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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 24, 1841
Page
7
Poem lamenting loss and loneliness after a beloved person dies. The speaker mourns a departed love, speaks of an empty life, and wonders where the beloved now lies in a cold grave. The piece notes the unseen hand behind sorrow and ends with the vow to follow soon.
Captain J Reynolds resigned over bearable conduct by the Earl of Cardigan. Lord Fitzroy Somerset pressed for an interview and Reynolds agreed to withdraw his resignation after terms including a censure reversal and extended leave. Major Morse Cooper seeks active duty and criticizes the horse guards. George of Cambridge may become colonel of the 11th Hussars amid moves to improve regiment discipline. Ashton murder case advances with new arrests and details of lawyers unions and a suspect Mason found dead.
A Paris newspaper anecdote chronicles Donzelot, a keen observer who chronicles riots minute by minute from a garret observatory. He is mortally wounded amid emeute chaos yet insists on writing his own postscript before dying. His death is likened to Epaminondas, Turenne, Bayard, and Molière.
English visitors in Italy cling to British fashion and pastimes. Balls and tableaux echo Almack's season, with the same faces and chatter about recent fêtes. Women and men seek to forget they are in Italy, carrying Luxuries and dissipations from London. One fashion leader even proposed excluding anyone who mentions Roman art or antiquities.
A Times correspondent recalls a cruel scene outside the Palais de Justice where a scaffold bore placards naming thieves and murderers. Nine men, mostly twenty-one to twenty-four, stood with linked fates as crowds debated their audacity amid freezing cold, while talk of past punishments and testimonies echoed. The writer contrasts this with memories of Turks aboard a ship and with a wandering poem of innocence and loss.
A Victorian moral tale set in Devonshire follows a seafaring, hounds-loving gentleman who abandons his wife and children for gaming. After ruin, a shady English contact pulls him into crime, spiraling from fraud to burglary, bank theft, imprisonment, escape, and eventual downfall as a warning on vice.
A Portland letter argues for nationwide lighting during the royal christening to aid the poor in a distressing season, noting illumination would employ thousands for weeks and suggesting her Majesty grant broad approval. The piece cites J C Du and an appeal from readers.
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