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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 11, 1839
Page
6
A miscellany column presents poetry and essays. Coleridge on dreams and sight contrasts with advice on economy and adversity. It notes Exeter Hall tensions, electioneering humor, and short pieces on poetry, manners, and poisonous seeds with various authors cited.
In a Bristol circuit, Caan Hrs dan Roach and William Augustine Exfort Moxey faced magistrates for attempting to extort money by threat. Palmer, a Bristol lender, testified about a letter demanding £200 and a later £300 to avoid “injurious éclairecissement.” The prisoners denied guilt, claiming the letter and documents were fake, and the case was ordered for trial at Newgate.
The Newcastle trial of Archibald Bolam centers on the death of Joseph Millie. After a lengthy hearing, the jury convicts Bolam of manslaughter, and Baron Maule sentences him to transportation for life.
John Carter, a Beant thick seller, charged Tuomas Parnham, a greengrocer of Tottenham Court Road, after his cow repeatedly raided greens stalls outside the shop. The animal allegedly knocked down a man and damaged property before restraint was pledged and costs paid.
The magnificent steamer Liverpool departed for New York at three o clock with 104 passengers aboard and a large freight of silks watches and jewellery. A large crowd gathered on the piers to witness the sailing. The Bloomsbury Case undergoes changes with two actions to be tried at the Liverpool Assizes, involving Ridsdale Weatherby Craven and Lord Lichfield with Serjeant Wilde retained for the defendants. The issues concern proper description of Bloomsbury in Ascot Derby entries and Derby Stakes splits. The cases attract keen public interest.
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