Convict Outbreak Foiled Near Woolwich and Charlton
Saturday’s dockyard escape attempt by four convicts led to a large manhunt. Beutel Dalton Wallace Bannon and Beutel seized a sentry rifle before fleeing into Charlton woods, where a coordinated pursuit by Rifle Brigade under Captain Grove and Lord George Cosmo Russell recaptured Wallace and later detained the others amid a dramatic chase through gorse and gardens.
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Woolwich
Charlton
Thomas Maryon Wilson
Rifle Brigade
Royal’ Marines
Spain
Woolwich Dock Yard
Thomas Beutel
John Wallace
Thomas Dalton
John Bannon
London Road
Hanging Wood
Boutel
Eltham
Shooters’hill
Dalton
Steadman
Bannon
Grove
Wallace
Underwood
Furze
Gorse
Bentel
van Diemen’s Land
Ganymede
Armstrong
Beutel
Rifles
Jess
George Cosmo Russell
Thomas Hislop
Bouiel
Colonel Crockett and a Herd of Buffaloes
A hunting party reports a thunderous dust cloud approaching as a herd of four to five hundred buffaloes races toward a grove. They take cover as the animals thunder past, a black leader bull at the front, and one hunter fires toward the charge with his Betsey at his shoulder.
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Colonel Crockett
Tana Poutejan
Horna
Betsey
Murder at Regent's Park Bar Falls On Eliza Davis
A young barmaid Eliza Davis was found murdered at the King's Head on Freedenexe Street in Regent's Park. Her throat was cut and blood spattered the bar area as the alarm was raised, with police hunting a suspicious local modeller tied to jealousy and threats.
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Anyearly-Kysr
Innaowants
Fréedenexe Street
Regent’s Park
Eliza Davis
Wadley
King’s Head
Extensive Fires in the Metropolis Do Notable Loss of Life
Across several days London fire crews battled multiple blazes from Tooley Street to Wells Street and Houndsditch. In one Tooley Street fire a fishmonger’s lower floors burned with fatal casualties, while neighboring shops suffered water damage. A Wells Street blaze was contained with sufficient water, and a Stoney’s Lane fire killed a woman in her home. inquiries and insurers noted Sun Fire and Globe offices' involved losses.
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London Fire-Establishment
Tooley-street
Daniel Telleman
Morgan-lane
Southwark
Watling-street
Braidwood
Globe and West of England
Hernebey
Green Grocer
Beyner
Wells-street
Oxford-street
Cock and Heap-yard
Hart
Stoney’s-lane
Houndsditch
Tlinde
Jeffery~ Square
Sun Fire Office
Voyage of Philip and Joan to Weymouth 155 When Held by Storm
An 16th century fragment recounts Philip of Castile and Joan sailing from the Low Countries to Spain in 155, their fleet dispersed by a storm near Weymouth. Sir Thomas Trenchard, then High Sheriff of Dorset, hosted them and sought aid from Henry VII. A young Spaniard named Russell helped broker talks between Philip and local authorities.
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Henry VII
Philip
Joan
Castile
Low Countries
Spain
Weymouth
Dorsetshire
Sirug Troochard
Weyrmouth
Tale Sieléer
Thomas Trenchard
Phiip
Jinan
Fhowes Trenchard
Mr. Russell
Thomas
Anak
Weolverton
Phi
Earl of Arundel
Windsor
Fortrell
Trenchard
Sir Thomas
Young Russell
Levine
Henry VIII
Ion Mud Ely
Saintis
Perjury trial and convict removals at Central Criminal Court
Central Criminal Court sessions opened with high procedure. Louisa Ivory faced perjury charges stemming from a case against Mr. Spicer of the Grapes, Seven Dials, with a verdict of acquittal after lengthy testimony. Removing convicts to hulks for transport to New South Wales followed, including life and multi-year terms, and a seven year sentence for embezzlement by Russell Tyerman.
