Covent Garden Theatre opens under Macready direction
The Covent Garden Theatre announces a September 30 opening under R. Macready with aims to revive English drama and support national theatre. Adjustments include private lobbies, rebalanced admission prices, and plans to secure native music talent and an efficient company amid broader efforts to elevate national literature and art.
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Theatre Royal
Linses
Theas
Coventgarden Theatre
Casault
Nocturnal Meetings and the Law of the Twelve Tables
Discussion notes the Roman aversion to nocturnal assemblies and how the Twelve Tables barred night gatherings in the city. It cites Dr. Irving and Bishop Watson on persecutions of Christians, explains the historical context, and contrasts authentic law with Cicero’s imaginary framework in De Legibus.
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Irving
Bacchaea- Jibos
Vhins
Dr. Irving
Rome
Ireing
Old Clothes Pronunciation Retort Impresses Coleridge
Coleridge recalls being floored by a Jew who asked to say old clothes in his accent. After a nasal recital, the man explains cadence and says he would utter the phrase ten times in a minute for an hour. The exchange ends with Coleridge bowing and giving a single shilling.
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A. Coleridge
Queen and Stud In Burdett's Horse Crown Debate
A satirical critical piece ridicules Sir Francis Burdett for proposing to crown England with a horse establishment over the queen. It envisions a throne of stables, mocks the fusion of state and stud, warns of clerical anger, and imagines a jockeys’ and horses run nation, with Melbourne impeached over horse policy. It lampoons Parliament, church, and monarchy amid a flood of horse-centered rhetoric.
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Francis Burdett
Troy
England
Francia
Lord Melbourne
Ireland
Sir Francis Burdett
Melton Mowbray
Duke of Cumberland
Francis Bartlett
House of Lords
F. Burdett
Jockey Club
Sir F. Burdett
Singlonese
O'Connell
Juvenal
Stud
Severino
Philpotts
Blomfield
Grace
Canterbury
Toad Found Dormant Six Feet Under Mars Bed
A workman digging the foundation on Mr Swainson’s Cooper-hill property dug up a large toad embedded six feet below the surface in a solid bed of mars. The animal, the size of a stone, weighed about a pound and appeared alive for a time after being cut in two by a spade.
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Swainson
Cooper-hill
Wallon Church
Preston
Old Court Trials at Fleet Prison and Newgate
Indictments include burglaries at two homes with clothing and other goods seized. Fell pleads guilty after mercy appeal. Major and Durst found guilty of burglary. Hennessey convicted of manslaughter in a Holborn case after brutal violence against his wife, leading to eight day death. Grand jury reports room accommodations at Newgate and praises gaol cleanliness.
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Old Court
Rospery
Fleet Prison
William Major
James Durst
Jeremiah Broad
Jim
Fell
W.G. Brown
C. Phillips
Ballantine
Payne
Donne
Fleet
Davis
Rowbottom
Payor
Thomas Nelson
Major
Walter Waithman
Mr. Payne
James Hennessey
Margaret Hennessey
Me. C. C. Jones
Mr. Prendergast
Caroline-court
Saffroo-hill
Holborn
Bin
Diceased
Prendergast
Justice Vaughan
Newgate
NEW COURT TRIALS ON THEFT OF HARPS AND CHAIRS
Joseph Laurence aged 28 was found guilty of stealing a harp valued at 145 pounds from Joseph Grociens a Soho square harp maker. He also faced charges for stealing a chaise and harness valued at 231 pounds and a stock of goods valued at 201 pounds. Additional indictments described as contract debts were ruled guilty. The Common Sergeant sentenced Laurence to transportation for fourteen years.
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New Court
Joseph Laurence
Joseph Grociens
Bodkin
Grociens
Soho Square
New-square
Cambridge
Judkin
Hatton-pirden
Gay Fawkes
John Coombes
Blackburn
Japan
Barnes
Oxendon
Coombes
Grocien
Magner
Broadswood
Hepelantes
Thomas Smith
Came of Ball
Ball
Peracos
Jude
T. Lloyd
Thit
Inquest Rules Death From Smoking In Bed
A coroner's inquest at Middlesex Hospital reviewed the death of 18 year old George Hinman from burns after a bed fire. He lived with his brother-in-law Mr. Robert Burnall at 99 High Street Marylebone. Hinman, recently back from the East Indies, was found at the foot of his bed by Burnall as flames enveloped the room. A pipe found in the room led to the conclusion that smoking in bed caused the accident. the verdict was accidental death.
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Stirling
Middlesex Hospital
George Hinman
Robert Burnall
High-street
Marylebone
East Indies
London
Burnall
Theft charge in leather shop case at Margetson's
Henry Simpson a shopman at Messrs Margetson and Co in Gutter Lane was charged with stealing a small canvas money bag from Lewis Le Richens Aldermanbury worth about 14 10s. A Italian boy testified to seeing the act and the bag was later recovered with only 2s in gold. The accused claimed innocence until the bag was produced. The case was committed to Bow Street.
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Henry Simpson
Messrs. Margetson and Co
Gutter Lane
Lewis le Richens
Aldermanbury
Messrs
Margetson
Soldier Rushton Fined for Assault in London Shop
In a Thames police case, William A Rushton a Grenadier Guardsman stationed in the Tower was charged with brutal assault and damaging clothes at a Shadwell Albion beer shop. Magistrates ordered a fine of 2 pounds 8 shillings to the Queen, plus compensation to the complainants and a possible military disciplinary review.
