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Newspaper
Dublin Journal
Location
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Date
Jun 05, 1817
Page
4
The letter condemns Theatre Royal performances as indecent in a fortnightly cycle. It laments repeated displays of vulgarity tied to the Majestys birthday and calls for reform by religious leaders and moral advocates. The writer vows to express strong indignation at the perceived moral decline.
The anniversary of the king’s birth is marked with an Ode and Levee at the Castle. A grand Military review in Phoenix Park drew a large crowd despite heavy rain. Banquet and coach inspections followed, while bankers in Scotland consider lowering deposit rates to 3 percent. The Brazil trade committee met at the City of London Tavern, deeming further resolutions premature. General San Martin’s bold charge at Chacabuco is recounted with notes on his career.
Carrick's Morning Pest reports a Dublin kitchen chimney cleaned by a mechanical engine built by Mr. Robertson of Barrack Street. The sweeper removed more soot than a boy crew in days, leaving no smoke or need for future sweeps. The piece argues to end the cruel practice of employing sweeping boys and urges press support.
A London notice profiles M Talma a celebrated French tragedian in his fifties born in France. It details his early education in England and France his first stage success at about twenty his rise at Theatre Bianco his alleged revolutionary associations and his liberal private character. He speaks English fluently and plans no English performances, visiting merely for amusement.
A Munich Gazette report by Baron d Eichthal describes experiments to make jelly from a quarter of annual bone waste in Bavaria. The process could yield 3389 cwt jelly and 550 cwt nt, worth an estimated 254000 florins at the lowest price, with 7,644,000 portions of soup annually for about 20,944 poor daily. Also notes possible royal travel and a Hanoverian minister’s return to office amid era gossip.
Readable excerpts describe light round dresses in pale blue and white with ornamented trim and a pale yellow satin bonnet. Blue kid slippers and Limerick gloves accompany spring outfits. A dress of cambric muslin features rich bottom work or lemon-toned tatting, tight sleeves, double muslin cuffs, a Spanish ruff, and muslin tippet. Paris fashions favor lilac, lemon, deep green, gauze, and broad-striped ribbons.
In a Saturday night incident, farmer Joseph Martin reported a cow missing near Tallard. Francis Dermott and brother Dermod were detained after Martin, aided by neighbors, recovered the cow parts from a ditch on Dermott’s land. They were committed for a second examination amid further corroborative details.
Provincial intelligence from Dunorven May 30 recounts a night raid on a poor man’s dwelling in County Derry by masked armed intruders seeking entry as friends. When refused, they forced the door, fired and killed the leader, provoking the retreat of the others. The victim’s gruesome display was described. The piece also notes local fairs, crop prices, and distress amid famishings across Connaught and Ulster with oatmeal and potatoes prices and unsown fields. The report ends mentioning new seed stock from Hill-street and Drambanagher inputs.
A Newry Telegraph notice describes an impoverished Anopha family stricken with Typhus fever living in a ditch near the Armagh road and aided by a relief committee. It also recounts Samuel Thacia’s hazle rod incident where a water dog retrieved a captured pike of eleven pounds from a lake, with the dog fighting to drag it ashore.
In King Bench court on March 22 Mr Gurney summarized an action for damages over a breach of promise of marriage. The plaintiff, a respectable young woman, alleged the defendant a landowner in Carnarvonshire promised marriage after years together but allegedly wed another lady in September 1815. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff with damages. A second case involved Steart v Lavell over a December 1810 libel in a state newspaper about the plaintiff, with Marryat presenting the case. verdict details not provided.
A court finds the Courier libellous against the plaintiff, with Lord Grey and others named as witnesses. The jury awards damages of 1001, while the editor Mr Street faces substantial scrutiny over the libellous paragraph about the Society of the Friends of the People and its officials.
The piece outlines English financial memoranda from official documents for the year ending January 1817, detailing Treasury totals, Ireland repayments, and funded and unfunded debts. It notes a Tyrolean subscription to honor Queen Victoria’s era and mentions plans for a commemorative monument to military figures burned by Bonaparte’s order, with reconstruction to follow.
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