04 Sep 1842
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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 04, 1842
Page
1
A damaged OCR fragment references a person aged about one and mentions timing and locations with unclear context. The text lacks coherent facts to summarize a full event or notice. The readable words suggest at least one named entity and dates, but essential details are missing.
A critical appraisal of Richard Cobden as a reformer and orator. The article argues Cobden’s stance on wages and free markets shows the Anti-Corn-Law League’s logic against Tory media attempts to smear it. It highlights Cobden’s pledge to clear his League of links to Manchester disturbances and defends market expansion as key to raising wages.
General Order from Horse Guards on August 26 announces the formation of the Duke of Wellington's personal staff. Lieut. General Lord Fitzroy Somerset remains military secretary. Appointed aides de camp include Colonel the Hon. George Anson, Marquis of Douro, Earl of March, and Marquis of Sracester with half pay or royal horse guards assignment.
Dispatches reveal Sir Ellenborough may withdraw beyond the Indus without recovering Cabul or freeing hostages. Pollock delays, telegraphs for retreat only when water, transport, and terrain permit, while Afghan sieges, prisoner moves, and reprisals unfold. Reports of massacres and reprisals trigger official displeasure and tensions across camps.
Reports from Madrid describe a 5 000 infantry 300 cavalry detachment with artillery at Teon bound for border threats as Carlo Christinos fail to appear. Germany notes Lord de Grey and officers arriving at Grimlingen for maneuvers while Nemours and Joinville expected. Russia confirms a Circassia defeat with 6 000 men lost in the Lesghees retreat. Deptronp sees a planned timber pile fire at the dockyard then abandoned.
Reports from Lambeth Palace update the health of the bishop and announce the death of Dr. Treland, dean of Westminster, after four years of illness. The Royal Covent Garden theatre posts postpone Miss Adelaide Kemble’s performance due to illness, with new dates noted and audience losses referenced.
A vesting order was granted against Sir Francis Charles Knowles under a compulsory clause after creditors of £68 8s 6d filed a petition. He must file a schedule within fourteen days, or risk the whole estate vesting in a court provisional assignee for distribution.
The Gazelle reports two notable bankruptcies, that of noble lord Huntingtower and Goodered, keeper of a Piccadilly saloon. A serjeant Davies shot a fellow guard during convict work near Haslar hospital. the deaf deputy failed to heed orders, resulting in the guard’s immediate arrest and a magistrate hearing set for next Thursday.
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