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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 17, 1841
Page
6
A coroner's inquest recounts Sam Scott's deadly rope spectacle on Waterloo Bridge. Witnesses describe the hanging and subsequent rescue, medical efforts, and a verdict of accidental death amid police concerns over crowd safety and exhibitor ethics.
The report covers Lord Chancellor and courts at Westminster, including Fishmongers Company charity cases, Rolls Court remarks on contempt and judgments, Denman notices, Rothschild v Currie bill of exchange under French law, Printer Libel motion by Rogerson refused, Cassidy v Stewart outlawry reversal, and insolvency proceedings for Ratpe Benson with discharge granted.
In Bow Street sessions James Eugene Brooke faced a charge of threatening to smash a baker’s windows after a theft in Harp alley Farringdon street. James Sampson and Henry Mallet were punished for snowball throwing and a park assault on soldiers in St James's Park. Dawson and Weiss were fined for an Oxford Street disturbance after entering Mr Marsh’s shop for a music gathering. Court orders covered counterfeit coin seizing at Duck Lane Westminster.
A column blends lyric verses on exile and homeland with extracts on love, family life, advice, and anecdotes. It includes poems about place and belonging, reflections on marriage and labor, and short tales from Blessington’s Idler in Italy and other miscellany.
An anecdote shows Dante’s plain speech over prudence. In a royal audience a courtier asked why some fools please more than the wise, and Dante replied that shared tastes foster liking, then urged allowing a boy to read freely to gain instruction from inclination.
The piece argues that a habit of industry aids moral character but is not morality itself. A boy who steadily works avoids temptation and learns to discipline inclinations, yet the moral outcome depends on what he is taught to value for its own sake and how it connects to school lessons.
A fragment discusses Hindoo women as ideals of beauty focusing on hair eyes and facial features. It describes the doopattah worn to conceal charms and the waist and leg lines, comparing grace to European jeweled beauties in salons.
A fragment recalls a Circassian aboard a ship, noted for his striking eyes and rumored misdeeds. The man, identified as Dely ot Mehemet, is said to have sacrificed worldly possessions and even his flesh for a love, hoping to reach Abasia, the only place where such a man could survive.
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