Free Trader Letter Attacks Taxing Monopolies in 1841 London
In a caustic critique addressed to Sir Robert Peel and the government, the Free Trader laments high taxes and class legislation that burden the very poor. It denounces tariffs on food and everyday commodities while praising Turtle export privileges for the wealthy, condemning winter hardship and urging freer markets for labor and produce. The piece roots its argument in 1841 London political tensions and fiscal reform.
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England
Her
Commissioners of Customs
Gunter
Her Majesty’s Treasury
Board of Trade
Lords of the Treasury
Sir Robert Peel
Peel-Wellington
Pitt
Percival
Court and Fashion. Royal events and Paris dress trends.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked on the Castle Terrace with the Duchess of Kent joining a forenoon walk. King of Prussia to London plans circulate, with a grand reception setup. Banquet preparations, christening timing, and wedding delays feature amid courtly festivities. London and Paris fashion notes detail velvet and satin gowns, layered skirts, tight sleeves, and hats, with high coiffures and jeweled ornaments in vogue.
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Winpsck
Prince Albert
Duchess of Kent
Wemyss
C. A. Murray
Royal Hunt
New-lodge
Viscount Melbourne
Queen Dowacen
Prussia
Enatanp
Leipsic
Berlin
London
Cologne
Calais
de Natzmer
de Neumann
Reeder
Alexandre de Humbolt
Count de Stollberg
Nender
Cunris Texinc
St. George's Hall
Waterloo Chamber
Waterloo
Cardinal Wolsey
Lord Wriothesley Russell
Nicholas Esterhazy
Prince Paul
Countess de St. Aulaire
Woburn Abbey
Duke and Duchess of Bedford
Kingston-house
Marquis of Wellesley
Kensington-gore
Duchess of Kingston
Paris
la Marie Louise
Lavalliére
Espagnole
Pompadour
Berets
Toques
Richard Cour de Lion
French disclosures and arrests amid peer commission activity
Paris reports reveal Just Brazier and Colombier admitting facts of their trial with new disclosures. Arrests follow revelations from these figures as peers accelerate supplementary examinations. In London, the Acadia arrives at Liverpool with few passengers, while U.S. banking grand jury charges Bank officers with fraud and a Philadelphia court receives a grand jury presentment seeking indictments for notable bank officials.
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France
Paris
Gazette Des Tribunaux
Brazier
Colombier
Débats
Chamber
Petit Luxembourg
Calombier
Just Brazier
Wasre
National
Court of Peers
Luxembourg
Quenisset
Colombier, and Just Brazier
Sieele
M. Odison Barrot
Unitep
Acadia
Ririe
Liverpool
Boston
Halifax
New York
Ilx
Congress
London
Holland
Vera Cruz
Texas
Santa Fé
Canada
United States
Grand Jury
United States Bank
Austin Montgomery
Nicholas Biddle
Joseph Cowperthwaite
Thomas Dunlap
Samuel Jaudon
John Andrews
Austin Montcomery
Hon. Court of General Sessions
Philadelphia
Lomey-General
Endor Genery
Henry Maltery
Kias Moses
Kempton
Edward Coles
Newbold
Joshua Lippincott
Jonathan Patterson
Thomas Tailor
Willian Jayton
Joseph,Cowperthwaite
Moses Kemipton
Edward Cole
James S. Newbold
William Drayton
Joseph Cabot
Rodney
Moses Kempton
Thomas Taylor
Southwark
T. B
Grand Jury-room
Fatal Great Western Railway accident verdict at Sonning
Coroner's jury at Royal Berkshire Hospital finds Richard Woolley died from a skull fracture when engine Hecla collided with earth fallen on the Great Western line at Sonning. They blame lack of night police in the cutting and levy a £100 deodand on engine and carriages while urging tracks to be farther from the engine.
