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Newspaper
Dublin Journal
Location
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Date
Sep 15, 1823
Page
1
A musical festival is postponed until the end of the month as Lord Lieutenant plans to attend around that period. No notice will be given yet. particulars to be announced in a few days. Park Street, 22.
Paris ministerial papers publish details of the Trocadero actions with Fort Louis and Matagorda abandoned as indefensible. Duke de Angouleme returns to Port St Marys. Pontalles and Mata gorde debated evacuation. Reports say 600 French logs lost, 1,200 rumor, and Admiral Hamasa dead from brain fever. Lavastrom reports Pampeluna suburbs attacked with valor shown by Spaniards. garrison refused surrender after further summons.
The Estafette report from Port St Mary dated August 31 states the Trocadero position was seized with rapid assault. Two voltigeurs crossed the water to breach the defenses while Duke d Angouleme led the attack. The action yielded 400 Republican deaths and 1,200 prisoners, with French forces capturing Fort Matagorda and Fort St Louis along with cannons and stores.
The prince repeatedly entered the fire and led the charge across the bridge. He urged bravery as he attempted to swim the horse and scale the redoubt, while a grenadier saved him from danger. Royal aid and bold action marked the night as red-hot balls threatened the Spanish squadron.
Letters from Corfu dated August 6 confirm the Greeks achieved a splendid success at Livadia and routed a Turkish force attempting to move from Fatras to Corinth, marking a total defeat.
The Courier reports that the Russian Government has dropped its insistent claims about Pacific shore boundaries. It says Moscow proposed turning the ocean into a lake under autocratic power, a notion now abandoned.
The piece argues Ireland shows a rotten societal system with oppressed peasants and high rents. It condemns landlords and tithes while calling for forceful reform and questioning religious influence on morals, noting discontent across the southern counties and the perpetual desire for change without progress.
A fragment argues that all systems fail without practical morality. The writer contends reforms rely on genuine ethics rather than ideal theories, warning that devotion to Creator or self leads to futility in human affairs.
Critics attack the Hohenlohe necromancy hoax as fraud by religious figures. Clergy preaching for the alleged supernatural power are condemned for spreading falsehood and manipulating believers. Reports claim deranged individuals and mass delusion, with Protestants and Jesuits blamed for the alleged manipulation.
The harvest faced delays in Ireland with damp weather and late ripening, while England enjoyed a safer crop. Prices fell about 20 percent in the last ten days, especially for wheat in Mark Lane, though Dublin corn markets did not decline as London’s. A new Distillery Act starts in October, expected to aid agrarian interests indirectly, with further relief anticipated as Spirit Intercourse measures advance next year.
The Grand Orange Lodge of Munster was opened in Cork City on Thursday with over seventy officers and attendees. A Nobility and Gentry meeting in Tralee seeks to establish a Savings Bank. Sir Humphrey Davy reports a heavy gas could power engines, but containment remains a hurdle. London market notes harvest favorable but sales slow, wheat prices unchanged.
Births recorded for Lady of Thomas Finlay and Lady of Sir John Burk with daughters, Marchioness of Chandos with a son, and others in Teddington and Leeson Street. Marriages listed at St Peters, St Thomas, St Marys, and Noul Church with multiple couples. Died noted for Montgomery Eddy, heir to Montgomery Heatly.
Details of a violent whiteboy assault near Ratikeale where Mr Henry Sheehy faced armed attackers while tithes were valued. The Cork Southern Reporter recounts the Lisnagoreen massacre of Thomas Franks and his family, describing brutal murders, inquest testimony, and a large mob of assailants including a woman leader figure.
An inquest at Barley Mow Grosvenor Square heard witness accounts of a wagon collision that killed a man. James Taylor and Ann Crew testified that the deceased deliberately stepped into the road and into the wheel, which passed over his head, breaking it. The jury viewed the body and heard the coroner note the case as among the worst he had seen.
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