Love and War On the Continent A Soldier’s Elopement Tale
Edward Costello tells of his romance with Augustine, a Frenchwoman, amid wartime billets and family opposition. After eloping they endure danger, capture, and separation, courting hardship as they seek permission to marry and support themselves in Chelsea, London, while facing military and royal authority.
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Mouvres
Douay
Bera Loute
Watt
Leucade
Re S Augustine
Julie
Corouselord
Tone
Augustine
Auene
Regio
Burloun
Yrores
Louito
Cambray
England
Lis Manner
Owever
Badajos
Lisbon
Bonafate
Elba
Waterloo
Proid
Agustine
Fran
Facta
Irnyth
Saint Les Marquion
Camtrey
John Lambert
Barvaird
Andrew Barnard
Duke of Wellington
Lam- Aet
Fitkhin
Edouard
Mirthe
Delane
ruRireda
Titiba
Aeew
Jim
Shorncliff
Crasety
Chathity
Chelaea
London
iMebomted Ward
Shorncliff Basan Ud
Sandy
Sir David
Tally
Lords Commissioners of
Chelsea
Foraging and hardship after Waterloo in Spain and Dover
The narrative recounts hunger and occasional aid after Waterloo, including Augustine's departure to her uncle, failed funds from the patriotic fund, and a dramatic Dover meeting with Colonel Ford who lends aid. It also covers a foraging episode near Medina del Polmar, Spanish bread price outrage, a river crossing, and General Lowry Cole's intervention to avoid punishment.
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Medina del Polmar
Commissariat
43Rd
52Nd
Sir Lowry Cole
Balt
Sir Lowry
Love and Gallantry on the Spanish Battlefield
An eyewitness recounts Manley the shoemaker killed in Spain while a Spanish woman mourns beside his bloodied body. Blanco the Spaniard rushes to shield her, firing at the enemy as he dies, provoking grimaces and laughter amid the shelling. Sergeant Watts, shot in the head, asks if he is dead as I help him. Conner, wounded, later becomes a Chelsea tailor.
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Manley
Spain
Mauley
Blanco
Vittoria
Watts
Fortune of War Ends in Portsmouth Domestic Accord
A Peninsular veteran sergeant learns his wife Mary has chosen another husband, a carpenter, after inquiring through Portsmouth. A bystander guides him to the cottage, mercy vanishes as the two men confront each other. The sergeant then seals the deal with a sixpence and a half crown, retiring to a pub with his daughter watching.
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England
London
Corunna
Spain
Portsmouth
Spithead
Jaat
Highstreet
Mary
Mary S—n
Carpenter
Horses and Men and the Peter Porter Annual
The account shares soldiers foraging in damp church quarters with cold stone floors while comparing billets to horses. It notes a storming of Badajos to come next week and reviews Peter Porter's Annual, praising its engaging tales for children and urging parents to buy the affordable book for their curly headed brood.
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Ariah
Spain
Pat
Badajos
Peter Porter
London
Simpkin, Brarshall, and Co
Peter Parley
Railway Circulars and Fire Alarm at Jermyn Street
Reports from the Board of Trade call railway directors to answer questions on level crossings, gates, gatekeepers, wages, and engine safety. A separate dispatch discusses locomotive engine specs, makers, and safety concerns. A fire at Mr Pierce’s ironmonger shop in Jermyn Street prompts rapid brigade response and £5,000 insured losses.
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Railway Department
Board of Trade
Whitehall
North Union
Bristol and
Exeter
Victoria
G. R. Portsx
London and Brighton
Committee of Privy Council For Trade
S. Laine
Londow and
Brickton Railway
Government Inspector of Railways
Professor Barlow
Frederick Smith
Brighton
Catcu
Ordnance Survey of Ireland
Alexander Gwin
Derry
Jermyn Street
Precapilly
Carter
County Fire-Office
Crane
Bishop
King-street
Chandos-street
Roy Exchange
Starvation Death in Berkshire Workhouse District
Deposition narratives from Donnington reveal William Alder died at about age 48 after long illness and repeated relief refusals. Neighbors and witnesses describe sustained hunger, bread with boiling water, and absence of adequate support. Jury initially verdicted death by starvation, then corrected to death from natural causes accelerated by lack of life’s essentials.
