Fraudulent preference case against Hitchcock bankrupts bond
Trial at Guildhall before Lord Chief Justice Tindal ends with verdict for £2,000 to the assignees. The defendant, Richard Preston Prichard, lent Hitchcock £2,000 in 1840 41 with security from a Regent Street lease and later received two £1,000 checks. Plaintiffs allege the bankrupt repaid the debt with undue priority over other creditors, a fraud in law, which the jury finds in their favor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oart OF Common Pleas
Trzspay
Prronano
Nisi Prius
Guildhall
Tindal
T. Wilde
Platt
M. Chambers
W. 8. Watson
Pean
Hitchcock
Richard Preston Prichard
Sydenham
Surrey
William Taylor Prichard
Mardon and
Regent-street
Mardon
Police Trial Over Attempted Murder at Auction Mart Coffee-House
William Cannell, 21, examined before the Lord Mayor for shooting at Mrs. Magnus at the Auction Mart coffee-house. A pistol and Spanish knife were produced. medical testimony described a near-fatal throat wound, shattered ribs, and lung risk. Cannell remanded to Newgate for trial as Mrs. Magnus remains hospitalized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porsoy
Cannell
William Cansell
Magnus
Auction Mart
Wilkinson
Angel-court
Angel Court
Adams
Broad-street
Bishopsgate
J. J. Adams
New Broad Street
St. Thomas’s Hospital
Guthrie
Giltspur-street
Forcery and theft at Bow Street court shows parade of fraud
The report details trials at Bow Street including Rev William Bailey charged with forging a promissory note worth £2875 to defraud the executors of Robert Smith of Seven Dials. Witnesses describe handwriting scrutiny, prior examinations, and related allegations. Separate items describe a desk robbery at St Martin's Le Grand by George Shepherd and a public disturbance at a workhouse, plus stabbing in Clerkenwell and a case of beggary and forward amours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Smith
Camden-town
Kearney
Mr. Justin
Flower
Justin
Smith
Robert Lenny
Charles-street
Westminster
Bailey
Dr. Bailey
Richard Diggins
Tunbridge-wells
Henry Hill
Catherine Glanville
Jones
Hall
Hill
Brian Kearney
Pearce
Coleshill-street
Newgate
Thomas Pearce
Queenhithe
Thomas Patterson
Holywell-street
Clarke
Mr. Twyford
Holywell Street
Patterson
Bow-street
William Heiron
Robert Smith
Heiron
Mr. Smith
Mornington Crescent
Heiren
Mornington-crescent
Stanhope-place
W. K. Morland
Westmoreland Place
City-road
Mr. Bailes
Ben 2Tom
Mr. Grall
George Shepherd
John Sanderson
John Sherman
Bulland Mouth
St. Martin’s-le-Grand
Paddington
Great Western Railway
Sherman
Paddington-green
William Mark Minty
Phillips
Minty
Tottenham Place
Tottenham Court-Road
Witness
Mr. Collard
Collard
Chat
Rosnery
Lavy Malcoum
James Young
Major Malcolm
China
Malcolm
Maidenhead
Williams
Payne
Reluctant relief over six o clock shelter policy at St George's
In a London hearing, Rainsford criticizes the six o clock cutoff for workhouse relief as unjust, recounting a destitute man and his expectant wife seeking shelter after long travel from Portsmouth. Maltby questions the detention of the wife while inquiries proceed, and the magistrate authorizes poor box aid to fund the journey to Boston before winter deepens.
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Marlborough Street
William Cunningham
St. George's Workhouse
Payne
Guildford
Surrey
Valso
Maltby
Rains
St. George's
Globe
East Indies
Portsmouth
Boston
Lincolnshire
Kingston
London
Rainsford
Greenwich Union
Mr. Maltby
Mhany
Astrologer dupes warned by magistrate in fraud case
The conjuror threatened with misery if he complained. Two horoscopes showed the man born under Leo with a chequered life and his sister facing possible two marriages and uncertain survival beyond age fifty nine. Mr. Broughton questioned the almanack and warned of inquiry into Mr. Palmer or Mr. Raphael as the aliases used. Constable Fitz gerald to follow up, applicants asked for addresses.
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Ellen James
Rose-alley
Eagle Street
Holborn
William James
White
Red Lionsire
Greenwood
David Morgan
VaGnaxcy
Holloway Road
London
Charles-street
Drury-Jane
Hythe
Kent
Horsford
Regent-street
House of Correction
James Saffron
Brunswick-square
Marylebone
Havig
Broughton
Palmer
Raphael
Moore
Lagle-place
Cityron
Ealing
Lio
Fitzgerald
Prince Albert
Michael Lannigan
G. Clive
James Cheshire
T 124
Hammersmith
Westmoreland
Christ
Mr. Clive
Clive
UNION HALL. Poverty Tagment and Acts at Workhouse
A Lambeth workhouse case reports a starving pauper burning his clothes to obtain new attire, claiming vermin drove him to the act. The magistrate releases him, noting parish duty to clothe the needy. Also: actress Fanny Gordon poisons herself aids recovery after husband abandonment. Camberwell workhouse row over glass windows. Kensington police: Michael Lannigan jailed for vagrancy after writing to Prince Albert with cryptic verses.
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Lambeth
Mr. Cottingham
Union Hall
Fanny Gordon
Cottingham
Stones End
Marylebone
John Rowe
Ellen Rowe
Benjamin Banks
Camberwell
Union
Rowe
Brentford Petty Sessions Riotous Dancing in Workhouse
Four girls aged sixteen to eighteen were charged with riotous and indecent conduct in the Brentford union workhouse. Governors testified to dancing on forms and indecent attitudes, spurring a trial that ended with the four discharged but warned against future disturbances.
