Destructive and Lamentable Shipwrecks Across UK Coasts
A sweep of disastrous gales causes numerous shipwrecks and maritime losses along Suffolk, Wales, and southern coasts. Vessels including the Aristocrat brig, Nile, and Britannia suffer wrecks or sinkings with crew losses and rescues reported. Life boats and pilots aid survivors, while many ships strike, capsize, or drift onto sands from Deal to Sussex.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shon Eal
Xoe
Jene
Suffolk
Athol
Lowestoffe
Tynemouth
South Shields
London
Newcastle
Barnard
Reingland
Streck
Pakefield
Deal
Union
Mackie
Friendship
Yarmouth
Shoreham
Beachy Head
Dover
Alice
Seaton
Ramsgate
Marietta
Sunderland
Nantes
Margate
Elias
Aberdeen
Jersey
Dantzic
Rover
Shifty
Liverpool Standard
St Petersburg
New York
Caledonia
North America
Chaloner and Fleming
Britannia
Bahia
Messrs. T
J. Sands
Formby
Nile
Great Ormshead
Evane
Liverpool
Magazine
William of
Workington
Limerick
Formby Channel
Great Burbo
Vernon
Baba
William
New Brighton
Piaces
Adam
Glasgow
Taylor
Albion
St. John’s
N.B
Toxteth
Duke of Wellington
Honduras
Pwllheli
Portywallen
Gleaner
Ireland
Hooter
Fleetwood
Portmadoc
Aberyswith
Anne
Barmouth
Jones
Providence
Catherine
Aberdaron
Rosamond
Jane
Falmouth
Wales
Grace Darling
Berriman
Neath
Milford
Cardiff
Bristol
Lord of the Isles
Whitehaven
Sussex
Hastings
St. Valery
Rye
Princess Royal
Dungeness
Victoria
Rouen
West Bay
Gunfleet
Sarah
Ipswich
Southweld
Welham
Hull
Blyth Harbour
George
Ann
Blythe
Brighton
Worthing
Archimedean
Backman
Shoreham Harbour
Hartlepool
Sarah Bell
Catt
Littlehampton
Regina
Skeinan
Brest
Legal and Economic Debates in Nineteenth Century Letters
A long correspondence page debates debt recovery for a naval officer gone insane, dower rights, farmer tenants and Peel’s policies, and Coxed views on trade and free markets. Letters praise London representation, discuss friendly societies, and rail at monopolies while praising shorter work weeks and holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C
Cheshire
Peel
Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel
Cobden
Prince of Wales
Duke of Cornwall
Crry
London
Weekly Chronicle
Loyd
House of Commons
Jones Loyd
Ferrer
Bolton
H. H
Morning Chronicle
Manchester
John Manners
Humanitas
L. X
M.M. B
O. J
Pgex
Potter
Scotland
Crabbe
Reginald
Henry Pottinger
Times
The Liberal Times Feud and Letters on Peel and Opposing Views
A critical letter and commentary discuss Sir Robert Peel and the leading European journal accused of cowardly abuse. The Times is accused of shifting toward violent government opposition while defending fairness. The exchange includes reader queries on grammar and a note about duties on street level windows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Robert Peel
Standard
The
Times
Phat
T. W
W.C
Time and tides guidance for Britain and Ireland
The text outlines a method to compute sunrise and sunset by latitude, with noon adjustments by degrees. It also provides a table of high water times at major seaports, including Bristol, Orkney, Falmouth, Hull, Milford Haven, and several others, followed by a political commentary on Repeal, OConnell, and Imperial governance debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Ireland
London
Bristol
Ork
Cove
Falmouth
Hull
Milford Haven
Brighton
Cowes
Dover
Dublin
Holyhead
Liverpool
Port Glasgow
Southampton
Calendar notes on saints and weather for November week
The entry lists religious readings for Sunday November 5 and the week, noting Habakkuk and Luke in the morning, Proverbs in the evening, plus Ephem. by Zadkiel, and weather remarks by Legh. It mentions saints days and events from 1685 to 1841 and Cambridge Term begin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legh
Meteo
Ephem
Zadkiel
Mownvay
St. Leonard's
Tuogspay
Princess Augusta
