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Newspaper
Dublin Journal
Location
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Date
Apr 08, 1817
Page
2
A review discusses a work claiming to compare Ex-Emperor Napoleon, noting its rapid yet comprehensive life sketch. It portrays impartiality, hints at whether Napoleon authored it, and promises extracts in a future number while Bain on the Variation of the Compars is highlighted as significant for nautical readers and the public.
James Monroe born in 1759 Virginia rises from a 1776 battlefield injury to become captain aid de camp to Lord Sterling and later a colonel. He serves in Virginia legislature and Congress, helps ratify the Constitution, and becomes U S senator and minister to France. He negotiates the Louisiana Purchase and later serves as governor, secretary of state, and secretary of war, earning high praise for zeal and integrity.
Yesterday at ten o clock the Solicitor-General opened the Commission for this City and a grand jury was sworn with Sir Nicholas Conway Coltburat Bare as foreman. The judge noted missing Treasurer returns and the calendar’s heaviness. He criticized the prison’s condition as currently unfit for the number of prisoners. A large crowd of inmates filled the jail.
The report chronicles grand jury swearing, accidental book mishap, and courtroom scenes as judges address juries about new laws and prosecutions. It notes a large calendar of prisoners, emphasis on magistrate duties, and forthcoming adjournments plus sentences for pig stealing and theft in the city court.
Reports describe burglary and murder at Gurteen and an additional burglary case with a guilty plea. Court adjournments occur in City and County Courts. Armed robbers attacked travelers near Ballycours, stealing from Ey. High Constable Lawrence and two policemen. In Castlewellan a young man was murdered on the Drumcree high road. a suspect named Patrick Morgan is in gaol. A manor owner’s tenants suffer arson fears as incidents rise in Tipperary. Robberies on Nymphefield and Branchfield roads injure a poor man, and an office in Lynn was robbed of 171. Jord.
Aprils fashion notes describe a Parisian gown with white satin and duchess muslin accents, including a short waist cape, ribbon bows, and a bodice trimmed with rolls of satin. A muslin gown with a spencer jacket and a deep lace-trimmed edge follows, paired with a satin bonnet and white kid gloves. The London paper excerpt discusses Yeomanry reform, proposing cost-effective, well drilled brigades and reduced regular forces.
A fragmentary note outlines a method to estimate grain use by distilleries. It states no record of grain types is kept and proposes deriving grain quantity from spirits produced, citing one barrel of grain yielding seven gallons of spirits, with a proposed calculation to determine overall grain use.
The Secretary of the Treasury reports US exports for the year ending September 1816 at 81,920,452 dollars. Domestic materials totaled 61,781,896 with forest and agriculture leading, and foreign trade at 17,198,356. Major destinies included Britain and France, with other sums to Spain Holland Portugal and others, outlining state by state totals.
A historical remark calculates the 40 year gap between rising at six and eight o clock as 29 200 hours or about three years 121 days and 16 hours. It claims eight hours daily for mental cultivation and daily business, noting the calculation ignores the Bissextile calendar.
A widow of a captain in the Commissariat Department who died recently requests aid for her and her orphan children. Her husband, a 25 year respected citizen, guild member, freemason and friendly brother, was beloved in society. Subscriptions and information may be sent to L. H. Thomas at No 7 Upper Gardiner Street.
Printed for the Proprietora at Parliament Street and offices in London Edinburgh and Dublin outline subscription rates in advance for town and country readers. It lists agents including Newton & Co at Warwick Square, Mc. J. Ware Fleet Street, and Tarcon Suita and Co with offices in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin for the British and Scottish agency network.
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