Prosecution details theft of supper and street quarrel
Reports of multiple petty crimes include a Bucchi defendant who grabbed a plate, bread, and pickles after resisting payment, chased by a complainant, and later fined. Separate case features a coachman assault in Somerstown, with a man fined for a provocative song. Additional notes describe two drunks fined for assaults and a Marlborough Street hearing on liveries and domestic staff agreements.
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Bucchi
Thomas Gorton
Rawlinson
Edward Watts
Mr. Rawlinson
Dolly
Jack Shepard
Adelphi
James Spicer
James S Tutchings
Edgware Road
Thomas Plaw
Harrowwad
Hutchings
Spicer
Marlborough Street
Barber Beaumont
County Fire Office
Thomas Grant
Long
Beaumont
Sun
Mr. Beaumont
Stowell
Marlborough-street
Mir
Roupenss
Fenny Johnson
John Idee Williams
Frederick Wilson
Elizabeth Sisal Hees
Pimlico
Sans
H . Sad
Mda
Johnrunitie
Williams
Elizabeth Tebbs
Strane
Eane
Charles Thomas
Mantee
Tay
Henry Harris
Taylor
Grove
Buber
Henry Boyden
Bodkin
Spurr
Trea
Choiree Hall
Bethnal-green
Tade
Love in Absence and a Nineteenth Century Musical Tapestry
A reflective verse expresses deep longing for a loved one, then a broad historical column notes wealth, luxury, and cultural growth under George II including art galleries, refined living, and social shifts. It blends diaries of taste with anecdotes on Irish wit and Dr Ford, a Melton rector famed for Handel and the Messiah, recounting eccentricities on and off the pulpit.
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George M1
Angerstein
Beckford
Methuen
Ellis
Holland
Belgium
England
Thames
Tees
Clyde
Frith
Forth
John O'Groat
Wade
Melton Bridge
Brooksby Gate
Thurmaston Toll-Gate
Belgrave Gate
John
Melton
Birmingham
The Whiskey and Society at the Fair
An essay contrasts whiskey love with custom and public intoxication at fairs. It laments tents filled with drinking fathers and pretentious youths, exposes women misled by gingerbread into punch, and describes laborers seeking tipsy companionship. It warns of widespread encouragement of drunkenness and cites a farmer’s horse as a caution. The piece ends with poetic excerpts by Swift and Shelley.
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Bentley
Lord Lorton and the Widow Murphy trial ends
Longford assizes saw Lord Lorton fail to secure ejectment against Rose Murphy who has defied clearance removals placed on Ballinamuck estate. A special jury later ruled the lease forged and a new trial ordered. The widow’s victory left her in possession as the community debated costs and the fairness of landlord actions.
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Murphy
Lorton
Continent
Great Britain
Lord Lorton
Ballinamuck
Longford
Weekly Chronicle
Thomas Fetherston
Lord Oxmantown
Patrick Murphy
Mr. Brooke
Queen's Counsel
Robert Gill
House of Commons
Lefroy
Shaw
Court of Queen’s Bench
Doherty
Lady Lorton
Brooke
Gill
Lord
Rose Murphy
Mr. Smyly
J. Smyly
John O'Ferrall
Dublin
Baron Foster
Mr. O’ferrall
O’ferrall
Mureny
Morning Chronicle
Dieppe Carver Dies in Jealous Despair Over Suitor
Mercier a Dieppe ivory carver, aged about twenty, shot himself after failing to win Henrietta Buller a pastry shop worker. A pistol, loaded bullets, and a letter of resolve were found. Henrietta testified he courted her for nine months but grew jealous and they agreed not to meet. He had written her a letter the day before which she did not answer.
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Mercier
Dieppe
Henrietta
Middlesex meeting ends in packed controversy over parliamentary privileges
A London paper reports a packed Middlesex meeting at the Freemasons tavern where tickets controlled access and police kept the doors. Sir John Scott Lillie argued for parliamentary privilege and condemned the meeting as ex parte, while public sentiment protested the packed proceedings and the sheriff's handling.
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France
Freemasons
House of Commons
Read
John Scottie
Newgate
Corporation of London
House ‘of Commons
Middlesex
Stockdale
Sheriff Evans
Blackstone
Commons
John Scott Lillie
Francis Burdett
Tories Would Not Hear Mr. Nicholson
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London Saturday Journal
Hazilin
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Cott
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Saxe Coburg and Gotha
Buckingham Palace
Woolwich
Wemyss
Count Kolowrath
Alvensleben
Ernest de Poelnitz
Seymour
Lord Melbourne
Brougham
Durham
John Russell
Govent-Garper Theatre
Covent-garden
Cerberus
Madame
Cruitp
St. Bartholomew's Close
Smithfield
Margaret Williams
Giltspur Street
Lucken
Webbsquare
Shoreditch
Kates
Roots
Moore
H Division
James Martin
Wardour-street
Soho
Harding
Martin
House of Correction
Cambridge
Oerengiday Court of Queen’s Bencn
Guildhall
Lord Deaman
Exier
Buxxzy
Sorney
Serjeant
Bompas
Colborn
Jamaica
Jones
Kettering
Bradford
Society of the Baptists
William Follett
Lord Denman
Wiltshire
Vickers
Granche Guenny
Bankruptcy Court
Royal Union Association
Lancaster-place
Strand
Gardener's Gazette
Riches
Chiswick
Messrs
Edgington
Clarke
Glenny
Ar. Harrison
Cross
Union
Harrison
Nias
Isleworth
Meraxcholy Cas
Higgs
Marquis of Granby
Robert Stoddard
Roderick Stoddard
Fowler
Barystey
Inns
Leeds Mercury
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