Royal attendance and court notices at Windsor and Marlborough House
The Queen and Duchess of Kent attended Divine Service at St George’s Chapel Windsor. Sermon by Rev. Proby. anthem by Elvey with performers Turner Mitchell and chorister. Royal travel included Marlborough House visit. Queen Dowager inspected Baxter painting. Lord Maryborough appointed to Deal Castle. Hornby Castle sale linked to Duke of Leeds estate.
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Duchess of Kent
St George’s Chapel Royal
Mr Proby
Elvey
Turner
Mitchell
Lady Portman
Windsor Castle
Town
Marlboroughhouse
Hussars
Colonel Cavendish
Mary Stopford
Marlborough-house
Baxter
Queen Victoria
John Ryle Wood
Prince George
Cambridge
Mediterranean
Lord Maryborough
Duke of Wellington
Deal Castle
Lord Carrington
Duke of Leeds
St. James’s Square
Lane Fox
Hornby Castle
Westminster Abbey
Board of Works
St. James’s Park
Life Guards
Commissioners of Woods and Works
Horse Guards
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Switzerland
Smyrna
Eclaireur
Toulon
Trieste
Constantinople
Paris
Madrid
Alaix
Greece
Munich
d’Angouleme
Duke de
Bordeaux
Marie
de Rosny
Kirchberg
Goritz
Gazette de France
Espartero
Duke of
Ponscerrada
Rehausen
Messrs. Cant and Hughes
Stockholm
France
St. Maur
Ong
J. Wm. Wilberforce Bird
Council of India
Henry Shakspeare
Calcutta
Moravia
Rome
Academy Dei Linci
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Pepin
Texas
London
Limerick
Gilbert Heathcote
Amato
Gilbert
Liverpool
Kingstown
Scottish Guardian
Glasgow
Coblentz
York Castle
Dewsbury
Hull
Manchester
E. Davis
Bath
Messrs. Brown
Slough
Dublin
Southampton
St. George-the-Martyr
Southwark
de Beriot
Pongwaites
St. Helena
Bonaparte
Vendome
Roebuck
Norway
Canada
Moreau
House of Rothschild
Portsmouth
Drury Lane Opens Season With Don Juan Opera Cast
The Drury Lane season opens under favorable music prospects. reviews praise Miss Romer and Miss Poole, Balfe and Albertazzi deliver strong performances, while a debuting Mr Allen falters. Covent Garden features Macready in Hamlet with praise, Adelphi debuts the Bayaderes praised for innovation and Eastern display.
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God Save the Queen
Mise Betts
Poole
Romer
Betts
Mozart
Balfe
Madame Albertazzi
Zerlina
Bern
Drury Lane
Batti
Masetto
Blagrove
Miss Betts
Donna Anna
Miss Poole
Zivira
Giubilei
Octavio
Heaven
Harry
Philharmonic Society
Albertazzi
Mr. Bunn
Covent Garpen
Hamlet
Mr. Macrea
Ophelia
Miss Rainforth
Brown
Jones
Robinson
Adelphi
Bayaderes
Taglioni
Fanny Elsler
Saundirounn
Ramgoun
Veydoun
Tille
Amany
Ganges
Yates
The Mutiny at the Nore and the Parker Tragedy
An 1797 mutiny at the Nore led by Richard Parker ended with his execution on the Sandwich. His Scots wife Ann Parker pursued the body, obtaining permission to inter it in London then risking social upheaval to reclaim his remains for burial. Her later destitution followed, ending in hospital care after charity failed.
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Hebenory
Channel
Portsmouth
Pmouth
Spithead
Wantiny
Nore
Yarmouth
Roads
North Sea
Admiral Duncan
Texel
The
Ann Parker
Richard Parker
Sandwich
Admiral Parker
Exeter
St. Sidwell’s
Richard
Royal Navy
Anin Mac Hardy
Aberdeenshire
St. Sidwey’s
Scotland
Edinburgh
Leith
Althoug
Parker
Leith Roads
Sandwich Guard
Thames
Medway
Buckner
Pigott
Bounty
Bligh
Lord Proby
France
Holland
London
Britannia
Neptune
Tower-hill
St. James’s Palace
Rochester
Sheerness
Whitechapel
Aldgate
Nightingale-lane
St. Katherine’s
Lambeth-street
Whitechapel Church
Herdy
Our Foreign Policy and the Sultan Bashaw War Trap
An anonymous reader asks the editor to explain Britain’s foreign policy. The letter argues the Sultan treaty worsens the Bashaw of Egypt’s independence, risks triggering war with Russia or Persia, and critiques Canada misgovernance and debt. It questions how commerce ties to policy and corn laws, urging clarity from Sir James Palmerston.
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Weekly Chronicle
Wallachia
Moldavia
Servia
Tunis
Tripoli
Egypt
Bashaw
Lord Ponsonby
Bashan
Mediterranean
Persia
Shah
Lord Palmerston
Austria
Prussia
France
Belgium
Holland
Russia
European
England
Asia
M. John Bull
Canada
United States
Lord Durham
America
Francis Bond Head
Minis
Sweden
Baltic
Schlesvir
Holstein
Soho Gentleman Buys Five Old Pictures at Wallingford
A Frith Street resident while on election business at Wallingford bought five old pictures from a public house for five sovereigns. In London he sent them to a Covent Garden dealer for cleaning. Four works were later shown to a renowned marquis who offered nearly £800 for them. the fifth held little merit and was excluded from the sale.
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Frith-street
Soho
Wallingford
London
Covent-garden
Cruelty to Animals Reported in Smithfield Case
Thomas Gibbons of the Animals' Friend Society with police arrested three idle men seen beating donkeys in Smithfield last week. They were handcuffed and jailed overnight. Before Sir John Key and Alderman Farebrother, Farebrother complained of frivolous cases and cited an admonitory Birmingham letter. Sir John then suggested dismissal of cases. two were dismissed and the third not pursued.
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Thomas Gibbons
Animals’ Friend Society
Marklane
Smithfield
Sir John Key
Farebrother
Benefit societies dispute over funeral pay and membership
In Birmingham a magistrates court heard Edward Cook refuse a £3 funeral claim under a Dog and Duck benefit society. The bench urged fair interpretation of articles, ruling the claim payable and critiquing rigid rules. Other cases from Swan and Dolphin societies followed with similar disputes and comments on member rights.
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Birmingham Advertiser
Francis Lloyd
William Beale
Edward Cook
Benefit Society
Dog and Duck
Edmund-street
John Nimm
Cook
Wakefield
Primrose
Doctor Primrose
Dog and Duck Society
Benjamin Parsons
Joseph Abnett
Joseph Smallwood
the Swan
Little Charles-street
Mr. Edmonds
Mr. Lloyd
Lloyd
Spurrier
Gem
Griffiths
Llod
Teason
Benjamin Terry
Terry
National Loan Fund Society
Mortality by Decades and Sex in Great Britain
An analysis notes striking mortality patterns by age and sex from official Britain data. It details infant male excess, shifts favoring females after age 44, and a marked rise in mortality at decade ends from age 30 onward, with speculative nods to Cuvier.
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Cuvier
Browning
Great Britain
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Braham
St. James’s Theatre
Robins
Rose Stuart
Academie Royale Musique
Miss Stuart
the Foreign Policy of
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