantry
Household Brigade
crmcuLan
Horse Guards
Mesonaxoum
New South Wales
Lord Hill
Joux Macnowanp
A.G
Court and Aristocracy Delights at Windsor
Coverage details royal dinners Privy Council and Windsor visits with the Queen, Duke of Cambridge, and Melbourne. Notables include Earl Errol Earl Uxbridge Viscount Melbourne and Lady Paget as festive guests amid a flurry of courtly events and official proceedings at Windsor and London.
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Beexixenas Palace
Earl of Errol
Uxbridge
Viscount Melbourne
John Hobhouse
Byng
Rich
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards
Trinidad
Long Lyndhurst
Earl of Durham
Viscount Beresford
Lord Wharncliffe
Lord Ellenborough
Earl of Ripon
Lord Brougham
Duke of Wellington
Lord Cowley
Grand Hall
Sculpture Gallery
Palace Lawn
Duke of Cambridge
Lady Barham
Marquis of Headfort
William Lumley
Alfred Paget
Privy Council
Charles Cavennlish Fulke Greville
William Bathurst
Duchess of Kent
Windsor Castle
Miss Cocks
Fanny ‘Hayward
Baroness Lehzen
Earl of
Melbourne
Duncannon
Winsor
Marquess of Anglesey
Paget
Earl of Surrey
Wrooson
Earl of Erroll
Earl
Countess of
Eleonora
Constance Paget
Wixmor
Lilford
Mr. Murray
Tony
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Gloucester House
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
Prince George
Augusta and
Mary of Cambridge
Baron Knesebeck
Colonel Jones
Kew
Princess Augusta
Georgiana Bathurst
Samuel G. Higgins
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Augusta
Rew
Blome
Netherlands
Dedel
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Hathurst
Ponsonby
Countess of Chesterfield
Burghersh
Augusta Gordon
Louisa Cornwallis
George
Seymour
Stratheden
H. Paget
Barbara Newdigate
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Charles ‘Tyhernton
Esterhazy
Aroun Lebzeltern
T. Lister
Keate
Mailemoiselle D'Este
Miss Paget
Anson
Miss Murray
Earl of Albemarle
Rifles
Norma
Sinfonia
Chiarra di Rosenberg
Ricci
Cavatina
Sposa di Provencea
Melilotti
Prague
Walzer
Ladetzky
Marino Fuliero
Donizetti
Galop
Paris
Strauss
Foreign Office
Marquis of Lansdowne
Viscount Duncannon
John Russell
Marquis of
Normandy
Viscount Palmerston
Tse Earl of Minto
Lord Holland
J.ibouchere
Macaulay
Suugrss
Luci
Sheil
Dublin
Long Orchard
Tipperary
Machin
London
Ineraso
Ireland
Gordon
Norfolk
Ipswich
R. M Rolfe
Lord Scrave
Berkeley Castle
Gloucestershire
Worcester
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