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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jun 21, 1840

Page

6

Fire devastates St Andrew's wharf at Wapping and deaths rise

A fierce blaze at St Andrew's wharf in Wapping on Monday night destroyed warehouses and ships, killing Francis Hanson and injuring several, including a police officer and two firemen. Fire engines battled the flames as warehouses burned, with damage estimated at £30,000 to £40,000 and extensive insurance claims. The inquest returned a verdict of death by the fire with origin undetermined.

Hore’s Singer London Bason Diana Flora Hanson Bloomfield Wapping John Jones London Hospital Raney H Division St.Andrew’s Wharf Dark Reynolds High-street Globe-street St. Andrew's Wharf St. Andrew’s Wharf Messrs. Scott, Reynolds, and Co Phoenix Delight Graham Dunchatton Nichol Phenix Sun Messrs Frost and Co Reynolds and Co King Barclay Aldridge London Fire-Office Spike Curtis Globe T. Henry Wapping-street Globe Tavern Hore Cornhhandler Whittaker Weatherly R. Tennis Imperial London Fire Establishment England The Guardian Victuallers the Sun Royal Exchange Union Dunbatton Howson Ramsgate Francis Hanson Lewis M.queen Jane Wilson Eliza Cooke Mr. Dark New Blackfriars Lott Court of Common Council

Queen v Watts and other sessions in Banco

A detailed court record covers the Queen v Watts for publishing a libel against the Queen Dowager in the United Service Gazette, with judgment imposing a £50 fine and imprisonment until paid. It also reports on the Eastern Counties Railway mandamus case, and a Paddock v Forrester application for trial at bar. The Ludlow corporation case regarding grants by parol, and articles of the peace against Andley Grier precede a bankruptcy examination involving George Guenny and alleged Royal Union fraud.

Court OF Queen’s Bench Teesmpay Queen v. A. A. Watts Banco United Service Gazette John Ommaney Lisbon Malta F. Pollock Justice Littledale Hants Marshalsea Eastern Counties Ratway Lord Denman Court OF Compon Pleas Trespar Queen's Serjeants Paddock Fornester Forrester Stafford Her Majesty Bar Nisi Prius Tindal Westminster Hall Saville Sergeant Bompas Erskine Common Pleas Andley Thomas Grier Justice Coleridge William Follett Hammersley Johnson India England Canterbury Sir W. Follett Mr. Hammersley 2D Regiment of Foot Don Carlos Exhibitant Cross Union Chesper Merrivale Glenny Commissioner Merrivale Glennny

Police Reports Bow Street and Surrounding Courts

A crowded Victorian police report covers alleged homicide and court actions. John Siezenpy faces final examination in a suspected murder of Honora, with coroner verdict noting intemperance and a fall. Other items include Dundas and Follett charged for gun use and game, Count Marie Joseph de Serin's purse theft case, a Denish kiss at Hatton Garden, a predatory letter case in Worship Street, assault with a knife in Thames Street, and kidnapping plunder at Union Hall with a woman named Jane Halbrook.

Bow Street John Siezenpy Honora Twyford Robinson Jardine Norfolk-street Temple-bar Marylebone Cockney Thomas Dundas Henry Follett Rawlinson Bennett Battlebridge Maiden-lane Dundas Follett Mr. Rawlinson Marlborough Street Marie Joseph Leon de Serin Napoleon William Conden Berwick Street Havin Oxford Street John Dowler Poland Street Thames Ofrrick Stapsinc Dnreabrul Richard Hverden Elbowlane Shadwell Matilda Everden Bow Rowe Croucher Ratcliff Highway Newgate William Doughty Jeremy William Webby Henry Warne Guy’s Hospital Stonecutter’s-yard Kent-street Pigot

Remains of Napoleon Memorial Voice From 1840

A column contemplates Napoleon’s remains and France’s desire to reclaim his ashes. The speaker argues for keeping his bones in the exile rock tomb as a protest against French vanity and mockery, urging true greatness through national fidelity rather than display. June 2, 1840.

France Napole Napoleon

Funeral of a Moth and a Child’s Quiet Vision

A short prose piece contrasts a Norwegian legislature’s plain, workmanlike appearance with a child observing a death procession of a moth. It then follows a haunting, lyrical vignette where moths perform a funeral rite for the dead insect, with undertaker figures and a choral refrain about rest and loss.

The Highwayman and the Antediluvian Child

An 18th century highway tale unfolds as Du Val serenades a knight and his lady, a five hundred pound note unsettles a courteous debtor, and a curious Belgian “human fossil” exhibition prompts skeptical science commentary. A poem titled We Met When Life and Hope Were New closes the piece.

DU Val Knigh Himsel da Val Leicester-square England Diehgen Ireland British Association of Science Newcastle Guadaloupe M. Fontenelle

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