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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 06, 1837
Page
3
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The long-running Pickwick Club serial is celebrated for talent and entertainment. An excerpt recounts Sam Weller’s prison tale and a cobbler’s tale of a vast legacy dispute, leading to a vivid Fleet imprisonment scene and a dramatic public notice of Bardell v. Pickwick proceedings.
The private Thomas M Sweeney was executed on board the Rodney off Malta after being found guilty of pushing a fellow marine from the gangway. He was condemned on Malta harbour aboard Revenge and executed by hanging from the yard arm as officials, clergy, and squadron ships looked on. He was about 23, Irish, and the event is described as the first naval execution in the Mediterranean since the last war.
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