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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 18, 1839
Page
7
A collage of historical and literary curiosities includes Southey on labor and fate, Grattan’s eccentricities, a 2000-year-old trundle wheel, a Dutch assembly jab, and sketches from Dr Johnson and Herrick. Also notes on buffalo hunts, moral maxims, and poetry translations.
From Birmingham court, several Chartists were arraigned for July riots. Guilty pleas with sentences ranging from death to hard labour, plus an inquest into sabre wounds on John Binyon and further statements on public order.
Witnesses described a July 15 confrontation near the Bull where a dragoon struck the deceased multiple times with the sword. The victim was taken to Mr. Taylor's, bled heavily, and later died. jury rules died from dragoon wounds in the line of duty, justifiable homicide.
The Toulonnais prints an extract from a French officer dated July 19 noting plans to force the Dardanelles as Russians appear in the Bosphorus. Other items discuss Osnaburgh petition fate, trade anxieties, opium export limits, harvest prospects, and a Mary Irving case at Hatton Garden Court.
A personal letter from Lady Flora Hastings defends her conduct at Buckingham Palace and exposes a conspiracy against her. The document details medical examinations, royal reactions, and the duchess of Kent’s support, with further remarks by Hamilton Fitzgerald and a public statement about persecution. The piece also notes trials of Rev J R Stephens and related legal actions at Chester and Liverpool.
At Harefield on Wednesday the magistrates refused to remand George Coker. The coroner Wakley had ordered his appearance. the prisoner had already been sent to Newgate by order of Wakley, prompting a heated dispute over the mishandling of the inquest and custody.
The senior general officer in service died at Cheltenham on Monday aged 94. He served 78 years in the army, receiving his commission in 1761 and advancing through major, colonel, and general ranks to become a G C H and colonel of the Scots Greys. Other items report shipping news from America, financial strains, and regional unrest in Coburg and Jamaica, with notes on the Illinois and Michigan Canal loan, the money market, and plans to revive New York dry goods credit.
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