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Ségeant Arabin
C. Jones
Ballantine
Adolphus
Spicer
Grapes
Seven Dials
Legassick
Bow-street
Middlesex Sessions
Newgate
New South Wales
Thes. Jackson
G. Smithers
F. Ware
J. Wright
M. A Bracy
W. James
E. Baiey
E. Eager
H Davis
Geeo. Herbert
Richard Edwards
J. Woodcock
H. Jones
Mary Malony
E. Wilson
W. Walker
Thomas Henley
Mary Cunningham
H. Taylor
G. Jones
J. Burnham
J. Coppin
J. Osborn
G. Spenser
David Sawyer
R. Brede
Cors. Connely
Guillen
A. Connolly
W. Heath
J. Edmonds
T. Johnson
J. Geuge
J. Wilsop
J. King
R. White
Samuel Brown
W. Hutchinson
Violet Alexander
C. Shepherd
M. Stewart
A. Murray
Margaret Halstead
E. Delany
Margaret Green
Julia Crawley
Jane Gill
Hanna Hawkins
Isabella Hide
M. A. Calvert
M. A. Barnard
M. Safforn
Ann Ryder
B. Henry
Eliza Jacques
Louisa Graham
Ann_Roske
Lacey Connor
A. Jardine
Ann Gray
J. Conan
Shad Cave
J. Clark
J. Wilson
J. Smith
J. Shute
J. Verables
W. Horne
J. Mundley
John Kerr Gale
J. C Todd
J. Epps
T. Davis
W. Yates
J.T. Higgins
W.appleton
A. Davis
P. Neal
SN. Fielder
W. Jackson
J. Sear
J. Brown
G. Smith
W. Smith
W. Wilson
T. Jordan
Wm. Green
E. Harris
E. M.quillen
Washington Yarrold
Russell Charles Tyerman
Samuel Hallen
Medallion of Napoleon and other oddities described
The piece discusses a French medal of Napoleon surrounded by portraits of marshals, notes likeness to monkeys especially Ney, and suggests rival work by Mr. Bate. It moves to a scene of a young pickpocket and a grim room with an old Jew, then reports a remarkable eye surgery by Dr. Scudder saving a girl's eye using magnets and forceps. It ends with whale news from North Shields and distress aboard the Grenville Bay and Dee, detailing scurvy, fatigue, and recovered crew.
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Bate
Dodger
Scudder
New York Star
Furteen
North Shields
Grenville Bay
Davis’s Straits
Bay
Stromness
George Ringrose
A. Sinclair
Dee
The Humourist and Practicals of Stephen Satterthwaite
A lively reminiscence on Stephen Satterthwaite, a master of pranks in English country houses. The piece recounts his clever tricks on guests, the Major O Callahan incident, signs swapped, distressed housemates, and the wide circle of victims who could not avoid his schemes.
Return of Rfr Gillce for Huddersfield in Parliament
Nominations for Huddersfield after the death of Mr Blackburne drew large crowds and strict security. Richard Oastler led Tory supporters with Edward Ellice opposing, as polling showed Ellice 340 to Oastler 290 with 630 voters casting ballots.
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Blackburne
Robert Thomas Robinson
Eags
Queen Square
William Stocks
Richard Oastler
Torough
Mr. Oastler
England
John Whitacre
Weedhouse
William Brook
Mould Green
Edward Ellice
Canada
Huddersfield
Lancashire
Cheshire
Baines
Trent
House of Commons
National Church
J. R. Stephens
F. Lewis
Ellice
Oastler
Crows Inn
Eilice
Elice
Hiwisersfeld
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Mr. Hickstrop
Stephen
Frienu
Satterth Whaite
Jove
Ile
Satterthwhite
Chesterfield Churchyard
O'Callahan
Headington
Susan Wells
Spithead
Stenben
Jarvey
Russell-street
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Marylebone
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Batteringate
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Tuly
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Lind
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America
James William Gilbart
London and Westminster Bank
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