Mail Coaches and Early Express Services In London
A survey of coach lines and mail conveyances from London to Birmingham Holyhead Exeter Bath Bristol Manchester and more. Details list routes fares coaches and notable inns and operators. Highlights include the Holyhead Mail and various city to coast services with speeds schedules and establishments.
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Gracechurch-street
Regent-circus
Piccadilly
ANGEL
St. Clement's
Holyhead
Pasengers
Birmingham
Clark's
Corwen
Spencer's
Uta
Deywold
Onport
Clench
London
Exeter
Elliot's
Devonport
Bath and Exeter
Riley's
York House
Bath
Targheap
Roadwater
Bristol
Townsend’s Bush Inn
Manchester i
Edinburgh
Glasgow
York
Norwigh
Ipswich
Watson
Yorkshire
Dovor
Paris
Manchester
Bruce
Leicester
Bia Grave's Inn
Derbyshire Peak
Lacy’s
Wanchester
Lacy
Nibiet
Welling
Edach
Brighton
DART
Conby
Robert Snow
Camden
Canterbury
Clements
Boulton
Kent Road
Crestenham
Haines
Cheltenham
Ross
Aberga
Ceres
Naylor
Nottiningham and
Derby Times
Perew
Bury Hocket
Oxfordshire
Nieters
Portsmouth
Nance
Foun- Hotel
Isle of Wight
Guernsey
Peter
Essex
Suffolk
Norfolk
Messrs
Forthing
FORD
RD Union
Paulkner
C &c
Chaplin
Parish of Lambeth Tender for One Year Poor Relief Contract
Churchwardens and Overseers of Lambeth parish announce a public meeting at the Workhouse to receive sealed tenders for a one year contract starting November for keeping maintaining clothing and employing the poor. Terms available at the Key Clerk’s Office. no lowest tender pledge. bids due by nine o'clock morning. Public notices of goods and medical ads follow in the same notice.
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Lambeth
Lambeth Butta
Essex-place
Warren's Blacking Improves Boots and Faces
An old verse describes a cat frightened by a shining boot after using Warren's Blacking. The poem and its narrator praise the polish, claim it sharpens appearance, and note Warren's product is sold in London and elsewhere. It ends with a manufacturer note urging inquiries for Warren's and warning against counterfeits.
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Warren
Robert Warren
Strand
London
Greece in turmoil amid rival Greek factions and foreign ships
reports from Patras and Missolonghi describe Zavellas seizing control, Russian ships operating against rebels, and English and French captains severing ties with Russia. Vido fortifications rise as England aims to deter Russia, while Grivas forces plunder Acarnania and Missolonghi falls into exile. Despite strife, a harvest and corn exports persist in Morea as calls grow for Regency and King arrival.
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Greece
Zavellas
Patras
Capo d’Istrias
Gulf of Corinth
Lord Palmerston
England
Vido
Corfu
Ionian Islands
Grivas
Acarnania
Colocotroni
Napoli
Niketas
Tripolizza
Colocoroni
Morea
Allgemeine Zeitung
Old Bailey Sessions October 20 Convictions at Old Court
An Old Bailey report details multiple cases. Mary Ann Thompson utters forged bank notes and is found guilty or not guilty in separate trials. Mary Sharpe is convicted of uttering forged notes. David Spring is convicted of stealing a 50 pound note from Sir John W. Lubbock and sentenced to transportation for life.
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Old Court
Alexander Edward Walher Hayes
Mary Ann Thompson
Bank of England
Saunders
Oxford-street
Sarah Green
Whitechapel
Follett
Mary Sharpe
Chambers
Marchmont-street
Watson
Clarke
Jackson
David Spring
John W. Lubbock
J. W. Lubbock
Ferguson
Thomas
Middlesex Sessions Court Tosses Assault Case
At Middlesex Sessions on October 20 Valentine Wendall, an elderly man, faced an assault with intent charge involving a fifteen year old girl at his home in Church Place Wapping. The jury found insufficient evidence and acquitted him. Separately five Irish coal-whippers linked to riot at Wapping were offered peace on payment of doctor and expense fees, paying four pounds total and entering recognizances to keep the peace.
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Valentine Wendall
Maria Doughty
No. 3
Church Place
Wapping
Warrinc
Hurley
Conolly
Brien
Joysey
Maguire
Prendergast
Bodkin
Fagan
Isleworth
New Brentford
St. George’s Church
Brentford
Herbert Oakeley
Ealing
Advertisement Duty Sparks Press Tax Backlash
The piece laments Britain’s advertisement tax of 150,000 with about 850,000 ads monthly. It argues high costs curb merchants and buyers, urging cheaper journal ads. It notes Town List, famed for prosecuting Fast-day rioters, is now Chief Constable of Midland by the secretary of state.
