Emigrant fever and a Bath forgery case headline
Reports from Quebec and Grosse Isle describe direemigration conditions with typhus deaths and shipboard neglect. In Bath a court case details forged will and codicil in the Slack estate, accusing John and Daniel Davis Ford John Lewis and Frances Garland of fraud and perjury.
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Bath
John
Daniel Davis Ford
John Lewis
Frances Garland
William Slack
Bathwick
Quiet Street
Dowding
Wintle
Slack
Dowdley
Registrar of Doctors’ Commons
John Tagledon
B.A
Bristol
Tagledon
Ingledon
Prerogative Court
London
Et Lonce
Mant
Stephen Ford
Jacob Stoodley Manning
Bourne
Wells Road
John Ford
Henry Mant
Lewis
Ford
Mr. Slack
J. 8
Manning
Mr. Mant
Another Case of Poisoning in Wasninotox
In Wasninotox a coroner's jury probes a latest poisoning case, revealing the motive of burial fees. The widow Ann Mather, 2nd wife of Job Mather, is charged with murder after arsenic traces were found in the stomach during exhumation and post mortem.
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Wasninotox
Job Mather
Ann Mather
Foresters’ Club
Jones
Ashton
Jane Houghton
R. H. Brett
Liverpool School of Medicine
Jans Houghton
Sahe
Ano Mather
Select Committee on Criminal Law Second Report Summary
The Lords Select Committee on Criminal Law reports a broad consensus against abolishing transportation, urging retention with reform. It urges improved prison discipline, separate confinement with labour, and careful juvenile handling, including potential reformatories, magistrate powers, and parental responsibility. It warns against public displays of convicts and calls for colonial deployment for later stages of punishment. The tone is critical of the current document yet urges reform.
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Select Committee of the Lords
Peera
United Kingdom
England
Ireland
High Court of Justiciary
Scotland
Hope
Tod Justice Clerk
France
Liverpool
Birmingham
Manchester
Parkhurst
Ecandour
Bagnes
Christianis
Norway
Pentonville
Stretton
Dunamore
Warwickshire
Horn
Hamburg
Mettray
Ignorsaca
Daily News
The Great Britain afloat rumor debunked in Liverpool
Reports spread that the Great Britain was afloat and at war in the Mersey but locals say no notification arrived and the ship remained in her previous position. A Dundrum to Newry observer said no movement occurred and spring tides were not yet favorable. Captain Claxton praised Royal Navy support as a new attempt at floating was planned with improved pumps aboard Birkenhead arriving from Kingstown.
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Great Britain
England
Brontreal
Grosse Tale
Montreal
Quebec
Liverpool
Cork
Grosse Isle
Ireland
Helen
Sligo
House of Commons
Emigration Commission
High Street
Marylebone
Doerr Cape
Robert Hutchins
Tae Moperx Ruma
Scotland
London
Knight
Hampton Court Palace
Isle of Thanet
Margate
Remegate
Manchester
Norwich
George III
Duke of Bridgewater
Brindley
Worsley
Salford
Wortley
Hollingferry
Rwell
Stretford
Runcorn
Mersey and Irwell
Manchester, Bolton, and
Bury
Manchester, Ashton, and
Oldham
Manchester and Rochdale
Arkwright
Smyrna
Levant
Lancashire
John Kay
Robert Kay
Wyatt
Paul
Leigh
Kay
Warrington
Sgreaves
Nottingham
Blackburn
Peel
Staffordshire
Nottinghaw
Japan
Charles I
Basinghouse
Oxford
Lenthal
Commons
Gloucester
New England
Lady Russell
Sarah Rogers
Tucker
Poictiers
Eat Chatham
Morden Street
Troy Town
Rochester
GipRalTan
Europa Battery
Algesiras
Gaditano
Cuneo d’Orpano
Captain Key
Bull Dog
Chalmer
Hardinge
K.H
Royal Arsenal
Woolwich
Colquhoun
Wilson
Royal Artillery
Wingfield
Gilbert
Royal Horse Artillery
English
Royal Engineers
Royal Sappers and Miners
Thomas Hastings
Jenner
Royal Navy
Ent India Company
Shoeburyness
Mr. Hale
Her
Borer
Hale
Boxer
Bale
Ugo
Southend
Meade
Goose
Coast Guard
Wacoons
Waghorn
G. Hayter
Rome
Mediterranean
Corfu
Ardent
Exeter
Hicks
Wells
Redleaf
Kent
Guido
Thomas Lawrence
Mr. Wells
Landzeer
Stanfield, Collins, Wilkie, &c
Bellforthwith
Signor Cantaldini
Castaldini
Bell
Cccaaiud
The
Royals
Manchester Guardian
Mersey
Dundrum
Newry
Liverpool Albion
Claxton
R.N
Gibbs, Bright, and Co
Dundram Bay
le Gay
Casis
Bronper
Bellamy
Birkenhead
Kingstown Arbour
Dandrum Bay
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Upper St Lawrence
Canada
Atlantic
St. Lawrence
Bea
Sesseee
Marine Hospital
Literary Chronicle
Carl Simrock
D. J. P. Crackford
B. Bentley
Goéthe
Faust
Caspar
Rats
Perlippe
Spraits
Perlappe
Pepigree
Paroz Cranes
Velasquez
John Snare
New Bond Street
Fine Arts
Prince Charles
Fine Arts Journal
Waterloo
Bohn
Maxwell
India
Seringapatam
Jenny Lind
Mra
G. J. Baynes
Simpkin and Marshall
Gravesend
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