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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

May 20, 1838

Page

2

European and colonial turmoil across Europe and the Americas

Paris rumors place Guizot in conflict with Louis Philippe while Soult and Montalivet may lead a cabinet. Reports detail alchemy of army cuts for Algeria, naval and legation tensions, Carlist movements in Spain, Hanover and Prussia court arrivals, Rome pontifical negotiations, and a French expeditionary push in Algiers. Mexican vexations with France seek 800000 dollars. Bahia faces insurgent ruin and fear of fires.

France Paris Guizot Louis Philippe Soult Montalivet Count Mole Chamber Algiers Chamber of Deputies Quai Corsay Napoleon Great Britain Hubert Theness Vincent Giraud Steuble Spain Bayonne Don Francisco de Paula Toulouse Don Carlos Oran Ée Morella Cantaviejo Saragossa Cabrera Lespinasse Alcanitz Oran Teruel K. Sebastian Augsburg Hanover Berlin Prussia Wurtemberg Saxony Mecklenburg Hesse Brunswick Nassau Frederick the Wetherlands Russia Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar Austria England Rome Benevento London Switzerland Rhine Toulonnais Bona and Onsteur Algerien Belida Oued Kaddara Chiffa Hakim Constantinople Negrier Stora Turkey Mercury Mexico Vera Cruz Havannah Capitol Texas Bahia Rio

Local Notes and Incidents Across English Towns

News briefs from Arundel Brighton Bristol Hastings Loughborough Northampton Pertia Pershore Plymouth Sibton Sewira Worthing cover coronation plans, murders and assaults, accidents and inquests, museum foundations, pauper church attendance, and fishing safety. Highlights include a Bristol murder attempt, a Hastings museum stone, Handcross enchantment scare, and Worthing fishermen facing French craft danger.

Extraordinary elopements sweep Kingsbridge and beyond

A reporter recounts multiple romantic escapades across towns including Kingsbridge Falmouth Exeter and Bristol. A young solicitor and various lovers flee with secrecy misadventure and pursuit by families trustees and guardians. Mrs shares inn escapes and clandestine marriages appear amid provincial gossip and courtly intrigue.

Watsons death in New York and a note on colonial demography

Watson died in New York Hospital on February 12 at age 72 after long suffering. He endured many American vicissitudes living in New Orleans Mississippi Alabama Florida Charleston. his widow in St Louis unaware of his death, with a funeral attended by a few friends on February 14. His son, once suspected of shooting Platt during the 1819 Snowhill riots, died two years ago. The piece also lists 1887 free inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land by worship, then notes Jacqueline the Paris chimpanzee alive in Rotonde near Abd el-Kader's animals, and ends with a Bewdley baker Henry Horton making bread without barm or water.

Watson Thistlewood, &c New York America New Orleans Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Florida Charleston St. Louis Platt Snowhill van Diemen’s Land Church of England Church of Scotland Church of Rome Chesterfield D’orsay Jacqueline Paris Abd-el-Kader Henry Horton Griffin Bewdley

Public meeting supports British Auxiliary Legion claims

A Crown and Anchor Strand gathering protests Spain and British government treatment of British Auxiliary Legion veterans. Colonels Wylde and Churchill urge Parliament to secure arrears and pensions, citing coercive Spanish actions in St Sebastian and Madrid. The meeting passes resolutions backing a Commons petition and press support.

Crown and Anchor Strand British Auxiliary Legion Churchill William IV Spain Peninsula Europe Victoria St. Sebastian England Santana Major Stewart Auxiliary Legion Lord Melbourne House of Lords Col. Wylde Col. Churchill O’connell Madrid Backhouse Lord Palmerston Shaw Her Majesty's Treasury Henderson William the Fourth British Legion Macleod Dickson Thompson Hine Lambeth Evans Don Carlos France Gardner Martin Miller House of Commons Commons United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Lambton Dixon Mr. Hine Legion

Demonstration in Glasgow and other 1838 notices

A Glasgow demonstration is announced with Mr. Thomas Attwood invited to speak at a planned rally on Monday the 21st. Letters note Attwood attends with Birmingham colleagues to voice union and political rights, urging peace, loyalty and unity. Additional items include Archdeacon Kennedy’s low income, Swansea fish cures debate, ancient trials, a Bristol temperance anecdote, parish apprentices, and newspaper stamp statistics.

Porutar Glasgow T. Attwood Birmingham London Scotland England A. Purdie Thomas Attwood Archdeacon Kennedy Waterford Swansea Provident Man’s Friend Society Bristol Board of Guardians W. Pares Hopwell

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