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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 22, 1840
Page
7
A column for the curious set to music by Tate and sung at Belvoir Castle on Her Majesty's birthday praises Brunswick's Queen. The verse lauds the queen's majesty with calls for blessings, loyalty, and imperial praise, celebrating her rule and her husband.
The piece surveys Hazlitt on Coleridge’s vast mind and froths with excerpts on the Arab horse Aga Bahram’s feats from Shiraz to Tehran. It moves through topics from Brazilian rapadura sugar to women walking, German literary output, anagrams, bishops in partibus, and quick wits with aphorisms and anecdotes.
The article notes methods to sober intoxicated elephants by swallowing faid butter and mentions similar remedies for camels. It cites incidents of owners harming intoxicated elephants, including Mr. Cross's elephant at Exeter Change and a Berlin elephant poisoned with prussic acid. It then briefly describes Ballinahinch as a small town with German influences and era curiosities, and remarks that ladies once wore masks before parasols became common.
Fragmentary notes discuss the hyssop of scripture as distinct from the common hyssopus officinalis, with references tracing its biblical role from Solomon to the cross. The piece cites Hasselquist and suggests possible candidates like gymnostemon truncatulum as a wall-dwelling shrub, while noting other unnamed plants. The excerpt also includes a poem urging a wanderer to return.
Colonel Wakefield reports the Tory reached Queen Charlotte's Sound on August 17 1839 after sighting New Zealand near Cape Farewell. He describes natives of Nyvatinihataigh and Ryatiiva tribes, early fortifications, rich soil, coal at Port Nicholson, Teawaiti whaling village, and strong settlement prospects with potential ports at Cloudy Bay and Pelorus River. The survey praises Ship Cove climate, timber resources, and strategic value of Cook Strait channels for future colonization.
In Leeds a dull market Saturday and Tuesday brought brighter demand for middle to fine goods while prices held. More buyers in recent days boosted warehouse trade and overall prospects look brighter with prices near their low point.
An adjourned creditor meeting before Commissioner Merrivale heard claims against the bankrupt tied to the Royal Union Association in Lancaster. Widows and orphans lost life savings on annuities, with questions over directors liability, missing books, and the lack of a qualified assignee as creditors number about £50,000 in losses and only £543.13s in proven claims.
Died at Bologna on January 30 Lady Sophia Butler daughter of Brindsley Earl of Lanesborough and Lady Jane Rochfort. Lady Jane Butler born in Dublin September 1769 married Marchese Luigi Mariuscotti of Bologna. Lady Bulwer won £50 damages in Court Journal libel suit over Paris gossip about Lady Bulwer in a Sheriffs Court verdict. Also a Westminster Court of Requests exchange over a Victoria rat trap joke.
A London sheriff court trial on March 13 heard Henry Boyden Roberts sue William Brunskill for damages over an alleged adultery scandal. Evidence included letters from Mrs Eliza Roberts to Brunskill and a husband’s pursuit of redress. verdict reached damages of 500 pounds.
Log extract from the Richard Anderson reports collision with the ship Roman from Savannah near Liverpool. Captain Salisbury died after boarding the Richard Anderson. Roman sank two hours later. Richard Anderson suffered heavy damage but rescued officers and crew. The log notes jibboum head cut water and other damage. Also mentions a separate court case about a sick spaniel named Cherry owned by her Majesty, with no evidence found against a labourer.
In Buckinghamshire a crowded court heard John Atkins of Upton chalvey deny assaulting 15 year old Mary Wilder with intent to ravish her and a second count of common assault. After lengthy testimony from the girl, her father, and witnesses defending Atkins character, the jury returned a not guilty verdict. The scene drew strong applause.
The death of Lady Esmonde, aged beyond seventy, occurred Saturday at Sir Thomas Esmonde’s Great Denmark Street home. She was highly respected for charity and active benevolence among her circle and the poor.
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