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Newspaper
True Sun
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 16, 1834
Page
7
The article lampoons Lord Broug ham's Aberdeen appearance as childish and imbecilic yet tempered by crowd sympathy. It savages his claims of Radicalism, mocks his concerns for crowds, and portrays the House of Lords debate as a theater of political posturing with sharp commentary on his motives and loyalties.
The article mocks the Lord Chancellor and cites an interview with a quipster bird about books cheap and newspapers shaping opinions. It reports appointments to offices, rumors of Peerage for Charles Grant, and notes Singapore’s tea trade opening with a salute aboard the barque Troughton. It covers troop movements in Coorg, a New Orleans price current, and the Monkey hag’s Liverpool voyage with Don Pedro health updates.
From Cuarnam to Liverpool and Plymouth to Archangel the arrival list shows Elize, Urania, San Johannes, Southampton, Robert Quale, Janet, James Perry, Wattie, Cato, German, Viscount Downe, and more, with arrivals from Dantzic Memel St Thomas s and Pernambuco. The Glasgow Courier notes visits by Duke Wellington and Earl Grey drawing public praise and a Dover assembly toasted the Duke amid festive mood.
City desk reports no change in Paris opening prices from last night. Private Hamburgh letters to the 14th note dull colonial markets though coffee rises and sugar shows life. Tallow up in Petersburgh. dock company movements and East India shock trigger mercantile unrest. Royal orders on sanatoriums and cholera, Havannah infected, settling foreign markets steady with various bonds and stocks quoted.
The Paris correspondent mocks ministerial news from Spain as frontier rumor and lampoons the Spanish theater of governance. He cites Bayonne papers on Zumalacurreguy, notes executions in Madrid, praises soldiers singing La Marseillaise, and criticizes Toreno and censorship proposals while warning of ministerial reshuffles and looming prosecutions in Lyons.
In the Insolvent Debtors Court the elder John Maher applied for discharge. Unopposed, he claimed a large debt to Sir Gilbert Earle and a smaller sum to a boot maker, Brasier. The Chief Commissioner found the tale extraordinary but granted Maher the benefit of the Act after examining the schedule and debts, with an assignee Mr. Silvester for 791.
Patrick Welsh, known as a major base coin smasher, was charged with possessing counterfeit money in Westminster. Constable Goose stopped and searched him in York Street, finding two half crowns and two shillings all counterfeit. The Mint inspector confirmed the coins were fake. He was remanded for further evidence on passing counterfeit money.
From our correspondent arrives word that Romney sails eastward under Mr Wood master RN. Tribune of 24 guns commanded by Captain Tomkinson is ordered to the Mediterranean. A Dutch line-of-battle ship Zebul and brig Sheilkeil arrive with Prince William Frederick Henry aboard. He lands at the King's Stairs Dock-yard to a royal salute. The Sylph cutter escorts the prince to Spithead tonight. Burial for Donna Francisca Carlos set for Gosport's Catholic Chapel tomorrow at ten, with chapel sittings priced one shilling each. Wind at 8 PM from the east, light and fine.
The General Steam Navigation Company's mail packet City of Hamburgh was sighted off the Custom-house yesterday at six o'clock. Reports note the vessel's location as Hamburgh with the time of observation recorded as six in the evening.
Betting odds listed for St Leger with Plenipotentiary as favorite alongside Touchstone and Lady de Gras. Doncaster Four Year Old Stakes saw Fansande and Fidelity win, while Tomboy and Marcellina contested. Champagne Stakes won by Linda’s progeny, and the King’s Plate ended in a close finish with Revelry and Miss Wilke in a dead heat before dispatch.
Hay supplies are scanty for new hay while old hay is plentiful. Clover and straw are abundant but buyers resist without price reductions. Seed market notes must ard seed prices hold, with mustard and coriander steady though hemp damped. Hungerford Market lists cod and other fish scarce with mixed meat and poultry prices, while meadow hay and hay prices show demand and variability.
Twenty one ships arrived for the coal market as prices per ton closed mixed across multiple collieries and districts. Notable figures include Chester 15s 6d to 15s 6d, Holywell 18s 3d, Pontop Windsor 17s 6d, Wall's End Brown 18s 9d, ditto Northumberland 18s 5d, and Ditto Lambton 21s 6d, with numerous other firms and locations listed in varied shillings and pence.
A city solicitor race draws three candidates with emoluments under 2000 per year. Roberts barred by by law, Payne leverages coroner influence, Newman active but not related to the late solicitor. Burke laments modern liberty debates, claiming they threaten government, religion, and social order.
The Lyceum’s Mountain Sylph performance features Bland as Hela with noted defects yet strong poetic feeling and potential. Wilson’s improved cantabile voice and acting draw praise, while Miss Jackson steps in for Miss Somerville with a creditable manuscript performance.
Summonses issued to Cabinet Ministers and Great Officers of State to attend a Privy Council at St James's Palace on Wednesday. Dedel, Netherlands Minister, met with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Lord Auckland departed Devonport on a dockyard inspection tour. Dispatches sent to Sir Frederick Lamb in Vienna. Viscount Duncannon arrived in Dublin from Besborough Kilkenny. Viscount Palmerston left town for Pantanger. Lord John Russell arrived near Launceston, Cornwall from Devonshire.
An 19th century digest notes liberal progress in Ireland with four Catholic Assistant Barristers, Jamaica’s August 1 apprenticeship end, and fears of unrest on large estates. A social festival at the National Labour Exchange in Rathbone-place impresses with orderly decorum and a grateful tribute to prior organizers. A robbery at the Bedford Hotel in Bedfordshire targets Mrs Goddefroy’s desk containing jewels and money up to £5,000, with a suspect described and pursued. An attempted court martial looms for Private Hurcarsson after a prior flogging. he deserts, surrenders, and faces renewed proceedings as his fate nears Windsor.
Bannister’s self stories recount his early stage work in tragedy and Garrick’s warning about comedy, while sketches describe domestic life in China with frugal comforts, main foods like rice, and cheerful resilience despite poverty, plus curious vignettes on Paris life and other miscellany from Bulwer and Curtius.
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