Tuurspar
Prince of Wales
The Game Up With the Repeal Agitation and Government
In the Weekly Chronicle Blackwood critiques Irish policy, condemns the Do-nothing era, and praises the Dublin crackdown led by the Duke of Wellington. The piece laments Tory doubts, questions motives, and predicts Irish trials while warning of Empire risks if minds split from Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackwood
MR. O'Connell
Blacktoood
Robert Peel
Duke of Wellington
Dublin
Naples
Vienna
Paris
Victoria
Talavera
Cardigan
Clontarf
Times
University of
Laputa
Strongbow
Exeter
Stuart Wortley
Ireland
Great Britain
Europe
England
Spain’s Cortes Clash and Army Rule Stir Public Alarm
The piece argues Spain’s Cortes face a loyalist majority and possible dissolution as the Army enforces martial law. It criticizes Narvaez and the press clash, notes Barcelona’s ruin and Gerona’s threatened assault, and lauds the army as the true constitution while lamenting Catalan and Aragonese resistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cortes
Seville
Cadiz
Malaga
Madrid
Barcelona
Saragossa
Gerona
Prim
Narvaez
Conde de Las Navas
Lome
Spain
Espartero
Duke of Sutherland and the Free Church conflict
A critical examination of the Duke of Sutherland’s land policy in Sutherlandshire. He denies land for a Free Church minister, ejecting a 80 year old Seceding pastor from Mrs. Henderson’s cottage. The piece condemns this as intolerant misuse of landowner power, contrasting Seceeders’ sincerity with aristocratic overreach. It notes Mr. Maule’s land grant denial and the wider moral stakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Sutherland
Lord Fitzwilliam
Scotland
Sutherlandshire
Scotch Kirk
Chalmers
General Assembly
Fox Maule
Morning Chronicle
Robertson
Free Church
Henderson
Lairg
M.gillivray
Panmure
Fragmented Reflections on Truth and Authority in Debates
The fragment critiques truth as a personal belief and argues that rulers and lawmakers cannot mend the world. It notes that truth varies with each person and warns the Duke of Sutherland will face resistance, sharing the blame with those failing to act on scruples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Breadalbane
Duke of Sutherland
Hee
Also Mentioned on This Page
Legal & Miscellaneous
Committee of Inquiry
House of Correction
Wali
Pas de Calais
Tory Sazers
John Bull
Edmonton
Canon Tate
Sydney Smith
St. Paul’s
Thomas Tate
Baister Anti-Cogn Law League
Broadmead-rooms
City of London
George Thomas
Harman Rogers
Honiton
Orreny St. Mary
Carrie Snow
Honiton and Ottery St. Mary Agricultural Society
Ottery
J. Huish
E. 8. Prideaux
Huish
Newson
Nelson
Trafalgar-square
St Charing-cross
Bailey
Trafalgar
Greenwich
Earl of Devon
Caiil
Court Journal
Posterrick Turt
Doncaster
Oxford
Cambridge
Lord Lowther
Colonel Maberly
Globe
Leeds
Leeds Mercury
India
Bombay
Madras
Bradford
Orleans
Paramattas
Nottingham
Great Britain and Ireland
O'Connell
Smith O'Brien
Archbishop Slattery
Sturge
the Weekly Chronicle
Scotch Free Church
Francis Hodgson
Prince Albert
Michael
Russia
Bognor
Bunnell Lewis
University
Joseph Ash Baynes
Stepney College
George Jessel
University College
Albert Mott
Salisbury
Kilkenny
Wadham Wyndham
George Bryan
Railway Magazine
Hertford
Warga
Ware and Hertford
Board of Trades
Pasley
Marshall
M.P
Ward
Mangles
Routh
John Bagshawe
Broxbourne
Shoreditch
Ware
Hertfort
Lawsxr
Haynes
Smi
South
Watts
Swanska
Pentre
Penllwyn Robert
Pontyberen
Gibbs
Queen's Moat
Llangafelach
St. John
Glamorgan
Dundee
Bridie
Narva Bay
John
General Steam Navigation Company
Menai
Goodburn
Havre
Channel
Dart
Dieppe
Venezuela
George Washington
Liverpool Albion
Hatta
Towns Commission
James Smith
Deanston
Suffield
Cowick
Smt
Chadwick
Flocton
Highway Board
Lee
Raynor
Firth
Sheffield Mercury
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