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Chronology, Marriages, and Deaths. 



[MAY, 



Lord Ellenborough's Divorce Bill finally passed 

 the legislature, receiving by commission the king's 

 signature.* 



April 12. A meeting took place at the London 

 Tavern for considering measures proposed by Mr. 

 Owen for the relief of the distress of the working 

 classes, and permanent improvement of society, 

 when several resolutions were passed for that pur- 

 pose, and for presenting a petition to Parliament, re- 

 commending its Reform as the most effectual re- 

 medy for the people's distress. 



April 14. One culprit executed at the Old Bailey 

 for burglary. 



April is. Bulletin issued by His Majesty's phy- 

 sicians stating he had had a bilious attack, accom- 

 panied by embarrassment in breathing. In con- 

 sequence the levee and drawing-room were put off. 



April 15. Sessions commenced at the Old Bailey, 

 the cases for trial amounting to 390, of which 158 

 were females. 



20. Document printed by order of the House of 

 Commons exhibiting the declared or real value of 

 all our exports from Great Britain and Ireland from 

 1815 to 1830, both inclusive, comprehending both 

 produce and manufactures. 



us our present distress, an irredeemable debt of about 

 one thousand millions, after having caused oceans 

 and rivers of blood to be spilt ! 



The following (which should have been in- 

 seited in our last) evinces part of the distress 

 which afflicts the metropolis. March 6. A general 

 meeting of the silkvveavers took place at Bethnal 

 Green, when it was resolved to petition Parlia- 

 ment on their present distressed state. The pe- 

 tition states, " that the operative silk-weavers, 

 or those employed in the silk manufacture of Eng- 

 land, amount altogether to upwards of 500.000 

 souls, who are now reduced to the greatest misery 

 and privation, either from the crowded state of the 

 workhouses, or from being obliged to subsist on the 

 trifling pittance allowed by their parishes, which is 

 not enough to purchase the common necessaries of 

 life!!" The petitioners attribute greatly their 

 mis' rable state to " the produce of foreigners, with 

 which they cannot compete while the country is 

 burdened by such an enormous weight of taxation !" 

 They therefore pray for the repeal of the duties on 

 malt, hops, beer, coals, candles, leather, and soap, 

 as the means cf rendering them some relief. 



* The language used during the proceedings of 

 this filthy business, the accusations of indecency, 

 misinterpretation, and misrepresentation, by which 

 it was accomplished, obliges us to express our 

 regret, that the speaker should have so lamentably 

 neglected the duties of his office, and permitted such 

 language to go forth to the country, as uttered in 

 the House of Commons without explanation or 

 .ipology. Observer. The following are Ihe spe- 

 cimens of this English legislative oratory. " He 

 lias no sense to understand evidence." " I fling this 

 back as a monstrous lie on its contemptible au- 

 thors." " His perversions of evidence arose from 

 the extraordinary formation of his mind." " His 

 observation was very impertinent." This is surely 

 plebeian, but it reminds us of the patrician phrase 

 falne an hell!' uttered in the House of Lords by 

 the head of the Elitnborough family, (Heaven save 

 the mark !) then lord chief justice of the King's 

 Bench, although the present lord is merely a clerk 

 there, with a princely income arising thcrufrom ! . 



23. Sessions terminated at the Old Bailey, when 

 27 culprits received sentence of death ; 125 were 

 transported, and 54 imprisoned. 



MARRIAGES. 



G. Wigram, esq., son of Sir R. Wigram, bart.,to 

 Fanny Bligh, niece to Marquis Londonderry and 

 Earl Darnley. Horace Twiss, e&q., M.P., under 

 Secretary of State, nephew to Mrs. Siddons, to Mrs. 

 Greenwood. Hon. Major Taylor, nephew to Lord 

 Chatham, to Lady Sarah O'Bryen, daughter to 

 Marquis Thomond. At St. George's, Hanover 

 Square, Rev. E. H. B. Estcourt, son of T. B. Est- 

 court, esq., M-P., to Anne Elizabeth, daughter of 

 Sir J. Johnstone, bart J. Arkwright, esq., to 

 Sarah, eldest daughter of Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 

 bart At Lord Tankerville's, Lady Emma Bennet, 

 to Viscount Fitzharris At St. George's, Hanover 

 Square, Lord Henry Thynne, second son of Mar- 

 quis of Bath, to Harriet, daughter of A. Baring, 

 esq., M.P. 



DEATHS. 



At Litchfield, 74, Mary, relict of Rev. G. Parker, 

 rector of Addingley (Worcester), whose murder, 

 and the murder of his murderer, were under inves- 

 tigation at the last Worcester assizes. Archdeacon 

 Eyne, 73 ; rector of Babworth, and Beelsby, canon 

 residentiary of York, prebend of Southwell, and 

 archdeacon of Nottingham ! ! ! Major Rennell, 88. 

 Near Regent's Park, Miss A. M. S. Graves, niece 

 to Lord Saye and Sele. At South Lytchet, Sir 

 Claude Scott, bart., 88. At Vauxhall, T. Evance, 

 esq., 81, late Recorder of Kingston. Miss E. G. 

 Lettsom, grand-child of Baron Garrow. At North 

 Muir of Forfar, Peter Smith, 103. He was one of 

 those who were pressed in the year 1745, to assist in 

 conveying Prince Charles Edward's baggage, and was 

 a walking chronicle of the occurrences of those 

 times. At Dublin. Anne, Countess of Ormende, 

 relict of John, late Earl of Ormende At Brighton, 

 Lady Mary Anne Sotheby, wife of Admiral Sothe- 



by In North Audley Street, Earl of Pomfret, 63. 



At Whitehall, Louisa Mary, daughter of Lord Car- 

 rington. In Wimpole Street, General Sir Hew Dal- 

 rymple, bart., 80. At Fareham, Lieut.-Col. P. T. 

 Stanhope, eldest son of the late Admiral Stanhope. 

 At Bradninch, Rear-Admiral Pearse, 71. At West 

 Frimstone, Mr. Mark Fostyn, aged 101. He was 

 coachman to Bishop Trevor, at the time he was 

 translated to the see of Durham, in 1752, and per- 

 fectly remembered the ancient ceremony which took 

 place upon Croft bridge, in presenting the faulchion 

 to the Bishop on his first entering the diocese. At 

 Gredington, Peregrina, youngest daughter of Lord 

 Ken yon. 



MARRIAGES ABROAD. 

 At Florence, Marquis Bocella, to Jane Dorothy, 

 daughter of the late Rev. H. Hamond. 



DEATHS ABROAD. 



Lately, at Chateauraix, Madame Bertrand, who, 

 with her husband, accompanied Napoleon Buona- 

 parte to St. HelenaAt Cincinatti, Father Hill, of 

 the Catholic Church, brother of Lord Hill, and ne- 

 phew of the celebrated Rowland Hill. At Carls- 

 ruhe, the Grand Duke of Baden. At Boulogne, 

 Lady Homfrae. At Baltimore, (U.S.) Sir Richard 

 Lyttleton Reynell, bart. At Madeira, Stuart, son 

 of the late F. J. Jackson, esq., His Majesty's Minis- 

 ter Plenipotentiary at the Courts of Madrid, Vien- 

 na, and Berlin. At Malta, Baron Schlippenback, 

 icaptaiu of the Russian frigate Alexandra- 