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Berkshire
Donnington
Ohernora
Hannah Alder
William Alder
Board of Guardians
Union House
Hannan
Mark
John Alexander
Hannah Tidcombe
Alder
Mary Maskell
Berks
Whitechapel and Stepney Anti Corn Law Association Meeting
A preliminary meeting in Whitechapel chaired by W Coates established the anti corn law group advocating repeal through peaceable means. Speakers warned the laws hurt workers, raising bread prices and lowering wages, while calling all creeds to join the effort and improve imperial welfare.
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Whitechapel and
Stepney
Manchester
Empire
Mary Lenone
All Souls
Trinity
Marylebone
Woodyatt
Horse and Groom
Great Portland Street
Sidney Smith
Soudan
Hear
Lord Eliot
Smith
Parisp
St. Saviour
Sovthwark
New St. Saviour’s Reform Association
Paisley
London
Wm. Whewell
Trinity College
Cambridge
Right of Lodgers to Vote Judgments at Westminster
The revising barrister Mr T J Arnold delivered judgments on lodgers cases and joint occupancy, shaping precedents for the Reform Act franchise. He upheld shop occupancy as a basis for registration, upheld joint tenancies, and ruled on cases involving counting houses, parlours, and residence rights in multiple properties.
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Westminster
Bartons
T. J. Arnold
Parish case on shop access and street entrance sufficiency
The court rules that a shop operation with a doorway opening to a daytime passage can count as an entrance to the street for franchise purposes. Thatcher and White's premises, though lacking direct street doors, are treated as having street access via a lobby passage. The decision parallels Hobbs's case, extending eligibility to include shops with interior doors connected to street-facing access.
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ST. James
Cnow
Turin
Cuain
Score
Trott
Hossi
Carer
Sap Crange
Hobbs
Cowarp
Chaim
Jackson
Henley-on-Thames
A’beckett
A. Beckett
A.beckett
Walford
A’beckett the Younger
Sympson
Gues
A’becket
Evans
Keir
Crain
Woodstock Committee
Prior
Parish OF ST. George
Taatcher
Wahiite
Thatcher
White
Watmore's Case Regrets Lodger Occupancy Vote Claim
In St. Annes Parish the revising barrister rejected Watmore's claim that tenants in separate lodgings within a shared house in Poland Street qualify as occupiers of dwelling houses for the Reform Bill franchise. He cited precedent and warned against adding a new class of voters, ruling the claim refused.
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ST. Anne's
Watmore
Poland Street
Trott
Mr. Watmore
Reckless Profligacy in Late Birmingham Bankruptcy Case
A Birmingham Insolvent Debtors Court proceeding reveals William Dalton Dauncey, 22, once ironmaster, ran up debts of about £23,413 in little more than a year and a half while amassing £1,668 in assets. His accounts include £1,000 travel costs and gambling losses. He faced continued examination by bankruptcy commissioners, with little satisfactory explanation. The case shows a shocking pattern of improvidence and mismanagement, leading to a lengthy inquiry and potential additional actions by his flat’s assignees.
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Brrmincham
William Dalton Dauncey
Bordesley and
Atlas
Stephens
Cuxhaven
Warwick Spring
Justice Patteson
Dauncey
Warwick
Birmingham
Waterloo Rooms
Messrs
Bartleet
R. W. Gem
A. Ryland
Hodgson
Culmore
Dunkirk
Wurtzen
Prussia
Lord Coventry
Higgs
King and Prince of Wales
Brickstreet
Piccadilly
Robert Benton
Earl of Coventry
Hammerton
Gloucester and
Worcester Mail
Boulogne
Old George Tavern
Deptford
Carttar
Thomas Sweeting
Steam Navigation Company
Harlequin
London
Royal Dockyard
Woolwich
Messrs “Grissell
Allen
Wooalwich
Grissell
Peto
the Treasury
Admiralty
The
Trafalgar Square
Chicago American
John E. Jeffers
Republic of Texas
New Jersey
Hogarth
Jim Donogan
Jeffers
Brother Bill
New Orleans
Jeffer
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Erary Chronicle
Costello
Henry Colburn
Tees
Berkeley-square
Teomane
Board of Che
Edward Costello
Rifle Brigadne
BE. Dundas
Wellesley
Woodford
Patriotic Fund
Cornhill
Lords Commissioners
Norfolk
Peninsula
Devor
Calais
St. Omes
Mason
Dover
Canterbury
Ned
Jem Conner
Ford
General Hospital
Rifles
Bidajos
Bigade
Barnard
Conner
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