Ireland and England in the Grattan era of indepen dence
A historic review of Ireland's 1782 concessions, the Simple Repeal controversy, and the rise and fall of Grattan Flood politics. It traces Irish independence gains, Volunteer power, and Anglo-Irish strains through the Rotunda session, ending with the 1783 coalition crisis and looming shift with Pitt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Ireland
Grattan
United States
Commons
Great Britain
Lord Shelburne
House of Commons
George I
Lord Camden
Flood
Agi
Griftan
Aida
Jima
Mos
Portland
Lord Charlemont
Pitt
Popland
Fitzpatrick
Mr. Halliday
Ulster Volunteer
Scotland
Fox
Yelverton
Reading
H. Grattan
Mr. Daly
Duke of Portland
Dublin
Lord Temple H
Lord Northington
Parliamentary Billingsgate
Rotunda
Bishop
Derry
Ism
Fleda
House. of Commons
O’connell
Mr. Fox
Cavity Cody Harily
Coalition
Duke of Rutland
Court and Fashion at Wrypsor Castle Banquet
Summary of a royal banquet with Grand Duke Michael of Russia. Toaster lines include health of the Grand Duke, Queen, and Prince Albert. Mentions of other courtly events, a bishop’s potential appointment, and a Derbyshire lord Melbourne ball mishap among servants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wrypsor Castle
Michael
Russia
Baron Brunow
Michael of
Grenadier Guards
Prince Albert
Archdeacon Lonsdale
King’s College, London
Litchfield
Robert Peel
Savoy Chapel
Lord Melbourne
Melbourne Hall
Derbyshire
Nottingham
Mansion House
Lord Worsley
Viscount Torrington
Dyson
Wigan
F. Swanton
Winchester
Church of St. Olave's
Southwark
Marcus Hill
Dudley Stuart
John Masterman
Miss Masterman
Magnay
Kenney
Alderman Lucas
P. Laurie
Alderman Farebrother
Farebrother
D. W
Harvey
Michele
E. Wigan
Joseph Pilcher
Miss Birch
George Smart
Sheriff Moon
Alton Towers
Earl of Shrewsbury
H.R.H
Duke of Bordeaux
Enlargement of Woolwich Dockyard and Monster Chimney
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty serve notices to quit on twenty occupiers in Charlotte Row and Adams Place Woolwich to clear fifty houses for dockyard expansion and a steam boiler factory. Road access will be improved by a straightened route above the field. A vast chimney work is suspended and to be raised by a hundred feet, becoming the largest in the kingdom, nicknamed the Monster chimney.
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Woolwich
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
Charlotte-row
Adam’s Place
Death by prussic acid in Camden town case
A coroner and 14 jurors open a verdict on Charles Orpwood 38 in Hampstead Road. His brother William supplied three drachms of prussic acid from a cousin’s practice. the deceased, craving relief, used it himself, dying after an incautious act. The inquest holds the incident accidental in intent but blames the brother for procuring the poison.
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G.I. Mills
Middlesex
Camden Town
Charles Orpwood
Railway Tavern
Hampsteadroad
Camden
Birmingham
William Orpwood
Harmood-street
Richmond
Mr. Orpwood
Marshall
Greek Street
Soho
Charles
William
Curtis
Depad
Ecoroner
Medgeraham
Jackson
Elizabeth Williams
Witnness
Joseph Curtis
Camden-town
Mills
New York Herald
Lebanon
Ohio
David T. Gerard
Warren County
Indiana
Lafayette Bank
Cincinnati
David Gerard
Butler County
The Body Snatching Case Trial at Central Criminal Court
A London courtroom heard the trial of John White Bridgeman and Isaac Bridgeman for tomb desecration and body snatching from a Walworth chapel vault. Witnesses testified to disturbed tombs, missing coffins, and a skeleton sought for anatomical study. the elder Bridgeman was found not guilty, while the younger was convicted and sentenced to 12 months in Surrey’s common gaol.
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Bridgeman
John White Bridgeman
Isaac Bridgeman
Central Criminal Court
Clarkson
Messrs
Bodkin
Wilde
Atr. Clarkson
J. D. Tawney
T. G. Tawney
St. John
West-street
Walworth
Thomas
Ashby
Mr. Bridgeman
Amet
Union Ball
John Bridgeman
Pritchard
G. Courtnell
Weetsstreet
Mr. Tawney
Elizabeth Courtneyl
Chapel Yard
Union Hall
Bridgeman the Elder
Ramsgate
Tawney
Court of Justice
Miet
Devas
Liga
Arid‘hd
Neve
Moses Redding
Sheppertonrow
Walworth-road
T. Chapman
E. Leech
Townley
Trinity House
China
Lloyd’s List
C. Townley
J. M. Thompson
Dover
E. M. Thompson
Colson
Guy's Hospital
Surrey
Mansion Horusz Donations Listed for Christophe of Hayti
The lord mayor reports various charitable sums received for Christophe Prince of Hayti. Gifts include £5 from Paris in a letter signed Bertia Dewar, £2 8s, £1 from a Beverley parishioner via Vicar W. T. Sandys, £5 anonymous noting 41711, £5 from Rev. Henry Read, and a half sovereign marked Sympathy.
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Horusz
Christophe
Prince of
Hayti
King of
Paris
Bertia Dewar
W. T. Sandys
Beverley
Henry Read
Manslaughter Bid for Hanovers Groom Ends in Inquest
An inquest at St George's Hospital hears how Hough Reilly a 53 year old former royal groom died from cervical vertebrae fracture after a quarrel with John Marsden a former guardsman now in custody. Witnesses describe a struggle in a back room leading to a fall down stairs and the severed neck injuries with Marsden remanded to Newgate awaiting further proceedings.
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Higgs
St. George’s Hospital
Hough Rielly
King of
Hanover
Duke of Cumberland
Marquis of Hertford
John Marsden
Marlborough Street
Marsden
G. Pollock
John Wardell
Angelcourt
King-street
St. James's
Marsdén
Ralph
Cuirsitur-street
Chancary
Lane
Mareden
Marsh
Redwood
Atate Mentabi
Saenatt
Anus Quen
Aince
James Hardgrove
Newgate
Widow Atkins Case Sparks Jersey Legal Outcry
A Jersey court ordered Widow Atkins to prison for her husband’s debt under Norman law after she retained her husband’s effects and did not renounce his succession within 40 days. The case, appealed, draws sharp editorial ire over a barbarous rule, urging reform to protect bereaved wives. Brighton reports prosperous herrings trades with a 70,000-herring haul earning £123 for a single boat trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey
Atkins
Heileur
England
Mr. Atkins
Sowiig
Curt
Messrs
Bertram and
Peigne
Iady
Atking
Brighton
Robert
William Allen
North
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