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London Gazette
Treasury
Madeira
Canary Islands
Azores
West Indies
North
South America
United Kingdom
Central America
Venezuela
New Grenada
Panagia
Her Majesty
Panama
Standard
Frankland Lewis
James Graham
Home Office
Revenue Commission
The
Revenue
Gwydir House
Whitehall
Reform Club
Whitehall-place
Gwydir-house
Entomological Society
Geological Society
Royal Society
Zoological Society
Botanical Society
Great Western Railway
Bristol Board
London Board
Paddington
Railway Magazine
Inspectos General
Raiways
Frederick Smith
Inspector General of Railways
Pasley
Dustin Erzerson
Evening Mail
Lord Morpeth
Dublin Evening Post
Oxforpd
Oxford Herald
Croraine
Leeds
Bradford
Manchester
Glasgow
Liverpool
Bristol and Gloucester
Smith
Bristol
Bristol Infirmary
J. Grindon
John Hodge
Wickwar
Witness
Hoe
Jones
Bankaman
Lewis Crew
Mr. Gregg
Royal Berkshire Hospital
Richard Woolley
Great Western Railroad
Sonning
Great Western
London
Bath
West Riding
Morperh
Aberford
Fairfax
New
West Riding of
Yorkshire
Leeds Mercury
Exchequer-bill fraud linked to Rapallo scheme exposed
The final statement to the Treasury recounts E. B. Smith’s alleged 1820 Rapallo linked plot to borrow £1000 exchequer bills and fabricate large sums. It alleges forgery, widespread laxity in the exchequer bill office, and questions why only Smith faced justice while coadjutors escaped. Estimates suggest millions may have circulated secretly over years, prompting calls for reforms.
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E. B. Smith
Treasury
Rapallo
Solari
Basinghiall-street
Stock-exchange
Gremaing
Newgate
Exchequer
Bille
Commission
Smith
Scatheless
Exchequer-Bill
Bank of England
Exchequer Bill Office
Arena
Lord Ashburton
John Nichol
Six paupers set fire to workhouse clothes and faced custody
In East London Union Workhouse six able-bodied men were given new clothes after entering as temporary paupers. They set fire to their old garments at daybreak and damaged sleeping room glass. Alderman Farebrother sentenced them to seven days.
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Alderman Farebrother
Thomas Barker
Alderman
Mary Clifford
Emerald Isle
Beech-street
Barbican
Farebrother
Pickford S
White Horse
Piccadilly
Marylebone
London Assurance
Joseph Saville
Joe the Marine
Long
Mousi
Mr. Long
Eliza Warner
Robert Potts
2D Life Guards
George Randalls
Warner
Knightsbridge
Randalls
Wilson
Newbury
Berkshire
London
Shoreditch
Gregorie
Clerkenwell
Onxty
Lanx
Anne Wells
James Stuart
John Arthur
York Street
Bagnigge Wells
Worship Street
Savace Assay Sr
Daniel O’brien
James O’brien
Broughton
Owen McCarthay
Hunt
Daniel Hart
Sher Yern
Ambeth Street
Patrick
Mary Murray
Ann Gallaghan
Old Bailey
Jack Sheppard
Pombe
Anti Corn Laws Lectures and Disturbances in London and Surroundings
A string of public meetings across London and Paddington feature Sidney Smith lecturing on the evils of the corn laws, urging total repeal and a land tax. The gatherings face disruptions from chartists, with enthusiastic crowds and strong sentiment against ministers and the emigration scheme.
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Caurca
Manyo Lesone
Portman Arms Tavern
Milton-street
Dorset-square
Sidney Smith
H. B. Smart
Smith
Paddington
Anti-Corn Law Association
Countess of
Radnor
Kinnaird
Jane Bouverie
Wilson
Manchester
Griffiths
Bayswater
Portwine
London
Metropolis
Thong
Tee Atoe
Bmr
Bank of England
Manchester Guardian
Dukes of BuckingHam
Mangenoven
Waddesdon
Bucks
Wotton
Duke of Buckingham
Daniel Turner
John Bull
Waddesden
Turner
Devonshire
Buckinghamshire
Wakefield
Jory
Leeds Times
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