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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 24, 1841
Page
7
A curious column blends verse on a child listening to a cowrie shell with notes on freemasonry's historic reach. It covers a fossil turtle display, London and Paris consumption stats, political quips, parliamentary duration anecdotes, and a vivid portrait of sailors' homes and dangers faced by mariners, all in a miscellany tone.
At Hertrorp Assizes Thursday the case Courtnaty v Covene y sought damages for loss of the services of the plaintiff s sister after seduction by the defendant Daniel Coveney apprenticed to the plaintiff a linen draper at Barnet Kent The jury heard witness Hannah Courtnall 21 detailing long entanglement from 1836 to 1839 with Coveney and noted letters and a marriage offer She testified to the shop setting and occasional meetings and said she became pregnant The defense argued the suit was a proxy for a father s claim and urged the jury to deny damages The jury returned verdict for the plaintiff Damages 40.
A boy named Samuel Garbett, about eighteen, was found with his head severed and a razor beside him in Bunhill-row. The report also covers Rajah of Sattara debates, a severe TampER storm, railway tunnel damage, serious accidents in London streets, and a fatal ice well collapse.
William Eden, 19, faced a charge of mal iciously shooting at Hannah Reeves alias Emma Bennett in Jericho Oxford. After a drunken incident and conflicting testimony, the jury found Eden not guilty and he was discharged following Mr Justice Coleridge’s admonition.
Alexander MKenzie of Joe Gray’s inn lane was accused of illegal beer and wine selling with no license. A witness described forbidden sales and a large haul seized by excise officers, and the court fined MKenzie five pounds per offence.
A chaotic narrative describes a stabbing attempt during a struggle at a table with a knife, followed by a robbery case on a Great Western Railway line. Witnesses recount a violent scene, police actions, suspect custody, and related assaults and public disturbances across multiple locations and hearings.
The Court of Bankruptcy examined Thomas Sanders who held a War-office post and inherited East India Company wealth. He lost investors in mining schemes totaling about £320,000, with Colonel Rushbrooke losing £75,000 and Rev. Ellis £35,000. Ellis claimed £15,000 via a bond as repayment for funds advanced. he denied partnership, saying misgivings about the mines existed from the start. Romilly pressed Rushbrooke’s claims for sums around £35–£36k. a further £40,000 was noted but not pursued. The testimony included a letter extolling mining profits and copper ore demand, urging reinvestment as beneficial to capitalists and others.
A parliamentary record details the Rushbrooke ledgers with Cornwall mines valued at £366,277 and a forged cheque case involving Michael Burke and Sir George Baillie Hamilton. It notes assignees George Forsythe and Colonel Rushbrooke and reports other criminal hearings, including a death in custody and an inquest into maternal death. It also covers percussion shell experiments at Woolwich overseen by Lord Bloomfield and generals, detailing shell designs by Wilkinson, Napier, and Reece and their observed effects.
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