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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 04, 1845
Page
5
Tahiti news from July 14 reports a critical situation with French security eroded by English maneuvers. Native attacks, supplied by English, threaten lives and property. fear grows despite Governor’s firmness. The burning of the missionary residence and chapel follows, with missionaries left dispossessed as hosts flee.
In the Court of Bankruptcy Commissioner Goulburn the assignees to Johnson and Mann bankers of Romford sought an early pay day. The court fixed January 22 to declare a first and final dividend of 20s in the pound on Mann’s separate estate and February 2 for the first dividend on the general estate, expected 7s to 8s.
A notorious pickpocket John Clark was committed to Newgate for trial after stealing a silk handkerchief from Edward Lenox Boyd in Waterloo Place. A separate case saw a donkey cruelty charge and other petty crimes reviewed at Guildhall and surrounding courts with multiple defendants.
Testimony unfolds as witnesses describe a mysterious woman who paid for a fate reading with odd charges and empty parcels. Judge Bond sends the prisoner to hard labour for one month after noting public gullibility amid questioned intelligence. Additional items include theft by a house servant and a drunken gentleman’s rebuff of legal defenses.
Witnesses testified to a severely neglected child found cold and hungry with injuries and a broken window. A neighbor freed the child after witnessing a rope threat and screams. The prisoner denied the charges but the court ordered parish prosecution and remanded him until Monday.
The inquest on William and Sarah Oliver found at Ashford near Staines concluded the wife was murdered by her husband who then killed himself. Surgeon Emmett testified that the wife died from suffocation by external force, while arsenic was detected in the husband's stomach. the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder for the wife and felo de se for William Oliver.
Polls closed this morning at four o'clock with Somes 123 and Moffatt 118, Somes winning by seven. The will of Louis Antoine Comte de Marnes, Dauphin of France, proven in Doctors Commons, leaves millions in legacies and then to his wife with subsequent تقسیم to relatives. A fire disaster in Guildford Street claims Mr Mayow, chief excise solicitor, amid a spate of legal and municipal notices. An explosion at Black Boy colliery injures workers, a death follows, and a hanging in York Castle marks the era’s grim justice. Reports of epidemics, inquests, and Arctic expedition plans thread through the week’s chilling miscellany.
A satirical verse laments Sir Peter presiding over vestry and mass, condemns his puritan zeal as misled, and ridicules him burning surplice, desecrating church brass, and trampling sacred objects. It mocks his unintended moral chaos and urges restraint.
The record lists peerage figures and noble deaths across 1812 1813 with counts of dukes marquises earls viscounts barons and baronets. It notes 19 new or extinct or aged peers including specific names and ages and 31 baronets died in 1813 with several extinctions and creations during the period.
The document recounts 17th century conflict over church vestments and surplices in London parishes. Clergy faced injunctions from high church authorities at Lambeth to wear prescribed garments, prompting resistance, protests, and actions by vicar Crowley and others. The narrative traces subsequent events through April and June, including opposition at St. Michals and St. Peter’s, and a wave of promotions and relocations tied to the dispute.
The text laments a shattered warship and the fading banner in the sky. It recalls battles, heroic decks stained with blood, and a future where victory is denied by shore harpies stealing the sea eagle. The speaker calls for reddening heads and famed storms to end the meteor flag’s glare.
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