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Thomas Angel, Smith
Smith
Broderip
Ballantine
Rushton
King of Greece gifts grand cordon to M Eyoard for Athens hospital
A Greek king honors M Eyoard of Geneva with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Saviour in recognition of a 65,000f gift to Athens Hospital. The piece warns farmers of blue-voter schemes by East and West Riding landlords, risking tenant joint liability if the real tenant fails. A Liverpool Telegraph report notes a local inquest into a newborn found dead in St Anne’s churchyard, with a verdict of wilful murder against unknown persons.
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Greece
M. Eyoard
Geneva
Order of the Saviour
Hospital of
Athens
Temaotino
St. Anne’s
Magraw
Cichurch Yard
Liverpool Telegraph
Colonel Jones Vows to Fight Tory Objections in London Court
In a London court Colonel Jones, an anti-Tory reformer, testified about his sleep patterns and residency amid objections to his name on the voters list. He warned Tory representatives of consequences and threatened to hold their officials responsible as laughter filled the room.
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St. Martin’s-in-side-Fields
Colonel Jones
Sr. Trott
Conservative Association
Voters list revised for Uxbridge district in legal dispute
Middlesex judges revise the Uxbridge list spanning parishes including Uxbridge Bingdon Ickenham and Harefield while a key Hillingdon case revolves around Mr Fountain's freehold fishing rights on the Colne river. The court considers whether fishing rights and adjacent banks and weirs grant voting eligibility under law.
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Middlesex
Messrs
Coventry
Tamlyn
Uxbridge
Bingdon
Raisney Ickenham
Weat Drayton
Harefield
Cowley
Ayes
Norwood
Davis
Baylis
Gregory
Ady
Payne
Milla
Tunner
Hillingdon
Fountain
Colae
Delane
Harrister
Woodbridge
Colne
Alresford
Reviser Rules Notice Declares Service Illegal at Tunbridge
Revising barristers at the Court hall Tunbridge sat to revise voters lists for the area. Mr Bosanquet announced he would rule on whether the notice of objection sent previously was valid service. He found the service illegal, contrasting with earlier opinions held by former revising barristers for the division.
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West Kent
Tunbridge
Courthall
Bosanquet
Dissenters Claim Voting Rights in Independent Chapel Trust
A court hearing on dissenting chapel trusts in Tonbridge and Tunbridge shows trustees contesting ministerial rent receipts and voting rights. Cases examine whether pew rents and minister salaries affect trustees' beneficial interest in the freehold, with rulings delaying to October 19.
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Tyndal
John Bennington Wills
Stamford-hill
Hackpoy
Middlesex
Mount Sioo
Tonbridge
Mills
Miller
Mr. Case
Thomas Benley
Timothy Cowell
St. Ives
Huntingdonshire
Tunbridge
Richard Collins
Carnell
Case
Bosanquet
Freehold
John Harmer
Junu
Backlane
Mortality Rise in London and Rail Collision Damages
London deaths this week rise 224 with spikes from consumption debility convulsions and typhus. typhus 15, convulsions 28, consumption 26. A luggage train collision near Liverpool nine miles out destroyed the steam engine, injured the engineer, and killed several pigs as both engines blocked the line.
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London
Liverpool
Manchester
New River Nuisances Described by a Reader
A letter to the editor of the Weekly True Sun describes the New River above Canonbury as a public nuisance used by dozens of workers and animals each morning and evening. It details filth, foul odors, and dirty bathing, with estimates of skin cleansing and a floating rotting vegetable layer. The author calls for remedial action and warns the issue is pervasive across the metropolis.
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True Sun
Aye Mao
Sathine
New River
Canonbury
Islington
Mornhg
Ours
Unrespirable Gases Fatal Sedative Effect Described in Liverpool
A servant in a Liverpool manor shut in a small room with burning charcoal suffered severe chills sickness and head pains for over ninety minutes. He collapsed with rigid limbs pale deathlike countenance and faint pulse before recovery after ether or sedative influence of the poison. The Lancet notes this as proof sedative effects rather than suffocation causing death.
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Liverpool
Lancet
Great Western steamship to receive engines in Thames
The Great Western, built at Bristol and about 1320 tons, arrives in the Thames to be fitted with engines. Details include displacement estimates, machinery weight, fuel and stores, and a spacious passenger saloon. Also notes on paddle beams and ship size relative to Victoria.
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America
India
Great Western
Thames
Bristol
Pattison
Smart
Avea
Victoria
Traill
House of M. Laffitte
Rue Laffitte
Galignani
Vittany
Lacon
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Ventom
Highs Street
William Whitebread
WiLngevar
Brussels
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Pantheon
J. M. Alsager
Ofcianasiguee
Birchin-lave
G-J. Graham
Hall-Careet
Mr. Hill
Copthall-court
Angelcourt
Throgmorton-street
Edward Flower
G. Gilson
Basingball-street
Gardener’s Gazette
Strand
Edward Lakeby
Smith, Elder, and Co
Cornbus
Southey
Cowper
Whittingham
Robert Southey
Baldwin and Cradock
Samuel Lever
Stocks
Goodall
Harvey
Ince
Paternoster-row
COX Savory
Goldsmith, &c
Gorehill
N. B
State and Stud
Central Criminal Court
Police Intelligence
Bow-Street
Hampton Park
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Minshull
Twyford
Her Majesty’s Park
Hampton Court
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Bares
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Byers
Digby
Carter
Skinner
Mosley and Inkpen
Croydon
Dean's Yard
Westminster
William IV
Humphreys
William Skinner
George Powel
Stamp Office
Jokpen
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Westminster Bridge
Humphries
Cawnon
Green
Man and Still
George JV
Dean’s Yard
Marlborough Street
How Street
Gregorie
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