Demise of Portiarp Duchess and Other Notices
An extensive miscellany section reports the death of the Duchess of Portland after a brief illness, with details on her marriage and family. It lists other obituaries and notices including the death of Sir Charles Wentworth, political correspondence, theatre news, theatre leases, public entertainments, Trafalgar Square work updates, river and steamship traffic, and a court case about a turtle dinner at the Mansion House, with a humorous judicial ruling on the fake soup. The items describe prominent figures, royal and political connections, and local civic events awaiting further developments.
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Duchess of Portland
Welbeck Abbey
Nota
Wat Heohn Scott
Can
Duke of King
Portland of
Litchfield
William and
Henry Bentick
Merah ‘Hotte
Evelyn Tenison
Howard de Walden
Mary
Henrietta Bentick
William Beckrorp
Duchess of Hamilton
Resina Bath
Charles Wentworth
Gore
Went
Halifax
Charles Orth
Fizwilliam
Rockingham
Earl of Ioaca
Viscount Milton
Fir’ares
Trbial
James Graham Musie
India
Leex
MLB
M.P. Paap. Bana
Hogg
Nottingham
Walt
Queens Counsel
Westminster Hall
Kinglake
Butt
Scott
Phoenix Park
Tomjoeaday
Duke of Wellington
Count
Countess St. Aulaire
Manchester House
Bunn
York Minstes
York
Gravesend
Blackwall
Brunswick Pier
Egat India House
George Pollack
Haverfordwest
Opyxina
Trafalgar
Trafalga Square
Nelson
George Lit
Messrs. Ransom
Trafalgar Square
George IV
Mansion House
Meyorese
Corporation
Mmayoress
Cour of Common Council
Galbraith
R. Dixon
Lover
Crewe
Richards
Jewson
Thomas
Royal Academy
St. Paul's
Cantotta Guisi
Carlotta Grisi
Lumley
M. Pilet
Paris
Dover
Folkestone
Boulogne
Drivine
Embury
Batty
Astley’s
Palmers
Theestminster-Road
Afernoon
Abury
Thames
England
Lord Castlereagh
Lord
Admiralty
Earl of Wilton
Earl of Dysart
T. M. Wilson
J. H. Pelly
Rquess of
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H. Chalmondeley
Lord Harncliffe
Duke of Rutland
Henry
Rae
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Magnay
Punch
Denman
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Alderson
Chitty
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West Tilbury
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George
Thos. Wright
Woodlands
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J. Knight
Tilbury Fort
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Wenlock
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Selina Louisa Forester
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Orlando Forester
Broseley
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Anson
Charles
Cecil Forester
Trousseau
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Birmingham
Dearn
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Green-street
Park-lane
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Rochester
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Caverdish Square
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Waterloo
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Broadlie
Peninsula
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Neilston
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Glasgow Courier
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Hoegate-house
Plymouth
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Sumana
Algiers
Learned diction sparks thrift talk at a party
A contemporary narrator notes a guest astonished others by asking for a diminutive, silvered truncated cone shaped item. The description matches a thimble, noted with wit in the Quebec Gazette. The exchange highlights playful social banter and clever wordplay within a colonial setting.
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Quebec Gazette
Audiences and 1844 military commissions in the British realm
April 29 audiences for royalty and foreign affairs by the Earl of Aberdeen and Sir Robert Chester. April 30 brevet commissions and promotions for Army officers including majors, lieutenant colonels, and Bengal units in the East Indies. Names span numerous regiments and colonial postings, reflecting imperial appointments.
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Bunsincuam Palace
Sjernerona
Sweden
Norway
Prince of
Oettingen-Wallerstein
Bavaria
Earl of Aberdeen
Robert Chester
van Orrice
Thomas Ryan
Edward William Bray
Gustavus Logie Christie
3D Foot
James Stepford
Marcus Barr
Peter John Petit
Henry Havelock
Charles T. van Straubenzee
Patrick M‘kie
FitzHerbert Cuddrington
Joseph Boyer Oliver
Arthur William FitzRoy Somerset
Or Grenadier Guards
Marmaduke George Nixon
39Th Foot
William Langley Tudor
Coronels
East Indies
Henry Clapton Barnard
Bengal Native Infantry
John Gavin Drummond
Bengal Native
James Alexander
Bengal Artillery
John Theophilus Lane
Patrick Grant
Birnie Browne
Bengal Artilery
Henry Mearys Graves
Bengal Grenadiers
Charles Grant
Bradshaw York Reilly
Bengal Empneers
Frederick Brind
Henry Clayton
Bengal Light Cavalry
Richard James Hulwell Birch
Henry Joseph Guyon
James Saunders
Pestries Horshurg’ McDonald
George Couphell
Richerd Carmtley
Bergal Light Cavalry
Reiphange
Porter Tines
Pith
Bengal Nat Pe
Bengal Light Navile
Amary Parker
Court and Insolvency Notices From Denbighshire Record
List includes commissions in Denbighshire Yeomanry with captains and cornet appointments, Court of Queen's Bench Easter Term proceedings set for May, and declarations of insolvency for numerous publicans, watchmakers, attorneys, bakers, victuallers, and tradespeople across England and Wales, with bankrupts, dividends, partnerships dissolved, and Scotch sequestration notices.
