Literary Gossip on Amateur Theatricals and Benefits
The past week saw three amateur performances with Campden House Kensington favored for the best piece and acting. Dickens and Lemon are praised for influence with Wigan and Tom Taylor noted for a new interlude while benefits revive old plays and starred guests perform.
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Campden House
Kensington
Woolley
Colonel Waugh
Dickens
Mark Lemon
Egg
Grosvenor House
Bridgewater House
Mr. Buckstone
Mrs. Centlivre
Busybody
Miss Reynolds
Sheridan
Knowles
Love
Mr. Emery
Robert Macaire
Jacques Strop
Mr. Robson
Haymarket
Faucit
Saunders
Sheridan Knowles
Barry Sullivan
George Vandenhoff
Madame Gassier
England
E.T. Smith
Dunmow
Ainsworth
Jack Sheppard
E. T. Smith
Drury-lane
Denmark
Westminster Review 1809 Notice and Critical Essays
The piece surveys the Westminster Review New Series July 1809 praising free thought in politics and religion. It highlights articles on Pantheism, International Immorality, and a critique of party government and current statesmen with reflections on education and administrative reform.
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Westminster Review
London
John Chapman
Westminster
Louis Napoleon
Palmerston
Russell
Grey
Granville
House of Austria
Europe
Turkey
Austria
Russia
Kossuth
Hungary
Ienry Mayhew
Hugh Miller
Father Mathew
Dr. Carpenter
George Cruikshank
Mr. Gough
Society for Administrative Reform Aims Big Civil Service Overhaul
The discourse outlines that bribery intimidation and self serving politics must be challenged. It argues for leveling power between local and imperial governance, reviewing foreign policy, and expanding reform beyond the Civil and Military Services to influence England’s political life as Parliament acts to guide change.
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Aberdeen
Robert Peel
Administrative Reform Association
Society For Administrative Reform
Downing-street
Society For
England
Rossini in Paris hailed as music world’s hopeful highlight
A Paris correspondent reports Rossini has arrived in the city and shows signs of recovery. His health is described as the key focus for public and royal attention, with private visits, promenades, and hopeful plans for a grand Paris return season featuring Aloise and other works.
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Rossini
Paris
Paris Moniteur Feuilleton
William Tell
Moses
Barber
Ta Fontaine
Torquato Masso
Benvenuto Cellini
Count Ory
Art
Lord Warden Imperial Water hotel claims imperial arms
William Hakes proprietor of the Lord Warden adds the imperial arms of France to the hotel ensign and renames the establishment Lord Warden Imperial Water. It becomes the imperial family residence when visiting England via Dover. A Portsmouth dockyard convict evaded guards Saturday night and Sunday, then was spotted Monday night attempting to reach the yard and arrested after disguising himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dover Chronicle
William Hakes
France
Lord Warden Imperial Water
Toover
Coxvier
Placs
Portsmouth
Parody notices from Punch style clippings in 19th century weeklies
A collection of satirical snippets from The Himmersmith Fly and Brentford Bluehouse and other papers mock local figures such as a beadle with a new moustache and school youths. It references Mrs Crocker’s Seminary, Rev Dr Swrrdit Kanu, and city life with playful digs at fashion, politics, and shop prices.
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Punch
Beadle
Pentonville Penny Patriot
Anuna- Vinumaun
Himmersmith
Brentford
Thames
Lambeth Pier
Jons Brown
Europe
Manchester
Salford
Pimlico
Belgravia
Lever
Chelsea
Battersea
Doan Coorri
Rateatcher
Janusz Puckssirv
Isa
Raglan education noted at Westminster not Harrow
Fragments report Lord Raglan's schooling, stating he was educated at Westminster School rather than Harrow. The passage also mentions favorable crop reports and a Whstainster tax, with Sir Robert Peel addressing Harrow pupils at the Freemason's Tavern.
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Crors
America
Lord Raglan
Lorl Raglan
Harrow
Sir Robert Peel
Freemason’s Tavern
Westminster School
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Aldersilot
Aldershot
Prince Consort
Prince of Wales
Prince Alfred
Nine Elms
South-Western Railway
Farnborough
Royal Surrey Militia
Knollys
Duke of Cambridge
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence
Cresar
Coldstream and
Fusilier Guards
Royal Surrey
East Norfolk
1St
Kent
East Middlesex
Warwickshire
Lancashire
Staffordshire
Alma
Inkerman
J. ‘Lunicliffe
55Th
John Cunningham
47Th
Alexander Macdougal
57Th
Lord Panimure
Chobham
Gosport
Osborne
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