Royal Court and Society Notes From Windsor and London
Sunday service at the Chapel Royal with sermons and music precedes a royal terrace appearance by Her Majesty and a private council at Windsor. Reports cover Buckingham Palace renovations, political dangers to Melbourne’s ministry, academic appointments, obituaries, and various European notices including naval and literary matters.
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Maeny
Chapel Royal
St. George
Musgrave
Gore
Travers
Haydn
Harris
Mitchell
Miss Cocks
Miss Cavendish
Baroness Lehtzen
Viscount Melbourne
Earl of Surrey
Viscount Falkland
Lord Byron
Colonel Cavendish
Windsor Castle
Treasury
Lushington
Admiralty Court
Brighton
Orleans
Count de Aris
Buckingham Palace
Melbourne
Berwick
Beefsteak Club
Metropolis
Royal Society
Duke of Sussex
Marquis of Northampton
Baily
Lubbock
Royal Academy of Arts
Trafalgar Square
William Charles Ross
David Roberts
Richard Westmacott
John Russell
Kemp Town
Cheyneys
Buckinghamshire
Andover
Hurstbourne Tarrant
Stevenson
United States
Wildman
Newstead Abbey
Robert Gardiner
Graham
Nottingham
Lord Holland
Holland House
Kensington
Paris
Conservatory
Chatsworth
Jeffrey Aegerne
Frederick C. Beauclerk
Robertson
Pict
Downyards
Plymouth
Exeter
Hutt
Western Australia
Admiralty
Horse Guards
Cabrera
Hijar
Pardinas
Odessa
Russia
Ancona
M. Victor Hugo
Presse
M. Delloye
Moniteur Parisien
M. de Chateaubriand
Prince of Anglona
Spain
Mexico
Hereford
Hay
Winchester
Herald
Manchester
Lennox
St. John-street
Perth
Liverpool
Killarney
Newcastle Journal
Hexham
Addley
Gray
Church of England
Durham
Yorkshire
Ericho
Moselle
Oronoco
Pulaski
Greenwich
Drury Lane Returns Braham in Fra Diavolo Revisit
The Monday audience welcomed Braham back in Fra Diavolo with a warm response at Drury Lane. The night also featured Loder’s Francis the First with Romer and Phillips and a successful oxymore burletta the Idol's Birthday, plus Pardoe's Louise de Lignarolles to strong applause and a comic Lions for a Lark finale.
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Drury Lane
Braham
Old Drury
Fra Diavolo
Soagater
Charlemagne
van Amburgh
Achess de Nemours
Miss Fitzwalter
le Ferron
Mr. Allen
Chateaubriant
Agnes de Lancy
Mies Forde
Francis
Ze Ferron
Duchess de Nemon
Bourbon
France
Count Chateaubriant
de Nemour
Miss Romer
Phillips
Titian
Oxymore
Clarinda
Messrs
Bragg
Crambo
Prudence
Apelphl
Louise de Lignarolles
Miss Pardoe
Henry de Lignarolles
Mr. J Webster
Louise
Yates
Justice
Henry
O. Smith
Brydges-street
Van
Tax on Steam Boats Proposals and Prison Population Update
Parliament to consider a licence and duty system for passenger steam boats based on 100 ton units and four mile segments. Prison counts noted across Queen's Bench Marshalsea Horsemongers Lane and Whitecross Street, with declining confinement numbers since October. Tips include Hartshorn for restoring colours and a turpentine camphor mix claimed to remove bed bugs while not staining fabrics.
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Queen’s Bench
Marshalsea
Horsemonger-lane
Whitecross-street
Shipwrecks and maritime disasters near Sark and coasts
The Dart of Exeter bound for Jersey with apples sinks off Sark after striking a sunken rock. Master Mr Putt and Charles Norris senior perish. Charles Norris junior and Benjamin Carlisle survive briefly but Carlisle drowns. A rescue boat saves the other survivor after over an hour afloat.
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Saipwreck
Sark
Dart
Exeter
Brixham
Jersey
Mr. Putt
Charles Norris
Benjamin Carlisle
Guernsey
Russell
Windard
Harbour du Creux
Carlisle
C. Norris
Lark
Plymouth Journal
Frith
Friends
Kincardine
Stotfield Skerries
Stotfield New Pier
Elgin
Thomas Court
Liverpool
Mackie
Apprehension for Betsey crew in Newfoundland voyage
In Jersey the greatest fears are entertained for the safety of the brig Betsey belonging to Mr Le Gros which has been absent from Newfoundland long past due homeward and may strand sixty people from their protectors.
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Jersey
Betsey
le Gros
Newfoundland
Boulogne
Thames
Dover
Leghorn
Rouen
Wellington
OxyxNney
Graemsay
Stromness
James Thomson
Peter Green
MerLancHoLy
Ki.larney
Killarney
Roche
Cloghereen
Victoria
Dinis
Francis Flemming
Lynch
Glenabank
Hegarty
Shea
Murphy
Earl of Lonsdale
Dublin
Harrington
Whitehaven
Boston
Chang
Eng
Imprisonment for Debt and Prisoner Treatment Critique
A letter decries debtors’ imprisonment practices in England, criticizing cross‑court transfers between Queen's Bench and Exchequer of Pleas as cruel and costly. The writer urges reform, comparing ignored domestic suffering to international crises and praising reformers. The 1838 letter ends with a call for continued advocacy.
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Weekly Chronicle
Queen’s Bench
Exchequer of Pleas
Letter From Richard Paternoster On His Case
Richard Paternoster writes from 49 Haymarket in late October defending his sanity and liberty amid alleged persecution. He identifies Dr Spurgin and Mr Dunn as certifying doctors, denies trusteeship or confinement, credits Hawes for saving him, and calls for parliamentary review of lunacy protections.
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Weekly Chronicle
Dyer
Marlborough-street
Charles Wing
Maidahill
Thos. Wing
Hawes
Lambeth
Courtenay
John Russell
Richard Paternoster
Long
Milfoford
Pariser Zeitung
Paris Gazette
England
Egypt
Stopford
Alexandria
France
Commercial Tribunal of
Paris
Department of the Seine
Court of Common Council
Stevens
IguineTon
Oldershaw
King’s Head Tavern
Upper Street
Charles Woodward
Messrs
Clifton and
Anderson
Mr. Oldershaw
Savings
Clifton
R. Oldershaw
Walcot
Peter Pindar
Paternoster Row
National Rent meeting in Stepney advocates broad reform
A large Stepney Mile End and Ratcliff gathering at the Green Dragon heard a Working Men's Association deputation explain their aims. Speakers urged universal suffrage and a strong, united working class to influence legislation, with a committee created to collect the national rent.
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Stepney
Mile-end
Ratcliff
Green Dragon Tavern
Commercial Road
Working Men’s Association
Hunter
Bloomfield
Harper
Birmingham
Thomas Rose
Watson
Hear
Mitchell
Moore
Hetherington
Change in convict system to end police duties in Australia
The article asserts a total reform of the convict system with only one more regiment needed to escort prisoners to Australia, hoping for relief of the army from policing a degraded population and a shift to rotation reliefs likely before the next parliamentary session.
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96Th
Australia
Tulloch
War- Office
Naval and Military Gazette
Canada
Kingston
Upper Canada
York
Quebec
Britain
New York Sun
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Mischllanyw
Mr. Paternoster
Haymarket
P.S
the National Rent
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