Public views on Marine esprit de corps and naval ties
A 1821 letter to the Public discusses General Tench and Marine officers, urging Marines to accept naval status and condemning discontent as undermining discipline. It argues commissions are earned, not purchased, and favors unity with the naval service while noting broader trade and industry topics including French naturalization and M. Ternaux’s Nobel ambitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiralty
Tench
Esprit de Corps
Board of Admiralty
Lam
Sir
Beacons and Chronicle Clash Over Personal Attacks in Edinburgh
A letter to the editor condemns the Morning Chronicle for personal attacks on the Beacon and a clergyman. It recalls the Beacon’s rise against slander, notes the Chronicle’s hypocrisy, and predicts renewed public attention and “embers” of controversy. Pyropherus signs the piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edinburgh
Morning Chronicle
Beacon
John
Chronicle
Stears Hunt
Wooler
Wood
Waithman
Athens
Pyropherus
French Manufactures and Cashmere Goat Importation
A narrative recounts M. Joubert journeying through Armenia and Persia to procure Cashmere goats for France and M. Ternaux. Despite arduous travel and losses, about a hundred animals arrived, adapted to the Pyrenees climate, thriving under care, enabling sale of sheep, rams, and goats with wool not yet degenerated. Merino sheep have prospered in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Joubert
Armenia
Persia
Asia
M. Ternaux
France
Pyrennees
M. ‘Ternaux
Spanish papers report fever in Barcelona and Madrid alerts
Madrid dispatches describe royal officials tightening gates and instituting daily death tallies to counter fever rumors. Paris and Genoa items note epidemics, Armistice era unrest, and telegraph proposals, with details from Barcelona Tortosa and Monembasia.
Greeks Capture Turkish Transports Amid Salonica Skirmish
Reports from the era describe Greek forces capturing several Turkish transports and compelling a Turkish retreat from Samos after the destruction of several ships. The Ottoman army reportedly disbanded to Asia Minor while the Bey of Navarino surrendered the fortress, with Turks plundered and hostages kept. Monembasia fell July 15, marking a Greek flag atop Peloponnesian fortifications.
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Pacha
Samos
Asia Minor
Dardanelles
Chio
Monembasia
Cyclades
M. de Bonfort
Scala Nuova
Navarino
Navaria
Morea
Demetrius Ypsilanti
Candia
St. Dionysius the Areopagite
Trial of Giampietro murderers in Naples ends with four deaths
From Naples Oct 2 an extract reports the Giampietro murder trial. Twenty-three convicted, four sentenced to die, three guillotined near Porta Capuana and a fourth reprieved. Motive mixed private vengeance and politics, with Carbonari anger and police manipulation cited. The pope's excommunication bull is read, provoking skepticism among Neapolitans. Robberies in Fondi and public fear follow, but many flee to the mountains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pari
Peers
Masian
Officers of Justice
Luxembourg
Blacas
Holy See
Gonsalvi
Perpignan
Barcelona
Tortosa
Journal de Paris
Paris
Bordeaux
Augsburg
Alexander
Witepsk
Capo d
Fe Ruse
Syria
Pacha
St. John d’ Acre
Salonichi
Morea
Kuro
Constantinople
Ballanot
Menexus
Naples
Giampietro
Porta Capuana
Fondiin Siri
Murder of Mr Going Sparks Proclamation and Riot Precautions
In Dublin from the Privy Council a proclamation offering 2000 for the murder of Mr Going has been issued. Military orders were sent to Sir John Lambert to deploy forces in disturbed districts to aid civil authorities. A Rathkeale coroner's inquest examined the mangled body as Mrs Going mourns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
Going
Privy Council
Dublin Castle
John Lambert
Rathkeale
Limerick
Law Report at Westminster Hall Court of Common Pleas
Law report from the Court of King's Bench at Westminster Hall resuming unfinished business. The proceedings note absence issues among counsel, the court warning it may strike out papers if attendance fails. It covers cases including Lord Egremont v King over lime and manure covenants and Vernon v Smith on covenants to insure running with the land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Smyrna
Candia
Tesl
Hydriots
Cantacrine
Monumbanu
Mycala
Myeith
Ely
Court OF Kins's Bench
Sercuuas
Westminute Hall
Cryer
Manxine
Vernon
Quarantine at Portsmouth on American brig Dryade News
The American brig Dryade with fever on board arrives at Portsmouth and is placed in quarantine after one death and two sick crewmen. Other naval updates include arrivals, commissions, and coast signal experiments at Landguard Fort. Commodore appointments, ship sailings, and a report from Rio de Janeiro mention the English ship Robert Fuges captured by Lord Cochran.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Wilson
Petersburgh
Virginia
United States
le Neptune
Blandier
Malaga
Portsmouth
Earl of Chatham
K. G
Carey
Wilson
Faulda
Halford
Active
J. A. Gordon
Gibraltar
Samo
Don
Robert Mends
Africa
Joseph Nourse
C. B
Cape of Good Hope
St. Helena
H. Duncan
George Inn
Duncan
Tincombe
Charles Grant
Henry Blackwood
East Indies
W. Martin
Barbadoes
Jamaica
Driver
Reid
James Alexander Gordon
Yeatenay
Spithead
Iphigenia
Phaton
Ind
Tees
Thomas Coe
East India Station
Dauntless
Winchester
Woolwich
Leven
Wallwich
Newcastle
Griffith Colpoys
Halifax
W. S. Morgan
Thomas Johnson
Confiance
Deptford
Butler Fletcher
Landguard
Rio de Janeiro
Lima
Ln de Jandiro
Leeds General Quarter Sessions Appeal Over Game Laws
Rhodes appeals against a 21 penalty for setting snares in General Twiss grounds. Evidence by Win Furbank linked Rhodes and Wilkinson to the snare near a foot-path. Twiss allegedly ordered destruction. Conviction quashed due to improper joint conviction and other informality. Calendar shows five prisoners for rural felonies. article notes a decline in offenses and improved public order in Leeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker Ferrand
Imsq
General Twiss
Harpy
Win
Furbank
Matthew Hhades
Wilkinson
Theut
Rhoades
Errand
Lwiss
Leeds
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the Courier
Spain
Aas
Gazelle
The
Courier
Madrid
Cortes
St. Petersburgh
Genoa
Cyprus
Ancona
Larnica
Nicosia
Barcelonelta
Vienna
Albania
Epirus
Ali Pacha
Peru
Ireland
BROM
Dublin Morning Post
Lord Sidmouth
Skinner’s Alley
William
George
William the
Viscount Sidmouth
Murray
Mayo
LAW Report
Lord Egremont v. King
Currry
Comrx
Naval Intelligence
West Aloe
Rearesborough
Rhodes
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