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Bizarre Mix of Deaths, Races, Trials and Treasures
Died after a tedious illness of an abscess in the liver at Burr street, St. Katherine's. Christopher Alderson, an eminent attorney, died in Lyon's Inn chambers, aged 31. Capt. Newton of the Foot Guards died of the Yellow Jaundice at St James's Square. Reports from Canterbury and Warwick races describe plates won and heat results. Affizes at Coventry and Warwick convict four, with transportation. Porteous reprieved in Edinburgh. A Sussex wedding aged 96 and 94, with a horse aged 74, inspires jokes on age. Hops and hog fattening methods, robberies, executions, and shipments fill court and market notes. Royal theatre openings, Italian war reports, and South Sea stock prices close a bustling period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burr Street
St. Katherine’s
Lyon’s Inn
Chistopher Alderson
King-street
St. James’s Square
Newton
Foot- Guards
Tewksbury
Gloucestershire
Mr. Vincent
Owdel
Duke of Chandos
Mr. Arnold
Mount Pleasant
Canterbury
Newington
Sitingborn
Kent
Hardwicke
Justice Denton
Mason
Coventry
Warwick
Birmingham
Henley
John Porteous
Edinburgh
Andrew Wilson
Maelsfield
Sussex