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Roberts Evans
Bengal Native Infantry
James Gray William Curtis
Thomas Young
Bengal Grenadiers
George Dalston
Victoria
Nueer
T. S. Robinson
Great Neston
Eliza Man Shaw
London Road
Southwark
G. Carreer
Sheffield
M. Prebble
Strood
W. Swann
Great Yarmouth
Fix
W. Barthram
Ravenrow
Mile End
J. Luckett
Adam Street West
Bryanston Square
J. Thompson
Spaldington
Yorkshire
Gerrett
Cochrane
Shoreditch
William Curran
Liverpool
G. P. Trounsell
King's Kerswell
Devonshire
R.N
R. A. Jefferies
Hast Street
Walworth
J. Bonny
Walton
Lancashire
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Coleman Street
W. Coningworth
Agnes Place
Waterloo Road
R. N
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Eynesford
Kent
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Prued Street
Paddington
R Haim
Bedford Street
Tottenham Court Road
E. Baker
Lawrence Lane
J. Shepherd
Guisbrough
J. Bryden
Manchester
T. Close
Halifax
J. Hall
Bubwith
R.H. Hoskins
T. Ingham
Iuddington
Lincolnshire
D. Bvgan
J. G. Hatcher
Tonbridge Wells
G. Baker
St. Alban’s Place
Edgware Road
J. Willey
W. Maraden
F. How
London
Read
Notting Hill
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Grandpont
Berkshire
Oxford
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Horwich
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Kensington
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Bristol
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High Holborn
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Hammersmith
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Portman Square
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Chesterfield
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Rochdale
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Shropshire
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Birmingham
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Plymouth
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Royal appointments and army promotions in early May 1844
The Queen elevates John Marquess of Bute as high commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Charles Fitzgerald is named governor and commander in chief of British settlements in the Gambia. A lengthy list of military promotions and appointments follows for officers in various regiments and corps, including Bath knights, Lieutenants, and Ensigns. Also noted are a chancellor nomination, marriage act registrations, sugar prices, bankruptcies, dividends, and dissolutions of partnerships.
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John Marquess of
John Grey
H. G. Smith
Military Order of the Bath
James Dennis
Regiment of Foot
Thomas Valiant
40Th Regiment of Foot
Alexander Campbell
Lancers
Thomas Wright
39Th Regiment of Foot
Charles Robert Cureton
George James
Myatt Macdowell
16Th Lancers
Joseph Anderson
50Th Regiment of Foot
James Oliphant Clunie
Ad Regiment of Foot
Edward William Bray
James Stopford
East India Company
James Rutherford Lumley
Bengal Infantry
John Hunter Liter
Pipon
Cornet James Stirling Stirling Stuart
Purchase
Newland
1St Regiment of Foot
Thomas Graham
Goodall
Frederick
KR. Mein
Graham
Alexander William Gordon
Mein
Thomas George Coles
Gordon
25Th Foot
Nenon Armstrong
Foot
Wellesley
William Cumming
Armstrong
George Needham
Cumming
35Th Foot
Robert Henry Price
Byurchase
Matthew Sities Sankey Morton
56Th Foot
William Dougherty
Thomas Debenham
Arth
James Graham
Montgomery
Cecil Edward Bowen
85Th Foot
O'Reilly
Ewerd Wellesley
21D Foot
Cubitt
7Th Light ‘Dragoons
E $21 Foot
Luke Fitzgerald Bernard
Nicholls
Francis Hutchinson Garner
Bernard
Duval Knox O'Reilly
69Th Foot
Shirley
97Th Foot
William Murray
Moore
Arthur John Lottus
Murray
Drought Richard Croasduile
Lottus
George Henry Wynyard
West India Regiment
Frederick Augustus Davidson
Macdonnell
Oliye Maximilian Burke
Davidson
Hosrita
Starr
Nicholas O'Connor
59Th Foot
William Golfrey Watl
Orrick
Oroxance
Royal Regiment of Artillery
George Henry Vesey
Olphert
County of
Middlesex
Royal Eastern Regiment of Middlesex
Thomas Mayer Carvick
County of Wilts
Royal Wilts Yeomanry
Walter Long the Younger
Olivier
Charles James Thomas Conolly
Long
Edward Dugdale Backnall Estcourt
Cornet
Antrobus
Richard Penradduck Long
Awdry
Wrirenart
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Peterborough
Northampton
Kent
High Court of Chancery
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Huddersfield
Unitarian
Cheltenham
Great Britain
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Grocers’ Company
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Thornber Edge
Barnoldswick
Feday
Ll Street
Winchester
C. B. Bayles
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Berkshire
Draper
J. Jay
London-well
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Withert
Birth Accouchement Extraordinary in Poplar
A Bethnal Green woman named Thompson, working as a hearth-stone vendor on North Street, Bethnal Green, went into labor unexpectedly while crossing East India Road, Poplar. A crowd gathered as constables aided, placing her in a wheelbarrow for delivery. Surgeon Mr. Ellison of Poplar directed immediate removal to the workhouse where the newborn was placed in a cradle provided by police.
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East India Road
Poplar
Ellison
Warkouse
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