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Great Britain
List
Division of Police
Midian
Registration in Middlesex Under Reform Act Revisions
The Reform Act revision courts in Middlesex at Edgward Uxbridge Bedfont and Brentford review voting rights claims. Few claimants compared with prior registrations. estimates show under 1,400 claims so far with total county qualification around 20,000. Causes include misreading of the Act fees delays and fears of extended deadlines. Barristers will scrutinize technically defective claims and may reject some but seek liberal construction where possible.
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Middlesex
Messrs. Park
Sandys
Edgward
Uxbridge
Bedfont
Brentford
County of
New Brentford
Abolition of Tithes Meeting Forming Bromley Society
A Bromley gathering at the Rose and Crown Inn approved forming The Bromley Society for Procuring the Extinction of Tithes. The plan calls for a yearly one shilling subscription, a committee of twenty, elected officers, and quarterly meetings to push legislation and advocate voluntary religious support.
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Bromley
John Penn
Lewisham
Norwich
Joseph Bradley
Otford
Bromley Society
Nathaniel Angus
Joseph Turnbull
A.B
Esq
Jonathan Angus
Hayes
Charles Jessop
Widmore
George Colgate
Wisham
Joseph Bradley Otford
Vokins
Ward Owen
Cooper
Robarts
Samuel Love
Shoreham
George Smith
Eltham
Darling
Henr Beverly Wakeling
Powle
Deptford
Rose and Crown Inn
Allotment System Aids Poor Farmers At Lord Churchill Estate
Correspon dent reports on Lord Churchill in Wiltshire allotting about seventy acres to 139 poor families on his West Lavington estate. The plan covers rates and fixed rent, yields higher produce with no fallow, and relies on labor by families especially women and children. Land is forfeited for misconduct. plots vary by family size and can include a pig for manure.
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Lord Churchill
West Lavington
Wiltshire
Captain Henderson
Public letter asks about subscription for Mr Hose and loss of Cochrane
A True Sun reader asks editors to explain a public law on subscriptions for the benefit of Mr Hose and whether it would compensate him for losses alleged due to Mr Cochrane. The writer notes removal of funds by Mr Hogg and urges aid for a living poet in need.
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Hose
Cochrane
Debtors' Prisons Plea For Court Vacation
A reader from Castle Tavern, Regent Street, urges the Insolvent Debtors Court to grant a separate vacation for its commissioners. He notes hundreds languishing in debtors' prisons awaiting petition hearings and argues that a hiatus would ease hardship without hindering law reform. He signs as RN.
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Haa
Castle Tavern
Regent-street
Hull political union lauds True Sun editor for hull rights
A Kingston upon Hull political union approves the True Sun editor for defending the town's laboring class against alleged misgovernance by aldermanic magistrates. The group thanks the editor and urges continued advocacy in liberal channels as 5,000 workers sign a memorial seeking a Home Secretary inquiry into local abuses.
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Hull and
Soulcoates
Kingston-upon-Hull
Home Secretary
Hujl
Peterloo
Bristol
Lord Melbourne
Elias Hall
James Acland
Hull and Soulcoates
True Sun
Hull
Inst
Grant
Bis Liberal
History of the Highland Clans premium proposal described
Despatches note the Highland Society of London offering a premium for a history of the Highland Clans and their nature, origins, and moral effects. The piece discusses clan depictions, heraldry, and animal symbolism associated with clans, urging further study and public attention. It mentions Dalriadic symbolism and specific clan emblems, with a final Jamaica governor dispatch reported.
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THE
True Sun
Highland Society of London
Jerome
Owen
Robert Gordon
Macphersons
Glengarry
Poe
Columms
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Iun
Iusiber
Wade
United Kingdom
Crown and Anchor
Tved
Sun
Fxw
Pxorix
Prorce
Great Britain and Ireland
Joan
Ing
Gillions
J. W. Stirling
Highthe
Rottlea
Sainl
Oxford
Prout
Barclay
Lar7ey
Great Surrey
Robt. Watmore
Vestry
Perlb
E. and
T. Taylor
Lower Holborn
T. Cocking
Portland-street
Cavendish-square
Barclay’s Medicine
Farringdon-Strect
Howard
Fleet-street
B. Solomons
M. Elles
Lebas
Old Bailey Sessions
the True Sun
Highland Clans
Earl of Mulgrave
Jamaica
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