Sign of the times at Crown and Anchor meeting for reform
The Crown and Anchor Tavern hosted a large gathering of Radical MPs and reformers to promote universal suffrage and parliamentary changes. Speakers praised popular power, denounced aristocratic control, and urged middle and working classes to unite for democratic reform while questioning Whig and Tory leaders.
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Crown and Anchor Tavern
London
Edinburgh
William Molesworth
Democratic Party
Sir William
House of Commons
Hume
Orange Lodges
Weir
Times
Paine
Vincent
London Working Men’s Association
Health without Physic in Paris Journal Cases of Dwelling Deaths
A period review highlights hygienic science with cases from M D Arcet and colleagues on death and disease caused by unventilated lodgings and gas emissions. It cites several instances from France where carbonic acid and mercurial vapors entered bedrooms via chimneys or adjoining rooms, triggering illness and fatalities.
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No. V
London
Sherwood and Co
M. D’arcet
M.d’arcet Cecld
M. Durcet
Beserzet
M.d’arcet
M. D'Arcet
Ieilter
M. D.arcet
M. Vauquelin
Ecole Des Mines
Fourcroy
A Strange Case of Smoke in the Country House
A tale describes a visit with M Vauquelin where geese were fed and slaughtered, smoke filled antechamber, and a chimney tube carried the fire and fumes into the room. The incident, with speculation on heat sources, is tied to a broader review of A Million of Facts by Sir Richard Phillips.
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M. Vauquelin
Sir Richard Phillips
London
Sherwood
Sir Richard
Golderr
England
Mysterious death and murder charge near Uxbridge
A 15 year old farm lad John Brill from Ruislip is found murdered in Young's Wood near Uxbridge. Suspects Charles Lamb James Bray and Thomas Lavender are remanded as coroner's inquest will determine blame amid threats against Brill for testifying in a poaching case.
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Uxbridge
John Brill
Charles Churchhill
Ruislip
Thomas Lavender
James Bray
Ralph Dean
Brill
Young’s Wood
Six Bells
T. Dagnall
Cowley
Charles Lamb
Murray
King’s Arms Inn
W.S. Wiseman, Bart
Mr. Dagnall
Thomas Jobert
Henry Meadows
Dean
Meadows
Lamb
Rachel Brill
Lavender
Henry Hill
Jack
Jem Bray
W. Wiseman
Hillingdon
Ickenham
Churchhill
Tobut
W.S. Wiseman
Knt
Thomas Dagnall
Carlos Lamb
Captain Brew
Mr. Stone
Ruislip Parish
Tie
Ux-bridge
Mary Hill
Ruislip Common
Duck’s Hill
Mary Brill
Bray
Hill
George Allday
Thomas Godliman
Shackel
Bow-street
Inquist
Hray
Offcers
Christopher Parke
Dagnall
Charles Potter
Mrr
Dugnall
Charles Churchill
Parke
William Lavender
Charles Woodman
Mater i
Henry Woodman
Churchill
Geelows
Young
James Lavender
Bemg
Mary, Brill
Jacky
City Intelligence Fluctuations Cloud Early Market
London stock and money markets show cautious activity amid improved trade hopes. Gold and silver inflows from New York ease fears. Exchequer Bills and Dutch loans loom as potential government finance options. Stock values slip, bonds vary, and rail shares edge higher amid a general downturn in Liverpool and Birmingham markets.
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Liverpool
New York
National Debt Reduction Commissioners
Exster
India
Spain
Portugese
Donna Maria
Holland
Russia
Lindon
Birmingham
Great Western
Brighton
Cundy
North Midland
South Eastern
Dover
Greenwich Railway
New Judge Coltman Appointed to Common Pleas
Mr. Coltman named as new judge of the Common Pleas, educated at Trinity College Cambridge, BA in January 1703. He rises through special pleading to the bar and gains support from Lord Brougham and ministers. He begins at the Old Bailey next week and then with Justice Park on the Norfolk Circuit.
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Lechmere Charlton
Court of Chancery
Samuel Whalley
Marylebone
Monmouth
Aberlin
Coltman
the Common Pleas
Trinity College, Cambridge
Celtman
John Wiliams
Lervd Brougham
Gibbon
Old Bailey
Justice Park
Norfolk
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