A Sailor's Account of Napier's Grand Exploits and Victories
A long narrative praises Captain Charles Napier detailing actions in the West Indies and Portugal, including the siege of Martinique, courageous landings, and captures. It describes Napier’s leadership aboard the Recruit, Euryalus, and Galatea, his wounds, promotions, and famed exploits against French and Spanish forces. The letter from Napier’s son accompanies the account, recounting the Acre engagement and prize money hopes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Napier
Portsmouth
West Indies
Hautport
Pompey
Castor
Alexander Cochrane
Martinique
Cleopatra
Pigeon Island
Fort Edward
Fort Bourbon
A. Cochrance
Martime
England
Portugal
Busaco
Napier
Corunna
Thames
Mediterranean
Naples
Furieuse
Ponza
Ualvi
Corsica
Eurralus
He Armee
America
James Gordon
Pontomae
Euryalus
Alexandria
Washington
Sartorius
Don Pedro
Don Miguel
Syrian
R.N
Merchistoun-hall
Stirling
City lands committee weighs Cheapside ground leases
The Commons debate centers on re considering plans to let ground at Cheapside end west toward Panger alley for building leases. Amended plans aim to extend improvements, but would fill open space near the post office and alter the St Paul’s view from St Martin’s le Grand. A large majority supports tabling the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Council
City Lands Committee
Cheapside
Panger Alley
St. Paul’s Cathedral
St. Martin’s le-Grind
R. L. Jones
Mr. Norris
Mr. Jones
Norris
Corn, Coal, and Finance Committee
British and Foreign School Society
St. Peter's
Cornhill
Pont du Carrousel
Seine
Edward
Galignani
Extraordinary Charge of Killing a Husband
Cecilia Proudfoot a 47 year old Irish wife faced the Hatton Garden bar charged with biting her husband to death at their Gray's Inn Lane home. Witnesses described a violent couple night of drunkenness culminating in a fatal abdominal wound. defense claimed she acted in fear and that he fell on the bedstead. The case was remanded for further evidence with a coroner’s inquest recording conflicting accounts of biting versus tearing and possible misadventure rather than clear homicide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecilia Proudfoot
Carroll
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
Patrick Proudfoot
John Bostock
Greenwood
Miles
Pollock
Hatton-garden
Mr. Greenwood
Waddington
Chadwick
J. A. Bostock
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
Eliza Proudfoot
Central Criminal Court
Payne
Tash-street
Gray's Inn-Lane
Alleged outrage in Hypr Parx described by a woman
A young Bermondsey servant Jane Rogers claimed a dark complexioned man assaulted her near Hyde Park corner on the one arch bridge. She was thrown into the water and rescued by Carter. Police are investigating amid some doubts about her account. A separate Thames drowning case at Waterloo Bridge is reported with inquest details and a verdict of found drowned. Also news notes the loss of her Majesty's ship Fairy, a surveying vessel, in a recent storm with the midshipman son of Sir Charles Adam aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humane Society
Jane Rogers
No. 1
Griffith’s
Bermondsey
Kensington
Waterloo-Bridge
Thames
Mears
Myers
Waterloo-stairs
Tower-street
Pincher
Middlesex
Carter
Surrey
York
Waterloo Road
Fairy
Harwich
Charles Adam
Working Classes Life Insurance and Fire Protection Society
An early prospectus outlines a self supporting Society led by H G Boldero and others to aid moderate earners, especially workers, with life insurance and property protection from fire. It offers insuring tools and gear from £10 upwards with quarterly premiums, plus life sickness provision, old age annuities, and child endowments. Prospectuses available at offices and agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. G. Boldero
E. L. Bulwer
John P. Beavan
James Bourdillon
Duncan Campbell
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Gommodore Napier
Athough
Sidon
Royal Marines
Charley
St. Jean d’Acre
Davy
Kingdom Come
Benevolent Fire and Life Insurance and National Benefit Society
James Garrard
Amos Gann
Lord Teignmouth
Birkbeck
Earl of Euston
M.P
Lord
Skelmersdale
FURBY
Whitechapel-read
Ene
Tee
H.R.H
Duchess of Kent
the Treasury
Ublic
Grimstone
G.j.guthrie
F.R.S
Penryn Arms Hotel
Bangor
Dublin
Heywood
T. W. Grimstone
Broad-street
W. Bicknell
CasTron
W. Grimstone
Bloomsbury
Kingstreet
Long
Erry
London
United King ‘Dom
Europe
R.and
L. Perry and Co
Messrs. Perry and Co
Great Charles-street
Birmingham
Albion-street
Leeds
Perry
N.B
Mons. LE Dray
Monsieur le Dray
Newman-street
Oxford-street
Paris
Ndependent
West Middlesex Assurance Company
the Bazaar
Baker-street
Portman-square
South St. David's-street
Edinburgh
Logram Street
Glasgow
Sackville-street
James Alexander
Samuel Eyre
Robert Ferguson
Thomas Hope
J. D. Hustler
Thomas Knowles
Ycorge
H. R. Perkins
Thomas Price
William E. Taylor
John Wilson
William Whittaker
Mo Warsi
Thi Vane
S. d
E. Williams
Wee Tae
Hamberlain
British Museum
Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons
Broad Street
Holborn
Shafer
J. Hayne
Liverpool-street
Bishopsgate
Smith
Gray’s-inn-lane
E Holborn
S. S
City of
United Kingdom
C. Ge. Galt
John Reilloc and Co
Hattongarden
Bateman
SIMCO
Backhouse
Wells
Messrs. Boddington and Co
Barclay and Sons
Farringdon-street
T. Butler
Johnston
Gifford
Strand
Castle-street
Leicester Square
Sanger
Boddington and Co
Charlotte-street
Fitzroy-square
Medical Monitor
T. F. Grace
London-street
Liverpool
Evans, Son, and Co
Lord Street
Medical Adviser
Grace
Marriat
Guss
Goss
London Morning Journal
Dublin Morning Journal
Sherwood and Co
Paternosterrow
Onwhyn
Catherine-street
Ollivier
Pall-mall
Churchill
Princes-street
Soho
Sutherland
Calton Street
Porter
Grafton-street
Messrs. Goss and CO
Goss and CO
Lancaster-place
Ottam and Hallen
Winsley-street
John Wilmot
Isleworth
Arnot
OLDS
Parr and Co
Theobald's Road
Parrand Co
Theobald
Frampton
T. Prost
Kingdom
Weight
Thomas Powell
Blackfriarsoad
Blackfriars-road
Her Majesty's Commissioners of Stamps
R. Wilson
Dr. Wilson
Wilson
Yoxford
Sutton and Co
Bow-church
Messrs
Butler and Son
St. Pauls
Suffels
Fridlay-street
Feaver
Newbery
Edwards
Sutton
Orisogon
Paris Street
Exeter
British College of Health
Morison
R. Tothill
Sarah Cooke
Thomas Billingshay
Taunton
Somerset
William Warde
Mary Ellis
Strong
Mary Anne Sanders
Summerland Street
West of England Eye Infirmary
Richard Tornint
M.B.C.S.L. Heavitree
Tothill
Hamilton-place
Newroail