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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Aug 29, 1841

Page

6

Beer versus scurvy on West Africa voyages

A Geographical Society note asserts beer elicits health benefits for sailors on Africa coast duties. It cites Belcher claiming fish diets worsen scurvy and malt beer concentrates, noting stockfish allowances and later Gambian fresh meat offered less benefit, with beer as a potentially salutary preventive.

Africa 2Ina Belcher Gambia Journal of the Geographical Society

Breach of Promise Case Highlights Fraught Courtroom Fight

A breach of promise jury trial heard Miss Mary French sue Mr. Hatch over a 1840 marriage engagement. Serjeant Bompas portrayed the plaintiff as respectable. Hatch admitted affection but denied imminent nuptials. Evidence included letters, bans, and family testimony. Defense urged modest damages. verdict awarded £ fifty.

Frexen Buisto Assizxa Serjeant Bompas Stone Cockburn Carrow Serjeant Bompas Hatch Miss French Mary French T. H Martha French Counterslip Chapel John Nicholls Gloster Lane Mr. Cockburn Mr. Hatch Niobe Tommy

Extensive Liverpool robbery elopement case shocks city

Monday reports from metropolitan stations detail a crim con elopement at the Red Lion in Simpson Street Liverpool. Sailor William Davis and Mrs Lewis fled with gold, watches, and valuables, travelling by rail to Birmingham and London. A second item reports a found body in the River near the Rover. a likely drowning with bruises and no waistcoat. Also noted is the suicide of Mr. Wm Stone of Surrey-square Newington and a priest, Theophilus Waters, remanded for alleged charitable solicitation fraud in Bloomsbury.

Lewis Davis Birmingham London Rover William Tyers Hermitage Stairs Wapping Wm. Stone No. 1 King-street Surrey-square Newington Marlborough-street Theophilus ‘Waters Fitzgerald High-street Bloomsbury Griffith No. 5 Golden Square Chine West-End

Charity and corn laws sermon and Deaf charity dinner

In Kentishtown an interdenominational meeting heard Rev M A Garvey report on Manchester ministerial conference and corn law protests. A Deaf and Dumb Charity dinner at Crown and Anchor featured speakers, songs, and subscriptions. Mr Bond Cabbell chaired.

Kentishtown M. A. Garvey Man Three Kingdoms Manchester Deafaxyn Duns Charitable Crown and Anchor Strand Benjamin Bond Cabbell Mesars Pyne Foster Turner Longhurst P. Taylor Hamilton Thames John Bruton East Britannia West India Dock Broderip Archibald M‘neile London Jamaica Symons United Kingdom Nisi Prizs Carrington and Payne Sir John Burgoyne, Bart Upper Brook Street Grosvenor Square Higgs Emma Dancey Baronet Elizabeth Archer Dover Mr Dodd Bryanstone-street Hampage Ann Lemmancoff Elsegood St. George's Hospital Hyde-park-corner Johan Woods Marquis of Waterford Edgware Road Flocton Gorman Baldwin Ie Bays and Son King’s Parade Cambridge Faral Silver-street Bouverie-street John Toby Messrs Tyler Boltcourt Toby Thomas Casserby King’s Road Chelsea Ambrose Fulham Penelope Carttar King’s Arms King-street Greenwich George Thomas Dear Royal-hill Baker George Public-House Anchor and Hope-alley Wapping Elizabeth Neale Ship-street Commercial Jordan

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