Death at Liverpool Theatre Strikes Sad Note on Stage
Recent mortality reports detail the death of John Palmer on the Liverpool stage while performing The Stranger. The piece notes Palmer’s troubles, personal losses, and the shock of audiences as it contrasts with another sudden death of Rev. John Barclay in Edinburgh. It also reports a separate incident at Richmond Theatre where Lee Suggs was stabbed but survived.
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Liverpool Theatre
John Palmer
Branley
Meliere
Palmer
John Barclay
Ediburgh
Richmond Theatre
Lee Suggs
Ireland urged to spread Sunday schools and gospel preachers
The piece advocates general instruction in Ireland through Sunday Schools or circulating Charity Schools mirroring Wales. It urges faithful evangelical preachers, notes limited Protestant church presence, but praises promising Trinity College youths and a Dublin Gospel society. It laments need for more laborers and reports tranquilizing news with political unrest and prisoner deals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Charles
Wales
Colonel Gardner
Trinity College
Dublin
Cornwallis
Bond
Edward Fitzgerald
House of Lords
Newgate
Bridewell
Kilminham, &c
Great Britain
England
Enniskillen Letter Reports Alarms and Arrests
A July letter from Enniskillen recounts a great alarm with gates shut and over 70 people arrested in the town and nearby areas, four being physicians. A Cork dispatch notes 10 Westmeath Militia privates tried by court martial with four to be shot, four transported, one fined, and one acquitted. Also reported are prisoner detentions, executions of Esmond Kearne and two men in Newtowards, and several acquittals or transportation sentences in various local cases.
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Enniskillen
Cork
Westmeath
J. Stranger
Enniscorthy
Wexford
Esmond Kearne
M‘cormick
Wallough
Bankrupts Listed in London Gazette Aug 7
The London Gazette lists multiple bankrupts including T Marston grocer Birmingham Phoebe Wolf coal merchant Middlesex and W Gay miller Somerset Bath with creditors meetings at Guildhall and other venues Aug 14 to Sept 18 at various inns and hotels. Dividends announced for several creditors including Milnes Dewsbury Coggans Liverpool Elgin Sheffield and others with Sept 4 and Aug dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Marston
Birmingham
Temple Row
Robert Smith
Bath
Weymouth Arms Inn
Warminster
B. Acocks
Bridge-road
Surry
Guildhall
Felicity Nchebl
Grove House
Hampstead
Middlesea
Phoebe Wolf
Great Prescott-street
Middlesex
Coal-Mercht
W. Gay
Lyncombe
Somerfethhire
White Hart
W. J.amb
Manchester
Dsuggist
Willmow
Quckworth
Athforg
Kent
Saradgr’s
Athforé
R. Milnes
Crow Nef
Dewsbury
Yorkd
J. Coggans
Liverpool
John Hart
Walbrook
London
Henry Dale
Goldby Brook
Evam
Derby
Uncertain reports on Buonaparte from Leghorn letter
Postscript notes various uncertain reports about Buonaparte, with a letter from Leghorn claiming continued continental affairs. The Hamburgh mail arrives with Rastadt July 22 updates on the Deputation of the Empire and a last breach noted for further discussion.
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Buonaparte
Leghorn
Athairs
Tiurm
Tate
Rastadt
Empire
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