Charitable Christmas Request in Bermondsey
Trustees under the will of the late John Harcourt met at Bermondsey workhouse to decide on a £1000 endowment for twenty poor widows who have never received parish relief. Applicants were numerous and urgent cases were prioritized for appropriation by churchwardens and overseers.
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BeamoxpsEy
John Harcourt
Artillery-place
Bermondsey
French occupation of Marquesas Islands reported by Dupetit Thouars
Moniteur prints Rear-Admiral Dupetit Thouars report of occupying Tahuata Nukuhiva and surrounding Marquesas in 1842. He sought king Yotete’s recognition of Louis Philippe, landed troops, unfurled the tricolor, and secured a hostage, claiming sovereignty and promising protection to quell local outrages against American whalers. The piece critiques the legality and a proto-imperial assertion, noting potential international fallout.
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Moniteur
Marquesas Islands
Dupetit Thouars
Bay of Taichae
Fatuiva
Tahuata
M. François de Paule
Pacific
Yotete
Louis Philippe
Marquesas
Nukubiva
M. Dupetit Thouars
Bay of
Hanamilai
M. Frangois de Paule
Panaan
Bay
Tajohae
Nukuhiva
Timeo
Uapou
Bay of Hakahan
M. Caret
M. Pupetit Thouars
Taichae
M. Francois de Paule
Tavias
Nukahiva
Maguesa
Hekahau
Temoana
AE Iou
Tatoaes
Taiones
M. Collet
Kakapehi
Commirce
Admiral Dupetit
Manchester
Cobden
Yotnte
Admiral Dupetit Thouars
Bay of Waitabu
Jonathan
Jonathon
South Seas
United States
Saturday Newspapers Publish Fifty Three Numbers This Year
A statement notes that every Saturday edition will number fifty three issues in the current year, the year beginning and ending on a Saturday, a pattern not repeated until 1853.
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Fvery
Quiet Bliss. Sonnet From the New River School
A Sunday Clerkenwell street scene unfolds as a passerby notices a first floor window. A man in shirt sleeves sits reading a Dispatch beside a woman who peers with periwinkles. A pewter pot sits between them in a quiet domestic moment.
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NEW River School
Clerkenwell
Absulushun at a Turnpike Gate in Leeds Intelligencer Style
A tale from Harrogate via a Leeds Intelligencer note recalls a Roman Catholic lady seeking toll exemption for absolution at a turnpike gate. Joe the toll collector insists no absolution on the toll, debates law and culture, and the lady pays the toll after a comic exchange. The clerk later hears of the scene with amusement.
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Harrowgate
Joe
Doas
Leeds
Joy
Teagan
Harrygate
Absulushun
Leeds Intelligencer
Epigram on the Duke of Wellington’s life kept safe
A fragmentary verse notes the preservation of the Duke of Wellington’s life in a satirical tone. It laments a contrived image of something being thrust down his throat, reflecting wartime humor and a quip about his endurance. Excerpted from Exeter Flying Post via Perex Pixpaz.
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Duke of Wellington
Exeter Flying Post
The Chinese Emperor's Autograph At Royal Asiatic
At the Royal Asiatic Society meeting an autograph letter on yellow paper from the Emperor of China to Governor Lin was shown. It was sent to Mr. Bridgeman to Sir Alexander Johnston. The writer hopes a further autograph, the emperor's signature to the treaty, will reach this country soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Asiatic Society Oriental Curiosities
Lin
Bridgeman
Alexander Johnston
Old Man Keeps Cuyp Painting After £3000 Offer
An elderly bone collector near Southampton bought a ragged old canvas showing an ox head. After restoration by Mr De Lainey, it drew expert praise and bids up to £3,000, yet the owner refuses to sell, hoping to keep the treasure.
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Southampton
de Lainey
Prince’s Street
Bristol
The Colosseum to be knocked down auctioneer warns
London wakes to Robins auctioneer plan to demolish the Colosseum amid a public prospectus. The verse laments the fate of the famed building as townwide interest grows in the impending demolition auction.
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Colosseum
London
Robins
Magnanimous New York Editor Promotes Webb Pardon
A sensational letter from the New York Mourning Herald reports Col. Webb's alleged misbehavior in prison and details a public campaign to win his pardon. The piece recounts petitions, wine and cigars ordered to Webb’s apartments, and a sharp rebuke from Webb to a messenger. The author urges mass signatures by Friday as Webb's sentence looms.
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New York
Col. Wies
Munnp Iv
Col. Webb
Regular Army
Anthon
Calonel
Gilbert Davis
William and
Pine Streets
Webb
Henriques
William-street
J. G. Bennett
Del
William Street
Mr. Henriques
Colonel Webb
Nassau and
Fulion Streets
Boy Soldier Delivers Ratisbon Victory Tale
A fragment recalls Napoleon and a bold rider who reaches a mound amid battle. The youth proclaims the capture of Ratisbon and the marshal’s fate, only to fall dead, his sacrifice sealing a moment of triumph for the French. The scene contrasts courage with loss as the emperor’s plans flare then soften.
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Ratisbon
Napoleon
Lannes
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Kensington Police
Brentford
Petty Sessions
Sophia Faulkner
Eliza Clarke
Anne T Hemas
Matilda Thatcher
G. Baillie
Dr. Walmesley
H.S. Trimmer
Twining
James Rutland Brown
Brentford Union
Isleworth
Mr. Brown
Trimmer
Ahr. Brow
Mr. Frere
Mr. Fr
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