Balloon ascent ends in tragedy and public notice
London July 27 1837 report describes Green and Cocking’s balloon ascent with parachute. ballast dumping, rapid ascent and loss of sight, a violent descent, near suffocation aided by a silk air bag, landing near Offham Maidstone. Cocking died. Spencer and Green survived. Another column covers a gipsy fortune teller case and a public inquest into a warehouseman murder. The coroner’s inquest yields a natural death verdict with a pending manslaughter charge against John Boone.
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Vauxhall Gardens
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Keauing
Spencer
Vauxhall
Offham
Town Malling
Maidstone
London
Money
Major Money
Norwich
Lowestoft
Toro Malling
Wrotham
Mr. Cocking
Bribery at Hull Election Prompts Reformers’ Scrutiny
Hull Observer denounces Tory bribery during the Hull borough election claiming payments to non electors and impersonation. It cites a witness who saw five sovereigns in a blue handkerchief and calls for a ballot, a parliamentary inquiry, and a public fund to defray scrutiny costs. The piece supports Hutt and Wood and urges ongoing reform.
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Queen-street
Bia
Lord Melbourne
Hall
James and
Wilberforce
Hutt
Wood
Colonel Thompson
Friends of the Good Cause
Coroners Inquests On Suicides And Accidents In London
An inquest at Pimlico on R. Smith a 61 year old army pensioner and former Peninsular War messenger at Parliament found temporary mental derangement as the cause of death by suicide. A separate inquest at Charing Cross Hospital considered Charles Francis age three, who fell from a window and died. verdict accidental death. At the Savoy in Strand a young woman, about 26, was found dead after being seen near the water. verdict temporary mental derangement. A final inquest at St James's on William Hamilton, 35, a coal merchant, who died after a gig collision near Bayswater, found extensive skull fracture as the cause.
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Paradise Street
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Taylor
Charles Street
Drury-lage
Aiks
Rawlinson
Ali
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King’s Head
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Owsterly
York-square
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Yorksquare
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Berry
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Whitecross-street
George Million
Whitecross Street
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Ellen Millien
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George Delaney
Sarah Barker
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Worship-street
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Avery
Barker
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Aldermanbury
Corover
Worship Street
Ivan
Thomas Francis Rance
No. 4
City-road
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Rance
Mr. Rance
Robinson
Central Criminal Court
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George
Beley Road
Pimlico
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Duke of Wellington
Parliament
Charing-cross Hospital
Charles Francies
Old Boswell-court
Carey-street
Sutcipe
Savoy Palace
Savoy-street
John Peck
Edward Myers
Waterloo Bridge
Peck
Rice
Beadle
Watermen
Beanet-street
St. James’s
William Hamilton
Bayswater
Grey
Bennet-street
Guthrie
Dover-street
Freemasons Address Queen at Special Grand Lodge
A Tuesday special Grand Lodge meeting at Freemasons Hall, led by the Duke of Sussex as Grand Master, approved an address to Queen Victoria. The address vows loyalty, recalls William IV, cites royal precedents, and asks royal patronage and protection for Freemasonry in England.
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Prince of Wales
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Providence
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Anne
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Foreign Intelligence Briefs from Paris and Amsterdam
Market prices for foreign funds and bonds are reported from Paris London and Amsterdam with list prices for five and three per cent loans. The notes cover Belgian Portuguese Dutch and Danish issues, exchange rates London paper rates and debt instruments, alongside brief remarks on royal arrivals and market activity.
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Dutce Corps
Amsterdam
Ditto
Syed
Canal Company
Loas
London
Hamperen
Joly
Swag Legis
Hamburg
Borsen Halle
Brunswick
Hanover
Benn
H. Scheld
France News: Libel Trial and Royalist Plots Stir Paris
France reports General Donnadieu fined 5000 francs and jailed two years for a coarse libel about Louis Philippe. Accusations involve Genoude Berryer and Walsh on plans to restore the Duchess of Berry and spark civil war. Other notes cover Abd el-Kader death rumors, Naples queen, and Leonidas plague updates.
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Donnadieu
Louis Philippe
M. Berryer
Styria
M. de Genoude
Gazette de France
MM. Berryer
Walsh
Duchess of Berry
Duchess of
Berry
M. Walsh
M. Walab
Abd-el-Kader
Toulon
Charie
Naples
Garde National
Marseilles
Gazette du Midi
Leonidas
Dispatches from spain report carlist actions and losses
Telegraphic dispatches from Spain detail Carlist movements and engagements around Ebro and Valencia, with losses cited at about 1000 Carlists and 400 reported on the government side. Reports include Oran, Bayonne, and Narbonne transmissions, noting proclamations, sieges, and troop movements toward Madrid and Cuenca.
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Perpionan
Barcelona
Bist
Baron de Meer
Prats de Llosaones
Manresa
Ripell
Urbisando
Cortes
Mendizabal
Committee of Finance
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Valencia
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Borao
Vicaroz
Grao
Maviedro
Anbarb
Bea
Serranos
Borso
Chiva
Cabrera
Duarte
Ampucas
China
Durand
Saragossa
Quelez
Llangostera
Mijar
Escatron
Azuor
Cazinera
Belchite
Liapgostera
Bridge over the Nile planned near Cairo in giant project
The Nile bridge project near the Delta, five leagues below Cairo, aims to lastingly regulate river levels by forming a lock during low water. It requires 24,000 laborers for bed rectification, dike raising, and canal digging, plus 349 amiths and 650 carpenters from Alexandria and possibly four to five infantry regiments to staff the work. Stones will travel by a Milroad to the Mokattam mountains two leagues away.
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Nile
Cairo
Alexandria
Egypt
Mokatam
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